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Bailing out the millionaires is tantamount to welfare for the rich! I don’t think it is necessary. In fact I think it is another “fleecing of the middle class.” It is going to cost a minimum of 10,000 dollars per every house hold in the US to bail out these “prestigious companies.” Investment banks and brokerage house that will not even open an account for you unless you have over a million dollars to invest. 10,000 dollars to a multimillionaire is like ten dollars to you and I…the rich politicians don’t see this as a problem…they don’t have a clue! It is not the tax payers fault and the tax payers should not burden ourselves and our children and grand children with the burden of saving these folks from embarrassment. We should let them go bust.

I think it is a scare tactic to say that everyone would loose their jobs. Not so. Those of us who have useful jobs would continue to work. Yep, the country would continue to function and the workers in this country would still have jobs…the teachers would still teach, plumbers would still unclog drains, the bus drivers would still drive, in other words, the ordinary folks who actually work would still work…because life would go on for the ordinary man. Not so for those extremely high paid jobs such as CEO’s and such folks who are not worth what they are paid. Those type jobs would start to disappear. I do not think it is fair that we who have spent wisely and have been prudent should have to bail out the greedy ones… time will tell.

Please before commenting... at least watch the video clip and then respond if he pretty much pointed out some facts in how the Republicans seem to forget the things they have said in the past. Especially Karl Rove. Click below... watch & laugh

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vide...

St. Paul, Minnesota - Organizers conceived of this convention as a means to inspire, but some African American Republicans have found the Xcel Energy Center depressing this week. Everywhere they look, they see evidence of what they consider one of their party's biggest shortcomings.

As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white.

Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago. Each night, the overwhelmingly white audience watches a series of white politicians step to the lectern -- a visual reminder that no black Republican has served as a governor, U.S. senator or U.S. House member in the past six years

While arguing against the U.S. government's own studies, Palin has embraced research funded in part by the petroleum industry, which concluded "it is simply not prudent to overstate the certainty" that climate change, or any other single factor, is responsible for "observed patterns in polar bear population ecology." McCain's vice-presidential pick, Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, sued the Bush Administration in federal court recently, charging it was too accepting of climate change studies which overstated the phenomenon's impact on polar bears. The result, she argued, would be a negative impact on her state's businesses, including oil and gas extraction.

The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US ‘interceptor missiles’ is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since the 1962 Cuba Missile crisis. Far from a defensive move to protect European NATO states from a Russian nuclear attack, as military strategists have pointed out, the US missiles in Poland pose a total existential threat to the future existence of the Russian nation. The Russian Government has repeatedly warned of this since US plans were first unveiled in early 2007. Now, despite repeated diplomatic attempts by Russia to come to an agreement with Washington, the Bush Administration, in the wake of a humiliating US defeat in Georgia, has pressured the Government of Poland to finally sign the pact. The consequences could be unthinkable for Europe and the planet.

Previously as part of the post Cold War agreements with the US, agreements which have been ´significantly ignored by Washington as it pushed the borders of NATO ever closer to Moscow’s doorstep, the Soviet Union had abandoned such missiles in accordance with the START I Treaty.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on state television that he would again go to New York to attend this year's United Nations General Assembly session. It will be Ahmadinejad's third trip to New York since his presidency in August 2005.

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I say BLOCK HIM from coming into the USA for any functions... Let him know first hand he can't come here to OUR COUNTRY until he stops his threats to Israel and to our guys over in Iraq.

We have the Power... if only our White House officials would act!

By allowing him to come here... he thinks he is winning.

The Empire State Building in New York will be lit up green to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid.

New York's tallest building already celebrates Christmas, the Jewish festival of Hannukah and St Patrick's Day by changing the colour scheme of its three tiers of night-time lights.

However, it is the first time that the 1,454ft building's management has marked a Muslim celebration in a city on which the legacy of the Sept 11 attacks still weighs heavily.

Eid al-Fitr, the festival of fast-breaking, marks the end of Ramadan and lasts from Friday until Sunday.

The building's management said in a statement: "This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah."

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.

Heres a story about beard painting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwfBwUERTdU&mode=us...

Listen to this great video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onh-rshjcz4&mode=re...

This is a Question especially for Michael and all of you who post here on the Israel section. If your child was injured in your neighborhood and many family members were killed during a missle strike who should pay for her lifetime medical bills? For five-year-old Marya Aman and her father Hamdi, the respiratory ward of Alyn hospital in Jerusalem has become a prison and her terrible injuries a life sentence. She cannot leave the Israeli hospital where her father tends her round the clock — feeding her, bathing her and changing her catheters. Her father cannot leave without risking automatic deportation to Gaza and separation from his child. He has a permit to be with his daughter w/ no other rights in Israel so he will not go for a stroll outside the hospital, let alone pop out for a coffee, for fear of being arrested. He has no money. Without the help of kind-hearted Israelis, he would have gone hungry. Now the Israeli Govt. is trying to get out of paying lifetime medical support.

Israelis protesting the Military Occupation... a must see documentary film. It proves not all Israelis agree with the Military Occupation against Palestinians.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-153041273...

Lobbies should not be allowed to pay for our Government officials elections, travel, businesses, ect. It corrupts them from what is best for the American People. Defense Contractors are getting richer and richer everyday on blood money. AIPAC is alot like the Mob days. View this video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-512842141...

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/07/...

Why was the distribution of Cipro to White House staff on Sept. 11 classified for such a long time (AP)?

What exactly does Hauer know about Stephen Hatfill and his former USAMRIID colleague, Thomas Monath?

What was his main concern in organizing a security job for John O'Neill at the Twin Towers?

What exactly did Hauer organise on Sep11th? Is it true that his office ordered thousands of employees "back to their desks" after the first plane hit, causing hundreds of unnecessary deaths?

Did Hauer let both the Sept. 11 and the anthrax attacks happen on purpose?

The division of the former British mandate of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in the years after the end of World War II have been at the heart of Middle Eastern conflicts for the past half century.

The creation of Israel was the culmination of the Zionist movement, whose aim was a homeland for Jews scattered all over the world following the Diaspora. After the Nazi Holocaust, pressure grew for the international recognition of a Jewish state, and in 1948 Israel came into being. Much of the history of the region since that time has been one of conflict between Israel on one side and Palestinians, represented by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and Israel's Arab neighbours, on the other. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced, and several wars were fought involving Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

Jerusalem's Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif

In pictures: Jerusalem's religious sites

Palestinians in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, have lived under Israeli occupation since 1967.

What do you think is behind anti-American feelings in certain regions?

What is the cause of anti-Americanism? How much of a threat does it pose? How can it be addressed?

February 8, 2007

There is little question in anybody’s mind about the special relation between Israel and the United States. Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid to the tune of more than $3 billion dollars a year, plus miscellaneous additions like surplus weaponry, debt waivers and other perks. Israel is the only country that receives its entire aid package in the beginning of the fiscal year allowing it to accrue interest on it during the year. It is the only country which is allowed to spend up to 25% of its aid outside of the United States, placing such expenditures outside US control. The United States has offered unwavering support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine and for the ongoing oppression of the Palestinians, and has systematically supported Israel’s refusal to make any effective peace negotiations or peace agreements. This debate is the topic of our program today. http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1699&more...

Just in case you are all wondering where Palestine is…here is your directions.

Palestine is where it has always been...a region between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River and various adjoining lands. It has also been called the Holy Land, Canaan, and the land of Israel. British Mandate (1920-1948) control put the name Palestine back formally right after the Ottoman Rule. In 1947 when the British could not afford to maintain an adequate Army there the UN took control of Palestine. A big mistake planned and allocated without the approval of the majority living in and around there (Arabs.) And we wonder why there is so much hostile hatred! To me it is obvious.

Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and neighboring Arab states eliminated Palestine as a distinct territory. The People of Palestine were sold out by their neighbors. The establishment of Israel remaining lands was divided amongst Egypt, Syria and Jordan...until 1967 War.

Israeli Occupation

Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territory

In the course of the armed conflict that erupted in the Middle East in June 1967, the Israeli military occupied the remainder of Mandated Palestine:

Following the war, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, which emphasized the international law principle of "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war" and which affirmed that peace in the Middle East should be based on the "withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" and the "termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."

This resolution, along with the principle of returning the land in exchange for peace (land for peace) which was embodied in it, became the basis for the Middle East peace process.

Based on the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and relevant UN resolutions, the entire international community considers the Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, along with the other Arab territories occupied by Israel in 1967, to be "occupied territories" subject to the 4th Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Times of War. The United Nations, in a multitude of resolutions, has affirmed the applicability of the 4th Geneva Convention to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, including East Jerusalem and has called for an end to the occupation. The UN has also repeatedly affirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the need for the realization of those rights.

At the start of the occupation, Israel, the occupying Power, immediately began imposing scores of repressive measures against the Palestinian civilian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. These measures, entailing grave violations of human rights, have inflicted enormous suffering and harm on the Palestinian civilian population. At the same time, the occupying Power attempted to change the status of the occupied territory or parts of it and to change the demographic composition of the territory through the illegal transfer of Israeli civilians. The occupying Power attempted to justify many of these measures by citing its security considerations or military needs. In reality, however, the occupying Power has been driven by an expansionist vision or ideology and, in the course of implementing such a vision, has used its enormous military capabilities and a complex system of economic, legal and administrative policies and practices.