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		<title>By: proreason</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;is Kim China’s bull-dog for if capitalist America gets its act together then?&quot;

In all seriousness, I think he is the their pet barracuda.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;is Kim China’s bull-dog for if capitalist America gets its act together then?&#8221;</p>
<p>In all seriousness, I think he is the their pet barracuda.</p>
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		<title>By: tranquil.night</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-jun-6-jun-12#comment-150401</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right, 2012, which increasingly my instinct tells me won&#039;t be a second term for him, but it won&#039;t matter because it&#039;s exactly as you say there.  In fact it sets the conservative follow-up to take the fall when the ChiComs start playing hardball and we have a crippled economy and no money.  They already want us to print our debt in Yuan.  Good luck Sarah.

Still, if that&#039;s the case, then that would make this whole thing part of the grand plan - all of which I think is in very serious danger of being opposed before it hits fruition.  If Babbles doesn&#039;t get Health Care that might be more disappointing for the ChiComs than him even, since it leaves us a glimmer of climbing this mountain.

So is Kim China&#039;s bull-dog for if capitalist America gets its act together then?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right, 2012, which increasingly my instinct tells me won&#8217;t be a second term for him, but it won&#8217;t matter because it&#8217;s exactly as you say there.  In fact it sets the conservative follow-up to take the fall when the ChiComs start playing hardball and we have a crippled economy and no money.  They already want us to print our debt in Yuan.  Good luck Sarah.</p>
<p>Still, if that&#8217;s the case, then that would make this whole thing part of the grand plan &#8211; all of which I think is in very serious danger of being opposed before it hits fruition.  If Babbles doesn&#8217;t get Health Care that might be more disappointing for the ChiComs than him even, since it leaves us a glimmer of climbing this mountain.</p>
<p>So is Kim China&#8217;s bull-dog for if capitalist America gets its act together then?</p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;If you’re Kim Jung-Il&quot;

He probably thinks he can figure out a way to live till he&#039;s 110.

And China has every reason to control the wee nutter, since Obamy has scheduled the peaceful transfer of world domination to China in his second term.

If I was the commissar in China, I would keep my powder and nutter dry so as to keep the US treasure trove intact for a few years, after which I could plunder it at will.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If you’re Kim Jung-Il&#8221;</p>
<p>He probably thinks he can figure out a way to live till he&#8217;s 110.</p>
<p>And China has every reason to control the wee nutter, since Obamy has scheduled the peaceful transfer of world domination to China in his second term.</p>
<p>If I was the commissar in China, I would keep my powder and nutter dry so as to keep the US treasure trove intact for a few years, after which I could plunder it at will.</p>
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		<title>By: texaspsue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From the Houston Chronicle:
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exxon Mobil joins TransCanada on Alaska gas line&lt;/b&gt;

Exxon Mobil Corp. and TransCanada said today they will join forces to build a massive pipeline to move natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska to U.S. markets. 


The state of Alaska granted TransCanada a license to build the project in January 2008, but the Calgary-based firm faced a challenge from another project planned by ConocoPhillips and BP. Exxon’s siding with TransCanada could threaten the Conoco-BP project, called Denali. 


“Exxon Mobil and TransCanada have the experience, expertise and financial capability to undertake this project,” said Rich Kruger, president of Exxon Mobil Production Co. “We have on-the-ground knowledge of Alaska and Canada, experience working in the Arctic, a strong history of technology and innovation, and the proven ability to build and operate projects of enormous scale in the most challenging environments.” 


Irving-based Exxon will not be a passive customer of the pipeline, which could cost as much as $30 billion and run 1,700 miles, but will likely be involved in the design and construction. 


Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin met with Exxon officials in Dallas on Wednesday to make sure the agreement preserved the states’ relationship with TransCanada, said Kurtis Gibson, director of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Oil and Gas Division. 


“We’re encouraged and we’re excited, but we’re not surprise because (the state pipeline license) was designed for just this kind of alignment between private sector companies,” Gibson said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6469570.html#

more at twitter: http://twitter.com/akgovsarahpalin&lt;/blockquote&gt;

So instead of Governor Palin speaking to the media about this historic event, she has to get involved in the Letterman insult circus.  How convenient for the MSM.   Sigh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the Houston Chronicle:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Exxon Mobil joins TransCanada on Alaska gas line</b></p>
<p>Exxon Mobil Corp. and TransCanada said today they will join forces to build a massive pipeline to move natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska to U.S. markets. </p>
<p>The state of Alaska granted TransCanada a license to build the project in January 2008, but the Calgary-based firm faced a challenge from another project planned by ConocoPhillips and BP. Exxon’s siding with TransCanada could threaten the Conoco-BP project, called Denali. </p>
<p>“Exxon Mobil and TransCanada have the experience, expertise and financial capability to undertake this project,” said Rich Kruger, president of Exxon Mobil Production Co. “We have on-the-ground knowledge of Alaska and Canada, experience working in the Arctic, a strong history of technology and innovation, and the proven ability to build and operate projects of enormous scale in the most challenging environments.” </p>
<p>Irving-based Exxon will not be a passive customer of the pipeline, which could cost as much as $30 billion and run 1,700 miles, but will likely be involved in the design and construction. </p>
<p>Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin met with Exxon officials in Dallas on Wednesday to make sure the agreement preserved the states’ relationship with TransCanada, said Kurtis Gibson, director of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Oil and Gas Division. </p>
<p>“We’re encouraged and we’re excited, but we’re not surprise because (the state pipeline license) was designed for just this kind of alignment between private sector companies,” Gibson said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6469570.html#" rel="nofollow">http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....9570.html#</a></p>
<p>more at twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/akgovsarahpalin" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/akgovsarahpalin</a></p></blockquote>
<p>So instead of Governor Palin speaking to the media about this historic event, she has to get involved in the Letterman insult circus.  How convenient for the MSM.   Sigh.</p>
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		<title>By: tranquil.night</title>
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		<dc:creator>tranquil.night</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have an open question to anyone willing to take it up: If you&#039;re Kim Jung-Il and it&#039;s clear you have no remote interest in doing anything innately that can be construed as good for your people or the world, and you&#039;re sitting at the end of your life with a nuclear arsenal at your command, what would you do?

He anointed his son today his successor apparently.  What world is he giving his son: the current one where North Korea is a backwards isolated regime? Or one of the post-apocalypse?  Is this about some ridiculous legacy or is the legacy what&#039;s about to come?  I think that&#039;s the question on millions of minds right now.

What would you do if you were to try for a moment to see the world through his oversized grandpa glasses?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have an open question to anyone willing to take it up: If you&#8217;re Kim Jung-Il and it&#8217;s clear you have no remote interest in doing anything innately that can be construed as good for your people or the world, and you&#8217;re sitting at the end of your life with a nuclear arsenal at your command, what would you do?</p>
<p>He anointed his son today his successor apparently.  What world is he giving his son: the current one where North Korea is a backwards isolated regime? Or one of the post-apocalypse?  Is this about some ridiculous legacy or is the legacy what&#8217;s about to come?  I think that&#8217;s the question on millions of minds right now.</p>
<p>What would you do if you were to try for a moment to see the world through his oversized grandpa glasses?</p>
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		<title>By: jobeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey there Canary.  Thanks for the input.  I understand what you...and Pro... are saying and I don&#039;t completely disagree with you.

But at the same time I fully believe he is at the very least a muslim sympathizer.  Note how often he will do things that favor the muslims over Christians or Jews..

Accepting the premise that he probably is atheist...And .I have to agree his behavior supports that probability...I think he hates Christians and Jews and anyone...ie muslims, who will put us/them in our/their place is to be favored in his mind. Thus all this &quot;lets be nice to the muslims routine.

As I said before..He will be whatever it is that he thinks will get him is way...That&#039;s why his &quot;Hope and Change&quot; worked so well.  He never said what that meant to the people.  Everyone just filled in the blanks to suit themselves.

In the end none of the &quot;whys&quot; are really as important as the &quot;whats&quot; of what he is doing.  And I know we all have no problem ID-ing this guy as pure evil bent on dismantling this country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey there Canary.  Thanks for the input.  I understand what you&#8230;and Pro&#8230; are saying and I don&#8217;t completely disagree with you.</p>
<p>But at the same time I fully believe he is at the very least a muslim sympathizer.  Note how often he will do things that favor the muslims over Christians or Jews..</p>
<p>Accepting the premise that he probably is atheist&#8230;And .I have to agree his behavior supports that probability&#8230;I think he hates Christians and Jews and anyone&#8230;ie muslims, who will put us/them in our/their place is to be favored in his mind. Thus all this &#8220;lets be nice to the muslims routine.</p>
<p>As I said before..He will be whatever it is that he thinks will get him is way&#8230;That&#8217;s why his &#8220;Hope and Change&#8221; worked so well.  He never said what that meant to the people.  Everyone just filled in the blanks to suit themselves.</p>
<p>In the end none of the &#8220;whys&#8221; are really as important as the &#8220;whats&#8221; of what he is doing.  And I know we all have no problem ID-ing this guy as pure evil bent on dismantling this country.</p>
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		<title>By: canary</title>
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		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wardmama/I think alot of it is an act, and that the book is blood money over her son&#039;s death. Matter of fact, she may have gotten his soldier life insurance, when he was killed. She should donate the money to disabled vets, and that would make her son proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wardmama/I think alot of it is an act, and that the book is blood money over her son&#8217;s death. Matter of fact, she may have gotten his soldier life insurance, when he was killed. She should donate the money to disabled vets, and that would make her son proud.</p>
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		<title>By: canary</title>
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		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JoBeth, everything in both books points out he is an athiest to me. He never came out and said he was a Christan. Think he was pinned down during compaign, and said it to, throw all the people, questioning his Indonesia registration citizen-ship. Reverand Wright was radical and lot&#039;s gangbangers and thats the type he wanted to protest and pressure. They&#039;d go around if a store was giving a black person a problem, and pressure the store. Rev. Wrights ministered with criminals. Obama&#039;s best friend was a former gangbangor, turned muslim. Some of his more peaceful community organizers weren&#039;t too happy, about his new companions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JoBeth, everything in both books points out he is an athiest to me. He never came out and said he was a Christan. Think he was pinned down during compaign, and said it to, throw all the people, questioning his Indonesia registration citizen-ship. Reverand Wright was radical and lot&#8217;s gangbangers and thats the type he wanted to protest and pressure. They&#8217;d go around if a store was giving a black person a problem, and pressure the store. Rev. Wrights ministered with criminals. Obama&#8217;s best friend was a former gangbangor, turned muslim. Some of his more peaceful community organizers weren&#8217;t too happy, about his new companions.</p>
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		<title>By: canary</title>
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		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama was registered muslim in Indonesia. He went there after there was running of communisms out, and everyone had to be registered. He went to a muslim school, and studied Quran. He wrote it in his book. His step-father was muslim. His mother also registered in Indonesia as muslim, and wore the veil thing because muslim extremists are now taking over Indonesia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama was registered muslim in Indonesia. He went there after there was running of communisms out, and everyone had to be registered. He went to a muslim school, and studied Quran. He wrote it in his book. His step-father was muslim. His mother also registered in Indonesia as muslim, and wore the veil thing because muslim extremists are now taking over Indonesia.</p>
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		<title>By: canary</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-jun-6-jun-12#comment-150349</link>
		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama&#039;s take on rehabilitating drug dealers.  Barack Obama&#039;s Audacity of Hope pg,258
&quot;Government could kick-start a transformation of circumstances for these men bn working with private-sector contractors to hire and train-ex felons on projects that can benefit the comunity as a whole, insulating homes and offices to make them energy-efficient, prehaps, or laying the braodband lines needed to thrust entire communities into the Interent age. Such programs would cost money, of course - although, given the annual cost of incarcerating an inmate, any drop in recidivism would help the program pay for itself. ......

...Still, we can assume that with lawful work available for young men now in the drug trade, crime in many communities would drop.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama&#8217;s take on rehabilitating drug dealers.  Barack Obama&#8217;s Audacity of Hope pg,258<br />
&#8220;Government could kick-start a transformation of circumstances for these men bn working with private-sector contractors to hire and train-ex felons on projects that can benefit the comunity as a whole, insulating homes and offices to make them energy-efficient, prehaps, or laying the braodband lines needed to thrust entire communities into the Interent age. Such programs would cost money, of course &#8211; although, given the annual cost of incarcerating an inmate, any drop in recidivism would help the program pay for itself. &#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;Still, we can assume that with lawful work available for young men now in the drug trade, crime in many communities would drop.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: canary</title>
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		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you can&#039;t work for the federal government with a felony. Reminds me of that politican that hired a muslim to be their state homeland security chiefm making over a 100 grand a year. When the muslim filed sexual harrassment charges on the politican, (because he broke it off) they found out the muslim wasn&#039;t even a U.S. citizen, and working in Homeland Security. That was several years ago.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you can&#8217;t work for the federal government with a felony. Reminds me of that politican that hired a muslim to be their state homeland security chiefm making over a 100 grand a year. When the muslim filed sexual harrassment charges on the politican, (because he broke it off) they found out the muslim wasn&#8217;t even a U.S. citizen, and working in Homeland Security. That was several years ago.</p>
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		<title>By: BillK</title>
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		<dc:creator>BillK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From an incredibly irony-challenged AP:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;AP source: NKorea may be prepping new nuclear test&lt;/b&gt;

By Pamela Hess

WASHINGTON – &lt;b&gt;North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test, a show of defiance as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May&lt;/b&gt;, according to a U.S. government official.

North Korea conducted an underground explosion on May 25, its first since a 2006 atomic test. The official, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the unreleased information, would not provide details regarding the assessment.

&lt;b&gt;A draft U.N. resolution proposed Wednesday would impose tough sanctions on North Korea&#039;s weapons exports and financial dealings and allow inspections of suspect cargo in ports and on the high seas. North Korea has threatened to retaliate if new sanctions are adopted.&lt;/b&gt;

North Korea already is a pariah to many countries and has been under tough economic sanctions for years. Last month&#039;s reported test defied a Security Council resolution adopted after the North&#039;s first underground atomic blast in October 2006.

The White House National Security Council would not comment on the assessment of a possible third nuclear test in the works.

&quot;We have come to expect North Korea to act recklessly and dangerously,&quot; NSC spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement. &quot;But while the world unites to pass a strong new Security Council resolution, it is clear that North Korea&#039;s behavior is succeeding only in further isolating itself.&quot; …

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_north_korea_nuclear&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Once again, just to remind anyone who hasn&#039;t been paying attention:

&lt;b&gt;China could stop all this with &lt;i&gt;one phone call&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;

North Korea is &lt;b&gt;entirely dependent&lt;/b&gt; upon China for food and fuel oil.

So say what you want about North Korea being isolated, but it&#039;s &lt;b&gt;China&lt;/b&gt; that&#039;s holding all the strings.

You know, the same China that&#039;s about the only buyer in the world for US debt…</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From an incredibly irony-challenged AP:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>AP source: NKorea may be prepping new nuclear test</b></p>
<p>By Pamela Hess</p>
<p>WASHINGTON – <b>North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test, a show of defiance as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May</b>, according to a U.S. government official.</p>
<p>North Korea conducted an underground explosion on May 25, its first since a 2006 atomic test. The official, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the unreleased information, would not provide details regarding the assessment.</p>
<p><b>A draft U.N. resolution proposed Wednesday would impose tough sanctions on North Korea&#8217;s weapons exports and financial dealings and allow inspections of suspect cargo in ports and on the high seas. North Korea has threatened to retaliate if new sanctions are adopted.</b></p>
<p>North Korea already is a pariah to many countries and has been under tough economic sanctions for years. Last month&#8217;s reported test defied a Security Council resolution adopted after the North&#8217;s first underground atomic blast in October 2006.</p>
<p>The White House National Security Council would not comment on the assessment of a possible third nuclear test in the works.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have come to expect North Korea to act recklessly and dangerously,&#8221; NSC spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement. &#8220;But while the world unites to pass a strong new Security Council resolution, it is clear that North Korea&#8217;s behavior is succeeding only in further isolating itself.&#8221; …</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_north_korea_nuclear" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....ea_nuclear</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Once again, just to remind anyone who hasn&#8217;t been paying attention:</p>
<p><b>China could stop all this with <i>one phone call</i>.</b></p>
<p>North Korea is <b>entirely dependent</b> upon China for food and fuel oil.</p>
<p>So say what you want about North Korea being isolated, but it&#8217;s <b>China</b> that&#8217;s holding all the strings.</p>
<p>You know, the same China that&#8217;s about the only buyer in the world for US debt…</p>
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		<title>By: BillK</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hugo Chavez continues to be a nutcase.

From the Los Angeles Times:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Venezuela bans Coke Zero&lt;/b&gt;

Here’s a reversal: A business opportunity has opened up for smugglers interested in getting Coke into a South American country.

But we’re not talking cocaine –- &lt;b&gt;it’s Coke Zero that has been banned in Venezuela&lt;/b&gt;.

Perhaps chunky Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was jealous of trim folks who favored the no-calorie drink, rolled out in 2005 by Coca-Cola Co., and introduced in Venezuela in April. But the official reason, according to the Venezuelan government&#039;s news agency, is that health minister Jesus Mantilla contends the beverage, known officially as Coca-Cola Zero, contains a harmful ingredient.

“&lt;b&gt;The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of Venezuelans&lt;/b&gt;,” Mantilla said Wednesday. In ordering all Coke Zero out of the country, Mantilla didn&#039;t specify which ingredient was objectionable. &#133;

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/shopping_blog/2009/06/coke-zero-ban.html&lt;/blockquote&gt;

So watch out for the &lt;b&gt;dangerous&lt;/b&gt; soda.

It doesn&#039;t even contain sugar - now &lt;b&gt;that&#039;s&lt;/b&gt; dangerous, at least according to the Obama administration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hugo Chavez continues to be a nutcase.</p>
<p>From the Los Angeles Times:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Venezuela bans Coke Zero</b></p>
<p>Here’s a reversal: A business opportunity has opened up for smugglers interested in getting Coke into a South American country.</p>
<p>But we’re not talking cocaine –- <b>it’s Coke Zero that has been banned in Venezuela</b>.</p>
<p>Perhaps chunky Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was jealous of trim folks who favored the no-calorie drink, rolled out in 2005 by Coca-Cola Co., and introduced in Venezuela in April. But the official reason, according to the Venezuelan government&#8217;s news agency, is that health minister Jesus Mantilla contends the beverage, known officially as Coca-Cola Zero, contains a harmful ingredient.</p>
<p>“<b>The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of Venezuelans</b>,” Mantilla said Wednesday. In ordering all Coke Zero out of the country, Mantilla didn&#8217;t specify which ingredient was objectionable. &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/shopping_blog/2009/06/coke-zero-ban.html" rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....o-ban.html</a></p></blockquote>
<p>So watch out for the <b>dangerous</b> soda.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t even contain sugar &#8211; now <b>that&#8217;s</b> dangerous, at least according to the Obama administration.</p>
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		<title>By: BillK</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-jun-6-jun-12#comment-150342</link>
		<dc:creator>BillK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The racist computers must be stopped!

From a horrified Los Angeles Times:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Computer &#039;raid&#039; in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated&lt;/b&gt;

By Patrick J. McDonnell

&lt;b&gt;No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles.&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;b&gt;For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month and now find themselves in a precarious employment market, without severance pay or medical insurance. It wasn&#039;t a hot tip or an undercover informant that helped seal their fates, &lt;i&gt;but a computer check of Social Security numbers&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;

&quot;&lt;b&gt;A desktop raid&lt;/b&gt;&quot; is how the workers&#039; representative, John M. Grant, &lt;b&gt;vice president of Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union&lt;/b&gt;, described the scenario.

Overhill, a $200-million-a-year company that provides frozen meals for clients such as American Airlines, Panda Express, Safeway and Jenny Craig, says it had no choice: &lt;b&gt;An Internal Revenue Service audit found that 260 workers had provided &quot;invalid or fraudulent&quot; Social Security numbers. &lt;i&gt;The government took no action against the workers&lt;/i&gt;. But Overhill did: All of the employees were fired May 31.&lt;/b&gt;

The dispute underscores some of the complex issues facing President Obama as he tries to make good on his pledge to overhaul the nation&#039;s &quot;broken&quot; immigration system. Like agriculture, the food-processing and preparation sectors rely heavily on immigrant labor, much of it illegal.

&lt;b&gt;The White House has already scaled back the Bush administration&#039;s controversial practice of work-site raids. &lt;i&gt;Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has vowed to shift the emphasis to employers who hire illegal workers.&lt;/i&gt; Audits of employers&#039; records are an essential tool in such cases.&lt;/b&gt;

But the Overhill case &lt;b&gt;illustrates how desktop raids can ravage immigrant families&lt;/b&gt;, even without arrests and deportation. &lt;b&gt;Employers facing stiff fines and potential prison terms for hiring illegal immigrants may decide to fire employees who have suspect paperwork.&lt;/b&gt;

&quot;We killed ourselves on the assembly lines for years, many of us have injuries from repetitive motion,&quot; said Bohemia Agustiano, 38, a mother of four from Huntington Park. &quot;&lt;b&gt;Now we&#039;re worth nothing. We&#039;re out on the streets. This is unjust, no one should be treated this way.&lt;/b&gt;&quot; 

Overhill says it gave the workers 30 days to correct the problem with the IRS and provide the company with verification, &lt;b&gt;but none did so.&lt;/b&gt; &#133;

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-desktop-raid12-2009jun12,0,783064.story&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Don&#039;t your hearts just go out to these &lt;b&gt;criminals&lt;/b&gt;?

&quot;We broke federal laws and we&#039;re treated like nothing.&quot;

But better yet is the Obama administrations lie that they want to put the burden on employers not to hire illegals, but yet when they cross-check SSNs they somehow are being evil?

It&#039;s so completely typical of them.

Logic has just &lt;b&gt;completely&lt;/b&gt; gone out the window:

&lt;blockquote&gt;But the union says Overhill responded rashly. &quot;I think the company acted hastily and unnecessarily,&quot; said Peter Schey, a Los Angeles lawyer who represented the union. &quot;Legally, there was nothing that compelled these terminations.&quot;

&lt;b&gt;Immigrant advocates who applaud the Obama administration&#039;s determination to shift the work-site enforcement focus to employers acknowledge that such an approach still leaves workers vulnerable to losing their jobs.&lt;/b&gt;

&quot;At the end of the day, it&#039;s the employees &lt;b&gt;or the undocumented workers who are still walking around with a bull&#039;s-eye on their backs&lt;/b&gt;,&quot; said Angela Kelley, vice president for immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank. 

&quot;They either get directly caught up in a raid, or they get caught in a ricochet attack by an employer acting preemptively to let them go.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That&#039;s sort of the point - &quot;undocumented&quot; workers &lt;b&gt;should&lt;/b&gt; have a bulls-eye on their backs, because they are &lt;b&gt;criminals&lt;/b&gt;.

Yet the attempt to provoke tears continues:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;&lt;b&gt;We&#039;re talking here about hundreds of families that have been denied a gainful wage, denied medical care&lt;/b&gt;,&quot; said Grant, the union official. &quot;&lt;b&gt;This basically tears apart an entire community.&lt;/b&gt;&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yeah - breaking federal laws generally &lt;b&gt;does that&lt;/b&gt;.  I know unions are used to breaking laws themselves, but still.

What I expect to see next in the LA Times: Drug dealers complain about the effect of drug arrests on their families.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The racist computers must be stopped!</p>
<p>From a horrified Los Angeles Times:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Computer &#8216;raid&#8217; in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated</b></p>
<p>By Patrick J. McDonnell</p>
<p><b>No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles.</b></p>
<p><b>For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month and now find themselves in a precarious employment market, without severance pay or medical insurance. It wasn&#8217;t a hot tip or an undercover informant that helped seal their fates, <i>but a computer check of Social Security numbers</i>.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;<b>A desktop raid</b>&#8221; is how the workers&#8217; representative, John M. Grant, <b>vice president of Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union</b>, described the scenario.</p>
<p>Overhill, a $200-million-a-year company that provides frozen meals for clients such as American Airlines, Panda Express, Safeway and Jenny Craig, says it had no choice: <b>An Internal Revenue Service audit found that 260 workers had provided &#8220;invalid or fraudulent&#8221; Social Security numbers. <i>The government took no action against the workers</i>. But Overhill did: All of the employees were fired May 31.</b></p>
<p>The dispute underscores some of the complex issues facing President Obama as he tries to make good on his pledge to overhaul the nation&#8217;s &#8220;broken&#8221; immigration system. Like agriculture, the food-processing and preparation sectors rely heavily on immigrant labor, much of it illegal.</p>
<p><b>The White House has already scaled back the Bush administration&#8217;s controversial practice of work-site raids. <i>Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has vowed to shift the emphasis to employers who hire illegal workers.</i> Audits of employers&#8217; records are an essential tool in such cases.</b></p>
<p>But the Overhill case <b>illustrates how desktop raids can ravage immigrant families</b>, even without arrests and deportation. <b>Employers facing stiff fines and potential prison terms for hiring illegal immigrants may decide to fire employees who have suspect paperwork.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;We killed ourselves on the assembly lines for years, many of us have injuries from repetitive motion,&#8221; said Bohemia Agustiano, 38, a mother of four from Huntington Park. &#8220;<b>Now we&#8217;re worth nothing. We&#8217;re out on the streets. This is unjust, no one should be treated this way.</b>&#8221; </p>
<p>Overhill says it gave the workers 30 days to correct the problem with the IRS and provide the company with verification, <b>but none did so.</b> &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-desktop-raid12-2009jun12,0,783064.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/lo.....3064.story</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Don&#8217;t your hearts just go out to these <b>criminals</b>?</p>
<p>&#8220;We broke federal laws and we&#8217;re treated like nothing.&#8221;</p>
<p>But better yet is the Obama administrations lie that they want to put the burden on employers not to hire illegals, but yet when they cross-check SSNs they somehow are being evil?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s so completely typical of them.</p>
<p>Logic has just <b>completely</b> gone out the window:</p>
<blockquote><p>But the union says Overhill responded rashly. &#8220;I think the company acted hastily and unnecessarily,&#8221; said Peter Schey, a Los Angeles lawyer who represented the union. &#8220;Legally, there was nothing that compelled these terminations.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Immigrant advocates who applaud the Obama administration&#8217;s determination to shift the work-site enforcement focus to employers acknowledge that such an approach still leaves workers vulnerable to losing their jobs.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, it&#8217;s the employees <b>or the undocumented workers who are still walking around with a bull&#8217;s-eye on their backs</b>,&#8221; said Angela Kelley, vice president for immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank. </p>
<p>&#8220;They either get directly caught up in a raid, or they get caught in a ricochet attack by an employer acting preemptively to let them go.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s sort of the point &#8211; &#8220;undocumented&#8221; workers <b>should</b> have a bulls-eye on their backs, because they are <b>criminals</b>.</p>
<p>Yet the attempt to provoke tears continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<b>We&#8217;re talking here about hundreds of families that have been denied a gainful wage, denied medical care</b>,&#8221; said Grant, the union official. &#8220;<b>This basically tears apart an entire community.</b>&#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah &#8211; breaking federal laws generally <b>does that</b>.  I know unions are used to breaking laws themselves, but still.</p>
<p>What I expect to see next in the LA Times: Drug dealers complain about the effect of drug arrests on their families.</p>
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		<title>By: tranquil.night</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-jun-6-jun-12#comment-150341</link>
		<dc:creator>tranquil.night</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;Wright &quot;Clarifies&quot; Comments, Advocates Conspiracy Theories Favored by Holocaust Memorial Shooter&lt;/b&gt;

tucked away neatly in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/rev-wright-i-meant-to-say-zionists-are-keeping-me-from-talking-to-president-obama-not-jews.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ABC News Blog&lt;/a&gt; and found by the bees at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefoxnation.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fox Nation&lt;/a&gt;:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;In an interview on a liberal satellite radio show, Rev. Jeremiah Wright attempted to clarify his comments to the Newport News, Virginia. Daily-Press about “them Jews” preventing him from speaking to President Obama.

“Let me say like Hillary, I misspoke,” Wright said. “Let me just say: Zionists.”  

Wright said &lt;b&gt;“I’m not talking about all Jews, all people of the Jewish faith, I’m talking about Zionists.&quot;&lt;/b&gt;

The president’s former mentor and pastor made the comments on the SIRIUS LEFT show “Make it Plain” with Mark Thompson.

Wright then criticized Israel, saying, “I quote Jews when I say this,” and referencing books by Jewish authors such as Judaism Does Not Equal Israel: The Rebirth of the Jewish Prophetic by Marc Ellis and The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.&quot;

&lt;b&gt;“I’m talking about facts, historical facts,”&lt;/b&gt; Wright said. “I’m not talking about emotionally charged words or the fact that like Jimmy Carter’s book, that because he used the word that Jews use, ‘apartheid,’ he gets labeled anti-Semitic.”

“They can jump on that one phrase if they want to,” Wright said, “but they can’t, they can’t undo history. &lt;b&gt;They can’t undo the facts of Jewish historians and Jewish theologians who write about what’s going on, who write about the enormous influence that AIPAC has on our government and on United States policy and the United Nations.&lt;/b&gt;” 

(Wright did not identify who “they” was.)

&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/rev-wright-i-meant-to-say-zionists-are-keeping-me-from-talking-to-president-obama-not-jews.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;continue..&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Clearly AIPAC, the Zionist Illuminati - in its infinite control and power - has been super effective in &#039;coercing&#039; aid for Israel so far in the Obama years.  Ellis and Pappe have basically written the pocketbook on our current Middle East policy, which is the unspoken acknowledgment that Israel was never intended to exist in the first place and created unfairly on the backs of the Palestinians.

Anyway, thanks for clarifying. Us crakahs must remember from now on that it isn&#039;t them secular Jews that&#039;re keeping son from reuniting with father, it&#039;s them dang neo-con jews. 

It&#039;s an odd day in America when a black and a white supremacist find common ground in antisemitism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Wright &#8220;Clarifies&#8221; Comments, Advocates Conspiracy Theories Favored by Holocaust Memorial Shooter</b></p>
<p>tucked away neatly in an <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/rev-wright-i-meant-to-say-zionists-are-keeping-me-from-talking-to-president-obama-not-jews.html" rel="nofollow">ABC News Blog</a> and found by the bees at <a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com" rel="nofollow">Fox Nation</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In an interview on a liberal satellite radio show, Rev. Jeremiah Wright attempted to clarify his comments to the Newport News, Virginia. Daily-Press about “them Jews” preventing him from speaking to President Obama.</p>
<p>“Let me say like Hillary, I misspoke,” Wright said. “Let me just say: Zionists.”  </p>
<p>Wright said <b>“I’m not talking about all Jews, all people of the Jewish faith, I’m talking about Zionists.&#8221;</b></p>
<p>The president’s former mentor and pastor made the comments on the SIRIUS LEFT show “Make it Plain” with Mark Thompson.</p>
<p>Wright then criticized Israel, saying, “I quote Jews when I say this,” and referencing books by Jewish authors such as Judaism Does Not Equal Israel: The Rebirth of the Jewish Prophetic by Marc Ellis and The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>“I’m talking about facts, historical facts,”</b> Wright said. “I’m not talking about emotionally charged words or the fact that like Jimmy Carter’s book, that because he used the word that Jews use, ‘apartheid,’ he gets labeled anti-Semitic.”</p>
<p>“They can jump on that one phrase if they want to,” Wright said, “but they can’t, they can’t undo history. <b>They can’t undo the facts of Jewish historians and Jewish theologians who write about what’s going on, who write about the enormous influence that AIPAC has on our government and on United States policy and the United Nations.</b>” </p>
<p>(Wright did not identify who “they” was.)</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/rev-wright-i-meant-to-say-zionists-are-keeping-me-from-talking-to-president-obama-not-jews.html" rel="nofollow">continue..</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly AIPAC, the Zionist Illuminati &#8211; in its infinite control and power &#8211; has been super effective in &#8216;coercing&#8217; aid for Israel so far in the Obama years.  Ellis and Pappe have basically written the pocketbook on our current Middle East policy, which is the unspoken acknowledgment that Israel was never intended to exist in the first place and created unfairly on the backs of the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for clarifying. Us crakahs must remember from now on that it isn&#8217;t them secular Jews that&#8217;re keeping son from reuniting with father, it&#8217;s them dang neo-con jews. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s an odd day in America when a black and a white supremacist find common ground in antisemitism.</p>
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