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"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove." -- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) =
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal: =
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. - Lord Acton =
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. - John Kenneth Galbraith: Borders Are For Sissies By Ron Jacobs === No Currency Left to Buy the Big Lies By John Cusack No more money left to pay off the debt, the wreckage in the wake. The orgy of excess has drained every bottle, smashed the furniture and left the cupboards bare. All that's left is derivative debts -- bets between liars and lies. Trillions of dollars. It turned capitalism into a Ponzi scheme for trading worthless paper.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21142.htm === Obama's Little Red Book Is Redistribution Really All That Bad? By Mike Whitney === An Open Letter to Barack Obama Between Hope and Reality By Ralph Nader Far more than Senator McCain, you have received enormous, unprecedented contributions from corporate interests, Wall Street interests and, most interestingly, big corporate law firm attorneys. Never before has a Democratic nominee for President achieved this supremacy over his Republican counterpart.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21143.htm === Nowhere Man A Farewell to Dubya, All-Time Loser in Presidential History By Simon Schama Where, O where are you, Dubya? Are you sweating it out on the treadmill, hurt and confused as to why the man everyone wanted to have a beer (or Coke) with, who swept to re-election four years ago, has been downgraded to all-time loser in presidential history, stuck there in the bush leagues along with the likes of James Buchanan and Warren Harding?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21141.htm === Arabs Have To Rely On Britain And Israel For Their History By Robert Fisk Not a single state paper is open to the people of Syria. There are no archives from the foreign ministry or the interior ministry or the defence ministry. There is no 30-year rule - for none is necessary. The rule is for ever. There is no Public Record Office in the Arab world, no scholars waiting outside the National Archives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21139.htm === U.S. war aims in Afghanistan grow doubtful: - === Taliban to US: There is nothing to talk about: "There is nothing to talk about. This is not a political campaign for policy change or power sharing or Cabinet ministries. We are waging jihad to bring Islamic law back to Afghanistan," Mullah Sabir told Newsweek.
http://tinyurl.com/5ob3ea === Pakistan to pressure next US leader to end missile strikes: === Voters vent their rage as bombers leave 250 dead: MORE than 60 bomb blasts across 10 cities in the past six months means India is challenging Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as the world's most terrorism-affected country.
http://tinyurl.com/6yerc7 === Bombings kill 10, wound dozens in Baghdad, elsewhere: === Iraq plans to cut Sunni fighters' salaries: The Iraqi government plans to cut salaries for the estimated 100,000 members of the Awakening movement whose revolt against al Qaida in Iraq played a key role in bringing about the sharp fall in violence in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/6q35l6 === Newspaper: Washington OKs most Iraq's proposed changes over SOFA: === No US bases in northern Iraq without Baghdad nod: Talabani: === Syria response to US will be 'painful': === Iranian FM on Syria visit denounces US raid: Mottaki met President Bashar al-Assad and also "expressed Iranian support" for Syria, the diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity, saying "Iran denounced the deadly American assault" on October 26 that Damascus says killed eight civilians.
http://tinyurl.com/5k5drt === FM: Israel rejects interim peace deal: ===
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Likud submits bill to block Olmert talks with Syria, Abbas: The hardline opposition Likud party submitted a bill to parliament Monday, which if passed would make it illegal for any Israeli transitional government to conduct peace talks and give up territory.
http://tinyurl.com/6yny5v === 'Israel thirsty for new Mideast war': === Israeli security chief warns of assassination: === Settlers preparing for war, says Shin Bet chief: A government decision to evacuate more territory may lead to a large-scale violent conflict with settlers, complete with live fire, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday's cabinet meeting. The meeting ended with the ministers voting to end all government support, both direct and indirect, for illegal outposts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033535.html === Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements: Britain is taking the lead in pressing the EU to curb imports from Israeli producers in the occupied West Bank as a practical step towards halting the steady increase in the construction of Jewish settlements.
http://tinyurl.com/5jja44 === Hamas leader in Beirut on rare visit: Lebanon's National News Agency says Mashaal arrived Monday and held talks with the country's president and other leaders about the situation in Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps
http://tinyurl.com/54qts7 === From Goma to Gaza, Mr Miliband: While the foreign secretary is keen to be seen in Congo, another invisible humanitarian crisis receives none of his attention
http://tinyurl.com/5m5mhm === Nine Uganda rebels killed after attack on DRCongo village: : === Congo Rebels Warn Government Will Fall If No Talks : -- === Libya, Belarus Unite Against "Unipolar World": "Balance in the world has been destroyed and the world has become unipolar," Gadhafi said during talks with Lukashenko, in an apparent reference to the rise of the U.S. after the Soviet Union collapsed. "The law of force has begun to work in place of the force of law."
http://tinyurl.com/6q4hpl === Russia, Libya sign civil nuclear deal as Kadhafi visits: Tripoli: === 60 Migrant bodies wash up in Yemen: Sixty corpses of migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have been found on a beach in Yemen after smugglers forced many of them overboard on the weekend, an international aid agency said.
http://tinyurl.com/6rxqv3 === Somalia stoning: A story that left me reeling in shock and sadness: As the Guardian reports, the teenager's father had actually tried to report that she had been raped, but instead she was accused of committing adultery - and was punished by being stoned to death, in front of hundreds of people in the stadium.
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=2199 === US "jury" convicts 'Bin Laden aide': The 39-year-old Yemeni faces a possible life sentence. He refused to present a defence during the trial. The American military said any work Bahlul did for al-Qaeda was by definition a war crime because the group was a terrorist organisation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7706539.stm === US War Vets Going Blind: === How Israel helps eavesdrop on US citizens: === Commentary: They've squandered lives, fortunes and our sacred honor: High tide arrived with the unlikeliest occupant of the Oval Office in our history, the beady-eyed, smirking, tongue-tied, counterfeit cowboy George W. Bush, and a Congress that after 9-11 was run by runaway Republicans who were too busy enriching themselves and their friends to care what their president was doing to the country, the Constitution and even their own party
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/55165.html === Eurozone edges towards recession: === Spain Lets Jobless Postpone Half of Mortgage Payments : === The Fed as a central bank to the world: While the French President dreams of global economic cooperation ahead of the G20 summit in Washington, the Fed is quietly becoming central bank to the world, backed by the full might of the U.S. Treasury and a teflon-coated greenback.
http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=927271 === Effectiveness of AIG's $143 Billion Rescue Questioned: "What we see now are a lot of games by the government to keep these institutions going with a lot of cash," she said. "This is to fill holes in companies' balance sheets, and they're trying to hold at bay the charges that our financial system is insolvent."
http://tinyurl.com/6puhmp === Manufacturing activity at 26-year low: === Circuit City to shut 155 U.S. stores to preserve cash: Struggling electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. said Monday that it's shutting 155 U.S. underperforming stores, reducing future store openings and aggressively renegotiating certain leases to help preserve cash after its liquidity deteriorated and its vendors tightened the company's payment terms.
http://tinyurl.com/6n27xt === Debt linked to huge buyouts is tightening the vise: "There's absolutely going to be a lot of pain to go around," said Josh Lerner, a professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. "The big question is how apocalyptic it will be."
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