Think Progress » Blog Archive » Bush: Rebate Checks Will Make Economy ‘Stronger Than Ever Before’: "I’m confident in the long term we’ll come out stronger than ever before. One of the most decisive actions a government can take is to give people their money back so they can spend it, and that’s exactly what we’ve done."
No, he didn't. He borrowed money from China, gave it to the American people, who will go out and buy Chinese-made products.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Police arrest anti-war protester, 80, at mall
Police arrest anti-war protester, 80, at mall -- Crimes, Iraq War, Long Island -- Newsday.com
An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers' | Danger Room from Wired.com
Your own tax dollars being spent to propagandize you!
Your own tax dollars being spent to propagandize you!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Vatican: Islam surpasses Roman Catholicism as world's largest religion - Yahoo! Canada News
Vatican: Islam surpasses Roman Catholicism as world's largest religion - Yahoo! Canada News: "'For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,' Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano."
The Rise of the Politics of Fear
The film consists of three 1-hour parts, which were first broadcast in the UK in late 2004. The final hour highlights the American government wanting to prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, and needing to prove him to be the head of a criminal organization to do so. They find a former associate of bin Laden, Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden was the head of a massive terrorist organization called "al-Qaeda." (click on the youtube.com link under 'menu' to see the other segments.)
NATO terrorists (1-15) Operation Gladio: 1948-1990
Dead in the water (1-7) The sinking of USS Liberty
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/31/2008 | Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/31/2008 | Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list: "WASHINGTON — The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker."
Iraq war shows limits of US power
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq war shows limits of US power: "Of the other aims, one was unobtainable because Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction to be destroyed, and the other - bringing democracy to the Middle East - has been indefinitely postponed."
Yuan in, dollar out at Cosco Corp
Yuan in, dollar out at Cosco Corp
Singapore-listed shipyard Cosco Corp has begun quoting new sales contracts in Chinese yuan to reduce the impact of any further decline in the U.S. dollar, the company's president said Monday.
Singapore-listed shipyard Cosco Corp has begun quoting new sales contracts in Chinese yuan to reduce the impact of any further decline in the U.S. dollar, the company's president said Monday.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
U.S. Economy No Longer World's Largest
Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its No. 1 spot | Reuters: "PARIS (Reuters) - The U.S. economy lost the title of 'world's biggest' to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets."
FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters
"The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on such orders to obtain records that a special intelligence-gathering court had deemed protected by the First Amendment, according to two government audits released yesterday."FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters: "By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Iraq war's cost: Loss of U.S. power, prestige, influence
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/15/2008 | Iraq war's cost: Loss of U.S. power, prestige, influence: "By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers"
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Chavez Says Venezuela Can Sell Oil Anywhere, Not Just to U.S.
Bloomberg.com: Latin America
Man, it's like Chavez thinks oil can be used anywhere, like a commodity or something.
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Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq
Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq - Yahoo! News
Let's see if there are massacres, as the Neocons are predicting, after the foreign troops leave.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Congressman Paul Cosponsors "Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act"
Congressman Paul Cosponsors "Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act"
Ron Paul doesn't "supports the troops," right?
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"Euros Accepted" signs pop up in New York City
Euros Accepted signs pop up in New York City | U.S. | Reuters
The George W. Bush legacy...making the U.S. a banana republic in 7 short years.
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Veterans not entitled to mental health care, Bush Administration argues
Veterans have no legal right toVeterans not entitled to mental health care, U.S. lawyers argue
specific types of medical care, the Bush administration argues in a
lawsuit accusing the government of illegally denying mental health
treatment to some troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Support the troops...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Bush Budget: Freeze Domestic Spending to Keep Spending in Other Countries
President George W. Bush will propose freezing most domesticBush budget would nearly freeze domestic spending | Reuters
spending in his upcoming 2009 budget and will seek big cost savings
from government health care programs, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
In a more than $3 trillion budget to be unveiled on Monday, Bush
wants to limit to less than 1 percent increases in spending on
discretionary programs like transportation and education, but excluding
national security, the official said.
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