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Bhutto may allow U.S. military strikes in Pakistan
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the paratroopers attended a mess hall prayer breakfast organized by a chaplain, Col. Pat Hash. It was titled "The Morality of War: Balancing Faith and Killing."
Though the Bible says "Thou shalt not kill," Hash said, killing is justified in a "righteous war" when a soldier is acting as "an agent of the state."
"War can be morally permissible," he said. "And there are times when it is morally, legally and ethically right to kill another human being."
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In his Saturday program, Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers and guests John Nichols, the Nation's Washington correspondent and author of The Genius of Impeachment and Bruce Fein, a former attorney in the Ronald Reagan Department of Justice, made it clear that the Bush/Cheney administration has gravely threatened the Constitution and the survival of tripartite, divided government.
Fein and Nichols both blasted the current Democratic leadership of Congress for cowardice, lack of principle, and a basic failure to honor their oaths of office to uphold and defend the Constitution, in refusing to impeach the president. [read more...]
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l, fundamental change to occur at the systemic level we have to get to the source, to as it were, pull out the weeds at the root, rather than keep trimming the leaves, only for the weeds to grow back in another decade, and another, ad infinitum.
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American capitalism has been able to prevent the emergence of an independent political movement among masses of working people.
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Hill & Knowlton's yellow ribbon campaign to whip up support for "our" troops
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The claim that satellite photos revealed that Iraq had troops poised to strike Saudi Arabia was also fabricated by the PR firm.
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onformity to "groupthink" that renders each individual "incapable" of considering the truth is something each of us has within our power to fix -- just by being, thinking, and acting as individuals who are guided by conscience and compassion.
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This is not the first time our
trusted representatives have betrayed our trust by letting themselves be shnookered into making life-and-death decisions based on false and, in some cases, outright fraudulent information, only to later try to repudiate their culpability with that lamest of all excuses -- "We didn't know." They did it in the Gulf War. Remember the
"baby incubator" story?
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questioning the continuing demonization of Saddam to justify the war on Iraq
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that the war could be justified because of Saddam’s cruelty to his own people
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I think we're better off without Saddam there
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Of course it is human nature for you to want to believe our government can be ultimately vindicated by a trial of Saddam that proves he was the mass murderer you believe him to be.
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Following the defeat of Saddam's regime, then, over one million Iraqi men and women – professionally trained
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According to UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, "to properly assess the nature of the anti-American resistance in Iraq today, one must remember that the majority of pro-regime forces, especially those military units most loyal to Hussein, as well as the entirety of the Iraqi intelligence and security forces, never surrendered. They simply melted away."
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"There are hundreds of thousands of well trained and courageous people in Iraq. They have weapons: seven million units of small arms or one Kalashnikov per every man in Iraq. The Iraqi army converted itself into a national-liberation movement. And there is no other national-liberation movement in history that was so well trained and armed." [4] Russian military experts who used to train Iraqi military units consider that "the Iraqi army had deliberately left Baghdad and dissolved among the people, and the war is still far away from being finished."
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the insurgency has the potential to expand to over 300,000.
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There are three hallmarks of the emergence of a revolutionary situation. The old ruling class can no longer rule in the old way. The oppressed masses can no longer live in the old way. And the masses have become conscious of the necessity to take the road of political struggle, and concentrate the fate of society in their own hands. The first two conditions already exist in America, but the third has yet to mature.
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The man running Hill & Knowlton's Washington office was Craig Fuller, one of Bush's closest friends and inside political advisors. The news media never bothered to examine Fuller's role
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recently posted two fairly lengthy comments on The Left Coaster in response to this from the blogger: "His major point is that since Iraq is not a functioning country per se, we don't owe Iraq anything."
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Ahmadinejad and the entire Iranian leadership has always denied the existence of any such program or any> desire> for nuclear weapons, and has never claimed that they had “abandoned” such a program.
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the existence of such a program is by no means established.
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simply accept the statement from the current NIE that Iran> had> a nuclear weapons program that ended in 2003 as if it were established fact. It isn’t.
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we do not know whether it currently intends to develop
nuclear weapons.
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We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons
program1; we also assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is
keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons.
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America should seek more
opportunities for dialogues like this with the leaders of Iran and
other nations of the Middle East,
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Mike Wallace was being condescending, disrespectful,
too confrontational,
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"Look if you could — if you could keep your answers concise. Concise.
> I beg you. We'll get more questions in," Wallace requested.
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... A classic example of what I had stated previously... Quantity (not
quality), size (not viability), more (and more & more & more). The
Western Industrialized Nations Disease. (WIND)
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"Well, if an atrocity was committed in Germany or Europe for that
> matter, why should the Palestinians answer for this?" the president
> asked. "They had no role to play in this. Why on the pretext of the
> Holocaust they have occupied Palestine? Millions of people have been
> made refugees. Thousands of people to-date have been killed, sir.
> Thousands of people have been put in prison. Well, at the very moment,
> a great war is raging because of that."
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aptly demonstrating his stonewalling abilities and penchant to be a party hack, repeatedly stated that impeachment was a distraction from other things the Democrats sought to accomplish. Trotting out familiar Inside the Beltway group think, Gottheim claimed impeachment was not practical because the Democrats could not muster two thirds of Congress to vote for such a measure.
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This failure to properly appreciate the current level of the insurgency is a mistake
on par with the failure to generate plans for counter-insurgency prior to the invasion. If
this estimate bears out to be even nearly correct, we will not see an end to disappointment
and failure in Iraq until we depart.
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What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and "In These Times," and kiss my ass!
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Atomic bomb is a collection of all the fear exist on this earth and fear is created by each one of us. It's your fear, it's my fear too. To abolish the atomic bomb, only way to do so is to abolish our fears, wipe out our fears completely from earth. But can we do that? No we can't. So we have to live with it, live with the fear and face it and face what fear looks like, tastes like, sound like, and he saw it on 15th-Aug-1945 in Hiroshima.
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"The only possible explanation is that someone wanted to make people think about something, and I think that something is botnets.
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"Botnets are a very big problem, but no one does anything about them," he added.
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I am sure there were many many Japanese people regardless the generation opposed to what U.S. did, it just took a long time for it to come to the surface
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. I am interested in how they accept the U.S.'s invation, how they cook it up in the public sentiment, how something re-emerge from it in decades of time. War doesn't end when it ends, it continues... it is still slowly killing atomic bomb victims or even victim's children by leukaemia. I hear news about government's compensation to the victims, the battles on court still continues.
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One with 20,000 to 30,000 bots could have spoiled Twitter's day."
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But how? How do we help women who live so far away and face atrocities we can't even imagine? How does an individual sitting at a Thanksgiving table in the United States provide any real assistance to a woman who will never have a meal like this in her entire life?
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his company believed the attacks were directed against one individual, a pro-Georgian blogger
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I think in post-war Japan, Hiroshima was justified in the same way they justify it in the U.S.. I remember hearing someone (could be my mother... could be someone else or on TV or everywhere) telling me the same thing. They have to bomb Hiroshima to end the war.
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But I remember that was the general public point of view.
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Sometimes, the most innocent are the ones who perish the most quickly. And, we may soon come to realize, that, among these innocent are those who entertain us, enrich our lives to an immeasurable degree, and give tremendous light, meaning and love to our lives.
It is only when we lose them, that we recognize the power of their presence, and that we loved them dearly and will miss them for the remaining full breadth of our lives
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it is fear as much as love that keeps potential Fannie critics silent."
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That stuff is just mob mentality, group think bullshit.
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Beginning with Clinton in the early 1990's under the .... , followed in 2002 with Bush's "Ownership Society" goals,
Bush touted the success of Home Ownership in his bid to win reelection in 2004. Democrats, who were part of the development of this problem failed to challenge Bush on it, and instead let themselves be distracted by attacks from the Swiftboaters.
as long as energy prices were cheap and the economy was growing, with real estate prices continuing to rise, this festerring problem went unnoticed and unchallenged. Neither party was willing to question the wisdom of enticing low income buyers with bad credit to buy homes they couldnt' afford. But as energy prices started to rise after the invasion of Iraq, real estate prices began to plummet.
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http://causecapitalism.com/arzu-rugs/
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I am forever amazed, as in WTF kind of amazement, at how the questions we should be asking never get asked. "Don't ask, don't" tell permeates the air. The noise machine goes into high geer every time the truth is about to emerge. It's as if the whole society has been conditioned to obey subliminal prompts and cues from cattle prodders who are pushing the herd inexorably toward a huge precipice.
It's as if cattle prodders are coralling a herd, made dossil by years of conditioning to obey sublte prompts and cues of punishment and reward. Only if you step away from the herd, as an individual, and obey your own instincts and conscience, can you see this happening. Only if you are self-directed can you pull back and push back to avoid the cliff.
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Right Wing Harps on Jackson as ’Pedophile’
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The Big List of Big Brand Corporate Blogs | Debbie Weil on Corporate Blogging and Social Media on 2009-12-09
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Social Networking Is Not Just a Numbers Game | Debbie Weil on Corporate Blogging and Social Media on 2009-12-09
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Social Networking Is Not Just a Numbers Game
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It describes how the “village” of Twitter adopters are loosing some appeal on the community as it grows.
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I’m trying to focus less on the size of my network and more on how I’m building meaningful relationships where I can add value. This should be common sense, yet it’s not, so thanks for reiterating this point.
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What an interesting post! That we should focus on doing something that is useful and helpful to others…I think you are way ahead of the curve!
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As my presence on twitter grows, I am beginning to struggle with the mass of communications.
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Though I want to be personal, the momentum is overtaking me. I appreciate and understand the position that you suggest, I don’t yet understand how to stay at that point of honestly relating.
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The application is being overrun by the snake oil salesman and spammers and is quickly losing its value for me. I see an opening for more people to get us what we need and how we need it. What would you use without Twitter?
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It’s shameful that this post needs to even be said. Of course it’s about the content. Duh. I’ve gotten lots of Twitter followers recently who have 12,000 + followers and follow about as many. They use tools to auto follow people who say one word they are interested in.
What is a social media marketer/expert anyway? Why do we need to invent new names for old jobs?
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Aghanistan Unveiled + give us looms - Google Search on 2009-12-08
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She demands that the government of Hamid Karzai provide them with looms
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It would be wonderful if the woman from the US could find looms that are not being used and ship them
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DARPA Balloon Challenge Group on 2009-12-08
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then generate as large a social network as possible in 1 month. We believe that this challenge can only be won by a huge social network of people devoting themselves to our cause.
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Afghanistan Watch: Women on 2009-12-07
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These perspectives miss the real grounds for hope in Afghanistan:
Afghans themselves are changing their society, with Afghan women
playing a leading role.
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overwhelmingly
reject their former oppressors.
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3 Steps to Sustainable Change: Arzu Rugs Has it Right on 2009-12-07
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I think this is the future of social good. I don’t want to donate money to a cause that will hound me with mailers asking for more money before my initial check clears.
I want to help causes that become self-sustaining.
That means I get to see progress and the people I’m helping get to be independent.
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Homepage : Corporate Watch Latest News on 2009-12-07
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Corporate Watch is looking for two researchers to join our cooperative.
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Looms for Afghan women - Google Search on 2009-12-07
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Each carpet will be numbered and will have with it a brief story of the woman who wove the carpet on the loom. The Afghan Women's Business Federation
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AfghanMark enables rug buyers to help Afghan women on 2009-12-07
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"Through their purchase options, American consumers have
the opportunity to improve the lives of Afghan women."
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Funded by the U.S.
government's Agency for International Development, the federation seeks to help
women become more involved in the Afghan economy, which is struggling to recover
from nearly a quarter-century of war and brutal repression under the Taliban.
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The country's carpet industry is a logical focus for the federation. Carpets
traditionally have been made by female weavers, and they are one of Afghanistan's
best-known legal exports -- as opposed to opium, its biggest cash crop.
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Afghan folklore credits the invention of the hand-knotting method of making carpets
some 3,500 years ago to a woman named Khali, whose name lives on in the Afghan
word for carpet, kaleen.
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Companies in the program are subject to random inspections, and if children are
found working on the looms, inspectors will stop the work and refer the children and
their parents to organizations that provide schooling for working children. Likewise, if
inspectors determine that a weaver needs medical care, they will send her to a
health clinic.
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During their visit to America to launch AfghanMark, Kazem
and other representatives of the certification program planned to meet with carpet
wholesalers to discuss import deals that would bring AfghanMark carpets to this
country.
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Kazem sees the "Made by Afghan Women" labeling effort as an important step in
reviving the country's once-thriving carpet industry. In the 1970s,
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Kazem sees the "Made by Afghan Women" labeling effort as an important step in
reviving the country's once-thriving carpet industry. In the 1970s,
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estimates that the Afghan
carpet industry could grow from a low of $2.5 million in 2002 to $18 million-plus in
2009.
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"Made in
Pakistan" before being sent to America. "To develop a brand name for Afghan
carpets, that's the goal that we have to reach," she said.
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