tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32249492007-04-17T01:05:04.634-04:00THE MASSES ARE ASSESthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger926125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1148564381390097142006-05-25T09:34:00.000-04:002006-05-25T09:39:41.400-04:00The Secret is Out
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel's U.N. ambassador, in unusually blunt comments, criticized Russia, China and Qatar on Monday for disappointing the Jewish state in their role as U.N. Security Council members this year.
But Ambassador Dan Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped praise on U.S. Ambassador the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1147383769506967092006-05-11T17:32:00.000-04:002006-05-11T17:47:43.783-04:00The Conservative Nanny State:
How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
The key flaw in the stance that most progressives have taken on economic issues is that they have accepted a framing whereby conservatives are assumed to support market outcomes, while progressives want to rely on the government. This framing leads progressives to futilely lash out against markets, ratherthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1146688766561142032006-05-03T14:52:00.000-04:002006-05-04T03:02:23.210-04:00Stephen Colbert hosting the White House Correspondent Dinner
Stephen Colbert, with a stone-faced Bush seated to his right, consistently went for the jugular with offerings like:
"I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."
and
"Let's review the rules. Here's how it works. The president the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1145905891295242282006-04-24T15:06:00.000-04:002006-04-24T15:20:05.653-04:00imf meeting opec says producers not to blame for high oil prices
Qatar's oil minister blamed high oil prices on 'horrible' speculation and 'geopolitics' rather than any shortage of supplies.
'This frenzy is fabricated by speculators who are taking advantage of it in the most horrible way,' Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya told reporters.
'If you can stop the politicians from making negative the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1145433782118359202006-04-19T03:32:00.000-04:002006-04-19T04:20:30.096-04:00Bush won't exclude iran nuke strike
The United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy failed to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions. [...]
Raising the price of Brent crude to a record $72.64 a barrel on Tuesday - scaremongers, liars and serial killers push the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1144963924991319122006-04-13T17:28:00.000-04:002006-04-14T01:34:48.110-04:00Lets Roll!
There's something about the cockpit voice recording the Moussaui jury heard that doesn't quite sound right. Universal Studios will undoubtedly clear all this up later this month.
the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1144939701863494652006-04-13T10:37:00.000-04:002006-04-14T08:56:38.356-04:00"fool me once"
Uncle Chutzpah and his willing executioners-the media, UN and coalition of the cowardly and bribed-have isolated Iran and set her up for possible destabilization and aggression. One wouldn't think this possible given the remarkable parallels in argument and (phony) evidence in this case and that of the failed aggression in Iraq, but the power of the aggressor and subservience of the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1143716098145904282006-03-30T05:09:00.000-05:002006-05-05T04:04:47.860-04:00canada helps israel give starvation another try
Canada has ended all relations with the new Palestinian government, Ottawa announced Wednesday. "Not a red cent to Hamas," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said on CBC's Inside Politics. "This is a terrorist organization."
Hamas members were sworn in as the Palestinian cabinet on Wednesday. Hamas replaced Fatah as the dominant Palestinian the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1143481491394427492006-03-27T12:25:00.000-05:002006-03-28T11:26:07.340-05:00reinforcing the mainstream narrative
Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui took the witness stand in his own defense for the first time Monday, testifying that he was never intended to be one of the Sept. 11, 2001 airplane hijackers. Moussaoui pleaded guilty in April "because everybody used to refer to me as the 20th hijacker and it was a bit of fun"...
Although Moussaoui stated thatthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1143257762803629972006-03-24T22:35:00.000-05:002006-03-25T04:46:52.746-05:00
Frustrated with the UN Security Council, the U.S. tries to break the impasse on Iran:
russia spied for saddam in war - pentagon report
Russia funnelled intelligence on American troop movements in Iraq to Saddam Hussein during the early days of the war, according to documents contained in a Pentagon report released last night...the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1142804403884767492006-03-19T16:33:00.000-05:002006-03-21T19:43:07.256-05:00free markets, democracy and other rhetorical devices
The juxtaposition of Goldman Sachs reporting record-breaking profits on the same day that the U.S. Commerce Dept. reported record-breaking current account deficits is a good indication of who benefits most from the current global speculative finance system.
Eventually, corporate America, strongly influenced, via the CEO stock option linkage, the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066099846233944922003-10-13T22:50:00.000-04:002003-10-13T22:50:45.666-04:00Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East
Beirut. Israel received the Green Light. It came from what is called the Syria Accountability Act, moving through the United States Congress with the help of Israel's supporters, that will impose sanctions on Damascus for its supposed enthusiasm for "terrorism" and occupation of Lebanon.
Speaker after speaker in the past week has the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066099384886213762003-10-13T22:43:00.000-04:002003-10-13T22:43:04.423-04:00Dominance and its Dilemmas*
By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several important and closely related events. The most powerful state in history announced a new National Security Strategy asserting that it will maintain global hegemony permanently: any challenge will be blocked by force, the the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066099123604327742003-10-13T22:38:00.000-04:002003-10-13T22:38:43.210-04:00UN estimate for rebuilding Iraq half that of Bush's—where's the money going?
Basic reconstruction in Iraq next year would cost less than half the amount requested by the Bush administration from the US Congress, according to a joint report prepared by the United Nations and World Bank. The report estimates that $9 billion are needed for reconstruction in Iraq in 2004. The report was released the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066086152634952462003-10-13T19:02:00.000-04:002003-10-13T19:06:36.903-04:00The Iraqi Ledger
Quotes to mark the six-month anniversary of the fall of Baghdad
L. Paul Bremmer, American overseer of Iraq, "defiantly":
"I am optimistic. We have made an enormous amount of progress in six months, more than I think anyone could have safely predicted."
An Iraqi businessman, "acidly":
"They claimed that we were smart enough to build weapons of mass destruction the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065404773507091182003-10-05T21:46:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:46:13.170-04:00Justice Department Dealt Major Blow in Moussaoui Case
The Justice Department was dealt a major setback yesterday in its prosecution of suspected Al Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui. A federal judge barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the case and barred the government from attempting to link Moussaoui to the Sept. 11 attacks. The judge, Leonie Brinkema ruled that it would be the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065404727555041222003-10-05T21:45:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:45:27.233-04:00Attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq increase
Attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq have escalated over the past several months, and insurgents are now launching an average of 17 assaults a day against patrols, convoys and bases, an analysis of coalition security reports shows. The data also show insurgents are using more sophisticated tactics and weapons.
There were few attacks against coalition the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065403434535925062003-10-05T21:23:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:23:54.420-04:00Blair 'Knew Iraq Had No WMD'
TONY BLAIR privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today.
John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee (JIC), also "assented" that Saddam had no such weapons, says Cook.
His revelations, taken from a diary that the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065401527410258442003-10-05T20:52:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:36:41.193-04:00Hail Protesting Pilots
The recent refusal of 27 high-ranking Israeli Air Force officials to follow a superiors orders to attack Palestinian civilians is a significant rebuke to the Israeli government's policy of "targeted liquidations.''
What makes the pilots decision particularly important is that their declaration of refusal was signed by one general, two colonels, nine lieutenant the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065399457232261412003-10-05T20:17:00.000-04:002003-10-05T20:17:37.190-04:00Jobless Recovery?
Shouldn’t people’s ability to find work be central to any economy? Isn’t the point of an economy all about fulfilling human needs, one of which is meaningful work? Not according to today’s monetarist economists who only three years ago were warning of the dangers of the unemployment rate dropping below four percent. Then the business community and their economists were the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065168918531486742003-10-03T04:15:00.000-04:002003-10-03T04:15:18.473-04:00An Occupied Country
It has become clear, very quickly, that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country.
We became familiar with the term "occupied country" during World War II. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied other the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065168615289115702003-10-03T04:10:00.000-04:002003-10-03T04:10:15.290-04:00xymphora
While I suppose it is fun to use the Wilson/Plame/Rove situation to attack the Bushites, and the incident may create a short-term partisan advantage for those opposed to the junta, and it would be very nice to see Rove do the perp walk, Cryptome has a much deeper truth:
"The idiot furor over naming Valerie Plame as a CIA officer, and the CIA's phony call for an investigation, the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065155507237425702003-10-03T00:31:00.000-04:002003-10-03T00:31:47.083-04:00Get Your War On
the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065155276841960812003-10-03T00:27:00.000-04:002003-10-03T00:32:58.566-04:00Own a Piece of Iraq
How U.S. Gvt. Officials Are Leaving Public Office To Cash In On Iraq
President Bush’s campaign manager in 2000, Joe Allbaugh, has set up a new private business firm in Washington and Iraq to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq including companies who are seeking government contracts.
Until March, Allbaugh served as the director of the Federal Emergency the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065148105633252152003-10-02T22:28:00.000-04:002003-10-03T00:28:47.756-04:00Another Falsehood on Iraq Goes Unchallenged
On a weekend when the Bush administration's pre-war intelligence on Iraq was a major topic on the Sunday talkshows, Secretary of State Colin Powell re-circulated a false story about United Nations weapons inspectors being kicked out of Iraq in 1998. Some major media outlets let Powell's comments pass without comment or correction.
On ABC's This the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.com