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Lame Cherry
TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008
Islamobamanism.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/07/islamobamanism.html
Gone are the days when men were men and women were women, red states were leftists blue states were rightists, Americans were Americans, Communists were Communists, Fascists were Fascists and never did the twain nor quadicon meet, greet or seat in the strange bedfellow of the
body politic.
This though has changed in the genesis of when the French created a communist form of Islam in the Garden of Eden in Iraq which was offset by the Nazi form of Islam in Egypt.
The communists were then termed Ba'athists like Saddam Hussein, BashirAssad and Ayatollah Kohmeini of Iran.
The fascists of the Banna Nazi would become the Muslim Brotherhood.
Late arrivals would be Osama bin Laden leading the now crippled Islamofascists and his upstart Russian protege out of Egypt, Ayman Zawahiri, al Qaeda's #2 leading the Islamocomunists.
This is why al Qaeda was and is blowing up Suni and Shia faithful, because al Qaeda is a communist group which literally hates Islam as it hides in it.
As one notes, religion and secular systems are now crossing the lines in the minds of the body politic. No more so than in Iran where Persian Islamocommunists have now infused with the writings of their heir apparent, Larinjani, who speaks for the Supreme Council, a new form of
The Last Hurrah For The Banking System.
The Last Hurrah For The Banking System.
By Mike Whitney
7-28-8
The Bush administration will be mailing out another batch of "stimulus" checks in the very near future. There's no way around it. The Fed is in a pickle and can't lower interest rates for fear that food and energy prices will shoot to stratosphere. At the same time, the economy is shrinking faster than anyone thought possible with no sign of a rebound. That leaves stimulus checks as the only way to "prime the pump" and keep consumer spending chugging along. Otherwise business activity will slow to a crawl and the economy will tank. There's no other choice.
The daily barrage of bad news is really starting to get on people's nerves. Most of the TV chatterboxes have already cut-out the cheery stock market predictions and no one is praising the "impressive powers of the free market" anymore. They know things are bad, real bad. A pervasive sense of gloom has crept into the television studios just like it has into the stock exchanges and the luxury penthouses on Manhattan's West End. That same sense of foreboding is creeping like a noxious cloud to every town and city across the country. Everyone is cutting back on non-essentials and trimming the fat from the family budget. The days of extravagant impulse-spending at the mall are over. So are the "big ticket" purchases and the "go-for-broke" trips to Europe. Consumer confidence is at historic lows, disposal income is a thing of the past, and all the credit cards are at their limit. The country is drowning in red ink.
L.A. suburb at quake epicenter gets hard shake.
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L.A. suburb at quake epicenter gets hard shake.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm
Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:40
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CHINO HILLS, Calif., July 29 (Reuters) - Living in the shadow of Los Angeles, retiree Doug Sparkes thought that Tuesday's strong tremor had squarely hit the big city.
Little did he know his town of Chino Hills, where he and his wife live on a farm with horses and chickens, was the epicenter of the biggest earthquake to hit the Los Angeles area in nearly 15 years.
"The first thing we thought was that L.A. went down and we were on the other end of it," Sparkes said as he shopped at a supermarket a few hours after the magnitude 5.4 quake. "It was a hard shake and it lasted about 30 seconds."
The Sparkes had been through stronger Southern California temblors, the 1994 Northridge and the 1987 Whittier Narrows quakes.
"This felt double that," said Debbie Sparkes. The centers of those quakes were much farther from Sparkes' home, though.
Around 30 miles (48 km) east of Los Angeles and home to 80,000 people, Chino Hills is a pleasant suburb with new large homes built among the big rolling hills.
The town returned to normality just a few hours after the temblor and filled up with people shopping and eating out. Only the presence of police, emergency teams and reporters indicated something big had happened.
Guardian Lost £26.4 Million Last Year.
Guido Fawkes
JULY 30, 2008
Guardian Lost £26.4 Million Last Year.
Guardian News & Media (GNM), publishers of the Guardian and the Observer increased operating losses to £26.4m. The parent owners GMG would also have reported operating losses of £24.8 million were it not for the £334.8m sale of a 49.9% stake in Auto Trader, to Ronnie Cohen's xxxx capitalist private equity vultures, Apax Partners. The online arm's separate Guardian Unlimited identity has been dropped (it was more unkindly known by some as "Guardian Unlimited Losses").
Incidentally the annual report reveals they paid £15.3 million in taxes last year despite claiming a group profit before taxation of £306.4 million after the sale of Auto Trader. GMG have always been adept at using the Scott Trust and other dodges to minimise tax charges. Guido congratulates them on achieving an effective tax rate 4.99%. Remember that the next time Polly Toynbee calls for higher taxes and everyone to pay a fair share.
Controversial Smith Institute trustee and Chairman of the Guardian Media Group Paul Myners warned: "We expect the uncertainty within the UK economy to have an impact on a number of the group's revenue streams in the coming year." Translation : we will lose more money next year.
Incidentally, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger got by on a total compensation package of a mere £543,000 up from £473,000 last year. A 15% increase as a reward for losing £26.4 million - no belt tightening for him.
Where others lead…
Where others lead…
There is general agreement that the Doha round of the WTO talks has collapsed, to no great surprise and, no doubt, to the delight of Sarkozy and the other protectionist tendencies which are happy to see the process of "globalisation" brought to a halt.
The proximate cause is a dispute principally between the US and India - which also included Indonesia and China - over a safeguard mechanism to protect farmers in developing states from agricultural imports.
There are, however, deeper causes and much will be written in specialist magazines and in learned papers over the coming months and years about the these. For the moment, no one is particularly interested in playing the blame game.
Certainly, the US has left its offer "on the table" and the game remains to be played. It is unlikely though, that there will be any progress this side of the US election or, for that matter, until there has been an Indian general election.
In that senses, therefore, the collapse of the talks is just another hiatus in a process that has already taken seven years and which can be resuscitated once the global players decide to have another go.
This notwithstanding, that lack of any progress is raising serious questions about the viability of the WTO, articulated by the Irish Times. What may now happen is that the system disintegrates, to be replaced by a series of bi- and multilateral agreements outside the WTO framework.
The UK: Cool American Politics. Time to "recalibrate" the relationship between the US and the UK. Obama also favors the EU.
The UK: Cool American Politics. Time to "recalibrate" the relationship between the US and the UK. Obama also favors the EU.
From the desk of A. Millar on Tue, 2008-07-29 12:53
Regarded as something of an anglophile, Barack Obama has said that it is time to "recalibrate" the relationship between the US and the UK, and to end the "poodle status" of the latter. The relationship will be a more equal one. Obama also favors the EU, which, he believes, is a democratic union of countries, brought together by the will of the people. This month, despite massive opposition, and the British public being denied a vote on the issue, Britain's unelected Prime Minister Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon treaty, relinquishing more of Britain's sovereignty to the EU. What will this mean for Britain's and the US's relationship?
Why Driving Lessons Irelands Dark Secret.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Why Driving Lessons Irelands Dark Secret.
Writen by Robin Piggott
In the E.U., despite attempts at standardisation of many regulations including the areas of Driving and Driving Tests the gap between compliant Nations and particularly new entrants to the E.U family seem to be growing further apart. This is particularly evident in Ireland where there is explosive growth in immigrant numbers. The fact that most of these immigrants are emanating from countries where there are very few adequate Driving regulations only adds to the growing number of fatalities on the roads.
The number is growing exponentially due to the failure of the Authorities to put in place an enforceable and achievable regime. Unfortunately there are few votes to be had in Road Safety but many to be gained in Job creation.
We are creating many new jobs and filling them with migrant workers only to be shipping these same workers home in boxes since we have no real Road Regulation enforcement!
With the ever increasing number of road accidents culminating in not just tragic deaths but many life changing injuries, it is essential to train with a Professional Driving School! This is a costly exercise but will be repaid in time since you will be much less likely to be involved in one of the constant daily incidents (AKA Accidents !) most of which are TOTALLY avoidable ! !
Kuwaiti Daily Reveals: Iran Building Secret Nuclear Reactor.
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Kuwaiti Daily Reveals: Iran Building Secret Nuclear Reactor.
On July 29, 2008, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa reported that, according to "highly reliable sources," Iranian authorities had begun construction of a secret nuclear reactor in the Al-Zarqan region close to the city of Ahwaz in southwest Iran, on the Iran-Iraq border.
The paper said that according to sources, Iran was working to distance its nuclear installations from international oversight. The English version of the report, published in the Kuwaiti Arab Times, said, "Disclosing [that] Tehran directed international A-bomb inspectors to other places, sources warned [that] the project poses a very serious threat to international security."
Also according to the sources, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did not know about this site at all, since it was not included in negotiations with Iran in Geneva held in early July.
According to the report, the sources said that during 2000-2003, Iran expropriated the lands and homes of thousands of Arab citizens from the Al-Zarqan region, destroying homes of thousands of Arab citizens from the Al-Zarqan region.
Destroyed homes, fields, orchards, and wells, and built a three-meter-high wall around the project site, which allegedly measures hundreds of kilometers.
The report also said that "the construction of the reactor began with the laying of a pipeline for fresh water from the [nearby] Karoun River to the site, and the expansion of the Al-Zarqan power station."
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