Uncontacted Tribe spotted in Amazon
Posted in Science, News & Commentary on May 31st, 2008
Archive for May, 2008
The War Prayer
Posted in News & Commentary on May 24th, 2008“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved fire sides to smite the foe.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead
help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;
help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief;
help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it —
for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.”
– Mark Twain
Norman Finkelstein arrested in Israel
Posted in Israel/Palestine, News & Commentary on May 24th, 2008Norman Finkelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors, academic and critic, is arrested in “the Middle East’s only democracy,” and banned for ten years.
Grameen Bank Micro-lending in NYC
Posted in Afghanistan, Monetary Policy, Iraq, News & Commentary on May 24th, 2008The Grameen bank is a private bank, pursuing their own interest as they should, but it’s telling that a bank which specializes in anti-poverty micro-lending has chosen to do business in NYC.
The irony is sickening. We’re using tax-payer money to build $200,000 schools, $10,000 retaining walls, multi-million dollar roads in Afghanistan and Iraq like it’s going out of style. We should open a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Queens, or better yet, let American workers keep their salaries and get government out of the business of redistributing wealth, let alone empire-building.
Read more from allheadlinenews.com
See also:
-Senate approves $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars for a few more months. THERE IS NO OPPOSITION PARTY IN WASHINGTON.
-Pentagon cannot account for $15 billion.
-22-Year-Old Miami Beach Resident gets $300 Million Pentagon Contract to Arm Afghan Forces, Provides Defective, Aging Ammunition.
“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.” - Ron Paul
Top Clinton Financier Attempts to Buy Superdelegates for $1 Million
Posted in Vote Fraud, News & Commentary on May 23rd, 2008“One of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization’s two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse the New York Democrat, a high-ranking official with YDA told The Huffington Post.
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Members of the Young Democrats agonized about the potential fallout of Saban’s call; his financial offer represented one-third of the group’s 2008 budget. Democratic officials and fundraisers were consulted about how to respond, and at times the discussions were ‘emotional,’ one participant said. ‘It is scary for them, Haim is very powerful, he has great influence over donors who give to them.’
Another source said that Hardt and others were acutely aware of Saban’s status within Democratic circles and were concerned that their organization would suffer long-term harm if they declined his offer or if news of the proposal became public.
‘I said I thought that the appropriate response was to call Haim back and say thank you but we are not interested,’ said the source. ‘I also said that it was surely the case that this story would get out because it is too interesting not to and they should think about how to deal with it. It was a day or two [before they responded]. They felt afraid. They were like, ‘Holy shit, this is Haim Saban.’
Nevertheless, the group declined the overture. A YDA official cited moral reservations as well as the overwhelming consensus of its members to back Sen. Barack Obama.”
Read more from huffingtonpost.com
See Also:
-Clinton insider threatens ‘open civil war’ within party if Clinton isn’t made Obama’s VP.
-Hillary cites RFK assassination as reason to stay in the primary, gives false facts about Bill’s nomination.
-The sheer hypocrisy w.r.t. Michigan and Florida.
This woman needs to be stopped.
Olmert to U.S.: Impose naval blockade on Iran
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Iran, News & Commentary on May 22nd, 2008Me to Olmert: Do it yourself, asshole
Ron Paul Gets 8% in Kentucky, 15% in Oregon, despite media blackout
Posted in Big Media, Ron Paul, News & Commentary on May 21st, 2008He’s still running!
McCain blasts Obama for saying Iran poses lesser threat than Soviets
Posted in Iran, News & Commentary on May 20th, 2008See also: Chuck Hagel Takes On McCain, Repeatedly Praises Obama from huffintonpost.com
Iraqi Body Counts from Bill Moyers Journal
Posted in Iraq, News & Commentary on May 19th, 2008The counting and the controversy beautifully summarized here on Bill Moyers Journal. Excerpt:
New England Journal of Medicine Iraqi Family Health Survey Study Group
Results: 151,000 civilians deaths between March 2003 and June 2006
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Results: 654,965 additional civilian deaths between March 2003 and July 2006
Iraq Body Count Project
Results: 81,874-89,353 civilian deaths (as of February 1, 2008)
Opinion Research Business
This British polling agency which has been tracking public opinion in Iraq since September 2005.
Results: 733,158-1,220,580 civilian deaths between March 2003 and September 2007
The Brookings Institute Iraq Index
Results: 103,567 (May 2003 through February 2008)
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