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Crude Oil Prices Rising / Gasoline Prices Dropping — What Does...

"...gasoline prices do not go down while crude oil prices go up, except in highly extraordinary circumstances! This reality should be a signal to the masses that something extremely unusual and highly significant must be pending at the highest levels of national and world governance. This pattern is absolutely unsustainable, and common sense should tell us to treat it that way."

Making the U.S. Safer for Opium Dealers, Terrorists and Neocons

"Since the Bush-Cheney Gang invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the opium industry has grown to $2.3 billion a year. When the Taliban was in charge, the trade was almost totally suppressed. During the 80s and early 90s, when Ronald Reagan and “Daddy” Bush were running the U.S., the Mujahedin, which morphed into al-Qaeda, received hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the CIA, including plastic explosives, enough to blow up “half of NYC...”

How the News Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld

"Major U.S. news outlets are hardly inclined to be up in arms about Rumsfeld’s record of prewar deception when they remain so dainty about critiquing their own. What passes for soul-searching at the New York Times and the Washington Post is much more like autoeroticism than self-flagellation. No wonder Rumsfeld the media star is back."

Water and international law

"Israeli water policy in the occupied territories is also an illustration of the racial discrimination inherent in the occupation. Studies show that Israeli settlers, with no restrictions on their usage of water, on a per capita basis use 20 times more water than the average Palestinian individual."

Ralph Nader’s statement is indeed "a breath of fresh air"

"The pusillanimous stand of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is further proof of the power the fanatical friends of a foregn power have over American foreign policy in the Middle East."