Federal Empire Crisis In Leadership!

GEF @ 5:08 PM MST

Bush gets blank check for war
JOHN NICHOLS
GUEST COLUMNIST

George W. Bush, who has never chosen to take responsibility for addressing the mess he created in Iraq, has now been given permission by the U.S. House to finish his presidency without doing so.
After the House voted 268-to-155 to provide $162 billion in additional [...]

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America Is Going In The Wrong Direction…

GEF @ 4:18 PM MST

Americans’ loss of confidence: Worse even than it looks
3:00 AM, June 25, 2008
Like a hypnotherapist, the Federal Reserve keeps trying to talk us into an economic recovery.
“You will not need lower interest rates to feel better,” Chairman Ben S. Bernanke tell us in so many words — something he and his [...]

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Jonathan Hutto: People, Not Politicians, Will End the War in Iraq

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:55 PM MST
Anti-War Soldier Jonathan Hutto: People, Not Politicians, Will End the War in Iraq
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted June 25, 2008
The author of Antiwar Soldier discusses the GI movement, the election and why “the military needs racism” to fight its wars.
Active-duty sailor Jonathan Hutto signed up to join the [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Sweet Child O’ Mine

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:45 PM MST

Guns N’ Roses- Sweet Child O’ Mine

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Limbaugh: ‘Democrats Will Bend Over, Grab The Ankles, Say Have Your Way With Me’ To Blacks And Gays

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:30 AM MST
Limbaugh: ‘Democrats Will Bend Over, Grab The Ankles, Say Have Your Way With Me’ To Blacks And Gays»
Think Progress
By Faiz on Jun 24th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Media Matters notes that on his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh told a caller that “Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say [...]

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Big Oil and the war in Iraq

Sudhan @11:35 CET

By Derrick Z. Jackson | The Boston Globe, June 24, 2008

IT TOOK five years, the deaths of 4,100 US soldiers, and the wounding of 30,000 more to make Iraq safe for Exxon. It is the inescapable open question since [...]

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Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration’s Measures of Progress in Iraq

Sudhan @11:35 CET

JAMES GLANZ | The New York Times, June 24, 2008
Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration uses to demonstrate economic, political and security progress are either incorrect or far more mixed than the administration has acknowledged, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability [...]

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