The Bush Administration: Growing Worse by the Day (1)
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Admittedly, it’s hard to imagine the Bushies getting worse and worse by the day. But there is the illegal auto bail-out, using money appropriated for “financial institutions.” Next will be an implicit security guarantee for the Georgia, run by the authoritarian demagogue Mikheil Saakashvili–”Misha” to Sen. John “Crazy Warmonger” McCain. The U.S. and Georgia reportedly will be signing an agreement designating Georgia as a “strategic partner” on Sunday. It’s a crazy idea, as I argue ...
Aiding Palestinians as Israel Kills Them (1)
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Wow, this is a sensible policy. The U.S. supports Israel, which spends decades occupying, colonizing, and bombing Palestianian territory. Then the U.S. gives money to the Palestianians to help ameliorate the harm. Reports Reuters: The United States announced on Tuesday it would give $85 million to the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The announcement comes as the humanitarian situation is worsening in Hamas-ruled Gaza, ...
So Who is Getting All of the Taxpayers’ Cash? (1)
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Amazing. Not only are trillions of dollars being passed around to bail out any business with at least a couple congressmen on its side. But the government won’t tell us who is getting how much or what they are doing with it. And we still call the U.S. a democracy! Reports the Baltimore Sun: Last week the government dispatched more of your money into the abyss. Through its “Term Auction Facility,” the Federal Reserve lent ...
