Gonzales, Mueller admit FBI broke law
(AP)
The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans.
Do you really believe you can end it with this?:
They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.
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1 – 200 of 554 Newer› Newest»Heavy repression in Greece, following the voting of the new legislation for universities
The new frame law for the functioning of the Universities in Greece was voted on March 8th, 2007, after the decision of the government to start the process in the Parliament despite the public outrage; since students, pupils, teachers and academics have been in an ongoing struggle since May 2006, including occupations of schools and faculties, strikes and demonstrations.
As the state media reported, only the governmental party voted for the new law, while the rest of them decided to leave the room after the preliminary poll. Meanwhile, more than 35,000 students, teachers and academics were demonstrating in the streets of Athens, in order to surround the Parliament.
Demonstrators clashed with the police in front of the Parliament while the air became full of asphyxiating tear gas and rubber bullets were shot for the first time. The march was forced to split into pieces and about 100 demonstrators that happened to be at that place, were segregated and severely walloped by a heavy police force. Several attacks followed, in order to split the rest of the march into smaller pieces, when the school teachers were beaten as well. Individuals had to run away and hide in nearby buildings.
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Chavez to lead Bush protest
"We are proud to stand in solidarity with our compatriot President Chavez against the imperialists," said Mercedes Moronos of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, official sponsors of the rally, which has been approved by the Argentine government.
"Our message to Bush is, 'Get out of other countries. Let people live in peace.' "
Uruguay is not the only stop on Mr. Bush's tour where leftist groups hope to undercut the president's message, which he described in a Colombian television interview as "nothing more than to say we want to be your friends, ... that the United States cares deeply about the human condition."
In Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, police clashed yesterday with more than 6,000 students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting the Bush visit and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Brazil.
Protesting students also lobbed rocks and homemade explosives called potato bombs at riot police on a university campus in the Colombian capital of Bogota, where Mr. Bush is scheduled to visit Sunday as part of his five-nation tour of Latin America.
At one point, a large balloon floated above the motorcade reading "Fora Bush" — "Bush, Out" — with a swastika standing in for the "s" in Bush.
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For his part, Chávez arrived in Buenos Aires late Thursday night for rallies to counter Bush's visit. Chávez immediately began mocking Bush and his motives, especially disparaging what he characterized as Bush's belated and "hypocritical" focus on issues of economic and social injustice.
"He seems like Columbus, he's discovering poverty," Chávez said. "The fundamental blame belongs to the Empire, to the economic models and coup d'états. And now he comes to us to talk of democracy, with what right?"
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Thousands of Uruguayans Protest Bush Arrival
China creating company to invest US$1 trillion reserves
China is creating an investment company to make more profitable use of its US$1 trillion in foreign currency reserves, the finance minister said Friday, in a move that could change the flow of billions of dollars in global markets.
Finance Minister Jin Renqing gave no details of how the Cabinet-level company might invest the reserves, which are believed to be mostly in safe but low-yielding U.S. Treasury bonds. He also did not say what portion of the reserves might be channeled through the company or when it would start to operate.
"We can achieve more profit from the investments," Jin said at a news conference. "We are now preparing the organization of this new corporation."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKgdbtDl8k
Protests in rio........
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Protesters aim to take over lawmakers’ offices, fight war funding
Some opponents of the Iraq war are taking their protests straight to Congress — staging “occupations” in lawmakers’ offices on Capitol Hill and in their home communities.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel’s office in Chicago was targeted on Thursday.
A day earlier protesters were headed off before getting into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in San Francisco.
In Washington, peace activists dressed in pink showed up recently at the Senate offices of presidential hopefuls John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The protesters haven’t abandoned the larger, more familiar gatherings at college campuses, major cities and monuments in Washington. But in recent weeks, they have been turning up at congressional offices, vowing to stay until they get pledges that lawmakers will vote against more war funding — or until they are forcibly removed.
“We really see it as an extension of lobbying,” Jeff Leys, co-coordinator of Chicago-based Voices for Creative Nonviolence, said of the office occupations. “The aim is to keep going back time and time and time again.”
The protesters number anywhere from a handful to a few dozen. Sometimes, they stay for minutes. Sometimes, they remain for hours before police move in.
Organizers count more than 140 arrests so far. Most involve charges of trespassing or disorderly conduct.
During the occupations, the protesters sit, stand, sing, chant, pray, ring bells, and read letters from American troops sent home to their families.
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Colombian Police Use Water Cannon Against Anti-Bush Protests
A force of some 200 police were deployed Thursday to control a group of students at Bogota National University in a violent protest against US President George W Bush's upcoming visit to Colombia.
The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency
Mahmood Mamdani
The similarities between Iraq and Darfur are remarkable. The estimate of the number of civilians killed over the past three years is roughly similar. The killers are mostly paramilitaries, closely linked to the official military, which is said to be their main source of arms. The victims too are by and large identified as members of groups, rather than targeted as individuals. But the violence in the two places is named differently. In Iraq, it is said to be a cycle of insurgency and counter-insurgency; in Darfur, it is called genocide. Why the difference? Who does the naming? Who is being named? What difference does it make?
The most powerful mobilisation in New York City is in relation to Darfur, not Iraq. One would expect the reverse, for no other reason than that most New Yorkers are American citizens and so should feel directly responsible for the violence in occupied Iraq. But Iraq is a messy place in the American imagination, a place with messy politics. Americans worry about what their government should do in Iraq. Should it withdraw? What would happen if it did? In contrast, there is nothing messy about Darfur. It is a place without history and without politics; simply a site where perpetrators clearly identifiable as ‘Arabs’ confront victims clearly identifiable as ‘Africans’.
A full-page advertisement has appeared several times a week in the New York Times calling for intervention in Darfur now. It wants the intervening forces to be placed under ‘a chain of command allowing necessary and timely military action without approval from distant political or civilian personnel’. That intervention in Darfur should not be subject to ‘political or civilian’ considerations and that the intervening forces should have the right to shoot – to kill – without permission from distant places: these are said to be ‘humanitarian’ demands. In the same vein, a New Republic editorial on Darfur has called for ‘force as a first-resort response’. What makes the situation even more puzzling is that some of those who are calling for an end to intervention in Iraq are demanding an intervention in Darfur; as the slogan goes, ‘Out of Iraq and into Darfur.’
What would happen if we thought of Darfur as we do of Iraq, as a place with a history and politics – a messy politics of insurgency and counter-insurgency? Why should an intervention in Darfur not turn out to be a trigger that escalates rather than reduces the level of violence as intervention in Iraq has done? Why might it not create the actual possibility of genocide, not just rhetorically but in reality? Morally, there is no doubt about the horrific nature of the violence against civilians in Darfur. The ambiguity lies in the politics of the violence, whose sources include both a state-connected counter-insurgency and an organised insurgency, very much like the violence in Iraq.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/mamd01_.html
Whoops, let me light up that link...
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/mamd01_.html
Swell bunch of guys and gals over there.
Thanks for the bush protest stuff and everything, A.
But especially, thanks for the pokemon wiki link!
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,
To ceaseless din and mindless merriment
And waste of shoes and floors.
And One (we name him not) that flies the flowers,
That dreads the dances, and that shuns the salads,
They doom to pass in solitude the hours,
Writing acrostic-ballads.
~Four Riddles...Lewis Carroll
""We can achieve more profit from the investments," Jin said at a news conference. "We are now preparing the organization of this new corporation.""
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Boy, I'm feeling better already. Real confident in the global economy.
Don't you?
You're welcome, dada... :) You can pay me back by putting up one of your newest songs...when you want to...
I'm not sure how I stumbled on that Pokemon this afternoon...what does 'bulb' anything have to do with Pokemon?
For Whom The Bell Tolls, Carmen Daye
Sorry for spying on you, America
We promise not to do it again...because we are so honorable
Go on with your lives citizens
-conbo
Nothing to see here.
Please move along.
sorry, got knocked offline for a few minutes...
"And One (we name him not) that flies the flowers,
That dreads the dances, and that shuns the salads,
They doom to pass in solitude the hours,
Writing acrostic-ballads.
~Four Riddles...Lewis Carroll"
Good one. But I'm not so good with Riddles.
Is the answer "Cthulhu?"
Probably not...
but I hear Cthulhu writes a great acrostic-ballad.
"what does 'bulb' anything have to do with Pokemon?"
pokemon #001 is named "bulbasaur"
http://dignews.com/admin/screenshoot/bulbasaur.jpg
" eris said...
Nothing to see here.
Please move along."
These are not the droids we're looking for.
The 10th APPO Megamarch Observes Women's Day
On International Women’s Day, March 8, the APPO, teachers, civil society organizations, campesinos and women – among them the Coordination of the Women of Oaxaca (COMO), and indigenous women’s organizations – marched in defiance of the repressive policies of Governor Ulises Ruiz.
...
the release today from prison of APPO’s Carerino Torres Pereda, grabbed early in the repression in Tuxtepec. Torres is an active member of the Citizen Defense Committee (CODECI). Seven other political prisoners who had been incarcerated since November 25 were freed as well, from Oaxaca state facilities in Miahuatlán and Tlacolula.
The released APPO prisoners were freed with the intervention of the Comisión Civil Internacional de Observación de Derechos Humanos (CCIDH), which recently investigated Oaxaca. Fifty-five sympathizers of the APPO, including Flavio Sosa Villavicencio and his brothers Erick and Horacio, are still held in out-of-state federal maximum security prisons.
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Oooooooh! "bulbasaur"...right. right. right... ok... :)
--acrostic-ballad--
I wonder where he came up with that...?
The answers to the riddles must be somewhere...(said alice...)
I'm surprised F-tard's skin doesn't just singe right off from the energy of all the people hating him...
Conbo, did you move yet?
*
Cómo fue
No sé decirte cómo fue
No sé explicarme qué pasó
Pero de ti me enamoré
Fue una luz
Que iluminó todo mi ser
Tu risa como un manantial
Regó mi vida de inquietud
Fueron tus ojos o tu boca
Fueron tus manos o tu voz
Fue a lo mejor la impaciencia
De tanto esperar tu llegada
Más no sé
No sé decirte cómo fue
No sé explicarme qué pasó
Pero de ti me enamoré
*
~Beny More, Como Fue
♪-♥-♫
acrostic-ballads... well, he writes things like that. Lewis Carroll I mean.
My brother does mesostics, which are similar... here, I'll let john Cage explain:
"Like acrostics, mesotics are written in the conventional way horizontally, but at the same time they follow a vertical rule, down the middle not down the edge as in an acrostic, a string spells a word or name, not necessarily connected with what is being written, though it may be. This vertical rule is lettristic and in my practice the letters are capitalized. Between two capitals in a perfect or 100% mesostic neither letter may appear in lower case.
.... In the writing of the wing words, the horizontal text, the letters of the vertical string help me out of sentimentality. I have something to do, a puzzle to solve. This way of responding makes me feel in this respect one with the Japanese people, who formerly, I once learned, turned their letter writing into the writing of poems.
In taking the next step in my work, the exploration of nonintention, I don't solve the puzzle that the mesostic string presents. Instead I write or find a source text which is then used as an oracle. I ask it what word shall I use for this letter and what one for the next, etc. This frees me from memory, taste, likes, and dislikes, By means of Mesolist, a program by Jim Rosenberg, all words that satisfy the mesostic rule are listed. IC [a program that generates the I Ching numbers, available for downloading on the Net] then chooses which words in the lists are to be used and gives me all the central words, the position of each in the source material identified by page, line, and column. I then add all the wing words from the source text following of course the rule Mesolist does within the limit of forty-five characters to the right and the same to the left. Then I take out the words I don't want.
With respect to the source material, I am in a global situation. Words come first from here and then from there. The situation is not linear. It is as though I am in a forest hunting for ideas." --John Cage
Nothing up my sleeves...
http://www.sticksandstonescomic.com/magic.html
Brad Delp, lead singer of Boston, dies
//The cause of his death remained under investigation by the Atkinson police and the New Hampshire Medical Examiner's office.//
presidential hopeful mayor guilliani plans to ship his body to china and have sex with his wife
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away
More Than A Feeling, Boston
Supermodels for Oaxaca (APMO) to Oppose the Miss Universe Pageant at the Monte Albán Ruins in May 2007
Ulises Ruiz, dictator of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, wants to use the beautiful and talented supermodels of the Miss Universe pageant to justify brutal repression against local social movements.
But we supermodels won't let it happen.
Join us in New York City on April 18th to audition for the most stylish, the most poised, and the most elegant picket line that Donald Trump and NBC have ever seen.
...
I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind.
Peace Of Mind, Boston
dada said...
Whoa...that's all new to me...cool...I'm going to find an example of one....
Amanda, Boston
Don't Look Back, Boston
Lula urges Bush to Respect Sovereignty of All Latin American Countries
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Bush did not mention Chavez in his speech, and even ignored a question about the Venezuelan president in a press conference.
Instead, Bush rejected claims that his government turned its back on Latin America, and stressed that the United States does not get enough credit for the 1.6 billion dollars in aid it gives the region each year.
'Part of the message of my trip ... is to say that the American people care deeply about social justice,' Bush noted.
However, he stressed that 'the most effective anti-poverty programme is trade' ***CHOKE**** and said that the US and Brazil need to work together to end deadlock in the Doha Round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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Hi WFC, Ono... :)
Umm...I think you have only 2 days left, ono..
http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic/
Mesostomatic generator...
I'm guessing this is easier than writing one...let's see what it makes out of this site...
damn,
that was fast, waits
shell,
bookman is in the movie "the matador"
it's a gem!
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We aim to please, ono. : )
Hiya A., dada!
Back in a bit, have a little work to do.
//More Than A Feeling//
still kicks major arse
air-ono said...
March 10, 2007 12:30 AM
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I've seen him in a show once too...something very dramatic...he's good...I'll have to look up his name..I forget it..
Bush Versus Chavez (James Petras)
...
President Bush's visit to Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Mexico reflects the 'two tracks' of US empire-building--military intervention and political-diplomatic instruments.
Bush's visit to Latin America at this time is an attempt to gain support from client electoral rulers at a time when he has lost the support of over 75% of US public opinion, and is rejected by overwhelming majorities in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Bush's advisers and principal propagandists are counting on publicizing the friendly receptions by Lula, Vazquez, Uribe, Garcia and Calderon to counter the reality and public image of Bush as a mass murderer of the Iraqi and Afghani people.
Bush's escalation of the war against Iraq and threat to bomb Iran has further marked his regime as the deadly enemy of humanity.
...
the name's
Baker Hall...
Philip Baker Hall
(now go in peace)
//Don't Look Back, Boston//
has that west coast "we built this city on r-n-r" quality...
(ewwwww)!
My Whole? I need a poet's pen
To paint her myriad phases:
The monarch, and the slave, of men -
A mountain-summit, and a den
Of dark and deadly mazes -
A flashing light--a fleeting shade -
Beginning, end, and middle
Of all that human art hath made
Or wit devised! Go, seek HER aid,
If you would read my riddle!
...............
I never cared for Boston...which is good for me...less to d/l Monday.... Yeah..so that's how his death has impacted MY life... ;)
I never cared for Boston either ... oh well...
Neither did I. I associate it with my first couple of years working construction. Limbaugh in the morning, classic rock the rest of the
day. Ugh.
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"less to d/l Monday"
as I said, we aim to please.
Alice said...
http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic/
Mesostomatic generator...
++++++
Nice.
Gotta go... night
someone said (i can't remember now) that they didn't care for boston
nor me
it was just a convenient opportunity to smack guilliani
however, "more than a feeling" still blows my socks off
"Limbaugh in the morning, classic rock the rest of the
day. Ugh."
you seriously amaze me, waiting - how you came out the other side...
i hope she's listening :)
hello, catharine, alice, air-ono.
don't let me stay long. make me go back to work
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
night, shelly
: )
Good night...
hi, jenise
now...
piss off
: )
(we aim to please)
as someone once said, i can't remember now
Night, A. Sleep well.
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That's why different perspectives are so important to me, j. A narrow view of life has never served me well. I'm glad I learned it as young as I did, but I still wasted a lot of time and effort working against the best interests of the rest of the planet.
I'm not sleeping...
It's my night off, man...Plus this is so cool reading about the tard being quizled like a pig on a stick in s.a...
Today on lunch I went to a Mexican place I like to go and this time I was seated at the table that look directly at the giant portrait of Emilano Zapata...& there's one of his Generals next to that...& one of Pancho Villa next to that...nice paintings...
I was saying good night to dada...
My bad, flipped through comment to quickly. Sleep well should be directed towards dada, although it certainly applies to you when it's time.
//More Than A Feeling//
AMAZING!
no socks...
people say how can this greek boy groove so
//No Socks//
AMAZING!
//I'm not sleeping...//
whoa!
she slipped back in
AMAZING!
I love the S.A. stuff you post. I've said that before, I'm sure, but they give me hope when I'm low on it.
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."
--John Cage.
quotes:
//reading about the tard being quizled like a pig on a stick in s.a//
~by a chica that i can't remember now
(LOL!)
wow, jenise really took my //piss off// (that was said in context) to heart
which reminds me...
waits!
we won't be needing any music by heart tonight
: )
WaitingForCicero said...
but they give me hope when I'm low on it.
March 10, 2007 1:13 AM
I still prefer Delgate Zero's ideas of working from below...but I also get a lift from the leaders down there....That's why I chvnged my focus when I did...US rhetoric literally makes me ill..
Also
We Built This City, Starship
omg, i just had a horrible thought
maybe jenise had a fatal heart attack...
and that was here last post
//We Built This City, Starship//
LMAO
(you bad, bad boy)
or maybe she was chomping on some sushi
and a hunk fell on the floor
and she's looking for it
We won't be hearing any Heart, ono.
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I agree with that idea, A. I believe that I will not live to see that sort of society emerge as the paradigm, but I'm hoping some one will.
The cons grasped that whole multi-generational socio-political concept before everyone else. Unfortunate.
air-ono, just five more minutes, please? by the way, do you guys spell and count like brits or like americans? (if like brits, i have a question for you)
waiting, the more i see and i learn, the broader my perspective gets. that's true for everyone, i'm sure. but so much broader in so few years still amazes me. the utmost respect. :) if i were that smart or open or whatever it is...
shell, the protests were on the news the TV in this old diner i was in last night was tuned to, and this old man at the next table turned to his friend, shook his head, and said (referring to bush's visit here last year) "if only we were a little more latin." that made me smile...
or maybe she's fed up with all of shelly's gringo bashing clap-trap
Did you happen to watch anarchism in america, cicero?
//count like brits or like americans//
i spell brit style...
but "count"?
"maybe jenise had a fatal heart attack...
and that was here last post"
not to worry, air-ono. just suddenly got the itch to dance in the kitchen. i'm back now. god, i hope my last post before my fatal heart attack is substantially better than most of what i post!
re: //air-ono, just five more minutes, please?//
jenise,
did you or did you not write in your introductory post, the following:
//don't let me stay long. make me go back to work//
if that's an attempt to mess with my mind, you've succeeded with bells on
(you bad, bad gurl)
counting - up to 999,999 million before going to a billion (not from 999 million to a billion).
i'm supposed to translate this next thing into british english (i've explained that it doesn't work like that, but noone's listening...). spelling-wise, ise not ize, our not or, and re not er...anything else i'm supposed to be thinking about?
(i think we have a couple hundred more years of gringo bashing before the planet is anywhere near balanced again)
I guess that bears explaining. I believe that the amount of change that any one generation will bear willingly is finite. I believe that incremental change, in the direction of democratic socialism, is fairly inevitable, provided we do not suffer species extinction. I believe in working toward that goal, though I may not live to realize it.
Unfortunately, I think that those who prefer dominion may have figured it out first.
"if that's an attempt to mess with my mind, you've succeeded with bells on"
;)
//got the itch to dance in the kitchen//
small world...
i was doing the tango (barefooted) to "more than a tango" in my kitchen
Ok jenise...put the bottle down.. ;)
Have you heard from JIK, jenise?
(That sure was hella fun that day....remember the first bookstore!?)
:)
Tango is so hot...
//anything else i'm supposed to be thinking about?//
um, that's about it
and 1,000 million (that's 9 zeros)= 1 billion, down here
//Tango is so hot//
not in my world
i was attempting a "barefoot contessa" post but faded
the tango is highly stylised south american clap-trap
in my world:
FLAMENCO RULES!
No, I didn't see it, Shell.
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"if i were that smart or open or whatever it is..."
The fucking tragedy is that it's not smarts, it was exposure to the rest of the world. And I've barely seen any of that. I know so many people who don't think beyond the borders of their hometown. And they are no different than I am, save for exposure to new perspective.
So many people who could accomplish so much, if only they knew.
It's why my mom hates it when I refer to it as "waking up".
The Allegory of the Cave has always resonated with me, ya know?
sorry, shell
you're not getting my email
we're too different
It's ok ono..I'm cutting you off like a soldier who needs armor on the 11th...
Also, jenise, it's been 40+ minutes since your first post.
: )
"and 1,000 million (that's 9 zeros)= 1 billion, down here"
good god, you'd think the english-speaking world could get it's act together, huh?
(dancing in the kitchen is the only way to go, in my opinion - and barefoot, of course!)
Gotta run again. I may be back in an hour or so. Nice to read everyone tonight.
Many blessings!
remember me n you...n you n me?
(That sure was hella fun that day....remember the first bookstore!?)
that was great. we absolutely must do it again. it was like here, but translated to the physical world, huh? i may not get to california this time. :( my brother's wedding and then probably to russia - so only the east coast, i think...but we will do it again!
it's always long, long periods of time between JIK's emails. every so often.
waiting, waking up and walking out of the cave (that's what you mean...?) sounds exactly right.
oooh, shell, you 'n me - my college boyfriend used to listen to that all the time. didn't pan out, obviously, but still...
It's a sweet song..
:)
What time is it anyway?
Wow...almost 2...
I wish Sam Seder could trade in a weekday for a weekend day...
it is sweet.
have you heard from JIK lately?
oh, and how's it going outwitting the officials cat-wise?
It's big news in the US that
the FBI has overstepped its
authority by spying on US
citizens illegally.
What hasn't made it to the news
- or did and was pulled after
running as a story just once -
is that while the FBI and other
government agencies are spying
on American citizens, a foreign
country (and supposed US ally) is
spying on the FBI and other
law enforcement agencies.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/61.html
- Brasscheck
Not in moons...
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We're hiring a lawyer...
There was a meeting at the Humane Society the night after our meeting, we decided we should raid it...we should ind out what our legal standing is first...it's the american way...right...? *gak*
tango this
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Brasscheck
March 10, 2007 2:06 AM
[Peeks at link with curiousity]
Blimey!!!
Foiled by youtubes again !
:)
i really should get back to work. wouldn't want waiting to come back and find me here - or to mess too much with air-ono.
good luck with all that, shell. ridiculous how much you have to fight just to help cats that obviously need homes. just ridiculous.
have a good one, shell and air-ono (you back barefoot in the kitchen...?)
here's some accordian music
while i go google some pics...
Bye jenise.. xoxo
See you too ono..I'll be thinking in Sanskrit for the rest of the night...
xoxo
Is it true that Janine Garofalo will appear nude in her next film after "The Guitar"?
or more Internet rumor?
Brother Chuck having some fun
Instead of being uptight
Quit acting so white
Dance
I'd Just Like To Say Hello To My Uncle!
Mind blowing corruption laid out in this diary at kos. Everything from the US Attorney massacre to Cunningham and Lewis, Cheney, Rummy, and Walter Reed.
Most corrupt government, ever.
Freedom House defines as "not free," in particular, the following countries: Algeria, Angola, Burma, Cambodia, Chad, China, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Guinea, Liberia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Togo, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Zimbabwe.
A courageous Cuban human-rights activist and samizdat reporter named Guillermo Farinas recently sent an open letter to the regime requesting the same Internet rights for Cubans as enjoyed by every Latin-American citizen. (Chances are, he would have gladly settled for those enjoyed by the citizens of of Red China.)
Today, Cuba — a nation that in 1958 had more TVs and telephones per capita than any continental European country — has fewer Internet connections than Uganda, the lowest number in the hemisphere.
Reporters Without Borders (NOT the Cuban-American-National-Foundation — please note!) scoffs: "The (Cuban) authorities' chief reason for keeping citizens away from the Internet is to prevent them from being well-informed."
Despite the unsuccessful war in Iraq and the troubled times in Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, North Korea, and several other countries, Rice has become the most trusted popular member of the Bush administration. She is arguably the most talked about, respected, and admired woman in the world. And she is certainly the most powerful woman on the globe today. The road Rice has traveled is an inspiration to all people — American or otherwise.
"The road Rice has traveled is an inspiration to all people — American or otherwise."
where are getting this crap from? she's among the most laughed at among the japanese people, on the japanese media and among every other nationality i've talked to.
although i like the fact you're posting it on the "You gotta be shittin' me" thread. nice.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
Rice not only speaks well, she does well.
Hey!
How's your rabbits?
you're right. as national security advisor, she's done a bang-up job on preventing 9/11, catching bin laden, working out a roadmap for peace between israel and palestine, dealing with north korea and iran. she's spectacular.
she can speak in complete sentences. i'll give you that.
When Im tired
I hide in my music, forget the day
And dream of a girl I used to know
~it's more than a feeling
up, up, and away
crank gives flying one more go
mornin gang,
i finally figured out how to save the world.
we take you now live to jenise's kitchen
where her dancing has taken it's toll
eya aO ao Ao
you gotta admit
Jenise has some killer
dance costumes, i'm sure she
has some contacts with the willow world .
to class rice as anything more than a slimey well-educated empty suit...
and you reside in a fanatasy world
SHE'S A SKANK
(and so are you)
here's her legacy
hey, s.j.
afew more pics and back to bed
i'm sure she's
laying in Oatmeal
which is good for her
arthtitis, and yummy too!
the reason why rice is mistaken for a genius
enjoy your hedonism...
here comes s.j. in his hindenburg to save the world
: )
now if you deranged gentlemen will excuse me
i'm going to retire
for the remainder of these wee hours
//I think I went to school with the third guy in the first row.//
was his name yorick
kinda goofy...
yeah, i knew him well
the Mad Hatter has a sex change...
http://tinyurl.com/337dff
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Off-Duty NYPD Officer Kills Man In Brooklyn Shootout
Thug Commits 'Gran' Larceny
Caught On Tape: Mugger Attacks 101-Year-Old Woman In Queens
Queens Teen Sentenced in Bias Attack on Asians
Detective Who Fired 31 Shots Testifies in Killing by Police
On the streets with Brooklyn’s ‘redeemers’ - Recycling trash for cash is a way of life for many in the borough
Exxon suspends part of oil cleanup system in Brooklyn
Bronx Fire Devastates Families and Community - Eight children 1 adult killed
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Girl’s Death Raises Toll in Bronx Fire to 10
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dada said...
"The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency"
by Mahmood Mamdani
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/mamd01_.html
March 9, 2007 10:43 PM
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Excerpt:
"With very few exceptions, the Save Darfur campaign has drawn a single lesson from Rwanda: the problem was the US failure to intervene to stop the genocide.
Rwanda is the guilt that America must expiate, and to do so it must be ready to intervene, for good and against evil, even globally."
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I disagree. What guilt does America have over Rwanda? What nonsense!
In Rwanda, the failure was that the international community was unwilling to stop genocide as mandated by international law.
In Darfur, the U.S. and the international community should support negotiations and UN peacekeepers to stop the violence perpetuated by any groups (including the rebels). The U.S. should provide funding to help support an international peacekeeping force (along with some logistical assistance) based on international law -- in response to genocide, ethnic cleansing, or crimes against humanity.
I believe the "banality of evil" is the more applicable phrase to use while genocide, ethnic cleansing, or war is occurring -- regardless of the countries, groups, or individuals involved.
Finally, the author's own assumptions and simplistic views of anyone who applies the word "genocide" in Darfur are disturbing and unfortunate.
?? Mark Green's statement about Air America ??
Nothing scandalous, I did not see it elsewhere and did not know if it is authentic (though it seems so).
Found it here:
http://www.musicradio77.com/
wwwboard/messages/308964.html
Mark Green's statement about Air America?
we posted it a few days ago
Huffington Post had it
"Air America 2.0 Begins Today"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-green/air-america-20-begins-to_b_42707.html
you cna contact Mark Green here
http://www.newdemocracyproject.org/contact.cfm
"I appreciate the -- I appreciate your willingness to cook some Uruguayan beef. You've told me all along how good it is, and after we answer a few questions, we're about to find out."
-F-Tard, to President Vazquez of Uruguay
Watch me while I wipe the tear from my eye ... sobsobsob ... Newt Gingrich admits he is just another human being with moral shortcomings and personal failures. Aaawww.
So what is it he did exactly? Who cares. Lets not speak the A word and push it back ... way back to th dark corners of our third mindset. You know the stuff Newt Gingrich is famous for, the stuff that ruins families? Instead Lets forgive as we must and votevotevote Newt for Prez cause he is a R-e-p-u-b-l-i-c-a-n.
---
Falwell:
""He has admitted his moral shortcomings to me, as well, in private conversations," Falwell wrote in a weekly newsletter sent Friday to members of the Moral Majority Coalition and The Liberty Alliance. "And he has also told me that he has, in recent years, come to grips with his personal failures and sought God's forgiveness.""
huffingtonpost.com
Sunny Jim,
I meant to post about the Mark Green article, too.
So he and his brother bought AAR? What do you all think? Is this a good thing?
I may have missed it but I don't remember any comments about that here on the blog.
P.S. How are you doing? How are my fav dogs? Please let them have an extra bone from me ;-)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, by Mark Twain
I do not wish to impose my opinion on any one who will not permit it, but such as it is I offer it here for what it is worth. I cannot believe, and I do not believe, that Mrs. Eddy originated any of the thoughts and reasonings out of which the book Science and Health is constructed; and I cannot believe, and do not believe that she ever wrote any part of that
book.
"Republican strategists say Giuliani's troubled family relationships are likely to hinder his standing among conservatives who already have questions about his positions on social issues. They say the estrangement could raise a question in voters' minds: If Giuliani can't keep his family together, how will he keep the country together?"
__________________
lmao
First, who gives a sh-t?
Secondly, we all know that the monkey is a very difficult act to follow, and I'm certain Giuliani's family issues will probably cause him to perform not as perfectly as the monkey.
Where the hell are we? Is Dumbfuckistan (thanks Robert Smigel) going to rule politics forever?
WAR CRIMES
A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal, by Ramsey Clark and Others
Incinerated body of an Iraqi soldier on the "Highway of Death," a name the press has given to the road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq. U.S. planes immobilized the convoy by disabling vehicles at its front and rear, then bombing and straffing the resulting traffic jam for hours. More than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of charred and dismembered bodies littered the sixty miles of highway. The clear rapid incineration of the human being [pictured above] suggests the use of napalm, phosphorus, or other incindiary bombs. These are anti-personnel weapons outlawed under the 1977 Geneva Protocols. This massive attack occurred after Saddam Hussein announced a complete troop withdrawl from Kuwait in compliance with UN Resolution 660. Such a massacre of withdrawing Iraqi soldiers violates the Geneva Convention of 1949, common article 3, which outlaws the killing of soldiers who "are out of combat." There are, in addition, strong indications that many of those killed were Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the impending seige of Kuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. No attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians on the "highway of death." The whole intent of international law with regard to war is to prevent just this sort of indescriminate and excessive use of force.
(Photo Credit: © 1991 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images)
"It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice." Ramsey Clark
Shells,
just what I needed
promises to be most entertaining
-ROTFLOL@the long paragraph and the following:
"That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring
that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables
a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars."
from
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, by Mark Twain
Hi bridge! :) That line caught my eye too...Hope all's well with you...
""Nothing exists but Mind?"
"Nothing," she answered. "All else is substanceless, all else is
imaginary."
I gave her an imaginary check, and now she is suing me for substantial
dollars. It looks inconsistent."
from
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, by Mark Twain
(and endless Danke Schoens fuer Shells ;)
eya Bridge! A.!
afternoon folks, i'm
in the studio puttering around
just came up for some hot chocolate
on a grey cold windy ass day!
many of us AAR bloggers
left comments on
greens thread.
New pamphlet: "Alcatraz – Uncle Sam's Devil's Island"
The Kate Sharpley Library has just published a new edition of Philip Grosser's account of his time imprisoned on the notorious prison island of Alcatraz. Philip Grosser was sent to Alcatraz because he didn't want to murder anyone, even on government orders. He was a Boston anarchist and anti-militarist who refused to be drafted into the slaughter of World War One.
He was, in his own words, 'not a very good example to other drafted men', and stayed a stubborn rebel who could not be turned into a soldier. As an anarchist he denied the government's right to run or throw away his life. For that reason he had to face the inhumanity of authority defied.
Grosser's account of his time inside is an early exposé of official brutality in America's most notorious prison. It's also a powerful account of resistance and endurance. The original pamphlet was first published by Grosser's friends after his death in the 1930s. It's been expanded with letters by, to and about him from the Alexander Berkman papers at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. They shed a little more light on the life of a rebel who could be counted on in the struggle for human freedom.
"Phil was one of the finest comrades it has been my good fortune to meet. And well I remember his stand during the war. I know all the humiliation and tortures he had to go through because of his loyalty to a high ideal." – Alexander Berkman
"Alcatraz – Uncle Sam's Devil's Island : Experiences of a Conscientious Objector in America during the First World War" by Philip Grosser
(and i shared a chunk of venison jerky with them wile saying "bridge wanted me to share this with you!"
tails were joyfully wagged!)
Radio Zapatista
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/
Hi SJ...
See you later...
love ya both!
i'm going back downstairs.
Mugwumps don't win elections.
But Republicans do. And thats no Geheimnis - mad or not.
I bet there is not a single Mugwump among ...
right back at you, Sunny Jim :)
wishing you all a great weekend
love tails wagging ;-)
its cold where you are but we had a real turn in the weather the last three days - highs in the 80s now as it should be - but then I do live in the warmest part of the country ... lucky me until the heat starts.
I'll have to go and check the Green's blog - thanks.
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Shells,
I am ok, thanks. I hope you are, too. I do miss the MRR blog. Its just more fun posting there.
Still not done reading the Mark Twain thingy ... am printing :)
Meat me in St. Louis!!!
From last thread:
Loosen up, you uptighties!
Archie Bell and the Drells say
"Tighten up" y'all.
CHEEZE YA CAN SNEEZE!
not so much what i said, but the volumes of incriminating evidence that
Jenise said... @ March 10, 2007 1:50 AM
//(That sure was hella fun that day....remember the bookstore!?)//
[rhymes with "the 6th floor"]
//and then [definitely] to russia//
the last person stationed in japan, then defected to russia was...
OMG!
(lee harvey oswald has come back as jenise)
@ March 10, 2007 1:50 AM the plot thickens with this excerpt from her infamous post
//long periods of time between JIK//
hmmm... or JFK!!!
OMG!
she's going to kill ruby guilliani...
don't worry jenise,
mum's the word
[wink]
Karen lost her husband almost four years ago and still hasn't gotten out of her mourning stage.
Her daughter is constantly calling her and urging her to get back into the world.
Finally, Karen says she'd go out, but didn't know anyone.
Her daughter immediately replies: "Mom! I have someone for you to meet.
Well, it was an immediate hit.
They took to one another and after dating for six weeks, he asks her to join him for a weekend in the Catskills.
Their first night there, she undresses as he does. There she stood nude except for a pair of black lacy panties, he in his birthday suit.
Looking at her he asks: "Why the black panties?"
She replies: "My breasts you can fondle, my body is yours to explore, but down there I am still in mourning."
He knows he's not getting lucky that night.
The following night the same scenario.
She's standing there with the black panties on, and he is in his birthday suit ... except that he is wearing a black condom.
She looks at him and asks: "What's with this .... a black condom?"
He replies: "I want to offer my deepest condolences."
Dear Abby:
I have been engaged for almost a year. I am to be married next month. My fiancee's mother is not only very attractive but really great and understanding.
She is putting the entire wedding together and invited me to her place to go over the invitation list because it had grown a bit beyond what we had expected it to be.
When I got to her place we reviewed the list and trimmed it down to just under a hundred ... then she floored me.
She said that in a month I would be a married man and that before that happened, she wanted to have sex with me.
Then she just stood up and walked to her bedroom and on her way said that I knew where the front door was if I wanted to leave.
I stood there for about five minutes and finally decided that I knew exactly how to deal with this situation.
I headed straight out the front door...
There, leaning against my car was her husband, my father-in-law to be. He was smiling.
He explained that they just wanted to be sure I was a good kid and would be true to their little girl.
I shook his hand and he congratulated me on passing their little test.
Abby, should I tell my fiancee' what her parents did, and that I thought their "little test" was asinine and insulting to my character?
Or should I keep the whole thing to myself including the fact that the reason I was walking out to my car was to get a condom.
it's one of my many prized attributes, crank
but!
gotta go...
this morning (after much caustic soda) i bought a long coily thing to tackle that blocked bathroom sink
++++++
Star Vox said...
-------------------
"The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency"
by Mahmood Mamdani
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/mamd01_.html
March 9, 2007 10:43 PM
-----------------------------------
Excerpt:
"With very few exceptions, the Save Darfur campaign has drawn a single lesson from Rwanda: the problem was the US failure to intervene to stop the genocide.
Rwanda is the guilt that America must expiate, and to do so it must be ready to intervene, for good and against evil, even globally."
-----------------------------------
I disagree. What guilt does America have over Rwanda? What nonsense!
+++++++++++++++
I may be misunderstanding here, but I think the author of that article agrees with you. The next sentence after the above excerpt is:
"That lesson is inscribed at the heart of Samantha Power’s book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. But it is the wrong lesson."
Piece On Earth!
Evening all!!
Interesting posts today.
I saw that there were comments for a moment on the other blog. Pooped out fasr didn't it. Thanks Fishgrease!!!
Pentagon looking at kicking out Marine gay porn star prostitute
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/10/2007 11:44:00 AM ET
They need to see if Dont Ask Dont Tell covers sodomy, and "telling" I presume, BEFORE you enlisted. You know they're gonna kick him out. There is no way a gay-porn star male prostitute is going to be permitted to remain in the Marines, regardless of his claims that he's not gay. As I mentioned before, the irony here is that Matt Sanchez's friends on the right, who gave him an award for his service, want him kicked out of the Marines, while the folks on the left, who he claims hate him, are the ones fighting for his right to serve. Think about that one, Matt, the next time you do interviews talking about how much the Party of "Faggot" embraces you. More from Joe.My.God.
LINK
General Eaton: “Republican Congress worst thing that’s happened to US Army and Marine Corps”
By: SilentPatriot @ 10:20 AM - PST
(Guest blogged by Logan Murphy)
Friday night on Real Time, Bill Maher interviewed retired Army Major General Paul D. Eaton who was the original Commander in charge of training Iraqi troops. Maher tries to get a laugh out of him but as you'll see, Eaton is a straightforward man who doesn't mince words — if he says it, he means it. He blames Donald Rumsfeld for the majority of the failures in Iraq (including the current problems at Walter Reed), thanks God for the new Democratic majority and lays down some truth:
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"We've got this thing that so many military believe that Republican administrations are good for the military. That is rarely the case. And, we have to get a message through to every soldier, every family member, every friend of soldiers that the Republican party, the Republican dominated Congress has absolutely been the worst thing that's happened to the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps."
Bush has always contended that he "listens to the generals on the ground", but we know that's a lie. It's obvious that he ignores or fires anyone who doesn't tell him what he wants to hear. After listening to Eaton rip him and his administration to shreds, I can see why.
LINK
Coulter
Cheney
Bush, Laura and Condi get jiggy in Latin America
"I look forward to the day when the stain of Castro is finally washed from the soil of Cuba,"
Administration ‘loses’ Padilla interrogation tape. Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was detained for four years without formal charges, much of it in solitary confinement. An independent medical expert say his repeated interrogations have made him mentally unfit for trial. Now, the judge in Padilla’s case has ordered the administration to turn over all tapes made of his interrogations, specifically a session from March 2004 while he was still held as an “enemy combatant.” But the administration says it lost the tape.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke was incredulous that anything connected to such a high-profile defendant could be lost.
“Do you understand how it might be difficult for me to understand that a tape related to this particular individual just got mislaid?” Cooke told prosecutors at a hearing last month.
Glenn Greenwald has much more.
LINK
Gates may undo Rumfeld/Feith intel changes. “Pentagon chief Robert Gates is considering whether to dismantle some controversial spying operations set up by his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, as a way of by-passing the CIA. … Former officials involved in an ongoing debate about Pentagon spying say he’s considering whether to pull back the so-called ‘Strategic Support Branch‘ and other intelligence channels established by Rumsfeld and his former lieutenants, Stephen Cambone and Douglas Feith.” Shane Harris has the full story in the National Journal.
UPDATE: Steve Clemons has more.
Did Rove orchestrate the U.S. attorney firings? New Mexico Republican Party Chairman Allen Weh said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to White House officials and asked that Iglesias be removed because he was not indicting Democrats. “Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.” Weh said Rove told him: “He’s gone.” His account calls into question the White House’s involvement in the recent firings of eight U.S. attorneys.
Crank, your link doesn't work.
Same thing Crank. Post it on comments at my blog and I'll read it from there.
Is it Cheney's fall fron Grace?
I got it from Google already.
Reading it now.
Cheney's fall from grace
evening T!
how's the knee?
eya crnkr!
just got in from a dogger walk ane we were all wet enuff to leave puddles in the mud room...
and make the parchment...
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Off-Duty Officer Kills Man at Brooklyn Club
The brutalized body of a dead St.Lucian female found in New York 01/01/2006
Good article Crank. I don't think Bush will dump him though. He's still the puppeteer to some extent.
Cheney is a madman and Bush a dunce! At least some in this admin has a little common sense to start diplomatic talks instead of attacks.
Good Evening Jim. Knee is still screaming. Can't get a Doctor's appt. til April 9th. Going to check for cancellations though.
Thank goodness he prescribed the pain pills. Wouldn't be able to work without them.
ya T,
talk about nasty pain!
http://gregpalast.com/
some good reads here
Jim, Crank, did you see the link Jenise put on the blog this AM?
It's about the Isrealis and 9/11 and guess who covered the story.
Fox News!
Let me get the link for you.
Here's the link from Brasscheck TV
LINK
good toons upbloggie T.
check out What Now Toons is up to:
http://www.whatnowtoons.com/
getting better every week IMHO.
Sunshine said...
evening T!
how's the knee?
eya crnkr!
just got in from a dogger walk ane we were all wet enuff to leave puddles in the mud room...
March 10, 2007 8:10 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
In NYC mud rooms are rented as
studio apartments for $700 a
month.
image
Crank Bait said...
toniD: "Thank goodness he prescribed the pain pills. Wouldn't be able to work without them."
----------------------------------
Now all you need is a cigar box, a maid, a Mercedes and a radio program and you're set!
*******
And his money! Heh!
I didn't get the oxy though. Just a low dose of vicodin.
Crank Bait said...
toniD: "Thank goodness he prescribed the pain pills. Wouldn't be able to work without them."
----------------------------------
Now all you need is a cigar box, a maid, a Mercedes and a radio program and you're set!
March 10, 2007 8:47 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
:)
Good one!
Snubbing Chavez and Seducing Brazil Are Two Sides of Same Bush Game
...
When Nicholas Burns visited Brazil in early February, he gave an interview to the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo that reveals Washington's plans for the region. "We are very dependent on oil. So we have to develop alternative fuels, we have to decrease our gasoline consumption. We produce corn ethanol because we have large cornfields. You (Brazil) produce ethanol from sugarcane. We are both world leaders. We control more than 70% of the world market.
"We believe that this is a connection with Brazil, it is an area in which we can grow together and we can lead the development of a world market with very positive consequences for the environment and for the economy. Biofuels will become the biggest and most positive point of connection between Brazil and the United States." (1)
Burns added that Brazil can play a major role in stimulating ethanol production in Central America and the Caribbean, where sugarcane plantations cover vast areas in private sector partnerships. He was very clear in pointing out that the agreement with Brazil on the development of biofuels will contribute to decreasing the dependency of U.S. imports from Venezuela and Iran. "We don't want to be dependent on those countries," Burns concluded.
The same day, the newspaper interviewed Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, who agreed with Burns: "To resuscitate the FTAA would require too great an effort. I find it much better to think in terms of bilateral associations. Ethanol, for example, does not depend at all on other countries."
Obviously the two governments are thinking along the same lines, but it is important to clarify what each has to gain.
...
Federal officials secretly schemed to limit payouts for sick and dying nuclear weapons workers
Evening NC, Shell:)
"It's virtually impossible to make a call in the US
without Amdocs (an Israeli company) making a record of it"
ya, me and N both have posted on this extensively.
this is the Israeli Asshole Contingent. Mossad black hats with the support of the 'more money for war' profiteers...
(and anticipating the israeli fighting blog commandoes, i'm most definitely not accusing all jews! most of em are as unaware of reality as the typical dumbed down american!)
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