Comments on: Cheney Enrages Iraqis with Demands for New Laws

By: Tony S.

Tony S. — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:21:21 +0000

I think the Iranians are correct when they say that this pact will enslave the Iraqi people. Basically what Cheney wants is to bring slavery back in Iraq and rub it in their faces, so they have to sign the documents to agree to it.

By: Edwin Pell

Edwin Pell — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:33:25 +0000

Hi Lloyd I guess one of my politic position has made you angry but I do not know which one. Can you tell me?

By: Lloyd Rowsey

Lloyd Rowsey — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:33:03 +0000

Edwin, you’re an idiot or a provocateur. Get some rest.

By: Edwin Pell

Edwin Pell — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:03:45 +0000

Don, I thought the PTB were killing off the natives in the Canadian Northwest and were going to be selling the massive amounts of water from there at a huge profit to the US Southwest. Is that on schedule? If not maybe they need more Blackwater guys.

By: Edwin Pell

Edwin Pell — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:59:42 +0000

Roger if you had written your post in the US you would be under arrest. It is in violation of several US laws. Roger the US federal government serves the interests of the owning class not the people. Iraq has oil, Afghanistan has the SoCal (Southern California Petroleum Corporation) pipeline, and Iran has oil and gas. These people are ruthless killers they have no interest in what you say nor what anyone else in Iraq, US, EU, Russia, China has to say. The only way Iran will escape is if a UN member state lives up to the UN charter and defends a fellow nation under attack by a rouge state. There are only two strong enough Russia and China. One hopes they have made credible statements of support for Iran privately and war can be avoided. But the folks in power are sick with their lust for power they may do the irrational. May G-d save us all.

By: Edwin Pell

Edwin Pell — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:59:24 +0000

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:37:01 +0000

PERRIS, Calif. — As California faces one of its worst droughts in two decades, building projects are being curtailed for the first time under state law by the inability of developers to find long-term water supplies.
Water authorities and other government agencies scattered throughout the state, including here in sprawling Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, have begun denying, delaying or challenging authorization for dozens of housing tracts and other developments under a state law that requires a 20-year water supply as a condition for building.
California officials suggested that the actions were only the beginning, and they worry about the impact on a state that has grown into an economic powerhouse over the last several decades.
The state law was enacted in 2001, but until statewide water shortages, it had not been invoked to hold up projects.
While previous droughts and supply problems have led to severe water cutbacks and rationing, water officials said the outright refusal to sign off on projects over water scarcity had until now been virtually unheard of on a statewide scale.
“Businesses are telling us that they can’t get things done because of water,” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said in a telephone interview.
On Wednesday, Mr. Schwarzenegger declared an official statewide drought, the first such designation since 1991. As the governor was making his drought announcement, the Eastern Municipal Water District in Riverside County — one of the fastest-growing counties in the state in recent years — gave a provisional nod to nine projects that it had held up for months because of water concerns. The approval came with the caveat that the water district could revisit its decision, and only after adjustments had been made to the plans to reduce water demand.
“The statement that we’re making is that this isn’t business as usual,” said Randy A. Record, a water district board member, at the meeting here in Perris. NEW York Times

We need to start making plans for what we can’t stop to late. There is still time and easy has nothing to do with it.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:26:28 +0000

Carbon Tax and 100% Dividend
1. Tax Large & Growing (but get it in place!)
- tap efficiency potential & life style choices
2. Entire Tax Returned
- equal monthly deposits in bank accounts
3. Limited Government Role
- keep hands off money!
- eliminate fossil subsidies
- support technology development (no Manhattan projects!)
- change profit rules and motivation for utilities
- watch U.S. modernize & emissions fall!!!! James Hansen

Let’s look at this a little more closely. Tap efficiency potential & life style choices. To make a long story short you can’t always’ get what you want but if you try sometime you might find you get what you need. Support technology development (no Manhattan projects!) Solar thermal, wind, electric cars and remember those life style changes. To make those changes is not easy hard work and imagination thinking is required. How about the weather here in the United States the last month. Those temperatures right now on the East coast a tad bit hot. We watched the dark side hard at work last week on the climate change bill that got shelved. Now we see this security pack as the dark side is strong and moving forward or a better way to put it deeper into the rabbit hole. To watch the Senate last week was Like watching children at play.

By: Lloyd Rowsey

Lloyd Rowsey — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:16:01 +0000

Godalmighty

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:15:44 +0000

As a westerner whose country has been subjected to military usurpation by a foreign power twice in the same century this is -deeply- offensive.

The US has no right whatsoever to force the Iraqi people to the kind of colonial slavery it thinks it is entitled to.

As an Iraqi I would have all my people go to every American they can see and demand again and again and again and again ad infinitum ad nauseam to leave the country now, this very moment.

Any oil executive who came to claim his rights to the natural resources of my country I would have people lining up to physically kick him out of the country, from where he was standing at the time to the border of the country. Physically kick him in the buttocks and continue doing this in relay form. Until they were out of the country and the very idea of ever returning was soundly removed from them.

The US purports to promote freedom, liberty and democracy until they show their real face in the way they want to foist cruel contracts and covenants on people who never asked for them to be there.

It is unconscionable. And more so that the American Congress allows this breathtaking crime against humanity to persist unopposed [save for the very few like congressman Kucinich, Paul and others].

This is simply outrageous.

I have long been a great fan of the US but right now I am disgusted to the core by them.

By: Edwin Pell

Edwin Pell — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:00:53 +0000

I do not understand it used to be the case if a puppet leader did not do everything the US wanted the CIA killed them and tried again. What’s wrong with the CIA?

By: John Hatch

John Hatch — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:24:04 +0000

The Iraqis would be insane to agree to such a ‘treaty’ whatever the pressure. What’s more, it’s unlikely that any Iraqi ‘leader’ would long survive the signing of such an a suicidal pact. America is demanding Iraqi complicity in its own slavery. Cheney is truly demented if he thinks they’re that stupid, or that they’ll sign a seperate agreement that would give away up to 80% of their oil. America is like a rapist who demands his victim sign a consent form. Evil!

By: sk

sk — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:48:24 +0000

Occupied life under foreign power is no walk in the park. Here’s a documentary (in French, but compiled by a master director with great editing) that shows how a proud European nation–of a type most Americans can empathize with, as opposed to benighted nations in the global South–made the best out of a bad situation (with some even “enjoying obscene happiness”).

By: bozhidar balkas

bozhidar balkas — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:42:25 +0000

i remember writing a letter to editors ca 15 yrs ago positing the question, Why US doesn’t go fascist? i thought at the time that if the need arises, US’ ruling class can easily resort to fascism and if amers would refuse to fight for the rich people, these could easily hire aliens to do the fighting and at much less cost.
nat., the letter wasn’t published nor others dealing w. the same issues.
now that we have zionism/americanism, i’m nostalgic for paleo-fascism.
the neo-fascism appears much worse than the old one; may be worse than nazism. at least nazis have picked on just a few peoples; the neo-fascist r picking even on amers.
i am not stunned by the probability that the plutocrats may enslave all workers. for all time? who knows?! danke/thanx/spasibo