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On Labor Day, A Los Angeles Times Article States The Need Of Renewing The Contract With The Middle Class: America Needs To Renew Its Understanding That America Can Prosper Only By Strengthening Its Middle Class - Not By Syphoning Wealth Away From It. (September 3rd, 2008)
Input on CCS policies kindly requested and welcomed (with new attachment) (August 28th, 2008)
An Obama Presidency Will Have The Markings Of A Real Watershed Writes The Independent - It Will Be More Then The 1960 Start Of Camelot that had its Base in the FDR/Truman Era. The Overwhelming Sense Today is that American Conservatism Has run its course, bankrupt in ideology and devoid of leaders. All through the Reagan/Bush era, Ted Kennedy toiled away on Capitol Hill, defending liberal values when they could not have been more out of fashion; Now Ted has passed the torch to whom he sees as a New Kennedy. (August 27th, 2008)
Brazil Is Clearly Becoming Also A Cinematography Great - And There Are Several Reasons For This As The Just Concluded New York Film Festival Has Proven. (August 20th, 2008)
On The 63rd Anniversary of Japan’s Surrender, Cabinet Trio Visit the Yasukuni Shrine that Served as Japan’s Spiritual Pillar During WWII - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Touched on the Japan’s Wartime Responsibility to its neighbors and Renewed the Nation’s Pledge to never Again Wage War. (August 16th, 2008)
UPDATED - The Strasbourg parliament - on hold for now: MEPs shift to Brussels after ceiling collapse. The Ceiling of the European Parliament’s Strasbourgh Hemicycle - or Main Hall for the Meetings of The Parliamentarians - Collapsed on August 7th. The Question Is if This Is A Symbol Of Russia’s Muscles-Flexing? Jokes Aside, The Crash of the Strasbourg Ceiling Forces The Parliament To Do The Right Thing and Stay in Brussels. This Should Be Made PERMANENT. (August 13th, 2008)
Maria Rita in Concert in Central Park, New York and Bossa Nova Memories: Movies at Tribeca Cinemas and an Upcoming Event at the UN. The Progress of Brazil. (August 12th, 2008)
Countering US Conservatives Dribble - The Progresives, backed by DOE and Serious Business - State: The recession is reducing oil demand. On coastal drilling, DOE says leasing would begin no sooner than 2012, and production would not be expected to start before 2017. So (August 6th, 2008)
Oil prices have retreated - Energy consumption is falling across the industrial world - Americans drove about 10 billion miles less in May than they did in the same month last year. Nevertheless, Developing Countries are growing faster than rich nations, and Their Increase In Demand for Oil Was 1.1 million barrels/day vs. the Decrease for Oil of 1,0 miilion barrels/day in the Old Industrialized Countries. 48 countries subsidize oil prices according to IMF and this will keep the demand high. (August 2nd, 2008)
Ban Ki-moon Sees In His Report to the UN Security Council an Improvement In The Situation In Iraq, and the UN, With the Help of Spanish “Clowns Without Borders,” Teaches Now Iraqis in Damascus, How To Laugh Again. The Arab States Will Forgive Saddam’s Debts, And Who Knows - Will The US Read This and Declare Victory and Leave? (August 2nd, 2008)
Martin Feldstein, former Chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, on JapanTimes.com, Explains The Problems With The US Dependence on Oil and The Fact That The World Will Not Support This Addiction Without Driving Down Much Further The Value Of The Dollar. (July 25th, 2008)
The Press and the Bradwurst - in Berlin and in Ohio - with and without Obama. The Substitute, In Columbus, Ohio, McCain eats at Schmidt’s Restaurant und Sausage Haus where he could shake voter’s hands. (July 25th, 2008)
US Congress Looks Into Possible Internet Colussion - Alliances Impacting Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Investor Carl Icahn Is Also Looking Here For Potential Gains. (July 16th, 2008)
UPDATED: Polish Solidarity leader Professor Bronislaw Geremek, Liberal Member of the European Parliament, dies in car accident in Lubien, Western Poland. (July 15th, 2008)
On America’s Independence Day - How, in secret, Zoelick trips G8’s Fukuda - Earth Planet Beware - The US, the Arab States, the UN, now the World Bank, talk high but want you immersed in oil and coal emissions and radioactive. (July 4th, 2008)
Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Former Congressman and New Senator, Has Beccome Leader on Issues of Climate Policy: Energy Efficiency and Public Transit. (July 3rd, 2008)
Liberal EU Parliament leader Graham Watson expresses dismay at socialist populism by European socialists (notably PASOK President George A. Papandreou and Austrian Chancellor Gusenbauer) demanding referendums on changes to the Treaty. (July 3rd, 2008)
UPDATED: Without Backing From Venezuela or Ecuador, FARC Must Now Think of the End Game: Colombia Just Rescued 15 Captives Including Ingrid Betancourt and Three Americans. This Is A Present To President Bush, to Visiting Republican Contender McCain, and to Peace in Latin America. (July 3rd, 2008)
Rachel Maddow about the Occupation of Iraq - “If you don’t want to be seen as a colonial power, you stop acting like one.” Bill Moyer and Michael Winship Preach about Iraq - “It Was Oil, All Along.” On www.SustainabiliTank.info we said for years - If It Started For Other Reasons, and that was right, but The US Stayed In Iraq For Oil. (June 30th, 2008)
Michael Scheuer Wrote “Marching Toward Hell” and Presented The Book Before The Washington DC Middle East Institute and on C-Span TV. His Thesis is That Only The Fact That The US Insisted On Not Developing Alternatives To Oil Caused It The Involvement In Middle East Fightings That It Decided To Lose. Good Conservatives Think Of What Is Good For Americans First - And Not Having The Freedom What Fights To Pick Is Not Good. (June 28th, 2008)