The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
Oil is priced in U.S. dollars on the world market, and the currency's depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and eroded the value of their dollar reserves.
Iran has repeatedly urged OPEC members to shift sales away from dollar. But Iran's proposal to trade oil in a basket of currencies is not supported by enough OPEC members, which include staunch U.S. allies such as leading producer Saudi Arabia.
It is so late in the day, I do not believe that if we moved right now with every resource at our disposal, this nation can be saved from the ultimate ride into the septic tank of history, due to the flushing action of the economic markets, banks, big oil and of course, the Federal Reserve System (an extension of the Rothschild European banking conspiracy).
Israel, the Bush Administration and the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Mahmoud Abbas, are collaborating to build a depoliticized Palestinian security force whose main task and raison d’être will be to crush any popular uprising against a prospective “peace deal” imposed upon the Palestinians.
At least five American soldiers were killed and another 31 were wounded in three separate attacks in Iraq today. Iraqis did not fare any better, with 81 Iraqis killed and 126 more wounded as well. Clashes in Baghdad were the cause of mose of the casualties.
The military reports 73,500 unplanned Iraq and Afghanistan war battlefield casualties, and VA reports 300,000 unexpected Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran patients, yet the Bush Administration has not provided the public with the full long-term costs of caring for our casualties and veterans. Professors Stiglitz and Bilmes use facts to estimate the cost of the Iraq War at $3 trillion - and growing - a conservative estimate.
On April 5, the London Telegraph reported that "British officials gave warning yesterday that America's commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the U.S.-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from Gen. David Petraeus about Iran's intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a U.S. attack on Iranian military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment."
Scott Ritter, former head of weapons inspection in Iraq who protested there were no weapons of mass destruction to justify an invasion, believes the same is true for Iran.
The first high school dedicated to preparing students for the front lines in the Nation's homeland security has gone from theory to planning in Wilmington.
Ted Turner the largest U.S. land owner and wealthy media mogul has stated yet again during a PBS interview with Charlie Rose that the world’s population needs to be reduced.
In the March 14, 2003, memo – which was released this past week – administration lawyer John Yoo cited the principle of national “self-defense” in combating terrorism as grounds for justifying harsh treatment of detainees up to and including death.
Yet, as Yoo advanced his argument for virtually unfettered presidential war-time powers regarding the treatment of prisoners, the memo also pointed to other still-secret documents suggesting the administration was prepared to take its authority even further, into domestic military operations that would brush aside constitutional protections.
The relentless increases in Pentagon spending President Bush has pushed through since taking office recall the actions of Hitler and Stalin prior to the outbreak of World War Two.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Republican John McCain insists last year's U.S. troop buildup in Iraq brought a glimmer of "something approaching normal" there, despite a recent outbreak of heavy fighting and an American death toll that has surpassed 4,000.
The striking thing about Sen. John McCain's series of speeches this week was how often he apologized for or explained youthful indiscretions, his temper or his bad congressional votes.
PARIS — Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China's human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts.
The committee will also be co-chaired by former American presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and every living former U.S. secretary of state, including Henry Kissinger, have signed on to serve on the committee as well.
The ex-Randian ex-Fed chairman now says that there is a better than 50% chance of a recession. But in private, for those who pay him huge fees on Wall Street, he is saying that the "economy is dropping off a cliff."
Abdullah Bahar, 5, arrived as a dead body at the Shuhada aL-Aqsa hospital in Deir Ealbalah, as he sustained several shrapnel into various parts of his head and body, the sources said.
The medics confirmed that four other inhabitants were also injured by the Israeli army fire.
Until there's either a big enough majority in the Senate or a change in the president's (approach), I don't see a significant improvement situation improvement in Iraq
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2003/may03/fed-curriculum.shtml
2. The State of Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic
3. Students strip searched at high school
4. 10 Year Old Girl Handcuffed for Bringing Scissors to School
5. Grade Inflation
6. Teacher Certifications
7. 10 Sign Posts of Failure
8. The Problem with Public Education Today
9. Fads and Follies in the Public Schools
10. Homeschool or Die!
11. Students believe 1st Amendment goes too far
12. Lee Class President Suspended
13. Why public schools fail
14. Why government schools fail
15. Public schools fail to teach history
16. 8652 Public Schools Fail Two Years in a Row
17. 12 Million Languish in Failing Public Schools
18. Why Schools Fail
19. History Consigned to the Dustbin
20. RFID Tags used to Track Students
21. Don't teach preschoolers to read.
22. Teacher makes boy spray himself with Lysol
23. Boy accused of assult with rubber band
24. Student arrested for "terroristic threats" and Dvorak's take on it
25. Wackos Against School and Education
26. They Keep kids in the cold
27. 5 Year Old Cuffed after Outburst
28. Drugs and Schooling: The Meaning of State Education
29. 21 ways the "public schools" harm your children
30. Cutting (Man, when I was in school, this meant getting in front of someone in line.)
31. Short-Changed by the New-New Math
32. School Abuse
33. School districts accomplices to sex abuse?
34. Abuse case spurs probe of school
35. School Atmosphere Foster Abuse of Nerds
36. Public School Failure: Thousands were not taught to read, then labeled disabled
37. Must school failure be so repetitive?
38. New Policy Hides Public School Failure
39. Detroit's school failure
40. The Fads of Public School Failure
41. Walburg on the Failure of the Public School Monopoly
42. Contract for Failure
43. Should Raunchy be the 4th R?
44. Parent fights leftist indoctrination in Berkeley schools (audio)
45. My Public School Lesson
46. Back to School with Big Brother
47. The Politics of High School Education
48. Why the Public School Establishment Opposed Homeschooling
49. Channel One
50. Cultural Competence
51. Fistgate
52. Government "Compulsory" Schooling
53. Witnesses Say Students Watched Girl's Sexual Assault At School
54. What is to be done?
55. Government can't run schools like businesses
56. Elimination of tradional grades
57. Are your children crazy?
58. Class Dissects Live Dog
59. Whining Parents
60. Destoying your child to save a buck
61. Shrewsbury dad on sex survey: They asked you if you did what?!
62. School Questionnaire
63. How Public School Curriculum has Changed
64. NJ Questionnaire Lawsuit Filed
65. Nosy Pupil Surveys Rile Parents
66. MO Schoolgirls Strip Searched
67. Parents Sue School for Strip Search
68. PA Schoolchildren Strip Searched
69. GA Elementary Schoolchildren Strip Searched
70. DC School Children Strip Searched
71. NM Student Strip Searches
72. CO School Strip Searches 8 YO Boy
73. Strip-Searching Schoolchildren Okay, Court Rules
74. Kansas City Elementary School Students Strip Searched
75. ACLU files suit for school strip search: Whitmore Lake officials led hunt for missing money
76. OR Middle School Strip Search: No Charges Filed
77. Betrayals in Public Education
78. Get our Kids out of Public Schools
79. Zero-Tolerance Policies Wreak Havoc
80. What they aren't teaching today
81. Are your children crazy?
82. 10 YO Boy Forced to Lick Teacher's Toes
83. Unwarranted Self-Regard
84. Blame, Shame, Complain
85. Philidelphia High School Students must take Black Studies
86. Public School Teachers Send their own Kids to Private School
87. Parental Consent Vetoed for Mental Health Tests
88. States reporting inflated graduation rates
89. Public school failure costs millions
90. How Schools are Destroying the Joy of Reading
91. Chief says handcuffing kindergarter didn't violate rules
92. The public school disaster
93. Incoming Freshmen aren't Prepared
94. Schools not required to notify parents of Diversity Training
95. Public Education's Coming Collapse
96. N.Y. Ex-Schools Chief: I Stole Millions
97. Boys rips girls clothes off and take photos
98. 100% Control for 6.5% Funding
99. "New SAT" Presents Troubling Scenario
100. Some NEA Resolutions Passed at the 2005 Convention in Los Angeles
101. High school football game moved due to gang violence
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102. Child forced to wear only underwear all day as punishment
103. 3rd grader handcuffed, forcibly medicated
104. Court rules that parents have no "fundamental right to control the upbringing of their children"
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld says that al-Qaeda operatives are in the US, and “they are very well-trained.” He also says that “terrorist networks have relationships with terrorist states that have weapons of mass destruction, and… they inevitably are going to get their hands on them, and they would not hesitate one minute in using them.
US officials claim that approximately 2,700 known or suspected al-Qaeda operatives have been captured around the world in the year since 9/11. [New York Times, 9/10/2002] However, what this means exactly is unclear. It is estimated that there were only about 1,000 al-Qaeda operatives at the time of 9/1
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“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he said Wednesday. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security...
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