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* Señora Presidente:Tiene 92 días para cumplir - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/2fd20e78eee5d775
* Israel: Are We Done Killing Children, Yet? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/687f5bce589d3831
* From the Front: Amnesty Gives Immigrants TWO VOTES - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/470b31e3185923b6
* Moussaoui is a hero that exercised his 5th amendment right. He should not
even be on trial in that kangaroo court! - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/be9036f2f5a59f35
* The game played by big boys...in Asia. - 2 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/3873fe4998efd80d
* 500,000 immigration advocates march in Los Angelos - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/a7922568c71505bc
* Engraved On America's Tombstone? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c7d319e169c99e3e
* Toyota is set to become the world's No 1 auto maker in terms of vehicles
produced, probably by the end of the year in the USA. - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c2862b24b3d294c3
* Smug Alert - San Francisco disappears up its own asshole... - 1 messages, 1
author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/2fdfb4b42f5ccc02
* Ain't america grand? - Idiot in hospital after walking into moose - 1
messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/d13a8a878dd9ab27
* Pam Anderson joins seal hunt outcry - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/fe3c200f081e00c6
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TOPIC: Señora Presidente:Tiene 92 días para cumplir
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/2fd20e78eee5d775
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Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 12:30 am
From: "PM"
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Compromiso electoral de la Presidente Michelet
Señora Presidente:
Tiene 92 días para cumplir
Cuenta regresiva para el "Plan 100 días" de la Presidente Michelle Bachelet
La presidente, Michelle Bachelet, se comprometió durante su campaña
electoral a un plan de logros que debe cumplirse en sus primeros 100 días de
mandato. Estos ya comenzaron el 11 de marzo (2006) al asumir su alta
investidura. El plan comprende 11 materias y 36 puntos.
Una red de informacion nacional de Chileblog
monitoreará el cumplimiento de dicho plan e informará de sus avances,
inconvenientes, cumplimientos e incumplimientos. Si usted quiere adherir a
esta red de Control de la Democracia envíenos sus datos pulsando aquí y le
designaremos corresponsal ad honorem en su comuna o ciudad. Es una forma de
participación activa en el desarrollo del país. Sólo se pide que nos narre
qué está ocurriendo en el entorno donde vive, que hacen sus autoridades
gubernamentales, parlamentarias y comunales, los partidos políticos y su
actividad local, las organizaciones de trabajadores y de empresarios, con
buena voluntad, veracidad, respeto hacia la autoridad, las personas y las
instituiciones.
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El Plan 100 días de la
Presidente electa
La presidente electa, Michelle Bachelet, se autoimpuso durante su campaña
electoral un plan de logros que debe cumplirse en sus primeros 100 días de
mandato que comienzaron este 11 de marzo (2006) cuando asumió ante el
Congreso Nacional su alta investidura. El plan comprende 11 materias y 36
puntos.
A continuación se entrega dicho Plan 100 días dado a conocer por su Comando
durante la campaña y que el país espera confiadamente que se cumpla.
***** Plan 100 días *****
Empleo
1. Aumentaremos hasta 25 años la edad para calificar al programa de
bonificación al contrato de aprendizaje, y aumentaremos el subsidio a un 50
por ciento de un salario mínimo.
2. Enviaremos un proyecto de ley que establezca que el Estado pagará parte
de las cotizaciones previsionales de los jóvenes de bajos ingresos que
tengan un contrato formal de trabajo.
3. Permitiremos los contratos laborales por hora para los jóvenes, de modo
que todo joven que estudia pueda también trabajar.
Seguridad social
4. Reajustaremos las pensiones más bajas con los 300 millones de libre
disponibilidad contemplados en el presupuesto, beneficiando a un millón de
pensionados.
5. Estableceremos el acceso automático de los adultos mayores a la Pensión
Asistencial. Esta pensión será un derecho: no más listas de espera.
6. Enviaremos al Congreso un proyecto de Ley para que las asignaciones
familiares y los subsidios únicos familiares sean pagados a la madre.
Asimismo, crearemos subsidios para el cuidado de discapacitados y adultos
mayores postrados, que se pagarán a quienes estén a cargo de su cuidado.
Educación
7. Entregaremos un subsidio que financie la atención preescolar para niños
entre 0 y 3 años de hogares pertenecientes al 40 por ciento más pobre de la
población.
8. Crearemos 20 mil nuevos cupos en pre-kinder y habilitaremos 800 nuevas
salas cunas en todo Chile, beneficiando a 20 mil niños y niñas.
9. Daremos suma urgencia al proyecto de ley de subvención diferenciada,
duplicando el valor de la subvención. Con ello beneficiaremos a más de 400
mil niñas y niños entre prekinder y cuarto básico.
10. Aumentaremos de 110 mil a 160 el número de jóvenes beneficiados por
créditos y becas para la educación superior. Así aseguraremos el 100 por
ciento del financiamiento del arancel para el 60 por ciento más pobre de los
estudiantes.
11. Consolidaremos los distintos programas de becas universitarias en un
sistema nacional de becas que contemple tanto beca de arancel como también
beca para mantención y alimentación.
12. Ofreceremos a los estudiantes la oportunidad de pagar parcial o
totalmente su crédito a través del servicio al país en regiones.
Mujer
13. Dictaremos un Código de Buenas Prácticas Laborales y No Discriminación
para el Sector Público, que podrá ser adoptado voluntariamente por las
empresas privadas. No queremos más mujeres discriminadas en el mundo
laboral, así como ningún otro chileno.
14. Enviaré un proyecto de ley para otorgar derecho de sala cuna a los hijos
de toda madre trabajadora.
Salud
15. Crearemos 60 Centros Comunitarios de Atención Familiar en todo Chile,
dando preferencia a las localidades con mayores aumentos de los
requerimientos de atención.
16. Aumentaremos a 40 las patologías cubiertas por el Plan Auge.
17. Garantizaremos la gratuidad en la atención en los hospitales a todos los
mayores de 60 años.
Seguridad ciudadana
18. Crearemos un Ministerio de Seguridad Pública, que coordine todas las
agencias del Estado y todas las políticas de prevención y control del
delito.
19. Aumentaremos la dotación de Carabineros en 1.500 efectivos por año en la
calle, asignándolos en aquellas comunas donde más se les necesita.
20. Crearemos un subsidio en que el Estado finacie hasta el 50 por ciento
del salario mínimo por un año, para estimular la contratación de jóvenes en
riesgo social.
Emprendimiento y competitividad
21. Lanzaremos un plan de apoyo a los emprendedores que incluya una
ventanilla única de trámites, capacitación digital, asesoría contable,
ejecutivo de cuenta personalizado en la iniciación de actividades, y
facilidades para acceder al financiamiento.
22. Enviaremos al Congreso el plan de simplificación tributaria para las
PYMES contemplado en el Programa de Michelle Bachelet.
23. Garantizaremos que el Estado le pague a sus proveedores en 30 días como
máximo.
24. Enviaremos al Congreso un proyecto de ley que aumente las penas por
delitos económicos y que duplique los recursos para la fiscalización de
estos delitos.
25. Crearemos un fondo para que los adultos mayores de 40 años que pierden
su trabajo puedan reconvertirse laboralmente, ya sea estudiando para otro
oficio o iniciando una pequeña empresa.
Chile se prepara para la globalización
26. Exigiremos que todos los que se preparan para ser profesores de inglés
cursen un semestre de su carrera en un país de habla inglesa, con
financiamiento estatal.
27. Crearemos un sistema de intercambio para que más profesores de países de
habla inglesa vengan a Chile a ejercer la docencia.
28. Aplicaremos un programa para que los mil mejores egresados de cada año
de las universidades chilenas cursen doctorados en las mejores universidades
del mundo.
Medio Ambiente y Ciudad
29. Nombraremos por primera vez en la historia de Chile un Ministro o
Ministra del Medio Ambiente.
30. Iniciaremos un amplio programa de intervención urbana, identificando 200
barrios a mejorar en todo Chile. Se beneficiarán barrios de Santiago como El
Volcán (Puente Alto), Santa Adriana (La Florida) o la Villa Portales (Quinta
Normal); de Concepción barrios como Boca Sur (Gran Concepción) o Pedro de
Valdivia Bajo (Gran Concepción); y de Valparaíso barrios como Placilla o
Rodelillo (Valparaíso).
Regiones
31. Implementaremos en Valparaíso el "Plan Más Trabajo" y aplicaremos
planes equivalentes en Talcahuano y San Antonio, con el fin apoyar su
transición productiva.
32. Crearemos nuevas Agencias de Desarrollo Regional en cada región, con
oficinas provinciales.
Servicio militar
33. Comenzaremos la transición hacia un cuerpo armado profesional y
voluntario, aumentando los soldados profesionales a 2 mil y a mil las
voluntarias mujeres.
34. Crearemos un programa de Servicio Ciudadano como alternativa al servicio
militar obligatorio. Este programa generará un espacio de interacción de
jóvenes de distinto origen social y aporte servicios sociales de alto
impacto a la comunidad.
35. Reemplazaremos el actual sistema binominal por un sistema electoral que
garantice competitividad, gobernabilidad y representatividad.
36. Aplicaremos un sistema de registro electoral automático para ciudadanos
y ciudadanas mayores de 18 años.
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THE MOST DANGEROUS ENNEMY OF HUMANITY :
ARE NOT THE NUCLEAR OR MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS,
BUT STUPIDITY, FOR WHICH EVERY MINUTE... MANY HUMANS GET HURT.
¿SE LIBERARAN ALGUN DIA DELA ESTUPIDEZ?
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CUBA HOY, LA REALIDAD SIN PALABRAS:
http://www.netforcuba.org/InfoCuba-EN/CubainPictures/CubainPictures.htm
HOSPITALES EN CUBA:
http://www.netforcubaenespanol.org/Enfoque/0035-SaludPublica-Cuba.htm
Try living in a country controlled by a mad old man that is stuck in the
cold war:
www.cubaverdad.net
http://galeon.hispavista.com/cienfuegoscuba/Fotos_2005.htm
http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/
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TOPIC: Israel: Are We Done Killing Children, Yet?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/687f5bce589d3831
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Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 3:46 pm
From: isaac_the_blind
NY.Transfer.News@blythe.org wrote:
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> Israel: Are We Done Killing Children, Yet?
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> Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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> CounterPunch - Mar 27, 2006
> http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html
>
> The Shooting of Little Akaber
>
> Are We Done Killing Children, Yet?
>
> By GIDEON LEVY
>
> A bullet in the head from a distance of a few meters, fired suddenly and
> without warning shots aimed at the wheels, which the Israel Defense Forces
> claims there were. This is the way undercover soldiers from the Border
> Police killed Akaber Zaid, an eight-and-a-half year-old, who was on her way
> to the doctor, according to her uncle, who was with her and was also
> wounded.
>
> Little Akaber was going to the doctor and he did indeed see her, but there
> was no longer a reason for him to do so. She had been on the way to have him
> remove stitches from her chin, but instead arrived dead at the same doctor's
> office, with her head smashed and her skull gaping.
>
> Soldiers from the Border Police's undercover unit, known by the Hebrew
> acronym Yamas, shot at her uncle's taxi at close range as he was parking the
> vehicle next to the doctor's office. All the soldiers' claims, as presented
> to the media by the IDF, to the effect that they had shot at the taxi's
> wheels in accordance with the "regulations for arresting a suspect," were
> nothing but lies, says the girl's uncle, who was sitting next to her.
>
> The car was sprayed from the right and from behind with bullets, which
> entered through its windows. The shots were fired from just a few meters
> away, the uncle stresses, in the light of a street lamp.
>
> We saw the taxi this week: All its wheels are intact. However, those who
> carried out the "investigations" on behalf of the IDF and the Border Police
> did not even bother to examine the vehicle, or to question the man who had
> driven it. He was also wounded and is hospitalized.
>
> We also took testimony from him and could not find a single fact on the
> ground that contradicts what he reports: The undercover soldiers shot at the
> girl from two directions, from nearby and, the uncle says, without warning.
> No soldier with a gun, certainly not an expert sharpshooter from the Yamas,
> would aim at close range at wheels and hit someone in the head instead.
>
> Down the road, hundreds of meters from the shooting, are the remaining signs
> of the destruction wreaked by the Border Police. Not one wanted man was
> detained, but a five-story apartment block was badly damaged and there are
> wrecks of cars that were completely crushed, one after the other, still
> standing in the street.
>
> Why did the undercover soldiers shoot at a young girl? How could they dare
> claim they aimed at the wheels? Why did they have to shoot at innocent
> people in a taxi in the first place? Why did they wreak such havoc? Why did
> they crush vehicles that were the last source of income for their owners?
> What is the difference between this action on the soldiers' part and a
> terrorist attack? And why are these questions not being asked?
>
> The father did not accompany his daughter to Dr. Samara. He said he could
> not bear to see the doctor removing the stitches from her little chin.
> Akaber was a second-grade pupil from the village of Al-Yamoun, northwest of
> Jenin. In her picture from kindergarten, she can be seen wearing a square
> black graduation cap, like those worn by university graduates and people
> receiving doctorates. That is the custom in the Al-Yamoun kindergarten: The
> children who excel are photographed with the special hat. That is how she
> will remain in the collective consciousness of that town, whose sons once
> worked in Israel.
>
> Akaber is not the first girl they are burying. How many children were killed
> in Al-Yamoun in the past few years? The school principal, who came to pay
> his condolences to the family, begins to list them, one by one, but stops
> suddenly and asks: "Why should I count them? Are we finished having our
> children killed?"
>
> The father enters the mourners' room in the local council building, his eyes
> red with crying. Abdel Rahman Zaid, 31, the father of six, drives a
> commercial van that travels in the West Bank, when possible. About three
> weeks ago, Akaber fell on the stairs in her house and hurt her chin. Last
> Friday it was time to remove the stitches.
>
> When Abdel Rahman returned from work, he asked his brother Kamal--a
> 27-year-old taxi driver, whom he calls Hamoudi--to go with Akaber to the
> doctor's house on the hill, where he has his office. It was Friday night,
> the last night of her life. His brother took the girl and she sat beside him
> in the passenger seat. The father stresses that the taxi's windows were
> transparent; there were no curtains covering them or hiding the passengers.
> Any soldier could see the occupants, any soldier from the Yamas could see
> that there was a small girl with a braid sitting there.
>
> The two left for the doctor's and soon reached his street. From his bed in
> the government hospital in Jenin, his wounded hand in a bandage, Kamal
> relates that after parking, he suddenly noticed some soldiers to the right
> of the car. It is a narrow road and they were standing barely a few meters
> away. He says they began firing immediately, from the right and from behind.
> Only after that did he hear shouting in Hebrew, which he does not speak.
> Little Akaber was already lying on the seat with her head smashed.
>
> Kamal lifted her up in his arms; the soldiers instructed him to leave her on
> the road. Thus, they remained on the road--the dead girl and her wounded
> uncle.
>
> The Yamas soldiers ordered him to stand, to lift up his shirt and then to
> sit back down. They continued to shoot in the air, Kamal says. A neighbor
> took the girl to the doctor who was expecting her. From there she was taken
> to the hospital in Jenin where her death was confirmed.
>
> The uncle's arm was bandaged on the spot and he was taken by military Jeep
> for interrogation. He says the soldiers beat him. There was a dog in the
> vehicle, who sniffed him, and a soldier called Raslan who, he says, hit him
> in the head when he spoke Arabic. Kamal took three bullets in the arm and
> leg. He says seven bullets hit the girl, three of them in her head.
>
> The yellow Renault taxi tells the story: Its wheels are intact, but its body
> is riddled with bullet holes. The back window is shattered, and there are
> bullet holes in the back head rest and in its sides. There are blood stains
> everywhere, the blood of the dead girl and her wounded uncle. All this time,
> they hid her death from her father. Abdel Rahman had heard the shots--the
> doctor's office is not far from their house--but he never thought of his
> daughter somehow, only of his brother. He went to the doctor's office and
> there they told him that Akaber had been wounded. The doctor injected him
> with a sedative, and he says he did not wake up until morning. Only when he
> awoke and went home, at about 5 A.M., did his other brother break the bad
> news. His wife already knew: She heard the news on an Arabic-language TV
> station.
>
> Through his tears, the father wants to tell us something: The girl's mother,
> Ikram, was born in Israel. Akaber was also Israeli. She was born in a
> Nazareth hospital and has an Israeli birth certificate. She was buried in
> the Al-Yamoun cemetery on Saturday morning.
>
> The IDF Spokesman: "On March 17, while a special forces unit of the Border
> Police was engaged in arresting wanted men in the village of Al-Yamoun,
> northwest of Jenin, the unit surrounded an area in which there was a
> suspicion that wanted men were hiding. During the operation, the force saw a
> taxi that seemed suspicious approaching the area and began the procedure of
> arresting a suspect. When it failed to heed the soldiers' calls, they opened
> fire in the direction of the taxi."
>
> Does anyone think the uncle would not have heeded the calls to stop if
> indeed the soldiers had called out? The man was taking his little niece to
> the doctor. The army announced merely that "the IDF regrets harming the
> Palestinian girl and is conducting a comprehensive examination of the
> circumstances of the event."
>
> The scene of the destruction: A Palestinian bulldozer removed the wreckage
> next to the Zaid family's house on Sunday. A five-story building, which the
> soldiers suspected was housing wanted men, has been partially destroyed. The
> family members are now covering the huge holes in it with gray bricks, and
> its elegant columns are in danger of collapsing. In the yard below are the
> other wrecked cars: a yellow Mercedes taxi, a white Subaru, and another few
> pieces of metal that were once cars.
>
> Mohammed Zaid, who owns one of the apartments, emerges from the debris:
> "This is the Jewish army--this is the bad Jewish army," shouts his uncle who
> is with him. Mohammed recalls that at about seven on Friday night, he saw
> another group of soldiers outside his grocery shop. They demanded that he
> tell all the residents to leave the building.
>
> There are five large families--families of a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer,
> a teacher--living in the five stories. All the tenants went out into the
> street and had to wait there until morning--dozens of children, women and
> men--until the soldiers finished their work.
>
> Mohammed says that the women and children acted as a barrier between the
> area where people were shooting at the soldiers, from one house, and the
> area where the Border Police was returning fire. When the building had been
> evacuated, they sent Mohammed to turn the lights on in all the rooms to see
> if someone was still there.
>
> An IDF bulldozer was ready to tear the structure down. Mohammed says he
> suggested the soldiers accompany him to see that no one was left inside, but
> they shut him up, saying, "We know what work we have to do."
>
> Around midnight, the bulldozer started tearing things down. The house across
> the street was also damaged.
>
> Mohammed says he asked an officer: "Does Israeli law permit you to do this?"
> The officer said, according to Mohammed: "Go and complain at the UN."
>
> Mohammed's brother, a dentist, whose clinic was completely destroyed, tried
> to tell an officer that he was a doctor "for humans," and the officer
> replied: "Shut up."
>
> Mohammed was taken for interrogation at the Salem facility and was released
> only on Saturday at noon. He says he told his interrogator: "On TV, you say
> you are a democracy." The interrogator replied: "Democracy is only for the
> TV."
>
> Mohammed, a teacher, says: "I always tell my pupils that we like peace. What
> will I tell them now? That this is what peace looks like?"
>
> We go to the top of the hill where Akaber was killed. A sign points the way
> to Dr. Samara's clinic. Someone has placed a row of little stones on the
> road where the taxi stood, to mark where the little body was. The
> bloodstains have not yet been wiped away.
>
> From an old elections poster, Yasser Arafat's picture looks down on this
> makeshift memorial to Akaber.
>
> [Gideon Levy writes for Ha'aretz.]
>
why should Israelis care ? She was only a shicksa.
Isaac.
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TOPIC: From the Front: Amnesty Gives Immigrants TWO VOTES
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/470b31e3185923b6
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 29 2006 11:50 pm
From: Just another American
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605908/posts
US legal citizens will be disenfranchised because those whom receive
amnesty will end up with twice the voting power as legal citizens.
Mexican nationals will be able to vote for US president, and as dual
citizens also participate in Mexican Elections. There is no provision
for the illegal immigrant to renounce citizenship in any of these
uninvited guest amnesty programs.
For all realistic purposes, the Mexican government is governing in the
southwest but US citizens have no voice in these affairs. For example,
consular cards issued by Mexico are valid IDs, and they lobby to
create laws such as amnesty, and other social programs. They are
working with trucking and ports, building a new port in Mexico to
service the US. The Mexican government is making decisions effecting
everyday life here in US proper, and their role will only increase,
Yet, even with the effects of Mexican government touching every legal
US citizen, we are not eligible to participate in Mexican elections.
In this future country without borders there is no plan for us to be
represented equally, yet legal citizens will be paying most of the
taxes for all the social services and new infrastructure that will be
required.
With this scenario it really wont matter if the GOP loses or gains
votes, the two party system and your vote will be irrelevant.
20 posted on 03/29/2006 8:54:12 PM PST by seastay
--
"Screw the Republicans. Vote Democratic in the U.S. House and tell the
Democrats to impeach Bush. Republicans have proven that when they
control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency that they will drive
the country over the cliff with support for illegal immigration and
uncontrolled spending."
"I prefer to have President Cheney with a chastened Republican minority
in the House, that remembers WHY they got the boot."
- mini-14
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605129/posts
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TOPIC: Moussaoui is a hero that exercised his 5th amendment right. He should
not even be on trial in that kangaroo court!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/be9036f2f5a59f35
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 29 2006 9:51 pm
From: "Möbius Pretzel"
ken_andor_kathy@yahoo.com wrote:
> Moussoui is a hero!
Maybe if he crashed a plane into the Whitehouse...
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TOPIC: The game played by big boys...in Asia.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/3873fe4998efd80d
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 6:04 pm
From: "Feelers"
that's bush's agenda. resources are wealth and all it needs is extract them.
the americans are in iraq cos of her resources but being unable to steal her
oil is another thing. the heroic iraqi resistance is keeping america from
stealing their oil.
so afghanistan is rich in resources but also vital geographical location for
the neocons in the plan to conquer the world..the ultimate prize - CHINA.
"Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:442af984@news.starhub.net.sg...
> Yes. Afghanistan may have abundant natural
> resources.
> But untapped resources are NOT wealth. Frank
> Arthur was right when he claimed that Afghanistan
> is poor.
> In war torn Afghanistan, any resources will remain
> a promise...it is like resources on the moon.
> Look at Iraq,...the US troops are unable to keep
> the oil flowing from the Iraqi oil fields...the pipe lines
> were constantly bombed and production has halved.
>
> However, Bush has strong reasons to invade Afghanistan...
> for the poppy land and for the containment of China.
>
> Bad boy.
>
>
> "Feelers" <enjoylife488@hot.com> wrote in message
> news:1143615746.332909@ftpsrv1...
>> "Afghanistan resources include untold wealth
>> War stymies search for copper, jewels
>>
>> By PAUL BASKEN
>> Bloomberg Business News
>>
>> "WASHINGTON -- The first time geologist John Shroder saw the captured
>> Soviet documents in 1985, he concluded that their description of
>> Afghanistan's copper wealth was implausible.
>>
>> "A conversation three years later with a Soviet Foreign Ministry official
>> persuaded him otherwise. The papers, taken by Islamic fighters from a
>> military convoy during the Soviet occupation, indicated that deposits of
>> the metal beneath war-ravaged Afghanistan might rival those of Chile, the
>> biggest producer.
>>
>> "Not only copper lies under the feet of Afghans, said Shroder, a geology
>> professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who has studied the
>> country for three decades. Afghanistan's natural riches, some still being
>> tallied, also include natural gas, coal, emeralds and other gemstones. "
>>
>>
>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/terror/front/1183615.html
>>
>>
>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:442a2994$3@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>>
>>> "Frank Arthur" <Art@Arthurian.com> wrote in message
>>> news:0RbWf.378$l6.306@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>>>>
>>>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:4428dc01@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>>>> Yes. Bush's dream of world dominations ....so far
>>>>
>>>> Do you think the USA wants to inherit Afghan poverty?
>>>
>>> Nope. Afghanistan has no wealth.
>>>
>>> Afghanistan is located in the south west
>>> flank of China. It is a vital pawn in the strategy
>>> of containtment of China.
>>> Beside, CIA wants a piece of the action in
>>> the huge poppy land, ...more valuable than
>>> diamond when converted to heroin. Under the
>>> Taliban, poppy was wiped out....now under
>>> the supervisor of CIA backed government,
>>> Afghanistan is the largest producer of opium
>>> and heroin in the world.
>>>
>>> Bush has two strong reasons to invade
>>> Afghanistan.
>>>
>>> Bad boy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 6:05 pm
From: "Feelers"
"He who digs a pit will himself fall into it."
"Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:442b6ed6$1@news.starhub.net.sg...
> Of course, CIA would never knowingly grow poppies
> and produce heroin to kill American youths.
>
> The CIA produced opium to finance the operation
> of the Kabul administration and to prop up the failing
> economy of Afghanistan.
>
> However, the drug, once it leave Afghanistan, will be
> out of the hands of CIA. The drug syndicates chains and
> the triad underworld take over, reprocess it and will
> naturally sell it where they can fetch the best price...
> namely the USA.
> This is not the first time that the US help its enemies
> kill Americans. ....Many weapons used to kill US troops
> in Iraq were from the USA.
>
>
> Bad boy.
>
> "Feelers" <enjoylife488@hot.com> wrote in message
> news:1143694916.169742@ftpsrv1...
>> .......................... the yanks invaded afghanistan and started
>> growing poppies when this practice was wiped out by the taliban.
>> in other words what you're saying is that the cia is helping the taliban
>> to kill americans?
>>
>>
>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:442a557f$1@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>> Yes. Prior to the Afghan war, the Taliban did
>>> wiped out poppies.
>>>
>>> Now, the warlords and CIA are working together
>>> to cultivate poppies for the production of heroin.
>>> Afghanistan is the largest producer of illegal heroin.
>>>
>>> The CIA and the warlord however, have different
>>> objectives in the cultivation of poppies.
>>> The money from sales of heroin are used to finance
>>> the Afghan administration, prop up the economy and
>>> provide the means of income and employment to the
>>> Afghan people. The CIA knows that without the money
>>> from poppy sales, the Afghan administration will collapse
>>> overnight.
>>>
>>> The war lords use the money to buy arms, to train
>>> mujahideens, to equip and to pay the Taliban soldiers.
>>> The heroin is meant for the US market, ...it is used to
>>> kill American youths, their enemy. It will help win the
>>> war for Allah.
>>>
>>> Bad boy.
>>>
>
>
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TOPIC: 500,000 immigration advocates march in Los Angelos
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/a7922568c71505bc
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 6:06 am
From: "Bo Raxo"
"Felix D." <#1Chekist@OGPU.org> wrote in message
news:xKydnXVzAOtborbZnZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
> "Bo Raxo" <forensics@earthcorp.removethistoreply.com> wrote in message
> news:YACWf.11568$sL2.6438@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> >
> > <aklon3@attbi.com> wrote in message
> > news:1143665574.803634.261820@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > >
> > > Bo Raxo wrote:
> > > > "Peter Franks" <none@none.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:vp4Wf.407$Fl.154@fed1read09...
> > >
> > > > > There is no such thing as "immigrant's rights."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Half a million people in Los Angeles disagree.
> > >
> > >
> > > Correction: 25,342 green card bearing legal immigrants disagree. The
> > > other 474,658 are *illegal* aliens with an obvious axe to grind.
>
> But, you got the point, didn't you? Right?
>
That you're a racist who just assumes things in order to support your
preconceived notions?
Yeah, I got that. In spades, pardon the pun.
Bo Raxo
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TOPIC: Engraved On America's Tombstone?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c7d319e169c99e3e
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 12:23 am
From: / control /
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:51:36 -0700, "arminius" <richard
norton@cybertrails.com> wrote:
>
>"Graphic Queen" <pagan@pagan.com> wrote in message
>news:9h6h225ijshn1evu01n8bm7067b991vfca@4ax.com...
>> Engraved On
>> America's Tombstone?
>>
>> By Frosty Wooldridge
>> 3-27-6
>>
>> In 476 AD, Rome vanished into the history books. It was a heck of a
>> run: Rome began as a Republic; it conquered most of the known world;
>> it became an empire; it enjoyed slavery; it built lavish architecture
>> still admired into the 21st century; Rome constructed the Coliseum
>> where one million men were slaughtered in 200 years of the 'games'; it
>> partied with decadence in wine, women and song; Mark Anthony and
>> Cleopatra's passions are the stuff of legends; finally, Julius Caesar
>> took knives in his gut; et tu Brutus?
>>
>> You've read Rome's demise in history books. Shakespeare immortalized
>> great moments. You've seen the movies with Charlton Heston, Yul
>> Brenner and Elizabeth Taylor. Rome's greatness stretched for
>> centuries, but it was put to rest on the Boot Hill of history.
>>
>> We see the similarities of Rome manifesting in America in the early
>> years of the 21st century. Republic to empire; military bases in 100
>> countries around the world; Donald Trump nauseates us with his
>> skyscrapers; 100,000 seat NFL stadiums entertaining the masses with
>> outrageous salaried 'gladiators' and booze; Brad and Angelina's
>> endless nothingness; young men dying without reason in the contrived
>> Iraq war; et tu Bushtus?
>>
>> What will be engraved on America's tombstone if it doesn't stop the
>> Mexican invasion? Who will write the words? Why did it happen? Who
>> aided it within America's borders? Will they be brought to justice?
>> Why did they do it to their own country? To their own children? To the
>> future?
>>
>> A noble citizen wrote me last week with quotes from the late Ayn Rand,
>> "Which of these two variants of statism are we moving toward:
>> socialism or fascism?"
>>
>> "To answer this question," she said, "one must first ask: which is the
>> dominant ideological trend of today's culture?
>>
>> "The disgraceful and terrifying answer is: there is no ideological
>> trend today. There is no ideology. There are no political principles,
>> theories, ideals, or philosophy. There is no direction, no goal, no
>> compass, no vision of the future, no intellectual element of
>> leadership. Are there any emotional elements dominating today's
>> culture? Yes! One! Fear!
>>
>> "A country without a political philosophy is like a ship drifting at
>> random in mid-ocean, at the mercy of any chance wind, wave, or
>> current, a ship whose passengers huddle in their cabins and
>> cry--"Don't rock the boat!"-for fear of discovering that the captain's
>> bridge is empty. (Bush is our captain)
>>
>> "It is obvious that a boat which cannot stand rocking is doomed
>> already and that it had better be rocked hard, if it is to regain its
>> course-but this realization presupposes a grasp of facts, of reality,
>> of principles and a long-range view, all of which are precisely the
>> things that the "non-rockers" are frantically struggling to evade.
>>
>> "Just as a neurotic believes that the facts of reality will vanish if
>> he refuses to recognize them (Bush's current path)-so, today, the
>> neurosis of an entire culture leads men to believe that their
>> desperate need of political principles and concepts will vanish if
>> they succeed in obliterating all principles and concepts. But since,
>> in fact, neither an individual nor a nation can exist without some
>> form of ideology, this sort of anti-ideology is now the formal,
>> explicit, dominant ideology of our bankrupt culture. This
>> anti-ideology has a new and very ugly name: it is called "Government
>> by Consensus." --Ayn Rand, Ford Hall Lecture, 1965
>>
>> The noble citizen explained, "At some point in our history, we are
>> going to have to deal with the "Mexicanization" of our Southwest and
>> the Left Coast. The issues are pretty simple, but they are too
>> complicated for politicians because they involve money.
>>
>> "When mobs of illegals congregate in an American neighborhood, who is
>> surprised that crime goes up? People who come illegally from Mexico
>> often bring the "culture" of their home town with them, and that
>> culture is the corrupt, immoral and scofflaw type that persists in
>> Mexican cities. In Mexico, the cops are corrupt too, and whoever has
>> the payola to keep them away--rules the neighborhood. The government
>> is a bunch of "rich good old boys" in the Mexican sense, who aspire to
>> greatness on top of a garbage heap. Only tourism and money sent home
>> by illegals maintains stability.
>>
>> "It is inevitable that politicians arising from this mass will
>> manifest the culture from which they come. It's already happening, and
>> the "what's in it for me" attitude of a lot of Hispanic politicians
>> who cultivate the illegal "vote" and establishment of "citizen's
>> rights" for illegals in places like southern California is subject to
>> become epidemic in areas of high Mexican concentration. It's already
>> costing the Southwestern states billions every year, just for
>> infrastructure adjustment. So much for the "desirability" of having
>> people who "do jobs Americans won't do." Americans are capable of
>> mowing their own lawns and taking care of their own homes and
>> children. This is a superfluous and specious argument, and does
>> nothing to rationally support the millions of illegals establishing
>> themselves every year on American territory.
>>
>> "Yes, there are good people among them. But they are all illegals, and
>> searching for a better life has different meanings depending on the
>> level of cultural awareness and desire to assimilate. A separate
>> Mexican community adds little to any city, and creates a lot of law
>> enforcement problems. They bring corruption with them, and some of the
>> problems are those of very dangerous and violent gang nature."
>>
>> He warned, "Don't think it can't happen. It is happening. Not even the
>> United States can assimilate this many third world people at this
>> rate."
>>
>> To say the least, Bush exhibits incompetence and constancy. Better
>> that he were competent so he would change course much like the Captain
>> of the Titanic should have! Ayn Rand and this reader's words might be
>> a sobering description of America's tombstone. How is it that an
>> entire nation got fat, stupid and lazy within 50 years of WWII? How is
>> it that half the nation doesn't vote in national elections and less
>> than 10 percent in local elections? How come their remote control
>> garners more importance than participating in their republic's course?
>> What more will historians write on America's tombstone?
>>
>> "Here lies America. In 230 years, she won all her battles. She
>> safeguarded mankind's yearning for freedom. She created the greatest
>> opportunity for the most people in the history of the world. She
>> brought the world foreign aid, the Red Cross, Peace Corps, food to
>> tsunami and earthquake victims, and health care. For 230 years, she
>> maintained her sovereignty by guarding her borders. But something
>> happened during the last fateful years of her existence. She, like
>> Rome, left her borders open. A massive horde of foreigners broke into
>> her inner being. Like a cancer, that multitude dismantled every aspect
>> of her political and physical being.
>>
>> America lost its language and fractured into rival ethnic factions
>> bent on destroying her. America's armies fought contrived wars
>> elsewhere while her leaders pandered for yet more money and power at
>> the expense of integrity. Her president and Congress violated their
>> oaths of office while ignoring the U.S. Constitution. Her people
>> neglected to participate in their Republic. Massive demonstrations of
>> lawless illegal aliens trampled the American flag in the streets of
>> Los Angeles. Where America sustained laws, she became lawless. Where
>> honor once guided America's government, malfeasance reigned."
>>
>> What do you resolve to reverse this tombstone and reclaim your
>> country?
>
>Get involved in politics, tolerate no "lesser of two evils" candidates,
>maintain racial solidarity.
>
>Hank
America will die when it goes bankrupt and can't pay the soldiers,
just like the Soviet Union. China and the Arabs OWN most of the US
debt and anytime they want us to collapse, they can call in the notes.
Anytime they please. And Dumbya has made it easier by borrowing
billions and billions from them to finance his phony little war.
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 30 Mar 2006 at 06:21:37 AM GMT is:
The estimated population of the United States is 298,911,728
so each citizen's share of this debt is $28,009.91.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$2.43 billion per day since September 30, 2005!
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
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TOPIC: Toyota is set to become the world's No 1 auto maker in terms of
vehicles produced, probably by the end of the year in the USA.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c2862b24b3d294c3
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 6:30 am
From: "effty"
"GW Chimpzilla's Eye-Rack Neocon Utopia" <gw@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:R4AWf.863701$x96.504725@attbi_s72...
> Richard wrote:
>
>>
>> "Secular Human" <eelder1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:EivWf.113377$g47.34173@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>>> Rushgoolah wrote:
>>>> Toyota is set to become the world's No 1 auto maker in terms of
>>>> vehicles produced, probably by the end of the year in the USA.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/HC30Dh03.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am not surprised. My American cars would start a rapid decline between
>>> 60-75,000 miles. First the water pump, then the radiator, followed by a
>>> major brake job and repairs to the exhaust system. Since I brought a
>>> Nissan I have had a brake job and that is about it. My wife now owns a
>>> Toyota.
>>>
>>> Some of my friends have gone 200,000 miles in a Japanese car with just
>>> oil
>>> changes. I am so over American cars.
>>>
>>
>> If they get into the diesel game they'll be hard to catch. Diesel is the
>> future IMHO. (biodiesel that is)
>
> My friend has a 1982 Toyota diesel pickup. Still runs fine.
>
> --
> There are only two kinds of Republicans: Millionaires and fools.
I had a Corolla once with over 215,000 miles on it. When I went away to
college my brother traded it in on a Ford. That was over 13 years ago. It
had a very distinctive paint job. I still see it around town from time to
time. They really are the best built cars on Earth. It shows in the resale
value too. I like the fact that every bolt is either a 10mm or a 14mm. You
can fix anything on a Toyota with only two wrenches! Modern simplicity.
~e.
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TOPIC: Smug Alert - San Francisco disappears up its own asshole...
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/2fdfb4b42f5ccc02
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 6:43 am
From: Four-Way Windowpane
I just moved to the Bay Area and watched the new South Park
which picks on that city. I almost died laughing. Matt &
Trey got the city perfect, full of smug, self-righteous
adults who enjoy sniffing their own farts, and their kids
who take lots of drugs.
While hybrid automobiles emit much less smog, the problem is
that the people who drive them emit lots of smug. San
Francisco already had the highest levels of smug in the
country, but when the people of South Park begin driving
hybrids, their smug is so great that after combining with
George Clooney's smug it threatens the whole planet.
And it's true that everywhere you go someone offers you acid.
That's what I love about the city, I never want for bud and
hallucinogens. Absolute paradise. We're so much more
progressive than y'all...
------------------------------------------------------------
"Hippies... Hippies everywhere! They want to save the earth
but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad! Help!"
-- Cartman's nightmare
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TOPIC: Ain't america grand? - Idiot in hospital after walking into moose
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/d13a8a878dd9ab27
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 29 2006 10:45 pm
From: "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend"
Kyle Rodgers wrote:
> Geez, you can't cut a 92 year old blind man some slack.
>
The guy shouldn't have been out walking by himself. If you can't see a
moose, how are you gonna see cars whizzing by at 30 mph.?
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TOPIC: Pam Anderson joins seal hunt outcry
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/fe3c200f081e00c6
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 29 2006 10:55 pm
From: "katieface"
well...if can help the cause then good on her...even if she's not the
breast (i mean best) candidate! She probably has a baby seal skin
bikini at home!...but at least it might make more of us aware of the
problem...
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