Saturday, September 30, 2006

MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, or is it?


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NEWS from CSMonitor: Many economists believe the dollar will decline in value - and needs to decline - relative to other currencies. The reason: The record US trade deficit shows no signs of shrinking on its own accord.
The larger it grows, the greater the risk of a "hard landing" for America if other nations become worried about America's ability to repay foreign creditors, who are now lending some $1.6 million per minute to finance overall US spending.

The US of A, controlled by the Bush/neocon administration is borrowing money from other nations (mainly China) like flies take to POOP.

Now I don't know diddly-crap (apologies for the feces use but I can't help think EXCREMENT when I think neocon...) about the finance world... but it doesn't take a financial wizard to draw a conclusion that a crisis is looming with this type of borrowing.

In 2005 the United States owed China roughly over $650 BILLION smackaroonies. A number that was/is expected to grow to over Trillions $$$$$$$, if not already.

The above very frightening film, to me, is about how, globalizational greed can take a civilized people into a macabre and ghoulish world and I have to wonder... COULD WE GO THERE?

The neocons have proven, it's all about money and power, folks... and money is the root of all evil. "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (King James Version) thinkingblue

WORD OF THE DAY: perdition n. 1.a. Loss of the soul; eternal damnation.

Is money the root of all evil?

It is a common saying that “money is the root of all evil.” According to the Random House Dictionary of Proverbs and Sayings, the phrase first appeared in English circa 1000 A.D. The saying originated in the New Testament. “For the love of money is the root of all evil.” Timothy, 6:10.

It’s obviously one of those sayings that has as great deal of staying power, having been around for two thousand years and still going strong. But how fair is it to blame all evil, or even any evil, on a medium of exchange?

I think it would be a much more accurate statement to say that the root of most evil is man’s desire for status; either greed to increase one’s status, or jealousy over losing in the status game to others. Money is the most obvious measure of one’s status, so it’s easy to confuse the two, but they are certainly not the same thing at all. Money is just one way of keeping score. Blaming money for evil is like blaming the scoreboard for the baseball game.

It’s easy to point to many evils committed for the sake of status in which money wasn’t involved at all. For example, figure skater Tonya Harding conspired to have Nancy Kerrigan assaulted so she wouldn’t be able to compete in the Olympics. Now it’s true that there is some money involved in winning an Olympic medal, but Olympic athletes are mostly motivated simply by the desire to be the champ, and that status that brings them in their own world of athletics.

Then there’s the story of OJ Simpson, who killed his ex-wife and the man he thought was her boyfriend. OJ was motivated by jealousy over the fact that some other man was more successful with his ex-wife than he was. Jealousy over women is a very common cause of evil. It has nothing to do with money, but everything to do with status and being jealous of another man’s greater success with a particular woman.

One should never expect the Bible to be consistent, and sure enough, it isn’t when it comes to evil. One of the very first acts of evil committed in the Bible has nothing to do with money. In the Book of Genesis, Cain kills his brother Abel because he is jealous that Abel’s offering to God was better received than his own. He is jealous that Abel has achieved higher status than him.

Idealists wonder why we can’t live in a world where everyone is equal, and therefore where there is no greed or jealousy resulting from status differences. Unfortunately, they overlook the fact that our desire to have higher status than others is part of our human nature, and nothing can change it. The goal of communism was that an economic system would be created where no one would be rich or poor, where everyone would have equal wealth. The problem is that such a system is impossible. Man’s desire to rise ahead of others is too strong, and money is not the only thing that man competes over. And because all men are not equal in ability and other characteristics, no matter what the playing field is, some will rise ahead and others will fall behind, and those who are behind will feel intense jealousy, even if the competition is about something other than money.

One might even say that communism itself is a great evil, and the root of communism is jealousy on the part of its adherents that others have more money than they do.

Desire for money, or greed for money if you prefer to use stronger language (reminiscent of a scene from the movie Wall Street), is a good thing when people play by the rules, and when their desire for money and status results in better ways of doing business and in inventions that help people and that make the world a better place. Desire for money and status is only bad when people do bad things in order to obtain what they desire. And even then, it’s not “greed” that’s really bad, but the person who’s doing the bad things who’s bad.

The goal of a just government should not be to punish people for being successful in obtaining money, but to create rules to ensure that competition for money results in good for society.
(A GOOD ESSAY FOR THE NEO-CON'S TO READ, BECAUSE IT'S WITH BLINDNESS THEY LUST FOR POWER AND GREED ... BUT THEY WON'T... thinkingblue)
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MORE READING ON THIS SUBJECT:

Climbing debt casts doubt on dollar's future

Assessing Risk Of Chinese Trade

Why China's money matters to you

America owes trillions of $$ to China, Mexico & other countries, is this dangerous?

CLICK HERE TO SEE SOME GOOD AND LAME ANSWERS TO THIS QUESTION... from Yahoo Ansers

The USA Is Bankrupt – What Now?

By William Thomas

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If I owe my creditors $4,400 and can’t pay it, I’m in trouble. If I owe my creditors $4,400 million and can’t pay it they’re in trouble. The first scenario includes many Americans. The second describes the biggest debtor nation on the planet. The Bush White House is currently borrowing $1.9 billion a day just to stay afloat. READ MORE HERE

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Friday, September 29, 2006

IRAQ WAR STATISTICS and DEMOCRACY ROLLBACK



CLICK HERE TO WATCH AMY GOODMAN - A Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood



HEADLINE NEWS:
09/29/06 -
The Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror!

What makes me so angry about this is that some of our Democrats (12 in fact) joined the Republican majority and voted for this bill.

The vote was passed with 65 to 34 votes. The twelve Democrats who joined with the republicans, except for Senator Chafee of Rhode Island, are Tom Carper of Delaware, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, as well as Senator Menendez of New Jersey, Bill Nelson of Florida, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Senator Pryor of Arkansas, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Ken Salazar of Colorado, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.

Please watch Democracy Now, September 29, 2006 by clicking on the above theater, this episode is riveting!! thinkingblue

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY SAID: "I mean, this is -- it’s Kafka. But it’s more than that. It’s just a total rollback of everything this country has stood for. I mean, you have 100 people, very privileged, members of the Senate voting this way and with no realization of what it would be like if you were the one who was picked up. Maybe you’re guilty, but quite often, as we’ve seen, purely by accident and then held for years...."

Kafka, Franz. 1883-1924. Austrian writer whose stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.

PS: Below I have listed the extremely twisted but true statistics of the Bush Iraq war from The About.com Newsletter. They are very alarming and truly sad!

CLICK HERE TO BUY BOOKIraq War Results & Statistics as of September 20, 2006

From Deborah White,
Your Guide to Liberal Politics: U.S..
Sep 24 2006

2,690 US Soldiers Killed, 20, 322 Wounded, 144,000 Remain in Iraq

For your quick reading, I've listed key statistics about the Iraq War, taken primarily from data analyzed by various think tanks, including The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, and from mainstream media sources. Data is presented as of September 20,2006, except as indicated.

US SPENDING IN IRAQ
Spent & approved to spend in Iraq - $505 billion of US taxpayers' funds, including $70 billion more approved by both Houses of Congress in Sept 2006

Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 million in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion

US AND COALITION TROOPS IN IRAQ

Coalition Troops in Iraq - Total 162,000, including 144,000 from the US, 7,200 from the UK, and 10,800 from all other nations (other than Iraq)

US Troop Casualities - 2,690 US troops; 98% male. 90% non-officers; 77% active duty, 14% National Guard; 74% Caucasian, 10% African-American, 11% Latino. 17% killed by non-hostile causes. 53% of US casualties were under 25 years old. 68% were from the US Army

Non-US Troop Casualties - Total 234, with 118 from the UK

US Troops Wounded - 20,322, 20% of which are serious brain or spinal injuries (total excludes psychological injuries)

US Troops with Serious Mental Health Problems 30% of US troops develop serious mental health problems within 3 to 4 months of returning home

US Military Helicopters Downed in Iraq - 52 total, 27 by enemy fire

IRAQI TROOPS, CIVILIANS AND OTHERS IN IRAQ

Private Contractors in Iraq, Working in Support of US Army Troops - 84,105

Journalists killed
- 77, 41 by murder and 36 by acts of war

Journalists killed by US Forces - 14

Iraqi Military and Police Casualties - 5,409

Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated - The UN issued a report on Sept 20, 2006 stating that Iraqi civilian casualties were significantly under-reported for at least July and August, 2006, and possibly longer. Casualties are estimated at 50,000 to over 100,00, but may be much higher.

Iraqi Insurgents Killed, Roughly Estimated - 55,000

Non-Iraqi Contractors and Civilian Workers Killed - 424

Non-Iraqi Kidnapped - 288, including 53 killed, 147 released, 3 escaped, 6 rescued and 79 status unknown.

Daily insurgent attacks, Feb 2004 - 14

Daily insurgent attacks, July 2005 - 70

Daily insurgent attacks, Sept 2006 - 90

Trained Iraqi Troops Needed by July 2006 272,566

Trained Iraqi Troops, Per US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad in August 2005 - "Not very large."

Trained Iraqi Troops Able to Fight Without Major US Support, as of March 2006 - Zero

QUALITY OF LIFE INDICATORS

Iraqi Unemployment Rate - 27 to 60%, where curfew not in effect

Consumer Price Inflation in 2005 - 20%

Iraqi Children Suffering from Chronic Malnutrition - 25% in May 2006

Percent of professionals who have left Iraq since 2003 - 40%

Iraqi Physicians Before 2003 Invasion - 34,000

Iraqi Physicians Who Have Left Iraq Since 2005 Invasion - 12,000

Iraqi Physicians Murdered Since 2003 Invasion - 2,000

Average Daily Hours Iraqi Homes Have Electricity - 10.5

Average Daily Hours Baghdad Homes Have Electricity - 6.1

Number of Iraqi Homes Connected to Sewer Systems - 37%

Percentage of Iraqi Homes with Access to Piped Water - 78%

Water Treatment Plants Rehabilitated - 22%

Hepatitis Outbreaks - 2002, 100; 2003, 170; 2004, 200.

Children Enrolled in Primary School - 2000, 3.6 million; 2004, 4.3 million

Telephone Subscribers - pre-war, 833,000; April 2006, 7.4 million

RESULTS OF POLL Taken in Iraq in August 2005 by the British Ministry of Defense (Source: Brookings Institute)

Iraqis "strongly opposed to presence of coalition troops - 82%

Iraqis who believe Coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security - less than 1%

Iraqis who feel less secure because of the occupation - 67%

Iraqis who do not have confidence in multi-national forces - 72%


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Bob Woodward: Bush Misleads On Iraq - CBS News


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ALARMING NEWS: Woodward told 60 Minutes that Saudi Prince Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election - to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on election day.

Amazon.com
The 2003 American invasion of Iraq was contentious, not just in the arena of global public opinion, but within the tight-lipped world of the George W. Bush White House. As Bob Woodward reveals in Plan of Attack, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were part of a group leading the charge to war while Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Tommy Franks, and others actively questioned the plan to invade a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks while war in Afghanistan was still being waged. Woodward gained extensive access to dozens of key figures and enjoyed hours of direct contact with the President himself (more time, seemingly, than former Bush administration officials Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill claim to have had). As a result, he's able to cite the kind of gossip you won't find in a White House press release: Franks calls Pentagon official Douglas Feith "the f*cking stupidest guy on the face of the earth," Powell shares his alarm over how the cautious Cheney of the first Bush administration had transformed into a zealot, and Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar seems to enjoy significantly more entrée and influence than most anyone would have thought. Bush is shown as a man intent on toppling Saddam Hussein in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and never really wavering in his decision despite offering hints that non-military solutions could be achieved. Light is also shed on CIA director George Tenet, who insists that the evidence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction was "a slam dunk" only to later admit that his intelligence was flawed when months of post-war searches turned up nothing. But the book's most interesting character is Powell. A former soldier himself, who finds himself increasingly at odds with the agenda of the administration, Powell rejects evidence on WMDs that he sees as spurious but ultimately endorses the invasion effort, apparently out of duty. Upon its publication, the Bush administration roundly denied many of the accounts in the book that demonstrated conflict within their circles, poor judgment, or lousy planning, but the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign nonetheless listed Plan of Attack as recommended reading. And it is. It shows alarming problems in the way the war was conceived and planned, but it also demonstrates the tremendous conviction and dedication of the people who decided to carry it out. --John Moe

From Publishers Weekly

Based on exhaustive research and remarkable access to the White House, including two sessions with President Bush and more than 75 interviews with administration officials, veteran Washington Post assistant managing editor Woodward delivers an engrossing blow-by-blow of the run-up to war in Iraq. In November 2001, just months after September 11, Woodward reports, Bush pulled aside defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and asked him to secretly begin updating war plans for Iraq. Sixteen months later, in March 2003, after an intense war-planning effort, a tense political fight at home and a carefully crafted "if-you-don’t-we-will" diplomatic strategy with the U.N., the American invasion began. Woodward has penned a forceful, often disturbing narrative that captures the deep personality and policy clashes within the Bush administration. Bush, along with Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz, are portrayed as believing in a sweeping mission to export Democracy and to have America be viewed as strong and willing to walk the walk. They are counterbalanced by Colin Powell, who emerges here as a reluctant warrior, a pragmatic voice—eventually muted—cautioning the president against a rush to war. The most stunning aspect of the story, however, is the glaring intelligence failure of George Tenet’s CIA, from bad WMD information to what Woodward reports as the outright manipulation of questionable intelligence to make the case for war. With this book, Woodward, the author of an astonishing nine number-one bestsellers, has delivered his most important and impressive work in years. Ultimately, this first-class work of contemporary history will be remembered for shedding needed light on the Iraq War, whatever its final outcome.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Murdoch's rag THE NY POST smears Olberman


It just won't end... Keith Olbermann received a notorious ill-omen via a letter threatening his life and covered in a white powder, from some crazed conservative coco-bird, no doubt. One of Rupert Murdoch's Rags, THE NEW YORK POST shockingly and scandalously printed an article questioning Olbermann's conduct during the incident and inferred that he behaved like a gutless coward... HOW DARE THEY!

They make fun of Olbermann while acting as though the perpetrator is
Click here to go to creepy clown site just a little impish joking CLOWN!

HUH!

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PS: Here is a list of the Murdoch newspapers around the world:
Murdoch Newspaper List

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia






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List Of Newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch

Australia:

The Australian
[1],

The Weekend Australian

The Hobart Mercury
[2],

The Northern Territory News (Darwin, Australia) [3]

The Daily Telegraph [4] (Sydney)

The Sunday Telegraph [5]

Sportsman

Herald Sun [6]

Sunday Herald Sun

The Herald And Weekly Times Ltd
[7]

The Courier Mail (Brisbane) [8]


The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)
[9]


The Gold Coast Bulletin [10]


Adelaide Advertiser
[11]


Cumberland Newspaper Group (20 titles in Sydney suburbs) [[12]]

Parramatta Advertiser

Blacktown Advocate

Canterbury Express

Fairfield Advance

Hornsby Advocate

Macarthur Chronicle

North Shore Times

Inner-West Weekly

Mosman Daily

The Glebe

Mt Druitt Standard

Hills Shire Times

Express Advocate

Northern District Times

Liverpool Leader

Lake Macguire News

Penrith Press

Leader Newspaper Group (30 titles in

Melbourne suburbs)


Cairns Post Group (42%)

North Queensland Newspaper Group

Townsville Bulletin [13]

Quest Community Newspapers (17 titles in

Brisbane suburbs)


Sunday Territorian

Centralian Advocate [14]

The Suburban

The Sunday Tasmanian

Tasmanian Country

Treasure Islander

Derwent Valley Gazette (Tasmania)

Sunday Mail

Messenger Press Group

Sunday Times (Perth)

...

United Kingdom: The Times, [15]

News of the World [16],

The Sun [17] ...

United States of America: The

New York Post [18], ...

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Keith O. speaks to Bush and FOX NEWS HYENAS

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Click here to hear a question to Bush by Keith Olbermann



Yesterday I posted to this blog, the goings on inside the Karl Rove strategy sessions, with their BAIT AND SWITCH tactics.

By coincidence, last night I watched Countdown with Keith Olbermann (ONE OF MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS ON MSNBC) and he made comment on this very subject.

Most of the show, Keith did his usual funny takes on this THEATER OF THE ABSURD existence and poked fun at the many people who perform and are part of the ensemble within this drama called LIFE.

Then, once again, he did one of his eloquent dissertations on what the neocons and Bush are trying to put forth to cover our eyes with wool.

Click on the above picture and be ready for some goose-bumps and tears, when you hear Keith. As I listened to him I felt as though I was transported back in time to the era of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The President that served America during a grave crisis. Roosevelt, had the ability
to create a feeling of calm when all around was chaos. He had the adeptness to speak to his constituents as though they were sitting across from him and he saved our nation with this skill. Keith Olbermann has this same grace.

I now, just want to say, Thank you, Keith for giving me substance because sometimes I feel so very alone in this America that seems to have gone
mad
. Carolyn aka thinkingblue


PS: I was so surprised when Keith referred to the Fox News sycophants as HYENAS... He pictured them the same as I did. Click here to enter Olbermann forum

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Monday, September 25, 2006

THE HYENAS AT FOX ARE AT IT AGAIN... or

MAKE CLINTON THE FALL GUY TO TAKE PRESSURE OFF THE REPUBLICANS IN NOVEMBER 2006 ELECTION.

CLICK TO WATCH CLIP CLINTON ON FOXWell the hyenas at Fox News
are at it again... Still going after Clinton. I know this is the same old strategy of the Rovetalkers on the right to GET CLINTON OUT THERE IN PUBLIC DISPLAY, SO THEY CAN DESTROY HIM OVER AND OVER AND WATCH HIM BLEED... which will take the heat off
of Bush and his ill-gotten war in Iraq. This fun game of theirs, worked before why shouldn't it work now.

I know, that was what the neocon-movie "Path to 911" WAS ALL ABOUT... PUT THE BLAME ON CLINTON, make the very PERSUADABLES, (those who watch our shows, reverently and frighten ever so easily) believe this past president is/was responsible for all of America's woes. Then we, (the hyenas) will win again in November.

Well a note to you carnivorous mammals, who feed as scavengers and have powerful jaws at the Fox studio,l it may not work this time. Oh yes, you still have 911 as a weapon to scare the BEJESUS out of your flock but some of your sheep have opened their eyes and can see the reality of what you are up to! (AT LEAST I HOPE TO GOD, THEY CAN FINALLY SEE) thinkingblue

PS: One more thought to those who still believe, the republicans are the only ones who can protect America... Please tell me what it is going to take for you to come to your senses and see the harm the neo-con republicans are doing to us as a people? Will it take a STOCK MARKET CRASH or an utterly devastating
DEPRESSION or maybe, a REALLY BIG WAR? As what did happened when FDR had to rescue our capitalism and our constitution from becoming HISTORY? I guess, we will have to wait and see and that is so very sad.

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A good read: Jonathan Alter's book, "THE DEFINING MOMENT"

Description: In "The Defining Moment," Jonathan Alter explores how President
Franklin Roosevelt, during the first one hindered days in office,
laid the foundation for national recovery after the Great
Depression. The author also details the 1932 presidential
election. This event was part of the 2006 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair.

“As the generation that endured the Great Depression passes on, it is essential to be reminded what this nation faced as FDR assumed office in 1933. At a minimum, a quarter of the workforce was unemployed. The threat of mass violence loomed as secure families saw their life savings wiped out. In both the U.S and abroad, liberal democracies were under siege from fascism on the Right and communism on the Left. Alter, a columnist and senior editor atNewsweek, eloquently captures the fevered, frightened state of the nation in 1933. In a brief biographical sketch of Roosevelt's life, Alter strongly emphasizes aspects that gave him a powerful will and supreme self-confidence. Alter recounts the flurry of the first 100 days of FDR's administration, which forever altered the relationship between American citizens and the federal government. This superbly researched and well-written work serves as a vital reminder of the importance of leadership during this great national ordeal.”
— Jay Freeman,
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From Publishers Weekly

Newsweek senior editor Alter attempts to explore FDR's
famous first "hundred days" in office, when the president laid the
foundation for national recovery from the Great Depression.
Eventually, Alter succeeds in providing a brief consideration of
those key months. But exposition dominates: the early chapters
recite Roosevelt's biography up until his White House candidacy
(the well-known tale of privilege, marriage, adultery and polio).
Then Alter chronicles the 1932 election and explores the
postelection transition. Only about 130 pages deal with the 100
days commencing March [4], 1933, that the title calls FDR's
"defining moment." Alter attaches much weight to a few throwaway
phrases in a thrown-away draft of an early presidential speech—one
that could, through a particular set of glasses, appear to show
FDR giving serious consideration to adopting martial law in
response to the monetary crisis. Despite this, Alter goes on to
document FDR's early programs, pronouncements and maneuvers with
succinct accuracy. The book, however, contains misstatements of
historical detail (Alter suggests, for instance, that it was
Theodore Roosevelt, rather than Ted Jr., who served as a founder
of the American Legion). (May)

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War on Terror

In the War on Terrorism President Bush has used these
war powers to justify several controversial acts,

e.g. NSA electronic surveillance program. The administration has
used a legal theory known as the
unitary executive theory, to explain that in his duty as Commander-in-Chief the President, with his inherent powers, cannot be bound by law or Congress. In the
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
this was used to
suggest he was not required to abide by
FISA.

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Clinton, Fox anchor battle in interview

By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer

Monday, Sep. 25, 2006

NEW YORK - In a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday,"
former President Clinton defended his handling of the threat posed
by Osama bin Laden, saying he tried to have bin Laden killed and
was attacked for his efforts by the same people who now criticize
him for not doing enough. "That's the difference in me and some, including all of the
right-wingers who are attacking me now," Clinton said in the
interview. "They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to
try, they did not try." ...

He told Wallace, "And you got that little smirk on your face and
you think you're so clever, but I had responsibility for trying to
protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I
regret it, but I did try and I did everything I thought I
responsibly could."

The interview was taped Friday during Clinton's three-day Global
Initiative conference.

On NBC's "Meet the Press," also taped Friday and aired Sunday,
Clinton told interviewer Tim Russert that the biggest problem
confronting the world today is "the illusion that our differences
matter more than our common humanity."

"That's what's driving the terrorism," he said. "It's not just
that there's an unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict. Osama Bin Laden
and Dr. al-Zawahiri can convince young Sunni Arab men, who have —
and some women — who have despairing conditions in their lives,
that they get a one-way ticket to heaven in a hurry if they kill a
lot of innocent people who don't share their reality." READ MORE HERE

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Book Review: "Peace Mom" by Cindy Sheehan
Anyone who reads this site knows of Cindy Sheehan, who became the face of US anti-war protest after the 2004 death of her son, a soldier in Iraq.

Love her or hate her, Cindy unabashedly tells it like it is. No holds barred honesty. That's her impassioned genius as a reformer, leader and anti-war activist. And that's why she upsets and scares so many. She holds back nothing.

I just finished reading an advance copy of Cindy Sheehan's controversial first book, Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism, and I like and recommend it.

Briefly, Peace Mom is Cindy's heartfelt story of her conversion from "apathetic, ignorant, materialistic and TV-logged" wife and mother of four before Casey's death to internationally-feted anti-war activist and probable 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Have no doubts...

Peace Mom
will be controversial and much-maligned, loudly decried by rightwingers and some centrist Democrats. What I found particularly intriguing are Cindy's pull-no-punches accounts of personal meetings with President Bush and Senators John McCain, Hillary Rodham Clinton and many others. You can read my full review at Book Review: Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism by Cindy Sheehan. For your convenience, I've included price-comparison shopping links, so you can order your copy now. Peace Mom will be formally released on September 18. - Deborah White


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Friday, September 22, 2006

GENUINE DUBYA BUSH STRESS RELIEVER


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Please read this article ...Thoughts on the "Bringing Terrorists to Justice Act of 2006".

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getting away with. Please click the theater curtains on your left and virtually beat the dickens out of the MUG OF PRINCE GEORGE DUBYA BUSH.



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Thoughts on the "Bringing Terrorists to Justice Act of 2006"

There are lots of good reasons to employ military tribunals to bring terrorists to justice. One of the most persuasive is to keep terrorists out of the American criminal justice system. Trying them in federal courts could endanger the lives of judges, juries, and prosecutors - not to mention their families. It is unfair to assign such life-threatening work to civilians.
Imagine the practical problems in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice in any federal district court anywhere. The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the security system at even the best protected federal courthouse, never envisioned such an enemy (with his own covert army of suicidal supporters) as a defendant.

Or think about the problem of incarcerating or executing bin Laden at any federal prison after his conviction. His supporters will never believe he received a fair trial, or that he should be punished for anything. It would no doubt take an army to provide protection to those involved in the processes.

For these (among many other) reasons, it makes sense to create a system of military justice capable of dealing with these unique criminals, for the armed services are far better equipped to deal with these problems, and they have volunteered for such hazardous work. So why, five years into the war on terror, has the Bush Administration been unable to bring a single terrorist to trial?

The answer, it seems, is that politics has trumped everything for Bush. The war on terror helps elect Republicans; bringing terrorists to trial, however, could embarrass Republicans - for federal courts are making the Administration play by the rules.
Ignoring the Supreme Court's Ruling on Tribunals

When the use of tribunals was first suggested in 2001, I was among those who thought it a sound concept. The devil, however, arrived later with the details. It never occurred to me (and most people) that Bush & Co. would design a system more befitting a totalitarian state than a democratic nation that once led the world by its good example. Nor was it anticipated that Bush would play endless politics with terrorism.

Not surprisingly, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the makeshift, draconian procedures that the Bush Administration employed for military tribunals. Not unexpectedly, the high Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld closed down the tribunals. Hamdan also provided a blueprint for the type of system that would pass constitutional muster, thus providing both the Administration and the Congress with guidelines that would get the job done.

The Court found many problems with Bush's tribunals, in Hamdan: There was no legal basis for their existence, given that they had been created by order of the president without Congressional authority. In charging Hamdan with the crime of conspiracy, they had created an offense unknown to the laws of war. Moreover, and most fundamentally, the tribunals ignored the standards of the Geneva Conventions.

Since the inception of the Bush Administration's war against terror, the President has claimed - unreasonably and without justification - that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to this war with stateless forces such as al Qaeda (or similar organizations) for they are not signatories to the Geneva Conventions.

But Bush is wrong.

The Hamdan Court explained that "Article 3, often referred to as Common Article 3 because … it appears in all four Geneva Conventions" applies here. Moreover, the Court noted, Common Article 3 prohibits "the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples." (does anyone hear the word ... kangaroo court n. 1. A mock court set up in violation of established legal procedure. 2. A court characterized by dishonesty or incompetence.thinkingblue)


The Court explained further that the Geneva Conventions do not specify the meaning of the phrase "a regularly constituted court," but it also noted that commentary accompanying a provision of the Fourth Geneva Convention, for example, defines "regularly constituted" tribunals to include "ordinary military courts." (In addition, one of the Red Cross' treatises defines "regularly constituted court" as used in Common Article 3 to mean "established and organized in accordance with the laws and procedures already in force in a country.")

Significantly, the majority opinion all but suggested that the procedures found in Uniform Code of Military Justice for court martial proceedings define what it means for a body to be "a regularly constituted court" that meets the Common Article 3 standard.

To respond to the Supreme Court's ruling, Bush sent a detailed legislative recommendation to Congress in early September 2006. Remarkably, while his proposal recognizes that the high Court struck down his earlier effort, it makes little effort to comply with the ruling. (FindLaw columnists Joanne Mariner and Sherry Colb have commented earlier on the issues raised by this proposed legislation, and I will not repeat the analysis here.)

But commentary (including my own) cannot begin to convey the blatant nature of the Administration's refusal to follow the Court's ruling. Examples are too numerous to detail in this brief column, but none is better than the refusal to meet the Common Article 3 standard of "regularly constituted courts."

Bush's Proposed Tribunals Do Not Meet the Common Article 3 Standard.

In the Congressional findings of the Administration's legislative proposal, called the "Bringing Terrorists to Justice Act of 2006" and introduced by Majority Leader Bill Frist, no words are minced.

In summarizing the proposal, the draft makes clear it will not follow court-martial law as an example of a "regularly constituted court." In fact, there is no "regularly constituted court" in the United States that follows the procedures requested by the Administration.

More specifically, the bill states: "In a time of ongoing armed conflict, it generally is neither practicable nor appropriate for combatants like al Qaeda terrorists to be tried before tribunals that include all of the procedures associated with courts-martial."

Accordingly, the proposed legislation declares that the tribunals will not "share classified information with the accused" -- or, apparently, the accused's attorney, even though that attorney would be an officer of the court, if not a commissioned military officer. The bill also declares permissible "the use of hearsay evidence" because "applying the hearsay rules from the Manual for Courts-Martial or from the Federal Rules of Evidence would make it virtually impossible" to convict the terrorists. And it says terrorists will not benefit from the guarantee of "speedy trials" and other "technical rules."

In short, the Administration has asked Congress for legislation that, on its face, fails to meet the standard of creating tribunals that qualify as "regularly constituted court[s] affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples."
Giving Torturers a Pass for War Crimes ...

These, however, are only a few of the provisions in the legislation that are contrary to Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. In addition, and most tellingly, Bush seeks to retroactively amend the federal criminal provisions that the United States adopted to enforce the Geneva Conventions.

The Bush Administration's proposed legislation removes a thirty-nine word definition in the Federal Criminal Code defining "war crimes" as including "any conduct … which constitutes a violation of common Article 3," and replacing that definition with a seven hundred and eighty-six word laundry list of what the Administration wants to define as war crimes.
Since 1949, when this accord was signed, Common Article 3 has prohibited "

(a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

(b) taking of hostages;

(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment; and

(d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples."

Bush claims, however, that these terms are too vague. So he has offered new definitions for the war crimes statue. Not surprisingly, he offers no equivalent language to "violence to life and person," "cruel treatment," "outrages upon personal dignity," and most strikingly, "passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court." With regard to this last prohibition of Common Article 3, Bush is asking Congress to join him in violating it by establishing tribunals contrary to this treaty.

But no provision of the proposed law is more telling that the law's provision mandating its own retroactive application. It states, in effect, that it has been the law since September 11, 2001. This, of course, is intended to ensure that all those officials and employees of the Bush government who have been involved in war crimes (acts prohibited by Common Article 3) are home free.

It is a retroactive immunization of torturers. It also retroactively removes the jurisdiction of all federal courts relating to any pending or future habeas corpus actions filed by detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere. In fact, it takes the federal courts out of the business of providing any redress whatsoever to any alien detained for any reason as "an unlawful enemy combatant."

Removal of All Rights of Redress for Enemy Combatants

One of the most sweeping provisions of this proposed law takes the federal courts out of the business of providing any redress whatsoever, to anyone who becomes entangled - correctly or incorrectly - on the wrong side of the war on terror. It simply removes federal jurisdiction "to hear or consider any claim or cause of action, including an application for a writ of habeas corpus" filed by any non-citizen of the United States who has been detained "as an unlawful enemy combatant." (Many bloggers have called for Democrats to filibuster the proposed law for this reason alone.)

This term is vaguely defined to mean anyone who the President or the Secretary of Defense claims is "part of or affiliated with a force or organization--including but not limited to al Qaeda, the Taliban, any international terrorist organization, or associated forces--engaged in hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents; in violation of the law of war;" or has "committed a hostile act in aid of such a force or organization so engaged;" or has "supported hostilities in aid of such a force or organization so engaged."

In short, this could include anyone the federal government (Bush and Rumsfeld will delegate and re-delegate this authority) labels "an unlawful enemy combatant." The type of tragic case that comes immediately to mind is that of Maher Arar. Arar, a Canadian, was arrested on September 26, 2002, when he landed at Kennedy Airport in New York, traveling home from a vacation in Tunisia. American officials sent him to Syria, where he was tortured for ten months.

A high-level special commission of the Canadian government has cleared Arar, establishing that he was in no way connected with terror. The American government refused all efforts to clear Arar, and has been fighting his lawsuit - which aims to clear his name, as well as to rectify the injustice done him by the United States. If the Bush Administration's proposed legislation becomes law, the cases of detainees like Arar will simply be tossed.

Republicans with Conscience Have Joined Democrats in Objecting; Democrats, However, Have been Remarkably Silent...

The fate of the Administration's proposal remains unclear at this writing. A number of high-profile Republicans, such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and George Schultz, have spoken out against the proposal. Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, reports that some eight Republicans oppose the bill on varying grounds. There is talk of a filibuster. There is also talk of a presidential veto if Bush doesn't get what he wants.

Frankly, this proposed legislation is shameful. Even the much-heralded opposition of a few Republicans - Senator John Warner of Virginia, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Senator John McCain of Arizona - does little to correct the many deep flaws in this proposal.
This proposal, however, is going to tell us a great deal about where we are as a nation, for as General Powell said, "The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts." As will amending the war crimes law to absolve prior wrongs, denying detainees "a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples," and enacting a law that insults the Supreme Court.

(well they (the S.C. )SELECTED Bush in 2006... I wonder, what they are thinking now... thinkingblue)

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habeas corpus n. Law. One of a variety of
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

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Noam Chomsky is considered the father of modern linguistics. In
this richly detailed criticism of American foreign policy, he
seeks to redefine many of the terms commonly used in the ongoing
American war on terrorism. Surveying U.S. actions in Cuba,
Nicaragua, Turkey, the Far East and elsewhere over the past half a
century along with the modern American war in Iraq, Chomsky
indicates that America is just as much a terrorist state as any
other government or rogue organization. George W. Bush's 2003
invasion of Iraq drew worldwide criticism, in part because it
seemed to present a new philosophy of pre-emptive war and an
appearance of global empire building. But according to Chomsky,
such has been the operating philosophy of American foreign policy for decades. Opponents of the Bush administration's tactics consistently point out how the American government supported
Saddam Hussein for many years prior to the 1990 invasion of Kuwait (pictures of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand are easy to come by) as a means of pointing out how the United States is happy to fund despots when it's in American interests. But Chomsky, armed with extensive historical notation, takes this notion further, arguing how the repression of other nations' citizenry is, in fact, the very reason Americans support certain foreign leaders. The charges made throughout the book are severe, as are the dire consequences he posits if current trends are not reversed, and Chomsky is no more likely to make friends or gain supporters from the mainstream now than he's ever been. But Hegemony or Survival is relatively dispassionate. Instead of relying on camp or shock value or personal attacks as some of his contemporaries have done, Chomsky drives his well-supported points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style. --John Moe

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In this highly readable, heavily footnoted critique of American foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, Chomsky (whose 9-11 was a bestseller last year) argues that current U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Iraq are not a specific response to September 11, but simply the continuation of a consistent half-century of foreign policy-an "imperial grand strategy"-in which the United States has attempted to "maintain its hegemony through the threat or use of military force." Such an analysis is bound to be met with skepticism or antagonism in post-September 11 America, but Chomsky builds his arguments carefully, substantiates claims with
appropriate documentation and answers expected counterclaims. Chomsky is also deeply critical of inconsistency in making the charge of "terrorism." Using the official U.S. legal code definition of terrorism, he argues that it is an exact description of U.S. foreign policy (especially regarding Cuba, Central America, Vietnam and much of the Middle East), although the term is rarely used in this way in the U.S. media, he notes, even when the World Court in 1986 condemned Washington for "unlawful use of force" ("international terrorism, in lay terms" Chomsky argues) in Nicaragua. Claiming that the U.S. is a rogue nation in its foreign policies and its "contempt for international law," Chomsky brings together many themes he has mined in the past, making this cogent and provocative book an important addition to an ongoing public discussion about U.S. policy.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

JESUS CAMP OR CAMP OF TORMENT

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This morning on my usual search of the Crooks and Liars website, I came across something quite startling. It seems there are people sending their little children to a camp called Jesus Camp. This "camp" sounds harmless at first but what is really happening there is a brainwashing of little minds. To me, this is just another ceremonial abuse of children. How can they do this to their little one's senses?

On the film clip below, it is said that other religions do a "die for God" teaching, so why shouldn't they? Those other religions they refer to are in third world countries that have been wracked with violence for generations. The human condition in such places have incorporated violence into their very life-styles. This is solemn but true.

We in the U.S. have enjoyed a peaceful existence for the most part. Any wars we have engaged in have been fought on far-away lands. To try to proselytize a middle-class American child who's only existense has been to love and be loved, to become war-like and kill is an abomination. (I would imagine though, the military would not mind a child with such a background because it would be easier to train them into killers when they enter the Armed Services)

WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING? We should be promoting peace as a way of life for our young. Why are they so bent on a warring state of mind? What happened to the
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Perhaps, if these parents would put themselves through the torture their children are enduring at these CAMPS OF TORMENT, they would think again.

What a sad existence if vengeance and retribution are the only teachings we can come up with for our young. thinkingblue

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Innovative, but flawed, research


Economists Alan Krueger and Jitka Malechova were the first to offer an innovative empirical study on the correlation between education and poverty, and the support of or participation in terrorism. They shattered the traditional conviction that poverty can drive some to violence. However, their conclusions could imply two propositions: (a) that there are more factors at play when it comes to terrorism (i.e., neither poverty nor education alone or combined can explain it), or (b) that militant extremists are not driven to terrorism by their economic deprivation or by their ignorance, but rather by a desire to destroy the "American way of life."

The first proposition is consistent with the study authors'views. However, the media, politicians, and other scholars interpreted the results according to the second proposition. The current consensus among academics, policy makers, and military officials is that fighting poverty and fighting terrorism are not necessarily related.

The contemporary empirical research on terrorism and suicide attacks is innovative and challenging, but fundamentally misguided. Suicide attacks were analyzed without adequate reference to the long period of conflict and its military dynamics. A study that does not give weight or importance to a nation's yearning for justice, equity, and revenge in a conflict zone is acutely deficient.

I believed that an in-depth examination of attackers' lives could explain why individuals as young as 16 would end their lives in a horrific way, and could contribute to effective tactical measures to curb such tragedies. Itried to understand, not justify, their deadly actions.

I visited Palestinian militant websites to read the
biographies of suicide bombers
, and in the past two years I have compiled a comprehensive list of Palestinian militants killed before and during the second intifada. My database includes socioeconomic indicators such as age, marital status, family size, place of residence, education level, and occupation. However, as others found, there did not seem to be any pattern to uniquely define a Palestinian suicide bomber. Most were in their early 20s. Some had successful careers, others were unemployed. Many were well educated, with college degrees completed or in progress. Some were from well-to-do families, others were impoverished. Some were married with children, some newly wed, some single. Hence, it has been widely cited that neither lack of education nor poverty appear to be a prime motivator.

This finding enjoyed undisputed and favorable reception by the media and among policy makers, especially in the US, Russia, and Israel. The new received wisdom is that military violence can quell insurgent violence. According to existing studies, government deployment of counterinsurgency measures that can disrupt economic and social life and increase economic stress on the civilian population do not necessarily cause a backlash. The use of disproportional power in conflict areas became an indispensable tool to military strategists.

The fallacy with that proposition is clear. Attempts to explain suicide attacks and terrorism in purely economic terms ignore the real political, social, and psychological factors that have always motivated collective violence. Restricting attention to only economic factors or education has resulted in no understanding of Palestinian suicide attacks.

So What's Missing??

Current research on terrorism has ignored considerable research that indicates the importance of psychological
factors such as frustration and trauma.

A 1999 report entitled "The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism"summarizes research conducted by psychologists and sociologists. According to evidence cited in the report, terrorists are psychologically normal with no evidence of a depressed personality:

"There is little reliable evidence to support the notion that terrorists in general are psychologically disturbed individuals. The careful, detailed planning and well-timed execution that have characterized many terrorist operations are hardly typical of mentally disturbed individuals."

An important psychological factor prevalent in conflict zones that empirical research did not account for is the grievance factor. The significant role grievances play in motivating actors in political contexts has long been known. In 1919, Lewis Richardson's Arms-Race Model explicitly incorporated a "grievance factor" to explain military buildup among nations.

Psychiatrist Eyad El Sarraj recognized the impact living in a conflict zone could have on some people:

"The people who are committing suicide bombings in this intifada are the children of the first intifada -- people who witnessed so much trauma as children. So as they grew up, their own identity merged with the national identity of humiliation and defeat, and they avenge that defeat at both the personal and national levels."

I have compiled a list of 50 suicide attackers from the
biographies published on the Palestinian militant websites. All had a direct reference to a traumatic experience in their lives. Almost half indicate a traumatic experience in the first intifada. They were either injured, arrested, or had a family member killed or injured by the Israel Defense Force (IDF). Forty-four suicide attacks have recorded explicit grievances resulting from IDF military operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

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