| Author | Message | | Cowboy | |  | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: |
| | More neocon nonsense as per usual. | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: |
| And look how the Zionist Cowboy's 'surge' is working out so well (he doesn't care how many more Americans die/get horribly maimed for Israel in Iraq anyway):
5 US soldiers killed in Baghdad
By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago
A suicide bomber killed five American soldiers on a foot patrol Monday after detonating his explosives vest in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said, the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Iraq in more than a month.
Four of the soldiers died at the scene and the fifth died later from wounds, the military said in a statement. The blast also wounded three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter, the military said.
Military spokesman Maj. Mark Cheadle said that "it was reported to us as a suicide bomber."
An Iraqi police officer at the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said two civilians also were killed and another eight wounded in the attack.
It was the deadliest attack since Jan. 28, when five U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul.
Monday's deaths brought the number to 3,979 members of the U.S. military who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Meanwhile, a female suicide bomber on Monday killed the head of a local group of Sunni fighters northeast of Baghdad who had turned against al-Qaida insurgents, the leader's brother and a provincial police official said.
Sheik Thaeir Ghadhban al-Karkhi, his 5-year-old niece, a 24-year cousin and a security guard were killed in the blast in Diyala province, where violence has persisted despite drops in other parts of Iraq.
Duraid Mahmoud, the sheik's brother, told The Associated Press he witnessed the attack inside his brother's home. A provincial police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, confirmed the attack.
The woman, wearing an explosives belt, entered al-Karkhi's home in the predominantly Sunni town of Kanaan, 13 miles east of Baqouba.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But al-Qaida in Iraq has been targeting fellow Sunni Arabs who have taken up arms against the militants and joined the so-called awakening councils like the one al-Karkhi led.
The councils are made up of U.S.-backed former insurgents who have risen up against al-Qaida's brutality and strict Islamic codes of conduct it was trying to impose on local populations.
The U.S. military said it was looking into the incident but did not immediately have any details.
Mahmoud said the bomber had visited the sheik's house on Sunday, claiming that her husband had been kidnapped and asking for help. Mahmoud said his brother told the woman to return Monday.
"She came back this morning and nobody checked her. She had an appointment with the sheik and the guards told her to go and knock on his door," Mahmoud said.
The woman was ushered into the house and blew herself up once she got close to the sheik, he said, adding that the sheik's 5-year-old niece and a security guard were also killed.
One of the men wounded in the attack — the son of a cousin of the sheik — later died at the hospital, according to a hospital official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Hours after the attack, mourners packed al-Karkhi's home, weeping over the sheik's body, which had been wrapped in a blue blanket and placed in a black, wooden coffin.
Female suicide bombers have been involved in at least 19 attacks or attempted attacks since the war began, including the grisly bombings of two pet markets in Baghdad that killed nearly 100 people on Feb. 1.
A female suicide bomber last struck in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Feb. 17, detonating herself after soldiers fired three bullets at her. Causalities were disputed in that attack, with Iraqi officials saying four people were killed, while the U.S. military said only the bomber died.
In southern Iraq, the body of a doctor who was kidnapped on Sunday was found.
Dr. Khalid Nasir al-Miyahi, a neurologist working at a hospital in Basra, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen, police said. His body was found in a central area of the city.
According to figures from the Iraqi Health Ministry released earlier this year, 618 medical employees, including 132 doctors, as well as medics and other health care workers, have been killed nationwide since 2003. Professionals from many fields have been targeted in Iraq's violence.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of other medical personnel are believed to have fled to Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan region and neighboring countries.
Elsewhere, two nearly simultaneous attacks took place in Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood, one of the capital's most dangerous areas and a center for outlawed Shiite fighters.
The first attack was a roadside bomb that targeted an American patrol around 9:15 a.m., local time, police said. One civilian was wounded.
There was no immediate word on any American causalities; the military did not immediately respond to an e-mailed request for information.
The second attack took place five minutes later, when a parked car bomb detonated, wounding six civilians and damaging several nearby shops, police said.
___ | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
| Forwarded:
Michael wrote:
Subject: Re: Ron Paul on CNN today.
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:51:31 -0400 (EDT)
Ron Paul is #4 on the "most searched" list on Yahoo this morning.
Click on the link below that Anthony provided. Then, watch the video of Ron Paul on CNN, good stuff.
Let's get Ron Paul #1 on Yahoo so the whole world knows that Ron Paul is still in the Presidential race!
A lot could happen within the next 5 or 6 months, McCain just announced that he is ready to release his medical records to the media.
I am not hoping that he has anything wrong with his physical health. However, mentally & pschologically I do believe that McCain is Bi-Polar and is suffering from "Rectal-Cranial Inversion".
Nevermind "Si Se Puede"...."Viva La Revolucion!"
From Anthony:
Ron Paul for the long haul! The revolution has just begun.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ron_Paul_Im_not_likely_to_0310.html | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
| Ron Paul's message validated yet again:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080310/COMMENTARY/649045011/1012
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Portentous economic pile-up
March 10, 2008
By Arnaud de Borchgrave - The bursting of the housing bubble, which punctured the credit bubble, was a criminal enterprise at the outset, pooh-poohed at first by those who should have known better, that has now triggered a global economic crisis. The U.S. prison population is at an all-time high with 2.3 million behind bars, but the subprime con men and con women are enjoying the fruits of their scams.
Global estimates of laundered funds sheltered by individuals in offshore tax havens vary between $7 trillion and $12 trillion. Yet only three postage-stamp size countries — Andorra , Monaco and Liechtenstein — are still blacklisted as tax-dodging havens.
The "subprime" mortgage meltdown caused banks on both sides of the Atlantic to write down some $400 billion (Union Bank of Switzerland, or UBS, puts the final banking sector loss closer to $600 billion, which means scaling back lending by $2 trillion), and sent the dollar to an all-time low against the euro. It also put 2 million U.S. homeowners at risk of losing their homes, countless millions of others of losing 30 percent of the value of their real estate in 2008, pushed the price of oil above $100 a barrel, and gold to nearly $1,000 an ounce.
Harvard's Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury secretary (1998-2001) said subprime spawned the most serious crisis in housing since the Depression. Near worthless mortgage-backed securities were repackaged by greedy predatory operators to look like soul food for the brainless.
Collateral economic damage is huge — and keeps growing. Diminished borrowing capacity based on a home's value impacts consumer spending, and cuts in to the local tax base. But so far no dismissals of chief executive officers or cuts in executive compensation, even in banks that misjudged and lost billions.
UBS, the world's largest wealth manager, lost $19 billion (total exposure to subprime was closer to $30 billion) Singapore 's "Sovereign Wealth Fund" quickly pumped in $11.5 billion, earning the sobriquet of Union Bank of Singapore . The city-state assessed UBS as a good investment based on long-term growth estimates. UBS chairman and CEO, dour-faced Marcel Ospel ignored calls from 6,700 shareholders to resign, growled at his board — and kept his $25 million a year job. Citigroup is nursing its subprime wounds by preparing to lay off 25,000 employees.
Financial Times European editor John Thornhill, assessing why top earners in the risk business feel no pain, says, "what rankles are the undeserving wealthy who take risks with other people's money but never suffer the consequences."
Wounded and distressed, leading investment bankers moved, belatedly, to propose new guidelines on pay and bonuses to the "Institute of International Finance (IIF)," a global association of banks that met in Rio de Janeiro this week. The initiative was also designed to encourage a fresh look at $20 million to $50 million annual compensation packages for CEOs, and to discourage banks from huge cash bonuses to traders who take foolish bets to win a jackpot.
Wall Street CEOs quickly let it be known they would not agree to suspend multimillion-dollar compensation packages until subprime losses had been recovered "because it would take away Wall Street's competitive edge."
Federal criminal prosecutors are investigating whether securities firms booked inflated prices of mortgages despite knowing their true valuations. Rating firms are being investigated for assigning ratings that were too high for instruments backed by subprime mortgages. Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) were loaded with overvalued subprime — and passed on with the Triple-A seal of sound risk.
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank led a roster of banks that didn't take a bite out of the subprime apple — but global market turbulence still hit them. Fast-talking mortgage sharks assured millions not to worry about the fine print because the value of their purchase would be up 30 percent the first year. They even advanced the money for a down payment as small as 5 percent, or even no money down.
The administration's $168 billion stimulus program doesn't kick in until the checks go out in May. Tax rebates of up to $500 for individuals and $1,200 for couples filing jointly — or $300 for individuals who pay less than that in income taxes. All this does little to ease distressed homeowners but adds to the federal deficit.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told this reporter in early September the worst of the subprime crisis was now behind us. But it was just the beginning of a global financial tsunami. His predecessor at the Fed, Alan Greenspan, conceded he had seen "subprime" ripples coming but didn't think it was any big deal.
In early March, Mr. Bernanke moved to pre-empt Congress. He appealed to banks to forgive large chunks of mortgage loans to borrowers who can't afford to pay and/or those who owe more on their mortgages than the value of their houses.
Unless we learn from this crisis, says the English-speaking world's most read financial and economic columnist, Martin Wolf, "another will put the world economy back on to the rocks in the not-too-distant future." World food programs for the hungry in Darfur and other malnourished areas have already been hit by the hype for crop-based fuel, such as ethanol. Spurred by skyrocketing oil prices, farmers have begun switching from food to fuel, thus causing global shortages. And no one feels this more acutely than the Rome-based World Food Program that expects to feed 73 million people this year. But wheat prices soared 80 percent in the last year.
With 6 percent of the world's population, America 's prosperity in recent years has been its ability to borrow $2 billion to $3 billion a day from the rest of the world in return for Treasury paper to maintain the world's highest standard of living, which, in turn, is based on conspicuous consumption at a time of growing world shortages.
Clearly, a new paradigm is needed — but it's not in the cards. We are simply told to go out and spend more. But what happens if most of us decide to send our tax rebate checks to the bank or pay down credit card debt instead of buying, say, cheap toys made in China for the kids? Or a new keyboard made in Taiwan for the PC? The law of unintended consequences beckons.
Several major kicks are on the way. It is, after all, the worst financial crunch since the Great Depression. And talk about "change" won't hack it.
Some 10 million American homeowners will have no equity left in their houses by year's end, according to Merrill Lynch estimates. That can only enhance the Democrats' fortunes in November.
New Deal for the 21st century? The stakes are high.
Arnaud de Borchgrave is editor at large of The Washington Times and of United Press International. | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
| | Quote: | | Ron Paul is #4 on the "most searched" list on Yahoo this morning. |
And still he has just 14 delegates out of 2,381, none of those from actual primary voting.
 | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: |
| It's OK to admit Cowboy that Paul's issues are over your head and beyond your comprehension (That much is obvious) since you refuse to even discuss them. Paul has already admitted that McKeating is the presumptive nominee and yet all you do is spam the same old shit over and over again to avoid his issues. They are still relevant from the falling dollar, deficits, monetary policies and the foibles of war and intervention. 5 Marines killed today, that must have made your heart jump for joy.
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