In order to get the US to do their bidding. Gee whiz, I wonder if that couldn't possibly be happening with Iran?

Our dear, beloved ally, Israel, has been positively apoplectic trying to get its golem, the US, to stomp on Iran's fledging nuclear POWER program (3% enrichment versus 97% enrichment for nuclear weapons), which, the last I checked, was 100% legal according to the treaty signed by, among others, the USA and Iran.

The willful mistranslation of Ahmadinejad's "page of history" remark is a lie that's been repeated over and over again in the western media. Is that any accident?

Since the US has so much ink and pixels to demonize Ahmadinejad for his never-said-it remark, how about a little love for the Israel spy rings which remain forbidden to report on, the ones operating inside the US? There are so many fascinating tales which remain off-limits and suppressed involving the behavior of Israel inside the US that it seems like a shame to completely ignore them, year after year after year.

The Iranian threat. Has Iran co-opted US foreign policy to its own ends? Has Iran somehow eased its way into the American consciousness as some kind of "sister" nation? A relationship beyond questioning or even examination?

Is that coffee I smell?

You can get it to pass? I feel more sad than angry at this point.

Did the banks ever come clean about just how much worthless/overvalued paper they're holding..?

Then I'd bet what's left of my retirement fund that she's wearing an earpiece.

She wears her hair up for two months and then tonight it's down?

And he won't be until late January of 2009.

One could suggest that Bush43 is cooling his heels until the election so that he doesn't do more to scuttle McSame's bid -- after that? Anyone's guess.

How Senator Feinstein (on YouTube) could cheerfully announce that she was voting yes immediately after explaining that out of 93,000 calls on the matter to her offices that 85,000 of those calls wanted her to vote it down.

What representative democracy? What am I left with as far as recourse? Obviously 85,000 calls to Senator Feinstein wasn't enough to sway her.

Is a bad fix better than no fix at all? No, it is not, it's business as usual, one more little bindle of black tar for the suits.

I think I'll go read up on how well the Hoover bank bail out worked back in the day. That led to the bankruptcy of the US Treasury, did it not? A piece of history which doesn't seem to be mentioned much these days.

http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham09272008.html

Skype, huh? Check out that article on Verint Inc. (formerly Comverse Infosys), and Amdocs Ltd.

Oh, wait... is this a "conspiracy theory"? Then it cannot possibly be worth your time. Sorry.

More of the same. Would you like the McSame flavor or our dynamic new Osama flavor? They're essentially the same thing.

What was that about $700 billion for dictators and tyrants? Did he deliver that line with a straight face?

So the Senate, our Millionaire's Club, passes a bail out bill to placate overseas holders of our worthless dollars. It doesn't solve anything. The bail out bill doesn't address the root of the problem.

One can only hope that the House will say HELL NO when asked.

By Feinstein's own accounting, she received 93K calls and 85K were AGAINST the bailout. That's 93%. So how did she vote?

She obeyed her masters.

Where do I sign up for the revolution? Congress represents no one I know.

> Chinese explorers landed on American shores in 1421.

Pale ink: Two ancient records of Chinese exploration in America

ISBN 1437530818

This book along with the physical evidence of square stone Chinese anchors found between California and Catalina Island make me wonder.

There is always more to the picture than meets the eye.

>And let’s not forget the fact that this bill does NOTHING to address the underlying problems with the derivatives market, the failure of ratings agencies, the lax oversight environment over reliance on leverage (debt) etc etc etc. and, by injecting yet more good money after bad will drive up inflation.

Slam and dunk.

Rebecca is cute. Is she straight? Is she single?

Up from $1.72 a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't dream of spending money on a latte. The splurge for McD's coffee leaves me with enough guilt.

It's not a question of credit or liquidity but of trust. There's a $51 TRILLION unregulated shadow banking system out there and suddenly no one trusts anyone else -- everyone's probably holding paper that's wildly overvalued if not 100% worthless. When the music stops, who gets to the chairs first?

That's the real game here.

Remember than the $700 Billion USD figure was *AT ANY GIVEN TIME* so look upon it as being a first installment. When you tap a vein this rich you want to milk it for a while.

Let it fail. The whole house of cards. Let's start over on level ground without the Federal Reserve or any other form of central bank.

Remember that the "bailout" money is insignificant compared to the real game, the $50 TRILLION shadow banking system which is virtually unregulated.

Which he used to bail out AIG?

One blank check per Treasury Secretary.

FAILED to bring US troops home from Iraq?

FAILED to impeach Bush43?

BUT THEY CAN PASS A CORPORATE BAILOUT BILL?!

Would that not GUARANTEE electoral defeat in November?

I mean that literally, TAR AND FEATHER the executives who gambled and lost. Too big to fail? Too big to exist, then. Kind of reminds me of the Titanic.

Golden parachute? Sorry, we need to confiscate that for NATIONAL SECURITY reasons. We do, however, have this lovely hot tar and this mountain of feathers right here...

The next time you see Nancy Pelosi or George Bush (Bush the Lesser) on television, visualize them covered with hot tar and chicken feathers, running for their lives pursued by the angriest crowd anyone has ever seen.

Fix that image in your mind.