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Yanukovich: Georgia's action against South Ossetia is criminal

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:49:05 PDT

http://www.regnum.ru/english/1051188.html

“To us, it is absolutely obvious that Russia was not inotiator of the
Georgian-Ossetian conflict,” head of the Party of Regions faction in
the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich stated Sep 5 at a
press conference in Kiev, REGNUM correspondent reported.

“Russia's response to the provocative and criminal action of Georgia
was, of course, a very hard-line one. Perhaps, it was not foreseen by
Georgia, and possibly, it was foreseen. Georgia's decision to launch
war against South Ossetia, at night, by slaughter of civilians, is
criminal. Preserving integrity of Georgia by such means is impossible.
Attempts to set a task to eliminate an ethnos and annex territory have
to be condemned once and for all, condemned forever,” Yanukovich
stated.

“To meet this end, the issue of the use of double standards has first
to be solved. For the precedent accepted in the case of recognition of
Kosovo's independence actually triggered the conflict between Georgia
and South Ossetia. To stop this very dangerous trend now, an
extraordinary session of UN Security Council has to be held, at which
new rules have to be adopted, international laws that would, first of
all, ensure that double standards are not used. That is why our
reaction to the conflict was also intense, but it was due, first of
all, to the Georgia's aggression that was allowed against the South
Ossetian people. We are flatly against it,” the Regions Party leader
pointed out.

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Re: Sarah Palin's Not That Special

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:22:45 PDT

MFOgilvie aol.com> wrote in
news:9089ceae-20ec-401e-be0c-e5d90ddf090e@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

> September 08, 2008
> Sarah Palin's Not That Special
> By Alicia Colon
>
>
> Feminists like Gloria Steinem who have never had children simply
> cannot imagine how mothers of large families cope.

But we can take to heart all the parenting advice
doled out by Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. After all,
THEY know what they are talking about.

>
> What Sarah Palin brings to the national scale is a glimpse into the
> lives of the real women of America.

Yes, that is what we need in a president. Not someone who
knows how to how get a bill thru congress or negotiate a treaty
but someone who knows how to change a diaper.

Are you people for real?

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The false-flag anthrax investigation killed more innocent people than the false-flag anthrax attack

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:20:43 PDT

Newbies may ask: "What is a false-flag investigation?"

A false-flag investigation is one in which the FBI protects the real
killers for national security reasons while harassing several innocent
people until one of them commits suicide so the case can be closed.

Anthrax Case Had Costs for Suspects
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/washington/10anthrax.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref...

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Day 11, Palin Press Conferences: 0

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:13:24 PDT

She can dish it out, but she can't take it.
Get ready for the Palin 9/11 Pimporama.

--bks

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OREO 09 08 08

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:54:05 PDT

OREO 09 08 08

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OREO 09 08 08
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Newsstories of interest:
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** = Important [in this edition: 1 ]
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MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ]
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1 DISORDER
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Editorial | Too Generous
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07sun3.html
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"Situations like the Massey Energy case create an un-
mistakable impression that justice is for sale."
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WELL, OF COURSE!
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When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/technology/07unbox.html?ref=business&pagewanted...
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"In academia’s continuing pursuit of profit, the wonder of
simple serendipitous discovery has been left on the curb."
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Simple serendipitous discovery?
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COPYRIGHT MUST BE ABOLISHED ROOT, BRANCH, AND SEED
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Finally, It's At The Printer
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http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html
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"I treat the U.S. involvement of Iraq as one ongoing
disaster for the Iraqi people from about 1987 until
today.
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Many publications about Iraq treat Desert Storm as an
occurrence, then the embargo, then the March 2003 in-
vasion. This is wrong.
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They are all part of the ongoing dismemberment of the
nation."
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Ongoing dismemberment?
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SOCIOCIDE FROM DAY ONE
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3 ASIA
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THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE)
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In Israel, era of mass immigration ends
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080906/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_dwindling_immigration
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"the influx that brought together more than 3 million
Jews from more than 100 countries following Israel's
creation in 1948 has dwindled to a trickle."
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ALIYAH => YERIDAH => ?
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THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ)
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___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___
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Bob Woodward | Doubt, Distrust, Delay | The Inside Story
of How Bush's Team Dealt With Its Failing Iraq Strategy
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090602691_pf...
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THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN)
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Editorial | Caught in the Cross-Fire
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/opinion/06sat1.html
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"unless the Pentagon comes up with a better strategy,
the United States and its allies may well lose the war."
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The war?
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THE SUPERPOWER'S DOUBLE-EDGED SOCIOCIDE
IN THE EMIRATE OF AFGHANISTAN
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Double-edged?
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SUPERPOWER SOCIOCIDE IS BOTH
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WAR CRIMES AND PEACE CRIMES!
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One of The Superpower's triumphs is to have created
and established a whole new category in international
law: SUPERPOWER PEACE CRIMES.
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What better strategy can there be?
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THE RESULTS:
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"Afghans once looked on American troops as their libera-
tors, but far too many have come to see them as enemies."
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"Pakistan’s political situation is extremely fragile, and
anti-American sentiment there is fierce."
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Two NATO soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080906/wl_nm/afghan_violence_dc
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"43 killed in August"
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U.S. forces and Afghan police kill over 20 Taliban
[= MOW DOWN AFGHAN CIVILIANS]
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSISL7915820080907
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"On Saturday, the Taliban abducted four Afghan [collabor-
ator] employees of a [Superpower] security firm in Maidan
Wardak province, on the main highway southwest of Kabul"
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NOTE:
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"In a [>] show of indignation over the [crossborder] raid,
[Pakistan] authorities blocked a major fuel supply route
for Western forces in Afghanistan, [the servile] Defence
Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar told Dawn Television.
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Most fuel and other supplies for U.S. forces in Afghani-
stan are trucked through Pakistan, crossing the border at
two points, Torkham, near Peshawar, and Chaman to the
southwest.
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The Chaman crossing, where supplies cross into the Afghan
south, was operating normally."
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--From "Zardari wins Pakistan election" newsstory under
THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) below.
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Chaman:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaman
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Torkham:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torkham
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"Torkham lies on the most important supply route
for Western Forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan has
used blocking supplies as a [>] bargaining chip,
for example as a reaction to Western Forces at-
tacking targets in Pakistan."
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Divergent Accounts of Afghan Strike Raise Tension
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/world/asia/08afghan.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
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"Members of the Afghan [puppet] government investigation
commission said that the Americans were just covering up
the truth."
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THE SUPERPOWER'S NATURE COMPELS IT TO
BE THE WORLD'S PREEMINENT LIAR STATE!
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Canadian Soldier Killed [Sunday] on Patrol In Afghanistan
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-afghan-death.html
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"seven wounded"; and
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"Three Canadian soldiers were killed on Wednesday"
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The newsstory reports:
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"Canada's military presence in Afghanistan is not expected
to be an important issue in the [October 14 national elec-
tion] campaign."
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DE-MOCK-RACY
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THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN)
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Zardari wins Pakistan election
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSP17223420080906?feedType=RSS&feedName...
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ELECTION:
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"Members of the...[Pakistan] parliament and four
provincial assemblies voted"
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REJECTION:
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"bomb in Peshawar destroyed...police post"
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See THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) | Item 3 above.
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Unknown powder sent to US diplomats in Pakistan
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080907/D931SJL81.html
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THE SUPERPOWER'S NATURE COMPELS IT TO
BE THE WORLD'S PREEMINENT LIAR STATE!
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INDONESIA
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__SITUATION SUMMARY__
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Price increases push US soy beyond reach of poor
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080906/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_soybean_curse
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"Over the past decade, Indonesia went from growing more
than half its soy to relying on the U.S. for 70 percent
of it."
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"It is the same story for dozens of countries that came
to depend on richer nations for cheap food, only to find
themselves squeezed when prices start[ed] rising last
year."
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*THIS* IS THE SUPERPOWER'S STARVATION WARFARE
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MYANMAR
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British, US embassies visited NLD (HQ) 24 times in August
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Right column | Item 5
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http://www.myanmar.com/newspaper/nlm/index.html
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DIRECTIVE
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"National League for Democracy (HQ) is having contact
with American and British embassies in Yangon and fol-
lowing their directives.
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AND
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Mebaung village in Hpa-an Tsp sees bomb blast [Septem-
ber 6th]
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Right column | Item 11

FOLLOWUP
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"A bomb went off near the generator of the hydropower
generator on Hpa-an-Hlinebwe Road in Mebaung Village,
Hpa-an Township, Kayin State"
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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Opening Address at the Meeting of the State Council on
the Situation Around South Ossetia and Abkhazia
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http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/speeches/2008/09/06/1515_type82912type82913_206195...
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"We are meeting to discuss the new situation in the
world, created as a result of the Georgian aggression"
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"The...tragedy clearly shows that in our era there are
reckless politicians whose actions represent a serious
threat to international order and stability."
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"The events...demonstrated something else: Russia will
not allow anyone to compromise the lives and dignity
of its citizens"
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"South Ossetia and Abkhazia have...begun to actively
build their statehood in this new environment. There
is...need for efficient and targeted support in this
regard. New states should set an example in the estab-
lishment of civil peace, national capabilities and
national harmony, as well as adherence to democratic
principles."
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"After the 8th of August 2008 the world has changed.
I have already said that we were supported by hundreds
of millions of people.
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However, we haven't heard words of support and under-
standing from those who, in the same circumstances,
pontificate about freedom of choice and national dig-
nity and the need to use force to punish an aggressor."
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"these forces continue arming the Georgian regime,
including under the banner of humanitarian aid."
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"We reaffirm our readiness for...the development of
neighbourly relations, relations which are based on
[>] real principles of international law."
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SPAIN
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Spanish minister backtracks on migrant visa plan
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080906/D9317RTG0.html
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FROM:
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"it did not make sense to keep recruiting foreign workers
when Spain has 2.5 million people unemployed."
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TO:
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"I must have said something wrong."
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6 SUPERPOWER
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Silver State Bank in Nevada is shut
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090504266_pf...
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"11th failure this year of a federally insured bank."
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__WE ARE NOT, AND NEVER HAVE BEEN, CROOKS__
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Loan Giant Overstated the Size of Its Capital Base
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/business/07fannie.html?ref=business&pagewanted...
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"deep concern among foreign investors that the com-
panies’ debt might not be repaid."
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"among the most expensive rescues ever financed by
taxpayers."
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News Analysis | A History of Public Aid During Crises
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/business/07bailout.html
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"Despite decades of free-market rhetoric..., Washington
has a long history of providing financial help to the
private sector"
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DESPITE DECADES OF SUPERPOWER *S*
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THE STATE = INSURANCE FOR CROOKS!
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** Long-Term Capital: It’s a Short-Term Memory
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/business/07ltcm.html?pagewanted=all
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"Long-Term Capital Management...and the rescue [which]
occurred 10 years ago this month."
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US Government takes over mortgage giants
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_bi_ge/mortgage_giants_crisis
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"a failure of either of them would cause great turmoil
in our financial markets here at home and [>] around
the globe"
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Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to
Protect Financial Markets and [duh] Taxpayers
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http://treasury.gov/news/index1.html
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High & Low Finance | A Tangled Web With Many Raveled
Threads
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/08norris.html
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__PAULSON'S DUH OF THE DAY__
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"The new [!] Congress and the next [!] administration
must decide what role government in general...should
play in the housing market."
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Oreo Archive:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o
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Kerr-PLOOOP!! Huh?! Pappy, Pappy, What's That Sound?!!

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:47:51 PDT

"Kerr-PLOOOP!!" Huh?! Pappy, Pappy, What's That Sound?!!

It's OK, lil' libweenie. Don't be afraid. It's just the sound of
Moonnigger's poll numbers sliding down the crapper like a brown, slimy,
jug-eared turd.

Wave bye-bye to Moonnigger, lil' libweenie. He's going back where he came
from.

Hyeh, hyeh, hyehhh!

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Republicans = Socialists? Mortgage crisis has Washington putting aside free-market ideology

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:42:12 PDT

Mortgage crisis has Washington putting aside free-market ideology

By Nelson D. Schwartz

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Despite decades of free-market rhetoric from Republican and Democratic
lawmakers, Washington has a long history of providing financial help to the
private sector when the economic or political risk of a corporate collapse
appeared too high.

The effort to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is only the latest in a series
of financial maneuvers by the government that stretch back to the rescue of
the military contractor Lockheed Aircraft and the Penn Central Railroad
under President Richard Nixon, the shoring up of Chrysler in the waning days
of the Carter administration and the salvage of the U.S. savings and loan
system in the late 1980s.

More recently, after airplanes were grounded because of the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress approved $15 billion in subsidies and
loan guarantees to the faltering airlines.

Now, with the U.S. government preparing to save Fannie and Freddie only six
months after the Federal Reserve Board orchestrated the rescue of Bear
Stearns, it appears that the mortgage crisis has forced the government to
once again shove ideology aside and get into the bailout business.

"If anybody thought we had a pure free-market financial system, they should
think again," said Robert Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business at
the University of Virginia.

The closest historical analogy to the Fannie-Freddie crisis is the rescue of
the Farm Credit and savings and loan systems in the late 1980s, said Bert
Ely, a banking consultant who has been a longtime critic of the mortgage
finance companies.

The savings and loan bailout followed years of high interest rates and risky
lending practices and ultimately cost taxpayers roughly $124 billion, with
the banking industry kicking in another $30 billion, Ely said.

Even if the rescue of Fannie and Freddie ends up costing tens of billions of
dollars, the savings and loan collapse is still likely to remain the
costliest government bailout to date, said Lawrence White, a professor of
economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

"The S.& L. debacle cost upwards of $100 billion, and the economy is more
than twice the size today than it was in the late 1980s," he said. "I don't
think this will turn out to be as serious as that, when over 2,000 banks and
thrifts failed between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s."

Most of those losses were caused by the shortfall between what the
government paid depositors and what it received by selling the troubled real
estate portfolios it acquired after taking over the failed thrifts.

In the Chrysler case, Carter and lawmakers in states with auto plants helped
push through a package of $1.5 billion in loan guarantees for the troubled
carmaker, while also demanding concessions from labor unions and lenders.

While Chrysler is remembered as a major bailout, White says it was minor
compared with the savings and loan crisis or the current effort to shore up
Fannie and Freddie.

The government did not have to give money directly to Chrysler, and it
actually earned a profit on the deal because of stock warrants it received
when the loan guarantees were provided. At the time, Chrysler had a work
force of more than 100,000 people.

Still, Ely makes a distinction between the rescue of Fannie and Freddie and
the thrifts versus the aid packages for Chrysler and other industrial
companies. "They didn't have a federal nexus," he said. "They weren't
creatures of the federal government."

This effort is also different from the others because of the potential
fallout for the broader economy and especially the beleaguered housing
sector if it does not succeed.

Unlike a particular auto company or even a major bank like Continental
Illinois National Bank and Trust, which was bailed out in 1984, "we depend
on Fannie and Freddie for funding almost half of our mortgage market," said
Thomas Stanton, an expert on the two companies who also teaches at Johns
Hopkins University.

"The government," he added, "has many less degrees of freedom in dealing
with these companies than in the earlier bailouts."

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Joe Osama wants to raise YOUR taxes

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:40:17 PDT

Isn't it what Pollytictians do?

One Way to a Lower Power

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Moral, scientific and legal justification for labeling Robert Mueller a terrorist, a terrorist protector, an outrageous liar, an Israeli operative, an idiot and a PIG

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:38:54 PDT

*oink*oink*
"I do not apologize for any aspect of the investigation. It is
erroneous to say there were mistakes." -- Top FBI Pig

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FBI Director Robert Mueller's Anthrax Trail of Tears
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/washington/10anthrax.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref...
Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times

When Perry Mikesell, a microbiologist in Ohio, came under suspicion as
the anthrax attacker, he began drinking heavily, family members say,
and soon died. After a doctor in New York drew the interest of the
F.B.I., his marriage fell apart and his practice suffered, his lawyer
says. And after two Pakistani brothers in Pennsylvania were briefly
under scrutiny, they eventually had to leave the country to find
work.

Steven J. Hatfill, a former Army researcher, was cleared in the case
and will receive $4.6 million from the government.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s path to Bruce E. Ivins, the Army
scientist who committed suicide late last month as federal officials
moved closer to indicting him for the 2001 anthrax letter attacks, was
long and tortuous. Before the investigators settled on Dr. Ivins — and
his defenders still say the F.B.I. hounded an innocent man to death —
they had focused on Steven J. Hatfill, another Army researcher, for
several years.

But along the way, scores of others — terrorists, foreigners, academic
researchers, biowarfare specialists and an elite group of Army
scientists working behind high fences and barbed wire — drew the
interest of the investigators. For some of them the cost was high:
lost jobs, canceled visas, broken marriages, frayed friendships.

At the Army biodefense laboratory in Frederick, Md., where Dr. Ivins
worked, the inquiry became a murder mystery, the cast composed of top
scientists eyeing one another warily over vials of lethal pathogens.

“It was not pleasant,” recalled Jeffrey J. Adamovicz, a former
official there. “There was a general sense of paranoia that they were
going to get somebody no matter what.”

Some critics fault the F.B.I.’s investigation as ignorant, incompetent
and worse. Representative Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat who was
a Princeton University physicist, said that the disclosures linking
Dr. Ivins to the crime notwithstanding, the inquiry was “poorly
handled” and “resulted in a trail of embarrassment and personal
tragedy.”

The bureau’s defenders, though, say it did what was necessary to track
down a dangerous killer.

“You do the best you can, and it’s not always pretty,” said Robert M.
Blitzer, a former director of the F.B.I.’s section on domestic
terrorism. “Here you have a bunch of people dead and several
diminished, and you’re charged with solving the crime. You try not to
step on people’s toes, but sometimes it happens.”

Over seven years, the anthrax investigators conducted nearly 100
searches and more than 9,000 interviews in the most complex criminal
case in bureau history. They hunted an attacker who, in September and
October 2001, had mailed anthrax-laden envelopes that killed 5 people,
sickened 17 others and threw the nation into a panic.

Early on, with more zeal than solid information, agents turned on
three Pakistani-born city officials in Chester, Pa. One, Dr. Irshad
Shaikh, was the health commissioner; his brother, Dr. Masood Shaikh,
ran the lead-abatement program. The third, Asif Kazi, was then an
accountant in the finance department.

Mr. Kazi was sitting in his City Hall office one day in November 2001
when F.B.I. agents burst in and began a barrage of questions.

“It was really scary,” Mr. Kazi recalled in an interview last week.
“It was: ‘What do you think of 9/11? What do know about anthrax?’ ”

Across town, an agent pointed a gun through an open window at Mr.
Kazi’s home while others knocked down the front door as his wife was
cooking in the kitchen. At the Shaikh brothers’ house, agents in
bioprotection suits began hunting for germ-making equipment and carted
away computers.

None of the three men had ever worked with anthrax. But for days, they
were on national television as footage of the searches ran on a video
loop and news announcers wondered aloud if they were the killers.

The men were cleared after it turned out that a disgruntled employee
had sought revenge by calling in a bogus tip. But for all three,
trouble followed. The Shaikhs’ path to citizenship was disrupted,
their visas ran out and both had to find work abroad, Mr. Kazi said.

Mr. Kazi, already a citizen, was searched and interrogated for as long
as two hours every time he traveled back from visiting his brother in
Canada. Only about a year ago was his name removed from a watch list,
allowing him to travel freely.

When Mr. Kazi heard that Dr. Ivins was said to be the culprit in the
attacks, he had only one request.

“We’d just like our names cleared,” Mr. Kazi said. “There’s no problem
for people who know us. But out in the community, someone might still
think, ‘Maybe these guys were guilty.’ ”

In late 2001, agents discovered that the germ used in the attacks was
not foreign in origin but a domestic strain. That prompted the F.B.I.
to focus mainly on scientists inside the United States. Casting a wide
net, the bureau sent a letter to the 30,000 members of the American
Society for Microbiology. “It is very likely,” it said, “that one or
more of you know” the attacker.

The bureau began looking at biodefense insiders like Mr. Mikesell, an
anthrax specialist who had worked in the 1980s and 1990s with Dr.
Ivins at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at
Fort Detrick, in Frederick. He had then joined Battelle, a military
contractor in Columbus, Ohio, that became deeply involved in secret
federal research on biological weapons.

Laura Predrick for The New York Times
Dr. Kenneth M. Berry, an emergency room physician from Wellsville,
N.Y., was a focus of the inquiry in August 2004.

Related
Doubts Persist Among Anthrax Suspect’s Colleagues (August 9, 2008)
Times Topics: AnthraxIn 2002, Mr. Mikesell came under F.B.I. scrutiny,
officials familiar with the case said. He began drinking heavily — a
fifth of hard liquor a day toward the end, a family member said.

“It was a shock that all of a sudden he’s a raging alcoholic,”
recalled the relative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because
of family sensitivities.

By late October 2002, Mr. Mikesell, 54, was dead, his short obituary
in The Columbus Dispatch making no mention of his work with anthrax or
the investigation. “He drank himself to death,” the relative said.

Dr. Hatfill, who worked at Fort Detrick from 1997 to 1999, also drew
the investigators’ attention. He loved covert exploits and padded his
résumé, habits that intrigued F.B.I. agents and, not long after that,
reporters.

In June 2002, officials tipped off television stations that the bureau
would search Dr. Hatfill’s apartment, just outside the gates to Fort
Detrick. Later, F.B.I. agents told the woman he was living with at the
time that he was a murderer and warned that she could be charged as an
accomplice if she failed to tell all. At a teary press conference in
August 2002, Dr. Hatfill protested his innocence.

For at least a year, F.B.I. surveillance teams followed him — and in
one remarkable encounter, a car that was trailing him ran over his
foot. (Dr. Hatfill, not the agent, was given a ticket.)

But there was no arrest, and Dr. Hatfill, who said his career was
ruined, fought back, filing a series of lawsuits, including against
The New York Times. In June, long after the hunt had been narrowed to
Dr. Ivins, the government agreed to pay Dr. Hatfill $4.6 million. On
Friday, the Justice Department issued a statement exonerating him.

Another casualty was Kenneth M. Berry, an emergency room physician
with a strong interest in bioterrorism threats. In August 2004, agents
raided his colonial-style home and his former apartment in Wellsville,
a village in western New York, as well as his parents’ beach house on
the Jersey Shore.

In scenes replayed for days on local television stations, the
authorities cordoned off streets as agents in protective suits emerged
from the dwellings with computers and bags of papers, mail and books.

“He was devastated,” Dr. Berry’s lawyer at the time, Clifford E.
Lazzaro, said in an interview. “They destroyed his marriage and
destroyed him professionally for a time.”

By 2005, thanks to new genetic testing, the F.B.I. had traced the
anthrax in the letters to a single flask at Fort Detrick. Dr. Ivins
had created and controlled the batch of deadly germs. But more than
100 scientists potentially had access to the pathogens.

For decades, the researchers of Fort Detrick had worked to build
defenses against deadly germs used in war, mainly by creating new
vaccines. They considered themselves patriots. In the early days of
the anthrax investigation, the experts — including Dr. Ivins — threw
themselves into helping the F.B.I., working around the clock.

Increasingly, though, the scientists found themselves viewed as
potential culprits in the nation’s worst case of bioterrorism.

Dr. Adamovicz, the former Fort Detrick official, said the
bacteriological division, which eventually had about 100 people
including technicians and assistants, was like a family. But the
growing air of mutual suspicion caused conversations to become
stilted, even as some scientists became increasingly agitated and
isolated from friends and colleagues.

“It became a game to talk in platitudes without mentioning the
specifics,” Dr. Adamovicz said. “You had to.”

A least a dozen members of the division eventually were called to
testify before a grand jury. “We were unclear on whether we were all
suspects or whether there were specific suspects,” Dr. Adamovicz
recalled.

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Doubts Persist Among Anthrax Suspect’s Colleagues (August 9, 2008)
Times Topics: AnthraxThe air of growing distrust ended some
relationships. At one point, Dr. Ivins was advised by his lawyer to
stop speaking with Henry S. Heine, an anthrax colleague. Dr. Ivins was
led to believe that Dr. Heine might have raised questions about him.

“They implied that Hank was pointing the finger at him,” recalled W.
Russell Byrne, a retired Army doctor who once supervised Dr. Ivins.
“They told Bruce that ‘Hank Heine is not your friend.’ Then Bruce’s
lawyer told him not to talk to Hank anymore.”

And even Dr. Ivins, according to court documents, began pointing his
finger at specific colleagues as suspects.

Dr. Heine, who said he considered himself a close friend of Dr. Ivins,
confirmed that Dr. Ivins had been warned to stop speaking with him,
but Dr. Heine said he believed it was part of the F.B.I. strategy to
isolate friends from one another. He added that although he did appear
before the grand jury, he never pointed the finger at Dr. Ivins, and
he still believes that Dr. Ivins was not involved in the anthrax
letter mailings.

“I was Bruce’s big brother,” Dr. Heine said. “I needed to look out for
him. And they needed to separate us.”

Dr. Byrne, who did not know of Dr. Ivins’s history of deep
psychological problems that was disclosed by federal officials last
week, said he could see signs of the growing stress Dr. Ivins was
under as the investigation seemed to focus on him. One day, in March
2008, he showed up for a Sunday church service with a black eye.

“The F.B.I. been roughing you up?” Dr. Byrne recalled joking.

Last month, Dr. Ivins told an Army colleague that his experience of
F.B.I. pressure was similar to what Mr. Mikesell went through.

“Perry drank himself to death,” the colleague recalled Dr. Ivins as
saying some two weeks before he killed himself.

Federal officials say they are confident Dr. Ivins was responsible for
the anthrax attacks, even if his suicide means their case will not be
proved in court. And they reject criticism from lawmakers and others
about the conduct of the investigation and express no regret about
those who were caught up in it.

The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, in his first public
comments since the presentation of the evidence against Dr. Ivins on
Wednesday, said Friday that he was proud of the inquiry.

“I do not apologize for any aspect of the investigation,” he told
reporters. It is erroneous, he added, “to say there were mistakes.”

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