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made in china (or) what has Wal-Mart really done to America

...China has so many dollars to lend to us because we send so many dollars to China to pay for the goods and services that patriotic American corporations have decided to supply to us from China instead of from America...
...Americans are pouring so much money into China that China can finance our wars while it buys up our companies...
...Everyone was shocked that a Chinese company could outbid Chevron for Unocal. China has already purchased IBM's personal computer business, and is now after US appliance maker Maytag (whose appliances are made in Mexico)... http://www.counterpunch.org/

john bolton RIP - "say good night john"

"There's no way the administration would let that occur. Many like Bolton and feel that he is important -- but not so important that they would let an appointment that could only last until January 2007 endanger a lifetime appointee to the Supreme Court and while mustering all other necessary resources on a legal-political fight involving the president and vice president's closest aides. Too much to handle all at once.

Say good night, John."

http://raggedthots.blogspot.com/2005/07/john-bolton-rip.html

via the esteemed:

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/

the boy who cried wolf

"But nobody blamed the shepherd boy. They all considered the attack on the village on the far side of the dark woods to be a grand and necessary venture. They were convinced that the attack had to proceed in order to defeat the wolves - and to withdraw their soldiers now would surely make the wolves even bolder."

http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2005/07/the_boy_who_cri.asp

did condi rice help push the joe wilson/valerie wilson story?

"Press gaggle transcripts show that it was Condoleezza Rice, not Ari Fleischer, who was pushing the press to look into the reasons the CIA sent Wilson to Niger. "

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/20/16340/8649

condaleeza rice... are you the devil?

"Free" Iraqi Elections: Another Bush Lie

...the White House promulgated a highly classified Presidential “finding” authorizing the C.I.A. to provide money and other support covertly to political candidates in certain countries who, in the Administration’s view, were seeking to spread democracy... http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact

Aristide explains US role in stripping Haiti of its independence

...A few weeks ago I visited Aristide in Pretoria, South Africa, where he lives in forced exile. I asked him what was really behind his dramatic falling-out with Washington. He offered an explanation rarely heard in discussions of Haitian politics - actually, he offered three: "Privatisation, privatisation and privatisation..." http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1530800,00.html

scott mcclellan - another bush administration liar

"nobody wants to get to the bottom of this more than the president"

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Scotty_Rove.wmve

enjoy.!

jail karl rove

""I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name," Rove told CNN last year when asked if he had anything to do with the Plame leak. Rove has never publicly acknowledged talking to any reporter about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife. But last week, his lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed to NEWSWEEK that Rove did—and that Rove was the secret source who, at the request of both Cooper's lawyer and the prosecutor, gave Cooper permission to testify. "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/

" Perhaps Bush won't have to "take care of" Rove if this new evidence does not lead to a prosecutable violation of the law. But Bush also called on any government official with knowledge of the leak to "come forward and speak out." Has Rove done so? No. So it seems he violated a presidential command. Would Bush be obliged to fire him for insubordination? And there's another key point to consider: whether Rove told the truth when he testified to Fitzgerald's grand jury. Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, has acknowledged that Rove appeared before the grand jury, and Luskin has said that Rove did speak to Cooper prior to the publication of the Novak column. But what did Rove tell Fitzgerald and the grand jury about this conversation with Cooper? And--here's the big question--does Rove's account jibe with the new documentary evidence that Newsweek is scheduled to disclose. If it does not, Fitzgerald would have a good start on a perjury charge against Rove. "

http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/07/new_explosive_r.php

nice meeting mr. president

" But what she encountered was an arrogant man with eyes lacking the slightest bit of compassion, a President totally "detached from humanity" and a man who didn?t even bother to remember her son?s name when they were first introduced. "

"His mouth kept moving, but there was nothing in his eyes or anything else about him that showed me he really cared or had any real compassion at all. This is a human being totally disconnected from humanity and reality. His eyes were empty, hollow shells and he was acting like I should be proud to just be in his presence when it was my son who died for his illegal war! It was one of the most disgusting experiences I ever had and it took me almost a year to even talk about it,"

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/07/nice-meeting-mr-president.html

Karl Rove: "Yet he sold out America just to get even with Joe Wilson."

" Time's cowardly decision to break its promise to a confidential source has had one beneficial side effect: according to Newsweek, it indicates that Karl Rove himself made the call to Novak. "

more here...