Release of Abramoff records by Secret Service: AP/Yahoo
The Secret Service has agreed to turn over White House visitor logs that will show how often convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff met with Bush administration officials — and with whom he met…
Administration officials have refused to say how many times Abramoff, who raised at least $100,000 for
President Bush’s re-election, has been to the White House. Bush has said he doesn’t know Abramoff.
Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch’s director of investigations, said, “The documents will speak loud and clear on what Abramoff was doing in and out of the White House.”
Visitor logs are nice but I want the phone logs. I bet money Abramoff was calling Rove several times a day the entire first term, and vice versa, all indications say they knew each other well.
At the Rubicon: US Asks Turkey to Host Iran Attack
YNet News reports we are at the threshold of the most terrifying moment in human history: a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran. Contrary to the public story, the Bush Administration is proceeding full speed ahead, Congressional authorization be damned:
Turkey won’t let U.S. attack Iran from its land
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Sunday that his country refused a request from the United States to attack Iran from its Air Force base in Incirlik, despite the U.S. offer of a nuclear reactor, according to a report in Al Biyan.
In an interview for the United Arab Emirates newspaper, Gul noted that America’s efforts to attack Iran are “imaginary” and that Turkey’s stance is “strategic” and refuses the use of its land for any belligerent activity against neighboring countries. (Roee Nahmias)(04.30.06, 10:34)
Update: The story has been confirmed by a second source, the Jerusalem Post, which says:
Turkey won’t allow US to use its bases
Turkey does not intend to allow the United States to launch an attack against Iran from the Inchirlik military base, Turkish news agencies reported Sunday. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told the Dubai-based al-Bayan that he doubted the US would ultimately choose to take military action, as “Iran has its own strategic advantages.”
Gul said that facilitating an attack against a neighboring country was “not an option,” despite the US offer to build Turkey a nuclear reactor as a counterbalance to Iran’s expanding nuclear facilities. Turkey has long sought to develop nuclear power to make up for a limited supply of domestic energy and to reduce dependence on energy supplies from Iran and Russia and has chosen the coastal city of Sinop as the site of the country’s first nuclear power plant. [snip]
Turkey’s refusal to comply with the US request was another indication of the growing tension between the two nations, which, according to Gul, have not “seen a single day of positive stability since the Islamic party was elected to power [in 2002].”
S**t. I hope Turkey continues to refuse…but unfortunately, I’m sure some other place like Azerbaijan will be happy to host the BushCo for their latest folly.
This confuses me, why does Bushco need to attack from Turkey when they have already wasted $300,000,000,000+ taking over a country bordering Iran? Don’t we have several brand new airbases in Iraq?
As for Turkey..they are not happy campers, not likely they’ll agree to host a launch. They’re livid over the mess in Iraq….the Kurds on the border, keeping an eye out for any signs for an independent ‘Kurdistan’.
Turkey is now run by a muslim political party, not likely to support further aggression against a muslim nation and people. So George is back, on his knees begging the worst dictators in the region: Azerbijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgystan.
Difference with the aftermath of 9/11, Bush has no leverage left in the region as Putin has gone back in to the former satellite states of the Soviet Union. Bush lost the Caspian Oil region for the coming decade to Russia.
Turkey is worried by division of Iraq in three sectors, the Kurds will battle for an independent Kurdistan with oil wells in Kirkuk and Mosul.
U.S. Lawmakers Arrested at Sudanese Embassy Protesting Darfur Genocide
WASHINGTON, DC, May 1, 2006 (ENS) – Congressman Tom Lantos, of California, a Holocaust survivor who serves as the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, and four other Members of the House of Representatives, were arrested Friday at the embassy of Sudan. They were participating in a rally to demand an end to the killing of people in Darfur.
Congressman Tom Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the U.S. Congress. He was arrested Friday at the Save Darfur rally in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy Office of the Representative)
Four other Democratic House members, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, Jim Moran of Virginia, and James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, were among 11 protesters arrested on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly.
The five lawmakers were willingly arrested and led away from the embassy front steps in handcuffs. They were released after being booked at a DC police station and paying $50 fines.
“Nativists” are Xenophobic activists who hate immigrants, hate foreigners, hate hate hate. link
MIGRATION-US:
Amid Solidarity, “Nativists” Grow More Violent
OAKLAND, California, May 2 (IPS) – Even as millions of people demonstrated across the U.S. Monday to call for amnesty for the nation’s 11 million undocumented workers, other events have shed more heat than light and turned into boisterous anti-immigrant gatherings where violence against immigrants has become a rallying cry.
[snip]
Those in attendance heard Nashville radio talk show host Phil Valentine say that he thought that U.S. Border Patrol Agents should consider shooting undocumented immigrants as they come across the border.
According to the news story posted at the website of the Centre for New Community’s Building Democracy Initiative, Susan Tully, the national field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) — present at the event — “chuckled at the idea, while the large crowd erupted into applause”. [snip]
“In early March, Brian James, a fill-in talk radio show host with Phoenix AM radio station KFYI, suggested on the air that a solution to the immigration problem in Arizona would be to kill undocumented immigrants as they cross the border. ‘What we’ll do is randomly pick one night every week where we will kill whoever crosses the border,’ James said in the broadcast. ‘Step over there and you die. You get to decide whether it’s your lucky night or not. I think that would be more fun.'”
Burghart pointed out that “James said that he’d be ‘happy to sit there with my high-powered rifle and my night scope’ and kill people as the cross the border. He also suggested that the National Guard shoot illegal immigrants and receive ‘100 dollars a head.'”
These idiots have suggested ways of making illegals “feel the heat”: random beatings as they leave their workplaces, preventing Spanish speaking children from attending school by any “imaginative” means, using propaganda in the Spanish speaking media to spread rumours that illegals crossing the border will be shot, maimed, and beaten. Skinheads and white supremicists are using the debate to encourage violence… they fit right in with the Minutemen. These ideas circulate amid inflamatory Xenophobic rhetoric by national personalities like Lou Dobbs who tells viewers
“…Mexican immigrants who see themselves as an ‘army of invaders’ intent upon re-annexing parts of the Southwestern U.S. to Mexico, announces that ‘illegal alien smugglers and drug traffickers are on the verge of ruining some of our national treasures,’ and declares that ‘the invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans’ through ‘deadly imports’ of diseases like leprosy and malaria.”
This is the kind of sludge, scraped from the very bottom of the morality barrel, is what Bush Republicans pander to.
Sorry this is late – had a meeting at work this A.M.
Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered trading partners at the start of the Late Bronze Age. Until now. A new Cornell University radiocarbon study of tree rings and seeds shows that the Santorini (or Thera) volcanic eruption, a central event in Aegean prehistory, occurred about 100 years earlier than previously thought. The findings, which place the Santorini eruption in the late 17th century B.C., not 100 years later as long believed, may lead to a critical rewriting of Late Bronze Age history of Mediterranean civilizations that flourished about 3,600 years ago.
University of South Florida students have developed a computerized scarecrow to protect fish farms from predator birds. Standing guard 24-7 in a USF football uniform, the smart scarecrow detects motion and then use its cameras and image processing software, running in an eBox “micro PC,” to discriminate between intruders and non-intruders using programmed color recognition. The scarecrow is “armed” with a speaker system that blasts 120 decibels of gunshot sound and hits predator birds with high speed but harmless streams of water. Not one to keep secrets, it can email the user or call a user’s cell phone to report an intrusion. Fish farmers working around their ponds can wear an orange vest to identify themselves as “friendlies.”
Creationists love to ask questions like “What use would half a wing be during your hypothesized evolution of birds?” Among scientists answering this question, two theories have recently dominated the debate: one postulates that flight evolved in tree-dwelling ancestors that used their forelimbs to help them glide, while the other considers ancestral birds to be terrestrial dinosaurs that developed powered flight from the ground up. A new study of young flightless birds finds their partially developed wings help them climb steep – even vertical – surfaces, supporting the latter hypothesis. Another take on this story is here.Funny how every time some smartass thinks he’s come up with the ultimate puzzler, nature has the answer right there for folks that bother to look.
And while we’re talking evolution… A new study of side-blotched lizards in California has revealed the genetic underpinnings of altruistic behavior in this common species, providing new insights into the long-standing puzzle of how cooperation and altruism can evolve. This species comes in three different throat colors–orange, yellow, and blue–and throat color corresponds to different territorial behaviors in the males. Blue-throated males form partnerships in which two males cooperate to protect their territories; orange-throated males are highly aggressive and usurp territory from other lizards; and yellow-throated males sneak into the territory of other males to mate with females. Previous research demonstrated that these strategies result in a kind of “rock-paper-scissors” game in which orange defeats blue, blue defeats yellow, and yellow defeats orange. The lizard populations go through cycles in which one color after another increases its numbers at the expense of the others, but none are able to maintain dominance. In the new paper, researchers investigated the genetic basis of the cooperative behavior in blue-throated males.
And evolutionary forces are at work on another endangered species as well: Ford Motor Co. said Monday that US sales of its hybrid vehicles rose 50 percent to nearly 2,800 last month, boosted by aggressive incentives. Ford is expected to post an overall decline in April sales on weak demand for its traditional SUVs. Automakers are expected to release monthly US sales results Tuesday. Ford began offering interest-free loans for up to 60 months to consumers nationwide in April on its Escape hybrid and Mariner hybrid sport utility vehicles. In addition to rebates, Ford is also spending on advertising campaigns, featuring Kermit the Frog, that tout the company’s commitment to hybrids. Meanwhile, ten states, including California and New York, plan to file suit this week to force the Bush administration to toughen mileage regulations for sport utility vehicles and other trucks. The suit, which the states are to announce on Tuesday, contends that the administration did not do a rigorous enough analysis of the environmental benefits of fuel economy regulations, as required by law, before issuing new rules last month for S.U.V.’s, pickup trucks and minivans. The suit will also claim that the government did not consider the impact of gasoline consumption on climate change when devising the new rules.
Despite massive increases in our wealth in the last 50 years our levels of happiness have not increased. “Standard of living has increased dramatically and happiness has increased not at all, and in some cases has diminished slightly,” said Professor Daniel Kahneman of the University of Princeton. “There is a lot of evidence that being richer… isn’t making us happier” The research suggests that richer countries do tend to be happier than poor ones, but once you have a home, food and clothes, then extra money does not seem to make people much happier. The BBC is starting a new program that will examine questions of happiness. More details on happiness here.
BERLIN (AP) 1 hour ago — Two German engineers held hostage in Iraq since January have been released and are safe. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the men — Thomas Nitzschke and Rene Braeunlich, of Leipzig — were in a safe place in Iraq and were being cared for by German officials there. They were expected to return to Germany sometime Wednesday.
Nitzschke and Braeunlich were kidnapped Jan. 24 from an Iraqi government-owned detergent plant in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. Their employer, Leipzig-based Cryotec Anlagenbau AG, has a commercial relationship with that company.
Given the state of the nation and as a late response to Katiebird’s Diary Friday last as well as Streed Kid’s Medicare (D)isaster series…an exerpt from FDR’s STOU speech from 11 Jan. 1944: The Second Bill of Rights
It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people.whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth.is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights.among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our nation has grown in size and stature, however.as our industrial economy expanded.these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. ‘Necessitous men are not free men.’ People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all.regardless of station, race, or creed.
Among these are:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.
Sounds like a pretty good Progressive Platform to me.
Release of Abramoff records by Secret Service: AP/Yahoo
I’m sure they will.
OOOooo I saw this also and thought that it COULD get incredibly interesting. We have to watch this one closely.
It definitely put a smile on my sleep- and caffeine-deprived face this morning. 🙂
Thanks-I was thinking about my son’s social studies teacher when I chose it…sigh.
Six more weeks.
Visitor logs are nice but I want the phone logs. I bet money Abramoff was calling Rove several times a day the entire first term, and vice versa, all indications say they knew each other well.
thinks a blowjob might be the thing to get Bush out of the White house: Yahoo Ireland/UK
Interesting that it was reported in the UK and not here.
Porn star’s offer to Bin Laden. If changing the world was that easy, Bush would still be in Texas, and Heidi Fleiss would be president.
link
YNet News reports we are at the threshold of the most terrifying moment in human history: a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran. Contrary to the public story, the Bush Administration is proceeding full speed ahead, Congressional authorization be damned:
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Sunday that his country refused a request from the United States to attack Iran from its Air Force base in Incirlik, despite the U.S. offer of a nuclear reactor, according to a report in Al Biyan.
In an interview for the United Arab Emirates newspaper, Gul noted that America’s efforts to attack Iran are “imaginary” and that Turkey’s stance is “strategic” and refuses the use of its land for any belligerent activity against neighboring countries. (Roee Nahmias)(04.30.06, 10:34)
Update: The story has been confirmed by a second source, the Jerusalem Post, which says:
Turkey does not intend to allow the United States to launch an attack against Iran from the Inchirlik military base, Turkish news agencies reported Sunday. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told the Dubai-based al-Bayan that he doubted the US would ultimately choose to take military action, as “Iran has its own strategic advantages.”
Gul said that facilitating an attack against a neighboring country was “not an option,” despite the US offer to build Turkey a nuclear reactor as a counterbalance to Iran’s expanding nuclear facilities. Turkey has long sought to develop nuclear power to make up for a limited supply of domestic energy and to reduce dependence on energy supplies from Iran and Russia and has chosen the coastal city of Sinop as the site of the country’s first nuclear power plant.
[snip]
Turkey’s refusal to comply with the US request was another indication of the growing tension between the two nations, which, according to Gul, have not “seen a single day of positive stability since the Islamic party was elected to power [in 2002].”
S**t. I hope Turkey continues to refuse…but unfortunately, I’m sure some other place like Azerbaijan will be happy to host the BushCo for their latest folly.
Wasn’t the Iraq war preceeded by a refusal of Turkey to participate as a launching place for the northern invasion?
This confuses me, why does Bushco need to attack from Turkey when they have already wasted $300,000,000,000+ taking over a country bordering Iran? Don’t we have several brand new airbases in Iraq?
I had the exact same thought, and don’t have a clue. We need Juan Cole or a military expert to explain this one.
well, Thinkprogress provides this link to one more expert, the director of planning for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lt.Gen Renuart. He’s warning:
Strikes on Iran too risky,
As for Turkey..they are not happy campers, not likely they’ll agree to host a launch. They’re livid over the mess in Iraq….the Kurds on the border, keeping an eye out for any signs for an independent ‘Kurdistan’.
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S e c u r i t y o n t h e g r o u n d !
Turkey is now run by a muslim political party, not likely to support further aggression against a muslim nation and people. So George is back, on his knees begging the worst dictators in the region: Azerbijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgystan.
Difference with the aftermath of 9/11, Bush has no leverage left in the region as Putin has gone back in to the former satellite states of the Soviet Union. Bush lost the Caspian Oil region for the coming decade to Russia.
Turkey is worried by division of Iraq in three sectors, the Kurds will battle for an independent Kurdistan with oil wells in Kirkuk and Mosul.
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Link
“Nativists” are Xenophobic activists who hate immigrants, hate foreigners, hate hate hate.
link
Amid Solidarity, “Nativists” Grow More Violent
OAKLAND, California, May 2 (IPS) – Even as millions of people demonstrated across the U.S. Monday to call for amnesty for the nation’s 11 million undocumented workers, other events have shed more heat than light and turned into boisterous anti-immigrant gatherings where violence against immigrants has become a rallying cry.
[snip]
Those in attendance heard Nashville radio talk show host Phil Valentine say that he thought that U.S. Border Patrol Agents should consider shooting undocumented immigrants as they come across the border.
According to the news story posted at the website of the Centre for New Community’s Building Democracy Initiative, Susan Tully, the national field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) — present at the event — “chuckled at the idea, while the large crowd erupted into applause”.
[snip]
“In early March, Brian James, a fill-in talk radio show host with Phoenix AM radio station KFYI, suggested on the air that a solution to the immigration problem in Arizona would be to kill undocumented immigrants as they cross the border. ‘What we’ll do is randomly pick one night every week where we will kill whoever crosses the border,’ James said in the broadcast. ‘Step over there and you die. You get to decide whether it’s your lucky night or not. I think that would be more fun.'”
Burghart pointed out that “James said that he’d be ‘happy to sit there with my high-powered rifle and my night scope’ and kill people as the cross the border. He also suggested that the National Guard shoot illegal immigrants and receive ‘100 dollars a head.'”
These idiots have suggested ways of making illegals “feel the heat”: random beatings as they leave their workplaces, preventing Spanish speaking children from attending school by any “imaginative” means, using propaganda in the Spanish speaking media to spread rumours that illegals crossing the border will be shot, maimed, and beaten. Skinheads and white supremicists are using the debate to encourage violence… they fit right in with the Minutemen. These ideas circulate amid inflamatory Xenophobic rhetoric by national personalities like Lou Dobbs who tells viewers
“…Mexican immigrants who see themselves as an ‘army of invaders’ intent upon re-annexing parts of the Southwestern U.S. to Mexico, announces that ‘illegal alien smugglers and drug traffickers are on the verge of ruining some of our national treasures,’ and declares that ‘the invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans’ through ‘deadly imports’ of diseases like leprosy and malaria.”
This is the kind of sludge, scraped from the very bottom of the morality barrel, is what Bush Republicans pander to.
Sorry this is late – had a meeting at work this A.M.
Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered trading partners at the start of the Late Bronze Age. Until now. A new Cornell University radiocarbon study of tree rings and seeds shows that the Santorini (or Thera) volcanic eruption, a central event in Aegean prehistory, occurred about 100 years earlier than previously thought. The findings, which place the Santorini eruption in the late 17th century B.C., not 100 years later as long believed, may lead to a critical rewriting of Late Bronze Age history of Mediterranean civilizations that flourished about 3,600 years ago.
Vaccinating domestic dogs against rabies has allowed the highly endangered African wild dog to make a comeback in the Serengeti game reserve in Tanzania. With only about 5000 wild dogs still alive, they are one of the most vulnerable mammal species in Africa. Southern African countries have bigger populations, but the Serengeti-Masai Mara ecosystem in East Africa is the dog’s best hope of long-term survival. That’s because its 25,000 square kilometres allows the wide-ranging species to exist without coming into conflict with local livestock farmers.
University of South Florida students have developed a computerized scarecrow to protect fish farms from predator birds. Standing guard 24-7 in a USF football uniform, the smart scarecrow detects motion and then use its cameras and image processing software, running in an eBox “micro PC,” to discriminate between intruders and non-intruders using programmed color recognition. The scarecrow is “armed” with a speaker system that blasts 120 decibels of gunshot sound and hits predator birds with high speed but harmless streams of water. Not one to keep secrets, it can email the user or call a user’s cell phone to report an intrusion. Fish farmers working around their ponds can wear an orange vest to identify themselves as “friendlies.”
Creationists love to ask questions like “What use would half a wing be during your hypothesized evolution of birds?” Among scientists answering this question, two theories have recently dominated the debate: one postulates that flight evolved in tree-dwelling ancestors that used their forelimbs to help them glide, while the other considers ancestral birds to be terrestrial dinosaurs that developed powered flight from the ground up. A new study of young flightless birds finds their partially developed wings help them climb steep – even vertical – surfaces, supporting the latter hypothesis. Another take on this story is here. Funny how every time some smartass thinks he’s come up with the ultimate puzzler, nature has the answer right there for folks that bother to look.
And while we’re talking evolution… A new study of side-blotched lizards in California has revealed the genetic underpinnings of altruistic behavior in this common species, providing new insights into the long-standing puzzle of how cooperation and altruism can evolve. This species comes in three different throat colors–orange, yellow, and blue–and throat color corresponds to different territorial behaviors in the males. Blue-throated males form partnerships in which two males cooperate to protect their territories; orange-throated males are highly aggressive and usurp territory from other lizards; and yellow-throated males sneak into the territory of other males to mate with females. Previous research demonstrated that these strategies result in a kind of “rock-paper-scissors” game in which orange defeats blue, blue defeats yellow, and yellow defeats orange. The lizard populations go through cycles in which one color after another increases its numbers at the expense of the others, but none are able to maintain dominance. In the new paper, researchers investigated the genetic basis of the cooperative behavior in blue-throated males.
And evolutionary forces are at work on another endangered species as well: Ford Motor Co. said Monday that US sales of its hybrid vehicles rose 50 percent to nearly 2,800 last month, boosted by aggressive incentives. Ford is expected to post an overall decline in April sales on weak demand for its traditional SUVs. Automakers are expected to release monthly US sales results Tuesday. Ford began offering interest-free loans for up to 60 months to consumers nationwide in April on its Escape hybrid and Mariner hybrid sport utility vehicles. In addition to rebates, Ford is also spending on advertising campaigns, featuring Kermit the Frog, that tout the company’s commitment to hybrids. Meanwhile, ten states, including California and New York, plan to file suit this week to force the Bush administration to toughen mileage regulations for sport utility vehicles and other trucks. The suit, which the states are to announce on Tuesday, contends that the administration did not do a rigorous enough analysis of the environmental benefits of fuel economy regulations, as required by law, before issuing new rules last month for S.U.V.’s, pickup trucks and minivans. The suit will also claim that the government did not consider the impact of gasoline consumption on climate change when devising the new rules.
Despite massive increases in our wealth in the last 50 years our levels of happiness have not increased. “Standard of living has increased dramatically and happiness has increased not at all, and in some cases has diminished slightly,” said Professor Daniel Kahneman of the University of Princeton. “There is a lot of evidence that being richer… isn’t making us happier” The research suggests that richer countries do tend to be happier than poor ones, but once you have a home, food and clothes, then extra money does not seem to make people much happier. The BBC is starting a new program that will examine questions of happiness. More details on happiness here.
CG: i have info about the bromberg bluegrass jam in delaware.
email me at frenchylamour AT yahoo.com for location, time, etc.
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Bluegrass in Delaware?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
at the brandywine bistro, on king street, a block or so down the hill from the opera house. 8-10 PM. tonight.
Hmmm…Drinking Liberally or bluegrass…
I mean Both! It’s only 45 minutes away.
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BERLIN (AP) 1 hour ago — Two German engineers held hostage in Iraq since January have been released and are safe. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the men — Thomas Nitzschke and Rene Braeunlich, of Leipzig — were in a safe place in Iraq and were being cared for by German officials there. They were expected to return to Germany sometime Wednesday.
Nitzschke and Braeunlich were kidnapped Jan. 24 from an Iraqi government-owned detergent plant in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. Their employer, Leipzig-based Cryotec Anlagenbau AG, has a commercial relationship with that company.
● News: Deutsche Welle
≈ Cross-posted from my diary — Hitler Is Back! ≈
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Given the state of the nation and as a late response to Katiebird’s Diary Friday last as well as Streed Kid’s Medicare (D)isaster series…an exerpt from FDR’s STOU speech from 11 Jan. 1944: The Second Bill of Rights
Sounds like a pretty good Progressive Platform to me.
Peace
Berlusconi presented his resignation as Italian Prime Minister