Military Contracts In Iraq Have Cost Taxpayers At Least $85 billion

By- Suzie-Q @ 5:30 PM MST

Iraq Contracts Have Cost Taxpayers At Least $85 Billion Since Invasion
KIMBERLY HEFLING | August 12, 2008 06:05 PM EST |
WASHINGTON — Military contracts in the Iraq theater have cost taxpayers at least $85 billion, and when it comes to providing security, they might not be any cheaper than using [...]

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Impeachment? Truth and reconciliation commission? Never mind that — haul George Bush into a court of law, part 1

anthony @ 00:31 BST

Russ Wellen | Scholars and Rogues | August 11, 2008

Today we visit Vincent Bugliosi’s book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Tomorrow we visit Vincent Bugliosi himself as he talks about his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee appearance and his book.
As you may have heard by now, the mainstream [...]

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BP Closes Down The Georgian Pipeline!

GEF @ 6:58 PM ET

BP shuts down Georgia pipelines
Energy giant BP says it has shut two of three pipelines that run through Georgia as a precautionary measure.
A spokeswoman for the firm said the oil and gas pipelines, which run from the Caspian Sea into Georgia, had not been damaged by the recent fighting.
The [...]

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fyi- or why things in this country won’t change

h/t to blue gal
i researched presidential campaigning and how to get on ballots in all 50 states- back when hubby entertained the idea of running. and no, i am not joking- he was fairly serious. i convinced him it wasn’t worth it when i saw the way the world was heading. [...]

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McCain Mispronounced Georgian President’s Name Three Times

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:40 PM MST
McCain flubs the name of Georgian President three times
Think Progress- By Faiz at 2:58 pm

The McCain camp has been proud to note the Senator’s close ties to the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s foreign policy aide, boasted “McCain and the Georgian leader rode jet skis together” while [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Whip It

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:30 PM MST

Devo – Whip It

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Scott Ritter predicts mushroom clouds over America if McCain becomes President

anthony @ 19:37 BST

Scott Ritter:
The Bush administration has built a new generation of nuclear weapons that we call ‘usable’ nukes, and they have a nuclear ‘posture’ now, which permits the use of nuclear weapons in a non-nuclear environment if the Commander in Chief deems U.S forces to be at significant risk. [...]

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You Can’t Expect More Than What You Pay For…

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:30 AM MST

You Get What You Pay For
Huffington Post- Thomas B. Edsall
August 11, 2008 08:54 PM
They are the loyal troops of the conservative revolution, at least 2,824 of them, almost all of them elderly, their 65th birthdays an increasingly distant memory — men and women who were middle-aged when Ronald Reagan was [...]

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War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation?

anthony @ 14:17 BST
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research, August 10, 2008
During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia’s president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.
The aerial bombardments and ground attacks were largely directed against civilian targets including residential areas, hospitals [...]

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