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    Somehow this just doesn't

    surprise me. We have to give special treatment to illegal mexican immigrants but they imprison, abuse and even

    outright kill people in their country illegally!


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060418/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_mistreating_m

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    A quick shot of comic

    relief...

    Ben & Jerry's sorry for Irish "Black &

    Tan" upset


    Frigging ridiculous.
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    This is probably more of a

    disgrace to music than anything

    else:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060427/...ational_anthem
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    Default Demonstrations for immigrant (illegal) rights?

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_immigration_conting

    ency_dc


    What an idiotic idea! These people, many of them guests in this country and others illegal, are

    going to demonstrate for rights? First off, they are hurting their cause by trying to blackmail the government and

    people of this country. And it is blackmail! You don't do what we want and we're going to cause this damage. That

    action alone is good cause and reason to deport every illegal and guest worker that demonstrates.

    Look at the

    issue closely. First, illegal immigrants have the right to humane treatment during deportation and by any other

    peson in this country, nothing more. Check the laws for yourself. You can't enslave them, beat them and so forth.

    But they are here ILLEGALLY!!!! They are breaking the law by their very presence in this country. Now they want the

    laws changed to make their illegal act legal? I personally do not want anybody here that has already flaunted the

    laws of this country. It tells me they'll do it again, and again, and again and so on. Legalize them and you'll

    show them that they can break the laws with impunity. What do we have laws for?

    The second place is the guest

    workers. They have other, greater rights which have to be honored. Fair pay and no discrimination for housing and

    such. However, they have no political franchise either. They do not have the right to demonstrate and make demands.

    They are guests in this country. As such, they are welcome to leave any time they do not like the way we run our

    country. But they have no right to make demands.

    I do think these demonstrations are an ideal opportunity

    though. Some National Guardsmen checking IDs would solve a lot of the problems involved in rounding up illegal

    immigrants. It also would give us a good list of guest workers that need their status reviewed.

    Bottom line here

    is that if you want to be in this country earn the privilage! Follow the procedures and become a legal guest worker

    or immigrant. Then demonstrate that you want to become a citizen and go through the procedures like everybody else.

    But don't try to blackmail your way into this country. All that's doing is making a lot of people mad.
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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    Default Not my opinion, only sharing something sent to me.

    A Fearsome

    Eagle

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    ]Read all of this one, it is interesting!! Read down to the very bottom

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    , you don't want to miss this!





    VERY

    INTERESTING -

    1. The garden of Eden was in Iraq .

    2. Mesopotamia, which is now

    Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!



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    Noah built the ark in Iraq .

    4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq .

    5. Abraham was from Ur, which

    is in Southern Iraq !

    6. Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq !

    7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq

    .

    8. Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq .

    9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes

    of Israel .

    10. Amos cried out in Iraq !

    11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroy ed Jerusalem .

    12.

    Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq !

    13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been

    in Iraq also as the fourth person in the fiery furnace!)

    14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on

    the wall" in Iraq .

    15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq .

    16. Ezekiel

    preached in Iraq .

    17. The wis e men were from Iraq .

    18. Peter preached in Iraq .

    19. The "Empire of

    Man" described in Revelation is called Babylon, which was a city

    in




    Iraq[COL

    OR=maroon] !

    And you have probably seen this one. Israel is the nation most often mentioned

    in the Bible. But do you know which nation is second? It is Iraq ! However, that is not the name that is used in the

    Bible. The names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia. The word Mesopotamia means between

    the two rivers, more exactly between the
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    Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The name Iraq, means country with deep roots.

    Indeed Iraq is a country

    with deep roots and is a very significant country in the Bible.

    No other nation, except Israel, has more history

    and prophecy associated it than Iraq

    And also... This is something to think about! Since America is typically

    represented by an eagle. Saddam should have read up on his Muslim passages...

    The following verse is from the

    Koran, (the Islamic Bible)


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    Koran ( 9:11 )

    - For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt

    throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the

    wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.


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    =Verdana]
    (Note the verse number!) Hmmmmmmm?!
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    Weekend Edition
    June 3 / 4,

    2006
    The Controlled Demolition of the Dollar
    Swan Song for the Greenback?


    By MIKE WHITNEY

    The great

    dollar sell-off has begun in earnest, although to a large extent, it's being concealed from the public.

    Wary

    currency traders have been expecting a dollar-slide for months but were nervous about the possibility of widespread

    panic. Everyone from Bill Gates to Paul Volcker has predicted that the current trade deficit of $800 billion (7% of

    GDP) would inevitably produce a weaker dollar, so it is only natural that China, Japan and other foreign lenders

    would begin to cut back on their purchases. The danger to the United States, however, remains extreme. If the

    transition doesn't go smoothly, it could precipitate a run on the dollar and trigger economic pandemonium. No one

    wants to see the world's economic powerhouse pirouetting through the ether in flames. By the same token, no one

    wants to be the last man holding onto stockpiles of scrip that are diminishing in value.

    The delicacy of the

    situation explains the sudden appointment of Henry Paulson as Treasury Secretary. Paulson is a brainy insider who

    has the bone fides to manage a very tricky "retreat" from the dollar. America's economic future will depend heavily

    on his ability to steer the ship of state through troubled waters.

    As we said, there was no doubt that China,

    Japan and others would eventually reduce their dollar-holdings as America's debt continued to mount. What is

    surprising though is that a sell-off did not occur earlier when Bush enshrined his reckless tax cuts and profligate

    spending as "permanent". The administration's fondness for living beyond its means has never been in doubt, now

    greenback will pay the price for Bush's excessiveness.

    Of course, Bush is not the main scoundrel in this

    morality play. The Federal Reserve has weakened the dollar enormously by engineering one monetary-coup after

    another. Greenspan's "cheap money" policy has created massive equity bubbles that appear whenever interest rates

    are absurdly low. When the stock market crashed in the late 90s, millions of working class people lost their

    retirement and life savings overnight, while wealthy insiders walked away unscathed. Undaunted by the economic

    carnage he produced, Greenspan again lowered interest rates to a ridiculous 1% in 2001 which created a $9 trillion

    housing bubble, "the largest equity bubble of all time" (says "The Economist"). Now, as interest rates inch higher,

    the housing industry is lumbering towards the power-lines and certain death. The effects on the world economy will

    be catastrophic.

    Under Greenspan, the money supply expanded at an unbelievable rate. "From 1982 to 1992, it went

    from a "modest" 8% year-on-year expansion. However, from 1992 to 2002 it moved into overdrive with the deregulation

    of global markets with a year-on-year expansion of more than 12%. Since the 2002 post 9/11 crash, the money supply

    has been expanding at greater than 15%"; more than doubling in less than a decade. ("Fiat and Credit" Nigel

    Maund)

    Now there are signs that foreign lenders are tired of the weakening dollar and are reducing their

    stockpiles of greenbacks and dollar-denominated securities. The Gold Forecaster reports in its recent article "The

    US Dollar and its Prospects":

    "Last month saw the U.K. and Caribbean Banks buy a disproportionately large

    amount of U.S. Treasury assets. It appears that this is part of an international dollar liquidity management

    program. If this is correct the two centers will buy even more from now on, as other foreigners reduce their

    purchases of the U.S.dollar."

    This means that China and Japan have begun to reduce their purchases of US

    Treasuries but, surprisingly, some mysterious third party has begun to pick up the slack.

    Who is crazy enough to

    increase their dollar-holdings when most analysts are predicting a loss in value?

    Apparently, the Bush

    administration (along with the Federal Reserve) is purchasing its own debt (Treasuries) to control the rate at which

    the dollar declines. It's a good strategy, but it can't last forever.

    If the dollar began a sudden nosedive,

    central banks around the world would quickly ditch their stockpiles and ignite a global-economic firestorm. By

    purchasing its own debt, the US hopes to engineer a "soft landing" while maintaining its status as the world's

    "reserve currency".

    As the world's reserve currency, the Fed can simply print money which the rest of the world

    accepts as payment for its manufactured goods and resources. It's the slickest deal on earth. As one admiring

    currency-trader said, "It's like having a mint in your own backyard."

    The system was put in place after the vast

    devastation of World War 2 and has made the Federal Reserve the de-facto steward of the global economic system.

    Nearly 70% of the reserves in foreign central banks are either dollars or dollar-denominated securities. This is as

    close to a monopoly as it gets.

    The expansion of the dollar is the greatest fiat-money experiment in history. The

    awesome power of the greenback extends to all markets, and yet, is completely disconnected from the traditional

    means of measuring value, like the gold standard.

    It's clear that Bush believes that the dollar can survive

    "devaluation" if the US is able to control the vast oil resources in the Middle East. Foreign countries will be

    forced to use the dollar in their oil purchases regardless of the staggering trade deficits. The dollar's value

    will continue to be pegged to oil while its future will increasingly depend on the military's success in Iraq and,

    potentially, Iran. Needless to say, the results are far from certain.

    Even if the administration's plans in the

    Middle East succeed, there are stormy times ahead for the greenback. The United States has reached an unsustainable

    level of debt in government, business and personal finances. Personal savings are down, mortgage payments are up,

    and credit card debt is higher than ever. The entire country is mired in swamp of red ink for which there is no easy

    remedy.

    James Shepherd, President of JAS MTS Inc. puts it this way:

    "A perfect storm is developing and much of

    this danger has to do with debt. When a saturation point of debt and leverage is reached, even a minor dislocation

    can cause a dramatic collapse.Debtors are always punished more severely in a declining economy because, as activity

    subsides, they are less able to service their debt and the value of the assets that have collateralized are also

    falling. Once those that own real estate realize that their neighbors cannot service their mortgages and are forced

    to sell at almost any price, thereby driving down the perceived value of their own property, the conditions

    necessary for a full-fledged debt-driven meltdown will be in place a severe recession - is about to sweep over the

    landscape and blow away those who are not prepared."

    The predictions of Warren Buffett, Chairman of Berkshire

    Hathaway, are equally sobering:

    "There are deep-rooted structural problems that will cause America to continue to

    run a huge current-account deficit unless trade policies either change materially or the dollar declines by a degree

    that could prove unsettling to financial markets. Indeed, without policy changes, currency markets could become

    disorderly and generate spill-over effects, both political and financial." (Quotes form Dudley Baker, "Ominous

    Warnings and Dire Predictions of World's Financial Experts")

    "Could the falling dollar lead to "political

    turmoil", as Buffett suggests?

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation (O.E.C.D.) has joined skeptics at the

    IMF in predicting that the dollar will fall by 35% to 50% in order to balance current account deficits. These are

    modest predictions given the enormous amount of debt the US has accumulated in just the last 6 years. ($3 trillion)

    Consider how life for the average American will change when gas is $6 per gallon rather than $3; when groceries

    skyrocket to twice their normal price, and when life-savings are cut in half overnight.

    The greenback is now

    facing its greatest challenge due to its massive account imbalances, reckless mismanagement, and erosion in

    confidence. The only way the dollar can slow its downward slide is by maintaining its stranglehold on the oil trade.

    Currently, oil is sold exclusively in dollars which allows the US to float trillions of greenbacks through the

    system without fear of them being cashed in. Unfortunately, there's rebellion among the vassals. Iran (5.4% daily

    world oil output) Venezuela (5.2% daily world oil output) and Russia (15.3% daily world oil output) are all

    threatening to abandon the dollar in their oil transactions which would send hundreds of billions of dollars back to

    the US and plunge the country into a deep recession. If this mutiny succeeds, the dollar will vanish in a poof of

    black smoke.

    Abolishing the M-3

    In late March, 2006 the Federal Reserve ceased publishing the M-3, the

    indicator of how many dollars are currently in circulation. This removes all the reliable data on the dollar's

    value. Now, the public has no way of knowing what is going on with its own currency. This lack of transparency will

    be disastrous for the dollar as the use of money is predicated on confidence. By making their activities as opaque

    as possible, the Fed has undermined the publics' trust and added to the anxiety in the markets.

    America's

    biggest lenders in Europe and Asia are now expected to calculate the value of the dollar without the statistical

    tools they need to make a reasoned judgment.

    That does not inspire confidence.

    How long will countries

    continue to loan money to a nation that takes a "trust me" attitude, especially when the government is as widely

    distrusted as the Bush administration. The removal of the M-3 may seem like a short-term fix to obscure the

    machinations of the Fed, but over time it will be seen as a costly mistake.

    Paulson to the

    Rescue

    Newly-appointed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been given the daunting task of closing ranks with

    the Federal Reserve and supervising an "orderly devaluation" of the dollar. There's great concern that a "sudden

    disorderly adjustment" will precipitate a run on the dollar, traumatizing the markets and sending the economy into a

    tailspin. Regrettably, there are no easy choices; the dollar is losing air, and fast. The accumulated weight of

    unfunded tax cuts, extravagant military expenses, personal debt, and global trade imbalances have taken a

    wrecking-ball to the greenback and left little room for hope. Paulson's job is to turn the dollar's downfall into

    a "controlled demolition" rather than a full-system meltdown.
    Give truth a chance.

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    I keep saying you can't really

    tell the tow parties apart. Getting a bit more blatant though.
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

    Thomas Jefferson

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    Default Gender differences

    Gene study shows sex differences go deep Fri Jul 7, 2006



    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of genes behave differently in the same organs of

    males and females, researchers reported on Friday, a finding that may help explain why men and women have different

    responses to drugs and diseases.

    Their study of brain, liver, fat and

    muscle tissue from mice showed that gene expression -- the level of activity of a gene -- varied greatly according

    to sex.

    The same is almost certainly true of humans, the team at the

    University of California Los Angeles reported.

    "This research holds

    important implications for understanding disorders such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity, and identifies

    targets for the development of gender-specific therapies," said Jake Lusis, a professor of human genetics who worked

    on the study.

    Writing in the August issue of Genome Research, the

    researchers said that even in the same organ, scores of genes varied in expression levels between the

    sexes.

    The smallest differences were in brain tissue, they

    found.

    "We saw striking and measurable differences in more than half of

    the genes' expression patterns between males and females," said Dr. Thomas Drake, a professor of pathology. "We

    didn't expect that. No one has previously demonstrated this genetic gender gap at such high

    levels."

    Xia Yang, a postdoctoral fellow in cardiology who led the

    study, said the implications are important.

    "Males and females share

    the same genetic code, but our findings imply that gender regulates how quickly the body can convert DNA to

    proteins," Yang said in a statement. "This suggests that gender influences how disease

    develops."

    In liver tissue, the findings imply male and female livers

    function the same, but at different rates.

    "Our findings in the liver

    may explain why men and women respond differently to the same drug," Lusis said.

    "Studies show that aspirin is more effective at preventing heart attack in men than women. One gender may

    metabolize the drug faster, leaving too little of the medication in the system to produce an

    effect."

    Yang added, "Many of the genes we identified relate to

    processes that influence common diseases. This is crucial, because once we understand the gender gap in these

    disease mechanisms, we can create new strategies for designing and testing new sex-specific drugs.
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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