It's a relief knowing that Obama will be taking the reigns come January.
On how much change he can bring is a different matter.

In the House & Senate, Republicans took a beating. Most of the senators who lost their seats were moderate republicans. The  hard right & fundy conservatives are left standing. How this kind of vitriolic political party will ( Read more... )

536,000,000,000: the number of dollars the Pentagon is requesting for the 2009 military budget. This represents an increase of almost 70% over the Pentagon's 2001 budget of $316 billion - and that's without factoring in "supplementary" requests to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ( Read more... )

I love it when this happens.

All that hard work in setting up the fall guy, and some idiot Brigadier General blows the whole charade.

• Article entitled by Tonkin Gulf II and the Guns of August - by Pat Buchanen

"Iran has no interest in a war with the United States, which it seems to be toying with. Iran supports the pro-American Shia regime in Baghdad ( Read more... )

Wow...

FBI to restrict student freedoms
Submitted by Canada IFP on Sun, 2007-06-24 06:58.
US university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the ( Read more... )

Bush pens Presidential Directive and Homeland Security Directive stating that there will be a cooperative effort among the three branches of Government that will be coordinated by the President in the event of catastrophic emergency. The appointment of 'National Co-ordinator' does not require approval of Congress.

Mossad Agent Adam Pearlman posing ( Read more... )

What a load of fear-mongering Orwellian horse shit.

Contingencies for Nuclear Terrorist Attack and Response plans??
Recommendations to build residential bomb shelters???
Drafting plans on restricting citizen mobility?

"Fred Ikle, a former Defense Department official in the Reagan administration who authored a book last year urging attack preparation ( Read more... )

"In his book Mordakte Hariri. Unterdruckte Spuren im Libanon (The Hariri File: Silenced Evidence in Lebanon) German journalist Jurgen Cain Kulbel makes a strong case for the United States and Israeli link to the Hariri assassination.

The major revelation in the book is that the static emitters of Mr Hariri's convoy, normally capable of preventing ( Read more... )

An interesting term coined (? - not sure, but first I've heard of it being used - 5th Paragraph from end) - from this article  on the movements of American Defence contracters, and why they won't be shipping out of Iraq any time soon.

Putting it in context, established first world powers now be plunderin' by way of rebuilding infrastructure; a ( Read more... )