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Posted: Sat Feb 10th, 2007 12:12 pm

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17011.htm

Filibuster to End the War Now!

It Only Takes 41 Senate Votes to End the War. Republicans Show the Way.

By John V. Walsh

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Duplicity

acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

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Posted: Sat Feb 10th, 2007 07:37 pm

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http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

After Downing Street is a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that launched the war and to hold accountable its architects, including through censure and impeachment. More About Us.... -- Speakers Available...

http://www.pdamerica.org/

71-Member Congressional Progressive Caucus Says End the War in 6 Months
February 7, 2007, Washington, DC

http://www.gp.org/

Green Party to Congress: Assert constitutional war powers, stop Bush from attacking Iran

http://www.democrats.com/

In contempt of the majority of Americans who want Bush to be impeached, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leaders in Congress insist impeaching Bush is "off the table." Why? Because they are afraid of the vicious backlash from Bush supporters led by FOX.

http://www.grandmothersforpeace.org/directory/chapters/us-ny-new.york.city/

http://www.grannypeacebrigade.org/

Who We Are: When a group of 18 women ages 59 to 91, many of us grandmothers, tried to enlist in the United States military on October 17, 2005 The Granny Peace Brigade was born. We asked to enlist in order to replace grandchildren who had been deployed in Iraq unnecessarily. We wanted our young people to come home while they were still alive and whole, to have the same opportunity for enjoying a long life as we have had. However, we were denied access and were arrested and jailed. After a six-day trial, we were acquitted of all charges, which was an affirmation of the legality of non-violent protest. That was the beginning.

http://www.hiphopcaucus.org/

President of the Hip Hop Caucus, Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. said yesterday: “We have taken a disastrous turn in this country by putting military needs before human needs. People are literally dying from federal budget decisions that the administration has advocated for and Congress has approved. It is time for a government that is passionate about humanity and puts people and the health of our planet first.

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

Let's Make It a Million!
[font=""][font=""][font=""][font=""]853077 :
[font=""]the number of people
who have already voted
in the referendum
to Impeach Bush!

http://www.notinourname.net/index.html

3,000 U.S. troops dead in Iraq. Not in Our Name. January 1, 2007

http://geocities.com/brooklyngreens/

-- The fight against the Bush/Ashcroft destruction of the Constitution and the disappearing of immigrants (much good work is being done here by the South Asian group DRUM, with whom we hope to be working closer with; they've approached us about working with them and we intend to do so)

http://www.nygreens.org/index.htm

http://www.gsfp.org/

We as families of soldiers who have died as a result of war are organizing to be a positive force in our world to bring our countrys sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the human cost of this war, and to prevent other families from the pain we are feeling as the result of our losses.

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3846&Itemid=5

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Posted: Sun Feb 11th, 2007 05:01 am

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http://pressesc.com/01171128822_top_5_anti_war_posters

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Posted: Sun Feb 11th, 2007 05:03 am

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Why?

Power - Dependence

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Posted: Mon Feb 12th, 2007 03:06 pm

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts195.html

The World Can Halt Bush’s Crimes by Dumping the Dollar

by Paul Craig Roberts

This should be good!

If the rest of the world would simply stop purchasing US Treasuries, and instead dump their surplus dollars into the foreign exchange market, the Bush Regime would be overwhelmed with economic crisis and unable to wage war. The arrogant hubris associated with the "sole superpower" myth would burst like the bubble it is.

Think for a moment - please.

When the dollar is dumped (on purpose I might add) what will YOU use for CURRENCY?

Having power-independence will solve any of your currency problems but your power-independence will not solve your neighbors power-dependence problems.

Think about that and consider the wisdom of creating an over supply of power - just in case.

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Posted: Wed Feb 14th, 2007 12:00 pm

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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=212762007

The power of currency?

"Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that's exactly what our government did," the California Democrat said during a hearing reviewing possible waste, fraud and abuse of funds in Iraq.

Linked from here:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/chartier/chartier62.html

Invest Wisely! Buy… Copper?

by Tom Chartier

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Posted: Fri Feb 16th, 2007 05:28 pm

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Statement on the Iraq War Resolution
Before the U.S. House of Representatives February 14, 2007

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Posted: Sun Feb 18th, 2007 04:55 pm

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We just need one person to introduce the bill with courage, integrity, principles, and of course a safe seat.

As is very clear if you have been following the debate over the so-called ‘surge’ you have moral cowards and hypocrites like Senator Biden saying well we basically have to go along with the President because he has all the power. Which is ridiculous. Anyone who has studied the situation knows two things: One, the Congress has the power of the purse and can terminate the surge and terminate the war immediately if it so desires. I’m very happy to see Senator Feingold introducing his legislation to do exactly that. That’s what we need to support, not these cop outs by Senator Kennedy or what Biden is doing or Hagel or the rest of them. We need to cut off the funding. That was the way the Vietnam War, Cambodia, Laos Wars were all ended.

Second, building on the Nixon precedent, use impeachment: We need to pursue both prongs simultaneously. The same thing happened with Nixon. Congressman Bob Drinan, a friend of mine recently deceased, introduced the first bill to impeach Nixon over his bombing of Cambodia. So we have two prongs here, cutting of the funds, which Senator Feingold is starting and impeachment which must be started in the House. We need a member of Congress willing to put in bills certainly against Bush and Cheney and try to head this attack against Iran off, to do the best we can under the circumstances.

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It is happening; quickening to war.

The paid propagandists on television are regurgitating lies and spreading hate and discontent aimed directly at IRAN. This is happening, quickening, now.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
Defiant Iran

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
U.S. Seeks Sanctions on IRAN

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/
U.N. Iran still enriching uranium

http://www.nytimes.com/
Son of Key Iraq Shiite Arrested at Iran’s Border

OK; that looks calm. At my house last night (Feb, 22 2007) the T.V. was broadcasting the IRAN demonizing song like the sirens in the Odyssey.

http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/sirens.htm

http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/harpies.htm

Harpies perhaps

Anyway the leash on the dogs of war (a war in progress, congress, and the media) is merely public opinion and the total some of human conscience (such as it is).

Example:
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2281370.ece

Patrick Cockburn: First, the US deluded itself about the war, then about the source of the weapons
Published: 18 February 2007
It all adds up one way or the other.

The future is not set in stone; it is as yet to be done.

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Posted: Sun Feb 25th, 2007 04:55 pm

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http://www.bnamericas.com/story.jsp?idioma=I&sector=9&noticia=383037

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez and his Argentine counterpart Néstor Kirchner will launch drilling on the Ayacucho 6 block in the former country's Orinoco extra-heavy crude belt, Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA said in a statement.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2007/02/19/en_pol_art_19A836937.shtml

Kirchner is scheduled to arrive late Tuesday in Venezuela, where he is staying for 24 hours. His activities will be focused on projects related to the heavy-crude oil Orinoco belt. In this scenario, Venezuela and Argentina are to reinforce energy ties, as Argentine state oil firm Enarsa is to operate in the 55,000 km2 area with estimated reserves of 1.3 trillion barrels of extra-heavy crude oil, AFP reported.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1434540.ece

February 25, 2007

US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack

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Some of us remember 1970, Madam Secretary. And that was Cambodia. And when our government lied to the American people and said, “We didn’t cross the border going into Cambodia,” in fact we did.
I happen to know something about that, as do some on this committee. So, Madam Secretary, when you set in motion the kind of policy that the President is talking about here, it’s very, very dangerous.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/04/15/world/main184477.shtml

Remembering the Killing Fields

NEW YORK, April, 2000

Some hope an international war crimes tribunal can help answer some of those questions.

Prevention?

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/quote67.htm

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/022707.html

Bush Faces Opposition on Iran Attack

By Robert Parry
February 27, 2007

That practice and the 24-hour window may help explain why several U.S. generals are pondering now how to stop Bush from blindsiding them with a new war. One of their tactics appears to be leaking indications of their strong opposition to the press.

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Confessions are good for something

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FUNDING FOR AN ATTACK ON IRAN

URGENT ACTION NEEDED

Last night, Rep. Pelosi and the democratic leadership decided to pull language from the Supplemental Appropriations bill which stated that no funds may be authorized for military operations in or related to Iran unless specifically authorized by the Congress.

We DO have a chance to reverse this in committee, but we urgently need you to send action alerts to your constituents and make phone calls TODAY AND TOMORROW (TUESDAY, MARCH 13, AND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14).

TOLL FREE NUMBER FOR CONGRESS
(800) 828-0498
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(202) 224-3121

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt266.html

Please read the above while I quote words from further back in American history:

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

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The AIPAC Girl

By Pat Buchanan

03/20/07 "CS" -- -- If George W. Bush launches a pre-emptive war on Iran, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will bear full moral responsibility for that war.

If Bush now launches war on Iran, he can credibly say Congress and the Democrats gave him a green light. For Pelosi, by removing a provision saying Bush does not have the authority, de facto concedes he does have the authority.

Bush and Cheney need now not worry about Congress.

They have been flashed the go sign for war on Iran.

Pelosi & Co. thus aborted a bipartisan effort to ensure that if we do go to war again, we do it the constitutional way, and we do it together.

Nothing in the provision would have prevented Bush, as commander in chief, from responding to an Iranian attack or engaging in hot pursuit of an enemy found in Iraq. Nor would the provision have prevented Bush from threatening Iran. It would simply have required him to come to Congress — before launching all-out war.

Now Pelosi has, in effect, ceded Bush carte blanche to take out Iran's nuclear facilities. It's all up to him and Cheney.

For this the nation elected a Democratic Congress?

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Posted: Tue Mar 20th, 2007 05:33 pm

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The struggle for oil is not the struggle we are losing

By Nathan Allonby

The issue here is excessive consumption - and this is a moral issue. Do not be fooled into thinking this is merely an economic problem.

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The USA's Global Resource War

“The Epic Struggle for World Hegemony”

By Nigel H Maund

Because of its failure to: adapt and reduce the massive over-consumption of and dependence upon resources; develop its rail and alternative infrastructure to roads; and the lopsided structure of its car and truck driven economy, the US has quite literally no other option.

That is false.

http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904

Above is an example of one 'other option'.

More examples of 'other optoins':

http://www.perfecteconomy.com/index.html

Above are a few pecuniary (currency) options, in comparison to the dollar, that expose the dollar as nothing more or less than a plague on human society.

Below is one of many current fuel alternatives:

http://hytechapps.com/

Below is one of many transportation 'options':

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/

The decline and elimination of the dollar hegemony is inevitable; however - the only ones who stand to lose during its exposure as evil, its decline, and its fall are those who depend upon its falsehood.

Those who are injured by "it" ("it" being the people acting in support and profiting from dollar hegemony) will be free from it leaving a need to replace the vacuum left by that falsehood with a new and challenging opportunity for producing, investing, supporting, and maintaining accurate and true currencies of all forms; media, energy, language, and monetary currency.

Omissions added to error:

The wasteful policies and poor technology of a juvenile industry, combined with the rapid development of the US economy as the world’s largest by the mid 1930’s, meant that the US’s best oil fields were not exploited in the optimum manner to maximize production. The majority of these fields were over-pumped and ruined. By the end of WW2, during which the US had to open the oil spigot to the maximum to support the war effort in the US and UK, US oil fields were in steady decline having passed “Hubbert’s Peak”. The realization came home to Harry S Truman and Winston Churchill that the new oil “centre of gravity” was the Middle East. Control of Middle Eastern oil became vital to the global strategies of both nations, in the cold war era, as it was pivotal to the survival of their economies, political influence and the survival of the “free world”.

Before and during WWII Standard Oil of New Jersey and I.G. Farben of German were companies of people who developed a method of synthesizing fuel. The process was called 'hydrogenization'.

That process created much of the fuel used by the Nazi War Machine and American business INTERESTS financed this market in Germany by purchasing the rights to NOT produce synthetic fuel anywhere else in the world.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=hydrogenization+I.G.+Farben

Google makes it look like I made this shit up.

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Paul: Fortunately it always gets challenged; the unfortunate thing is that it’s always very late. We’re getting to the bottom of the truth. People spoke out in elections. Now there’s a different party in charge. There are going to be more investigations. But the real tragedy is that a lot of people die in the meantime. We finally found out that the Gulf of Tonkin was all fudged, and yet we lost 60,000 men. Now we have the misinformation, that’s a generous term, about getting us involved in Iraq. We’ve lost a lot of people, and literally hundreds of thousands are applying for disability. And it goes on and on.

To me, it is a real tragedy. The media, if they’re not in conspiracy to promote war, they’re not doing a very good job by asking questions. And nobody knows what their intent really is. Sometimes the media and big industry are very often the same company.

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