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...the evidence at hand, especially recently, with the BBN Christian Radio Corporation canceling Focus on the Family, ( Rove had a good 'Christian' talk with James about some things), that Falwell, and especially Pat Robertson are very dangerous and seriously bought-and -paid- for Neo-con New American Century shills.
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I do not believe the elements that have transpired in South America are just coincidental or a Herring. Sorry Tanst- the huge oil reserves down there are proof enough. But with today's high oil price wars (whether you believe or not in peak), and the implication that Chevez's uppity socialistic, anti-(corporation) American(administration) attitude is pissing off the elite enough that many of our military are already getting ready take a senic tour of the Amazon. It's not just the oil-it's the possibility that Chevez's bucking the traditional IMF/World Bank policies and not playing ball, might make other neighboring countries start getting an attitude too.
AJ
http://lothlorienpath.blogspot.com
Abductions, torture, usage of WMDs, and now plain propaganda... The Iraqi certainly feel the difference...
Another article, by the NYT : "U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers"
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PS : I like the "you write what you're told" picture... but isn't it a French flag behind the young lady ?
I'm beginning to think no one is even reading this board and the posts if the lack of replies, even negative responses, mean anything.
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I also get a text box that extends under the right column. It is kind of irritating.
Using Win2k/patches current - firefox 1.5
The problem is not replicated using IE6.0.2800.1106, but that is not my browser of choice. My guess is either invalid xhtml code, or css that isn't cross-browser compatible.
The worst of it is that the new firefox version didn't allow me to keep an extension which let me remove objects on a page arbitrarily, and I cannot remove the right-side division when commenting.
cheers - h_m
A Kingdom where the rulers claim their throne in the name of God, refusing any other kind of accountability, be it from within the country or from overseas. Where contesting the actions of the rulers leads to harrasment and public inquisition, where abductions and torture become legal for the higher purposes of a holy crusade.
A Kingdom where fundamentalism dictates the law, where only extremist lobbies receive public fundings, where judges cannot be elected without the approval of the most radical mullahs, where science and education should now comply with the Holy Book.
And this Kingdom dares speak in the name of compassion, freedom and democracy.
Welcome to the dark ages of BC04 Amerika.
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Had some problems re-doing my sign-in & 'new' password, and am amazed at even being allowed IN here again...this has been a lively and informative place for a nice long time, so let's hope the new format will lure in some more highly opinionated smart folks. We're needed badly, right? Riiiiiight!
I doubt very seriously that bush would even think about bombing anywhere or anything in his Saudi buddies country that bush conspired with in the attacks of the World Trade center.
If the 911 WTC attack wasn't an inside job then tell me how 19 Arabic nitwits, 15 of them Saudi Arabian citizens defeated a half trillion dollar air/missile defence system that had to totally, all at once, all of a sudden, on that one particular day, FAIL!
After the first plane hit the first tower...red flags would have been flying all over the east coast. All the overlapping civilian/military raday systems had to have failed or they would have painted blips of every aircraft in the area making any irregular moves and not responding to radio.
After the first plane hit the first tower, fully armed jet interceptors already in the air and others on standby launched.
After the first plane hit the first tower, Washington D C the most protected city in the world, having one of the most sophisticated air/missile defence systems on Earth cordend around D C would have went active, and put on full war alert.
Yet an airliner that should not have gotten within five miles of the Pentagon "supposedly" crashed into the Pentagon.
I say supposedly because of the parking lot security camea that shows the explosion but not one picture frame of an aircraft approaching the Pentagon. I say supposedly because of total lack of evidence of a single piece of that aircraft like huge landing gears, internal jet engine parts that could not have possibly evaporated into thin air has never been produced. Not one tiny piece much less hardened aircraft jet engine parts that operate at several thousand degrees farenheit during flight. Not one piece of the airplane's aluminum skin bounced away from the building at impact. Not even one of the "Black Boxes." But the government sure spent plenty of money on televising computer graphically produced reinactments "on their version" of the crash into the Pentagon and how it was possible for an entire aircraft and all the people on it, bones and all it just vaporized!
We are told we are supposed to believe all the crapola bush, his administration, and other responisble arms of the government tell us.
We are supposed to believe the impossible, hardened steel evaporates, a half trillion dollar air/missile defence system fails all of a sudden, that a security camera pointed right at the building at the point of impact never shows a single frame of an aircraft pre impact approaching.
Are we that gullible? Do we believe that all these expensive to tax payer human/machine defence systems failed all of a sudden on that one particular day..911?
I surely don't. Not for one nanosecond.
Tom Pearson
I'm not sure what Xandorf means by saying there are more restrictions. Our policies haven't changed. Someone noticed a few days ago that there were a few postings here which consisted of the entire text of copyrighted stories from other publications. For legal reasons, we need to avoid infringing on copyrights owned by other people, so I asked our webmaster (Patricia Barden) to post a notice to that effect. It's still fine to post excerpts with links to the full article, and we aren't trying to impose any other rules on people.
The vBulletin forums also had several different sections that we've eliminated: one forum for each of the books written by John and myself, plus a separate forum for Spin of the Day, in addition to "general chat." We decided to collapse those all down into a single forum because it appears that the general chat forum was getting 95% of the traffic anyway, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of purpose to segregating out the remaining 5%.
The only other change is that the new forum is better integrated with the rest of this website. For example, there is a sidebar block now on the right-hand side of every page of this website which highlights active forum topics. Also, the registration procedure needed to post to the forum is the same registration procedure that lets you post comments after PR Watch stories, Spin of the Day entries or blog posts.
In short, we're trying to make things more inviting to forum participants, not less so. I hope Xandorf will reconsider and try to stick around for awhile.
Since the boards have changed I've noticed that there are more restrictions as to what we can post. So I will no longer be posting on this forum. I enjoyed all the information and debate that we have had on the vbulletin Forums. But alas those days are gone. I especially wish to thank Sheldon, wheelslip, clandestine, Darkhorse, and cris123. See you guys on the flip-side.
The Rendon Groups posted a [http://www.rendon.com/letter.php letter-to-the-editor] on its website claiming the firm had "no role whatsoever in making the case for the Iraq war, here at home or internationally." The firm also lists several bullet points of "corrections" to Bamford's story. Bullet point number two states, "... Mr. Bamford incorrectly writes that TRG worked for the controversial Defense Department Office of Strategic Influence. The former director of that office himself has publicly confirmed in the Chicago Tribune that the Rendon Group had nothing to do with the Office of Strategic Influence as Mr. Bamford falsely asserts."
[http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003117.html War and Piece]'s Laura Rozen writes, "In fact, if you read that bolded line closely, you'll see, this is not a denial at all. It is a statement that someone else has issued a denial. (Hey, Rendon doesn't get paid $300 an hour for nothing). It's also worth noting that that someone else who issued a denial, [[Douglas Feith]], no longer works at the Pentagon and his office's activities are now the subject of a DoD Inspector General investigation."
James Bamford who wrote the Rolling Stone article on Rendon was interview on [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/21/1516257 Democracy Now!].
The changes to TRI that EPA is proposing have been pushed by several industry associations including the small business administration. It's telling that the best spin that EPA could put on the proposals is that they are to provide relief to companies for the paperwork they must fill out under the TRI program. The proposals so clearly only benefit polluting companies that the agency can help but at least partially acknowledge that the changes are being made for them. But the TRI program is supposed to be about communities and informing them about the toxic pollution that is being released around them.
It seems to me that filling out a five page form is the least a company should have to do if they release thousands of pounds of a toxic chemical into the air or water.
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I had transposed the two names; thanks for catching it.
- Diane
"Microsoft's chief marketing officer, Steve Ballmer, was elevated so that he reports directly to the CEO"
Steve Ballmer is the CEO
Thanks for the new board, would have really missed
someplace to vent. Here's my problem: the text box
runs into the links and ads on the right side, making
it impossible to see what I'm typing in that space.
Is this something I can fix in my settings? Or do I
just need to hit return at the end of the line, like
I did for this reply?
The difference with today's France ? At least, this side of the Atlantic, when everything is going wrong, there is a true debate. 2005 may be an annus horribilis for us, we enjoyed a real discussion about Europe and social implosion.
And when one of our generals tries to cover up a criminal act by the French Army in Ivory Coast, he is both suspended by the Army and sued by the justice. The man who prones torture is not likely to become the head of justice (does DOJ stand for Denial Of Justice ?).
Anyway, I guess today's French Revolution is the actual one : the poor are getting poorer, the masses are getting poor and the wealthy have already left the country.
To make it even worse, France's next ruler is supported by the country's top media conglomerates : Nicolas Sarkozy has the favors of Martin Bouygues (Bouygues-TF1), Arnaud Lagardère (Lagardère-Hachette) and Serge Dassault (Dassault-Socpresse-Le Figaro). Not to mention King Dubya himself and his followers (including Dick Perle and the so-called church of scientology).
Some call you the elites...
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A message for Bishp Jackson from the source itself.
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It is possible to give away and become richer! It is also possible to hold on too tightly and lose everything. Yes, the liberal man shall be rich! By watering others, he waters himself.
Proverbs 11:24-25
The Living Bible
Notice it says "THE LIBERAL MAN" Nowhere in the Bible does Christ, the Apostles or Prophets talk about exaulting the rich conservative man. Our PR is to begin preaching the mantra of the Liberal Man himself - Jesus Christ who espoused that helping those less fortunate is our moral and Godly duty. No where does Christ or His followers say no work no eat. Here is a man who fed many, wore his hair long, made his mission amongst the poor.
Perhpas the campaing for the Liberal Man should begin with the verse that "it is easier for a poor man to pass through the gates of heaven than a rich man through the eye of a needle"
Democrats - fight the so called "religious conservative right" with the truth from the Bible and we can take back the Catholic and and Christian vote back."
If we are the party of the people we need to sell that we care for our brothers and sisters and lending a helping hand is a liberal christ like thing to do for each other and for America. Building America by touching one life at a time.
Just my thoughts - what sat thou?
It's interesting that both the people friendly looking conference and corporate friendly counter conference are both funded and run by large corporations. I don't see much in the way of options here - I think I'll go to the next Social Forum I here about though.
Oh and I figure folks here will be interested in knowing...
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