These United States:
Halloween --- http://cagle.com/news/Halloween07/
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Consumer safety? - what's that? - why? - we don't want more funds or actions - the corporations are doing fine - leave us alone ---
- and China - takes a partial step forward with arrests ---
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Our current ethos - James Carroll uses the example of the 'iron fist'/bullying of Giuliani to describe what has happened and really is today's United States ---
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Illegal - what part of 'illegal' don't you understand - descriptive? - racist? - everyone is illegal in some way - I thought this gave a somewhat truthful perspective - can we get to solving the problem? ---
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Supply-side control? - in drugs we expect the supplier to decrease the supply - in guns? - welll that's different - the supplier is us - one might think that rather than give Mexico $500 million it would be better to keep guns from flowing across the border - Oh wait! - the people paying the $500 mil (us) are different than the ones making money on the guns ---
-- and --- http://cartoonbox.slate.com/static/106.html
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Patriotism - Blackwater et.al. ---
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Rumsfield on the run - another Pinochet possibility? - Old Europe ? - and his legacy of imprisoned/abused Iraqi children ---
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MSM:
In bed with the right wing - Krugman ---
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Journalism discontents - Blumenthal - Lippman ---
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Oct 27 - Military lawyer becomes a whistle blower - GITMO process is a kangaroo court system - not even as good as a Stalinist show trial - it's all done in secret ---
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Biofuels:
Producing biofuels a crime against humanity? ---
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Contributions:
From Kathy - the secret Iran negotiations - some of this has come out before about early initiatives by Iran - two Administration insiders discuss - more detail but long - is war with Iran certain? - unknowable with this Administration --- http://www.esquire.com/print-this/iranbriefing1107
Jim's Food for Thought --- http://raymofda.typepad.com/contextperception/food_for_thought/index.html
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40s/50s - had frost - fall is here but strangely many trees still green - sunny - really nice
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