I received the following through the blog today: ***** Hi: I just stumbled across your blog. It's really excellent -- your posts are both well-reasoned and...
Richard - My two bits - let's all look over their site and decide in, say, a week. Meantime, here's number 8. Please add to TRB. Richard Jehn <RDJehn@...>...
Richard, Experiment with it and let us know the results. But don't give up theragblog itself. Just use the other as a link. Incidently, Austin MDS is a...
Warships, Warships Everywhere, and Many a Bomb to Drop Persian Gulf Update By Michael T. Klare Looking down from the captain's deck some six stories high, the...
_http://www.cdhrsupport.org_ (http://www.cdhrsupport.org) Dear Ragstaff, Austin MDS & SDS, Akwasi, and others, The link above goes to the Committee for the...
Alan P.: I sure thought of you as I read, and then posted, this article: http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/somalia-not-hitting-headlines-but-evil.html You...
Richard J., Yes, now the U.S. has contracted out the war for Somalia's oil to Ethiopa and is having North "Axis of Evil" Korea supply the weapons. One would...
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Richard, Here is the link to the 1993 Mark Fineman/L.A. Times report of U.S. oil interests in Somalia : www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/ ...
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These should be heady days to be an antiwar activist and you ought to get in on the fun. That is a primary lesson Sally and I learned spending many hours on...
Iraq War - Light at the end of the tunnel and yard signs. The Iraq War is on its last legs. The "surge" will not produce significant results. The Iraq...
Organic Bees Are Thriving While commercial bee populations are plummeting Infowars.net, Friday, May 11, 2007 Over the past few weeks we have highlighted...
Despite the hoopla, the drug industry still does not have to publish studies which reflect badly on their drugs .The bill's chief sponsors - Sens. Edward...
Of course, if we leave the region, it will destabilize quickly in the short run. Friedman points out we need a short term solution, and that if we increase...
Sorry Janet, but I'm unable to take seriously this fervent Zionist who wholeheartedly supported the invasion and occupation of Iraq until sometime yesterday....
High gasoline tax is essential to consumers taking seriously the true cost of gas, which highways are destroying the land and water and the interconnectedness...
Janet, So you want to tax consumers about close to $1000 a year per car while Exxon/Mobil and the other oil companies get to keep their $100 billion a year in...
I think this is upon this issue that liberals and progressives are failing the country. Helping the "consumer" is not the ultimate good. Helping consumers to...
Janet, You didn't answer my question. I'm not advocating cheap gasoline for the benefit of the American consumer. That's a straw man. What about a tax...
I agree with David, again, because starting with a higher tax on gasoline is blaming the victim. The energy/oil companies have created the problem on purpose...
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David, You made the straw man: Janet, So you want to tax consumers about close to $1000 a year per car while Exxon/Mobil and the other oil companies get to...
I believe Europe is nominally democratic, and they have very high gasoline taxes. Here, we pay for roads out of bonds, not gasoline taxes, so we create the ...
I agree with Janet, except that gas should have been taxed up five bucks a gallon back in the seventies, with the revenues being earmarked for alternative...
David's question remains untouched. Regular gas is $3.50+ a gallon in California now. Maybe that a liter in Europe. Cheap gas fuels urban sprawl, suburbia....
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U.S. lawyers slam Guantanamo plan TheStar.com - News - U.S. lawyers slam Guantanamo plan April 29, 2007 WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is trying to...
Alan, I like earmarked taxes because you get two political battles fought for the price of one (in this case, raising pump prices and funding public transit...
I agree with David, again, because starting with a higher tax on gasoline is blaming the victim. The energy/oil companies have created the problem on purpose...