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<title><![CDATA[4th Memories, What are Yours?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hand Ground, Home Grown 4th of July Block Party

My dad’s big juicy Burgers on a charcoal grill.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>My dad’s big juicy Burgers on a charcoal grill.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Neighborhood kids getting their fill.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Lots O’ Watermelon dripping from my chin.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Spitting seeds to see who could win.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Old Ms. Brumfield’s bowl full of nuts.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Aunt Jonnie says where have you been?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Watching TV in the Tayor’s den!</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Girls in pigtails laughing at me.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Ricky Gomez falling from the Johnson’s tree.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Hitting a home run over the line.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Lost the ball, that’s Ok, it wasn’t mine.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Music and laughter abound the air.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>And Danny chasing Suzie over there.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Getting ready for the big event.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>My friends and I in our homemade tent.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Then we hear it that booming sound,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Everyone stops and gathers round.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>There it is that first bright light,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Waves of color fill the night.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Better than any of my wildest dreams,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I love it when my sister screams.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>More and more can it never end?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I next to Marty my best friend.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Booming and banging what a Big deal.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Louder and brighter and brighter still.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>My friends and my family watching in awe,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>My sister clutching the hand of our Pa’</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>My mother in tears as a flag she waves.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I jumping up to see over Dave.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Then with a crescendo the last of the night,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I guessed it was and I guessed right.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Now it was done, what next to do?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>A box of sparkerlers and snakes too!</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>We make Whistlers into skyrockets.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I’ve got Firecrackers in my pockets.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Scaring the cat and my sister as well,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Back then it was ok, no worries of jail.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>But then it is over and I am let down,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>What’s this one more sparkerler left on the ground!</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I light it fast I light with glee,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I give it to my sister instead of me.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>The neighbors depart and give me a wink,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I am so tired I can’t even think.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I to my bed and my family to sleep,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>My memories are many and mine to keep.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>Please Add Your 4th of July Memories to the Comments</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>God Bless America</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaza Tunnels: The details, and Warsaw Ghetto tunnels tooo!]]></title>
<link>http://morris108.wordpress.com/?p=719</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;">All the leading non neocon commentators are repeating it is impossible to conquer without the will of the people, and that that is the lesson to learn from the "War on terror"</span></h3>
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<h1 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;">Tunnels in Gaza</span>:</h1>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/rafah-smuggling-tunnels-life-nerve-for-gaza/"><img class="size-full wp-image-718 aligncenter" src="http://morris108.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/gaza-tunnel.jpg" alt="" width="501" height="666" /></a></p>
<h1 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;">Tunnels in Jewish Ghetto</span>:</h1>
<h3 style="text-align:center;">(Gaza story continued below Google pic)</h3>
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<h4>The Israelis have closed the crossings for legal imported goods,amidst exchange of accusations of who first violated the truce agreement. Mahmoud Zahar prominent leader of Hamas said in a public statement on Saturday that “Hamas will arrest anyone who make an attempt to break the cease-fire with the Israelis, and will confiscate their weapons. The Israelis have breached the cease fire throughout the Gaza Strip seven times, some of the shootings have seriously injured Palestinian farmers. In retaliation operations the Palestinian resistance fired a barrel of rockets across the border into Israel.</p>
<p>Since September 2000, the smuggling tunnels has functioned as an import of a significant amount of basic supplies, including medicine, food, clothes, auto -spare-parts, medical equipment, electronic items, foreign currency, cigarettes and weapons.</p>
<p>Read the full Gaza story here: <a href="http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/rafah-smuggling-tunnels-life-nerve-for-gaza/" target="_blank">http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/rafah-smuggling-tunnels-life-nerve-for-gaza/</a></h4>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Un nuovo martire per gli "altari" di Hamas]]></title>
<link>http://frorapi.wordpress.com/?p=9</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rehov Yaffo, ovvero Jaffa Street,
è un’arteria che attraversa tutta
Gerusalemme dall’ingresso
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rehov Yaffo, ovvero Jaffa Street,<br />
è un’arteria che attraversa tutta<br />
Gerusalemme dall’ingresso<br />
al pieno centro. L’attentato è avvenuto<br />
proprio di fronte alla grande centrale<br />
delle tv straniere, la Jcs, che ha già conosciuto<br />
molti attentati come questi, filmati<br />
dunque in ogni particolare. Questo<br />
luogo conosce tutte le tipologie di terrorismo:<br />
gli autobus che scoppiano là sono<br />
di casa, la cronista ne ricorda parecchi,<br />
di cui due negli anni del processo di<br />
pace, Rabin e Peres con la faccia disperata<br />
sotto un ombrello che li difende dalla<br />
pioggia battente mentre guardano<br />
dentro un autobus pieno di sangue, di<br />
studenti, vecchi che andavano al mercato<br />
della zona, lavoratori</p>
<p>Se il trattore guidato ieri dal trentenne<br />
arabo israeliano cittadino di Gerusalemme<br />
est Taysir Dwayyat, 30 anni, del<br />
quartiere di Zur Baher fosse arrivato<br />
due strade più in là, al mercato di Ben<br />
Yehuda, altro teatro di attentati frequenti<br />
e fruttuosi, la strage sarebbe ancora<br />
più orrida. Mentre tutto il mondo si<br />
culla nell’illusione della tregua con Hamas<br />
e sogna i colloqui fra Olmert e Abu<br />
Mazen, di fatto il maggiore messaggio,<br />
il linguaggio più assordante che proviene<br />
dal mondo palestinese, con imperterrita<br />
costanza, seguita a essere uno: terrorismo.<br />
Che gli arabi israeliani siano<br />
stati partner degli attentati di questi anni,<br />
è ormai uno strazio abituale, spesso<br />
volontariamente messo in sott’ordine<br />
per non aumentare una frizione molto<br />
preoccupante. <br><br>Fonte: http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=273507</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Peres: No chance for Peace]]></title>
<link>http://waqasmirza.wordpress.com/?p=54</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[According to Israeli President Shimon Peres, there is no chance for peace because of the Fatah-Hamas]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Israeli President Shimon Peres, there is no chance for peace because of the Fatah-Hamas split. This comes despite the fact that both Fatah and Hamas support the 2-state settlement and the Arab League proposal of 2002 which goes even farther and calls for normalization of relations with Israel. Israel does not accept the Arab League peace proposal and votes against the United Nations General Assembly resolutions calling for a 2-state settlement yearly.<br />
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<em>Haaretz</em> reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>President Shimon Peres believes there is no chance of an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Peres, the one-time proponent of a "new Middle East" made this statement last Saturday at a dinner with the Jordanian and French ambassadors in Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Tel Aviv apartment.</p>
<p>At the end of the meal an argument erupted between the Jordanian envoy, Ali Ayed, and a well-known "dovish" attorney, who said Israel had no chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas' leadership. Barak supported his guest's hawkish stance.<br />
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At a certain point, Peres intervened, surprising the participants by joining the attorney's prediction. "It would be very hard to reach an agreement," Peres said, due to the Hamas-Fatah split.</p>
<p>He said Abbas had no support among his people, no power to carry out security agreements and that any agreement Israel and the PA made crumbled a day later due to the PA's weakness. Therefore there is no chance of agreement, he summed.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Israel breached Gaza truce "28 times"]]></title>
<link>http://waqasmirza.wordpress.com/?p=53</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Press TV reports:
Israeli regime has broken Gaza truce more than 28 times since it went into force t]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Israeli regime has broken Gaza truce more than 28 times since it went into force two week ago, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad says.</p>
<p>Israel has violated the ceasefire 15 times in the first week and 13 times in the second week of the agreed truce, the movement said on Thursday.<br />
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Israel agreed two weeks ago to an Egyptian- brokered truce with Hamas in and around the Gaza Strip for six months, starting on June 19, in a bid of stemming the Palestinian attacks which harassed Israelis so that pressure on their regimes to sign the truce.</p>
<p>Most of the violations of the second week of the truce, which started on June 26, include Israeli soldiers firing at Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the land and sea and presence of reconnaissance planes over the Gaza Strip, the Islamic Jihad added.</p>
<p>Israel claimed today that a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed near the town of Sderot, there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket fire.</p>
<p>The Islamic Jihad was accused by the Zionist regime in the first week of violating the ceasefire by firing a rocket into Israel which it said was in retaliation for an Israeli raid in the West Bank.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[WHEN LIBERALS RULE:]]></title>
<link>http://riggword.wordpress.com/?p=422</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If Obama Takes Over We&#8217;d Better All Get Use 
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>To These Types of Events On A  National Level:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>LIBERALS ARE ALL ABOUT APPEASEMENT:</strong></p>
<h2>Swell: San Diego plans to declare “National Council of La Raza Day”</h2>
<div class="author">By  <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/03/swell-san-diego-plans-to-declare-national-council-of-la-raza-day/">Michelle Malkin</a> •  July 3, 2008 08:11 AM</div>
<div class="author">The San Diego City Council will vote next Tuesday to declare July 8 “National Council of La Raza Day.”</div>
<p>Well, they already gave their blessing to “<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/26/san-diegos-government-sponsored-happy-aclu-day/">Happy ACLU Day</a>” despite the litigious group’s long-standing efforts to take down the Mount Soledad cross.</p>
<p>Might as well put their weight behind the ethnic supremacist group fighting against assimilation, funding reconquista schools, advocating speech suppressiong, and promoting lawlessness, too! (<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/03/swell-san-diego-plans-to-declare-national-council-of-la-raza-day/">Michelle Malkin</a>)</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>LIBERALS LIKE TO MAKE PROMISES THAT MAKE THEM LOOK GOOD</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>BUT ACTUALLY DON'T HELP AT ALL</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;">Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong></strong><span style="font-size:12pt;">The candidate endorsed subsidies for private entrepreneurs to build low-income units. But, while he garnered support from developers, many projects in his former district have fallen into disrepair.</span></p>
<p><span> By      Binyamin Appelbaum </span> <span> Globe Staff   <span class="listPipe">/</span> June 27, 2008 </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full">CHICAGO</a> - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.</p>
<p>But it's not safe to live here.</p>
<p>About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.</p>
<p>Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:</p>
<p>Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.</p>
<p>Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama's US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama's former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.</p>
<p>Antoin "Tony" Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama's early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko's company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama's district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.</p>
<p>Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama's campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama's own accounting.</p>
<p>One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations. <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full">(Chicago Globe</a>)</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>THEY DON'T PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>BUT THEY WILL MAKE SURE WE PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/5088a8fa-f7fb-49a9-bb26-d5c20301be9e"><strong>Hugh Hewitt:</strong></a></p>
<div class="BlogDate" style="margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:5px;"><span>Monday, June 30, 2008</span></div>
<div id="Headline"><a id="ctl00_cphMain_ucBlogPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_hlnkBlogPostTitle" class="BlogHeadline" href="http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/5088a8fa-f7fb-49a9-bb26-d5c20301be9e">Pay Differentials in the Obama Office</a></div>
<p><span class="postedText">Posted by:         <a id="ctl00_cphMain_ucBlogPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_hlnkBlogAuthor" class="postedby">Donald Kochan</a> at         <span>6:38 PM</span></span> Don't get me wrong, I am completely for salaries based on merit alone and think sex differentials should have zero, no difference.  But these reports about the pay in Mr. "Equal Pay" Obama's offices seem interesting, especially as compared to McCain -- although as with most such studies I do not presume a causal relationship to evidence of discrimination.  But since Obama, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25336282/">see here for example, </a><em>does </em>make such presumptions when there is a disparity in pay  . . . .</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200806/POL20080630a.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200804/POL20080430a.html">here</a> for the reports.</p>
<p>I think these reports provide a ridiculous critique, but equally ridiculous are most of the claims, like Obama's, for <em>coercive</em> equal pay <em>requirements</em> rather than allowing the market to set salaries based on merit.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>THEY DISDAIN AMERICAN TRADITION </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;">“Black national anthem” </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;">stirs controversy for city</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=94919&#38;catid=339">DENVER </a>- Mayor John Hickenlooper's annual State of the City address may get more attention for what wasn't included than what was.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">t the start of the event Tuesday morning, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem.</p>
<p>Instead, she performed the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," which is also known as the "black national anthem." (<a href="http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=94919&#38;catid=339">9News.com</a>)</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>LIBERALS DON'T MAKE BUSINESS OR </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>COMMON PEOPLE'S PLEASURE A PRIORITY</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18pt;">Sonics leave Seattle for Okla. City</span></strong></p>
<p class="byline">THE ASSOCIATED PRESS</p>
<p class="datestamp">Thursday, July 3rd 2008,  1:50 AM</p>
<p><!-- ARTICLE CONTENT START --><a title="Seattle SuperSonics" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Seattle+SuperSonics">SEATTLE</a> - The SuperSonics will move to <a title="Oklahoma City" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Oklahoma+City">Oklahoma City</a> for the 2008-09 season as part of a settlement with the city of Seattle, ending a contentious relationship that resulted in a trial in which the judge was due to issue her ruling Wednesday.</p>
<p>Updated: April 28, 2007, 1:18 AM ET</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire has said she will not call the state Legislature into special session on an arena financing plan, and state House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, is resolutely opposed to taxpayer funding for an arena.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"They already have a place to play. It's nice. There are no potholes in the court there. Every player has health care. They all had the opportunity to go to college. Let's get real here," Chopp told the Seattle Times editorial board. "If they want to [build a new arena], we're not stopping them. They can pay for it themselves."</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>LIBERALS LOVE MASS ANYTHING; </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>PUTTING US ALL IN A BOX, MAKING US GO WHERE THEY WANT US TO.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>BUT FINANCING, WE PAY OUT OF OUR NOISES.</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">Feds say they’ll keep closing gap in funding for light rail.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By <a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2007/10/debbie-messina">Debbie Messina</a><br />
The Virginian-Pilot<br />
© April 21, 2008</p>
<p>NORFOLK</p>
<p>Federal officials announced on Monday that they will do all they can to make up for a shortfall in money previously pledged for the city's light rail starter line that is now under construction.</p>
<p>Federal Transit Administrator James S. Simpson awarded the city $18.9 million toward the $128 million the government promised for the project.</p>
<p>The FTA had budgeted a $57 million contribution to the project for fiscal year 2008, but Congress appropriated only $23 million. With Monday's announcement, this year's federal share is about $15 million less than anticipated.</p>
<h3>Information on <a href="http://pugetsoundtransportation.com/eastlink/index.html">Eastside Link</a> extension</h3>
<p>This is Seattle's light rail system running from downtown to the 		airport. This line was originally designed to serve riders from the University 		District through to the airport, but the line was shortened after costs 		increased. Soon after voters approved Sound Transit, discussions began on 		extending the line to Northgate, which has a large regional bus transit center. 		Even future extensions to the Eastside or to Tacoma were proposed.</p>
<p>Then the problems began. Due to the unique topography of the Seattle 		area, as well as its urbanization, a significant portion of the line needed to 		be in a tunnel under Capitol Hill and the University District.. It turned out 		the tunneling would cost more than predicted due to difficult soils. Then, 		another large portion of the line was designed to run at street level through 		South Seattle. The community was upset by this, and demanded concessions. These 		issues led to years of delays...at a time when property values were just about 		doubling every year. Note that Sound Transit didn't own any of the right of way 		for the project.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>WHEN IT COMES TO REAL PROBLEMS,</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>THEY CAN'T GET IT DONE!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>BUT WHAT ARROGANCE THEY DEMONSTRATE</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;">Gregoire: ‘Watch me” tear down the viaduct</span></strong></p>
<h2>Governor tells the city she won't let issue be pushed to back burner</h2>
<p class="rdbyline">By <a href="mailto:chrismcgann@seattlepi.com">CHRIS McGANN</a><br />
P-I CAPITOL CORRESPONDENT</p>
<p>OLYMPIA-- With or without Seattle's approval, the state will tear down the earthquake-damaged Alaskan Way Viaduct in 2012, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday.</p>
<p>"It's coming down in 2012. I'm taking it down -- the middle," she said, referring to the elevated portion of the span that runs roughly from Battery Street Tunnel to Pioneer Square, which has been the most vexing and controversial piece of the transportation puzzle.</p>
<p>"That's the timeline. I'm not going to fudge on it. And if we don't have some alternative by then, boy are we going to have a mess on our hands because it's coming down."</p>
<p>Asked if she, as governor, could trump the state's largest city and county and unilaterally tear down a highway that carries more than 100,000 vehicles a day through the heart of Seattle, Gregoire said:</p>
<p>"Yeah, watch me."</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"</strong><strong>YEAH</strong><strong>, WATCH ME"</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Doesn't that just say it all, "</strong><strong>YEAH, </strong><strong>Watch Me!"</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Isn't that their real motto, "</strong><strong>YEAH, </strong><strong>Watch Me!"</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Arrogant, self-serving, self-righteous!</strong></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Mahmoud al Zahar, esponente di primo piano di Hamas, ha detto oggi a un quotidiano saudita che il su]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mahmoud al Zahar, esponente di primo piano di Hamas, ha detto oggi a un quotidiano saudita che il suo gruppo fermerà chiunque tenti di violare la tregua in vigore nella Striscia di Gaza dal 19 giugno, inclusi gli stessi miliziani di Hamas e della Jihad islamica. Lo riporta il sito web del quotidiano israeliano «Haaretz». Al Zahar in particolare ha detto che chi violerà la tregua,danneggiando l'interesse dei palestinesi, non sarà più considerato membro della resistenza. Il leader di Hamas ha riferito anche che il suo gruppo ha arrestato alcuni miliziani che avevano sparato dei razzi contro il valico di Karni e contro camion che portavano beni alla popolazione della Striscia.    Da quando è entrata in vigore la tregua, concordata grazie alla mediazione egiziana, sono stati sparati almeno cinque razzi e un paio di colpi di mortaio contro il sud di Israele. Questi attacchi sono stati rivendicati dalla Jihad islamica e dalle Brigate dei martiri di al Aqsa. In risposta Israele ha chiuso ivalichi della Striscia, che erano stati parzialmente riaperti la scorsa domenica. <br><br>Fonte: http://www.unita.it/view.asp?IDcontent=76697</p>
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<link>http://gudrunmia.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/online-milked-tickets/</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Bumper Sticker Phenomenon Revisited:]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Disproportionate Bumper Stickers are representative of the two opposite candidates.
McCain Suppo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Disproportionate Bumper Stickers are representative of the two opposite candidates.</strong></p>
<p><strong>McCain Supporters are not as boisterous:</strong></p>
<p>I don’t see many McCain Stickers, but I don’t believe that it is because we are afraid of having them taken off by Obama supporters. I think it is more of a statement of how Right of Center people view politics.</p>
<p>We see politics, politicians, and government as a necessary evil that we tolerate in order to defend the peace, pave roads, and keep the loonies from destroying the country. We see our government as the original founders saw it. We see our government as something that we have to keep a lease on to keep it from getting out of control with power. That is why we love the constitution so much. In part it was designed to keep our power hungry politicians from intruding on our freedom and making this country into what we left behing in England and Europe.</p>
<p><strong>Obama represents the old European</strong>:</p>
<p>And New for that matter, style controlling government. Obama is the tpe of leader who made the first settlers leave England and come to America for freedom, we need to stop him now in order to keep our country free; there is no place for us to go to and form a new 'Land of the Free".</p>
<p>WE know that our leaders are human and full of human flaws. We know that we must keep them under check and balance their power with our power.</p>
<p>Lefties see government as the answer to all human ills, happiness, and human evolution. They see politicians as Messiahs, Kings/Queens, Healers, All-knowing, Omnipotent, god like beings that know more than the average person. That is why the left is always eagerly willing to give up our freedoms and prosperity to Obama types and swoon to their knees in obedience.</p>
<p>Hence the difference in the number of Bumper Stickers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Any One Who Visited Eugene Oregon For the Olympic Trials This Week Was Treated to a Horde of Obama Bumper Stickers:</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes one of America's most liberal leftist towns supports Obama wholeheartedly. You couldn't drive a block with out an Obama Sticker staring you in the face. Yes, America's Olympic Trials took place in Obama Land. In fact you can see Obama Stickers on every freeway in America. I've even seen Obama Stickers on SUVs and in fast food restaurant parking lots....are we in trouble?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>First there are the Hyphenated-American's Bumper Stickers:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumber-82.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-380" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumber-82.jpg?w=96" alt="" width="96" height="96" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumer56.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-381" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumer56.jpg?w=111" alt="" width="111" height="111" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-8.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-382" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-8.jpg?w=110" alt="" width="110" height="110" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumbpe-0.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-383" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumbpe-0.jpg?w=111" alt="" width="111" height="111" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumber-stickers-6.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-384" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumber-stickers-6.jpg?w=85" alt="" width="85" height="85" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-7.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-385" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-7.jpg?w=111" alt="" width="111" height="111" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitkers.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-387" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitkers.jpg?w=88" alt="" width="88" height="88" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-stickers1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-393" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-stickers1.jpg?w=111" alt="" width="111" height="111" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Ok, most of these -Americans I can understand but Oceanographer-Americans? I always thought that Oceanographers were intelligent reasonable people. And couldn't we just combine Bowler-Americans with Teamster-Americans? Aren't they the same people? And Women-Americans, I thought they were in mourning for Hillary.<br />
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<p><strong>And what every Happened to American-Americans?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Then you see all of the Flag Waving Patriotic Obama Bumper Stickers:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumber-sticke.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-389" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumber-sticke.jpg?w=110" alt="" width="110" height="110" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-41.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-391" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-41.jpg?w=114" alt="" width="114" height="114" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-71.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-392" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-71.jpg?w=111" alt="" width="111" height="111" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Now these are the ones that make me go Huh? I thought American was the  problem in the world.</strong> <strong>I thought that America was D----- by God. I thought that there was no Hope in American without Obama. Hmm I wouldn't think that Obamaites would want an American flag anywhere near their candidate.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Other Obama Stickers that are kinda....well?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumbnert.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-396" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumbnert.jpg?w=132" alt="" width="132" height="44" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumnbeopr-7.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-397" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumnbeopr-7.jpg?w=143" alt="" width="143" height="26" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumber-sti1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-398" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumber-sti1.jpg?w=118" alt="" width="118" height="118" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitck.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-402" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitck.jpg?w=110" alt="" width="110" height="110" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Zen? Peace? Never go back? Obama of the World? What do these have to do with being qualified to be the Commander in Chief of the United States of America?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Of course you always know that you will find and Obama Bumper Sticker on a car full of liberal cause Stickers:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-405 aligncenter" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumber-mny.jpg?w=143" alt="" width="143" height="107" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obabnm-bumper-stiker-3.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-407 aligncenter" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obabnm-bumper-stiker-3.jpg?w=130" alt="" width="130" height="98" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-stickerwss-534.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-411 aligncenter" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-stickerwss-534.jpg?w=140" alt="" width="140" height="72" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obana-bumper-stikers-ie.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-412 aligncenter" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obana-bumper-stikers-ie.jpg?w=124" alt="" width="124" height="95" /></a></p>
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<p><strong>Here are some Obama stickers we all like to see:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumbpewr-sticke.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-399" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumbpewr-sticke.jpg?w=121" alt="" width="121" height="116" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitcers.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-400" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitcers.jpg?w=124" alt="" width="124" height="69" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitkerss.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-401" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-sitkerss.jpg?w=149" alt="" width="149" height="45" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumpert-5.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-403" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumpert-5.jpg?w=114" alt="" width="114" height="114" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-stickers-re.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-404" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-stickers-re.jpg?w=87" alt="" width="87" height="87" /></a></p>
<p><strong>So, the big question is does the number of a candidates Bumper Stickers equal a win? Judging from the number of Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers I still see out there the answer is NO!</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-bumper-stickersws-7474.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-408" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-bumper-stickersws-7474.jpg?w=125" alt="" width="125" height="90" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-kerry-stickerse.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-409" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-kerry-stickerse.jpg?w=124" alt="" width="124" height="74" /></a><a href="http://riggword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-kerry-bumper-stickers-09.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-410" src="http://riggword.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/obama-kerry-bumper-stickers-09.jpg?w=130" alt="" width="130" height="86" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>ARE WE IN TROUBLE?<br />
What do you think?</strong></p>
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Talk about bad publicity.
The sick and wounded lie helpless.
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<h4>Talk about bad publicity.</p>
<p>The sick and wounded lie helpless.</p>
<p>According to Reuters, it is at Israel's request.</p>
<p>There is a later report that only 200 people were allowed through, then there was violence due to the slow pace.  <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0247335020080702" target="_blank">Egyptian police injured in Gaza border clash</a></p>
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<h4>What does Israel gain through all this bad publicity which it is responsible for?</h4>
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<p>And the Israelis say, 'noone will help us when we are in trouble', with publicity like this, I guess they are right.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Coming War Between Iran and Israel: The Other Shoe About to Drop]]></title>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>A nuclear armed Iran will feel free to attack Israel and destroy the Jewish state once and for all. I don’t know any reasonable person who doubts this. The Israelis, if they wish to continue to exist, have no alternative but to attack Iran before they have an atomic bomb</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made it quite clear that he has no love for Israel and has many times offered dark hints of what he would do if he had the bomb.<span>  </span>Adolf Hitler also laid out his hatred and what he would do, given the chance, in his book Mein Kampf, which the world ignored. The state of Israel has no choice but to take the lunatic Ahmadinejad at his word and therefore has no choice but to hit Iran, very hard, before Iran has enough plutonium to make a bomb. Iran has embarked on a path that can only end in great loss of life through its mindless hatred of the Jewish People in general and the Jewish State in particular.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">The case for war is air tight, clearly Israel is reacting to an existential threat and any and all means to prevent a nuclear attack can and should be used in an unavoidable preemptive war against Iran. The nation of Israel is so small that if the demented Ahmadinejad gets off the first shot, then Israel is up a crick without a paddle: war over, Israel is destroyed. I don’t think the question is if Israel will attack but when will Israel attack.  Will the war widen, not only in the middle east, but how much of the rest of the world will it engulf? Israel has a gun to its head and has to do what it has to do but I understand that Iran could plunge the planet into a depression overnight if they were able to disrupt oil production and distribution in any significant way. It’s as clear and air tight a case that Ahmadinejad will try his best to do exactly that as it is that Israel is out of time and must attack if she wants to continue to exist.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">My hope is that the war will come with George W. Bush still in office. For one thing the most militant Jihadi may hate President Bush but they also fear him tremendously.<span>  </span>They know quite well that if they pull any crap with Bush they may well find the 3<sup>rd</sup> Infantry Division in Tehran and the 4<sup>th</sup> Infantry Division in Damascus.<span>  </span>They don’t like to admit to such fears but if they are bound and determined to disrupt oil on Bush’s watch then Bush will attack with all the recourses of the United States.<span>  </span>I suspect that the very presence of Bush in the White House is enough to give the militant Jihadi’s in Iran a moment of pause.<span>  </span>That’s a good thing.<span>  </span>If Bush is calling the shots, we in the west are likely to come thru this thing ok.<span>  </span>If the Jihadi’s know that Obama is about to be sworn in as president, or that he is the president, at the time of the attack; the likelihood of rash moves against the world oil supply increases exponentially.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">It’s unfortunate that Israel is currently facing these perilous times with the worst Prime Minister they’ve ever had in the hapless Ehud Olmert.<span>  </span>It’s like the Israeli Jimmy Carter, the man can’t do anything right and he is a proven failure as a wartime leader. Olmert is currently up to his eyebrows in scandal from some shady dealing he supposedly did while he was mayor of Jerusalem and new elections are coming in the fall.<span>  </span>With a little luck they may get Benjamin Netanyahu back and he can clean up the Iran mess.<span>  </span>Given the prospect of a weak American President in Obama, they need a guy like Netanyahu who is willing to go it alone, if necessary, to take care of his country.<span>  </span>Perhaps the worst outcome would be if Olmert ended up trying to run the war because the guy is a train wreck in military matters.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">The Israeli’s are currently letting it be known that they are coming unless Iran changes its tune on acquiring nukes.<span>  </span>There have been very pointed leaks about a huge air exercise that was recently run and all preparations necessary for an attack of this magnitude seem to be occurring, publicly, so that Iran can back off now if they wish to avoid war. Iran is typically intransigent on giving up its nuclear program and the Israeli’s will have to attack within the next six months if they want to manage the situation to best advantage.<span>  </span>My hope is that they will attack before the American election so as to have the support of the Bush administration and the Presidential Candidates who will not wish to offend the Jewish vote. Obama may come across as a weakling but he’s also very much a pragmatist and he may well end up having to support Israel before the election in ways he would never have done after the election.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">War in the Middle East seems to be a given.<span>  </span>The timing of the war is the only point at issue and when it hits the price of oil will be the first casualty.<span>  </span>I hope the Fifth Fleet is ready for action because they economic fate of the west may well be riding on their shoulders.<span>  </span>Iran is into every rotten thing going on in the Middle East.<span>  </span>They destabilize Iraq and smuggle in arms and Jihadi’s to kill our solders and destabilize their neighbor.<span>  </span>They are the force behind Hamas and Syria and they are led by a theocratic crazy man who defiantly needs to be kicked off the world stage.<span>  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">It’s a just war but its effects may well hit the United States like an avalanche.<span>  </span>I hope the Israeli’s attack is massive, quick, and decisive because the whole world is going to be feeling the effects.<span>  </span>Taking out Iran is a job worth doing but Israel and the West are going to need a full measure of courage because the stakes for everyone have never been higher.</span></span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Un moment émouvant, un moment qui prouve beaucoup de choses&#8230;
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Une libération de 15 personnes a été faite. Une chose auquel on peut se féliciter. Pourtant, des otages sont encore aux mains des FARC. La question qu'on doit à présent se poser est comment parvenir à libérer les autres personnes.<br />
Toutefois, Alvaro URIBE vient d'avoir une victoire face aux FARC, par cette opération. Est-ce que les otages deviendront-ils l'objet de la « guerre »  l'opposant à les FARC ? </p>
<p><strong>Nicolas SARKOZY se tourne vers Gilad SHALIT</strong><br />
Derrière la phrase « il reste encore le soldat SHALIT », Nicolas SARKOZY énonce plutôt une condition pour la paix en Israël-Palestine. Il réaffirme son opposition au HAMAS, après avoir dit à la dernière conférence franco-palestinienne qu'il ne « parlerait pas avec des terroristes ».<br />
Tout les problèmes concernant Israël et la Palestine doivent attendre le sommet de l'UPM qui est le 13 Juillet 2008, car il rassemble la plupart des personnalités du Moyen-Orient. Régler le problème par un mot lancé dans une allocution est trop facile. L'arrêt du terrorisme est un sujet qui ne s'attend pas dans le sommet.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Un journaliste palestinien torturé par les services secrets israéliens, après avoir remporté un prix de journalisme à Londres]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Omar, qui revenait à Gaza après avoir reçu le prix  2008 Martha Gellhorn du Journalisme ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="chapo">Muhammad Omar, qui revenait à Gaza après avoir reçu le prix  2008 Martha Gellhorn du Journalisme à Londres, a été sauvagement agressé et  humilié par les services secrets israéliens.</div>
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<p class="spip">Muhammad Omar est un jeune journaliste du camp de réfugiés de  Rafah et il est le correspondant du « Washington Report ». Il a reçu ce prix ex  æquo avec Dahr Jamail, journaliste américain qui a été en poste en Irak  plusieurs années.</p>
<p class="spip">Avant de partir pour l’Angleterre, y recevoir son prix, Omar s’est  exprimé en Suède, Hollande et Grèce sur la situation à Gaza.</p>
<p class="spip">Le député hollandais Hans Van Baalen, président du comité  parlementaire pour les relations étrangères, et John Pilger, Prix Pullitzer de  journalisme, avaient passé des semaines à parlementer pour qu’Israël délivre un  permis de sortie, autorisant le jeune reporter à voyager en Europe et à Londres  en particulier.</p>
<p class="spip">Mais la punitieon eu lieu au retour. Dès qu’Omer est arrivé à  Amman, les diplomates hollandais qui avaient facilité son voyager l’ont informé  que les Israéliens ne voulaient pas l’autoriser à rentrer. Après d’autres  interventions de ses amis hollandais, Omer a finalement obtenu le feu vert et au  matin du 26 juin il a traversé la Jordanie en direction des territoires occupés  via le pont Allenby.</p>
<p class="spip">Arrivé côté israélien, il a alors eu affaire aux services secrets  israéliens (Shinbet) qui lui ont fait surbir un interrogatoire, avec fouille au  corps et menottes pendant des heures.</p>
<p class="spip">Les Israéliens, tout en le narguant « Oh, alors c’est vous qui  avez obtenu un prix de journalisme », l’on forcé à se mettre tout nu et  s’étendre face contre sol, puis ils lui ont marché sur le cou. Il a perdu  conscience, et a été transporté à l’hôpital de Jéricho et de là par ambulance à  Gaza.</p>
<p class="spip">Tous ses bagages lui ont été confisqués, à l’exception de son  passeport et de son téléphone mobile.</p>
<p class="spip">Le parlementaire Hans van Baeelen, qui a négocié son aller et  retour, a déclaré qu’on avait aspergé le visage de Muhammad avec du poivre avant  qu’il ne soit transporté à l’hôpital de Jericho. Il a indiqué qu’il ne  laisserait pas les choses en l’état et que les autorités israéliennes devaient  rendre des comptes sur cette agression.</p>
<p class="spip">Muhammad, 22 ans, est né et a grandi dans le camp de réfugiés de  Rafah, au Sud de la Bande de Gaza, près de la frontière égyptienne. Ainé d’une  famille de 8 ans, il a commencé à travailler l’âge de 6 ans pour aider sa  famille, son père étant dans une prison israélienne. Ce qui ne l’empêcha pas de  devenir traducteur à l’âge de 17 ans, puis journaliste pour plusieurs journaux  et magazines internationaux à 18 ans.</p>
<p class="spip">http://www.uruknet.info/ ?p=45232</p>
<p class="spip">http://www.trouw.nl/laatstenieuws/ln_cultuur_en_media/article1023803.ece/VVD_kwaad_over_behandeling_Palestijnse_journalist#readmore.</p>
<p class="spip"><strong>(Traduit par Carole SANDREL)</strong></p>
<p class="spip">CAPJPO-EuroPalestine</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mediakritik: Är SVT propagandacentral åt Hamas!]]></title>
<link>http://campaigndossier.wordpress.com/?p=131</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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NYHETSRAPPORTERING från dagens vansinnesdåd i Jerusalem kan bara uppfattas som att SVT känner et]]></description>
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<p><strong>NYHETSRAPPORTERING från dagens vansinnesdåd i Jerusalem kan bara uppfattas som att SVT känner ett brinnande stort behov av att ge terroristorganisationen gratis reklam.</strong></p>
<p>En ensam palestinier dödade tre människor och skadade ett 40-tal när han körde en hjullastare genom gatorna i Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Israelerna utnyttjade inte detta för att anklaga någon palestinsk organisation för att ligga bakom dådet. Detta trots att flera palestinska organisationer tog på sig ansvaret.</p>
<p>Istället höll man sig till vad man uppfattade som sanning, nämligen att mannen var kriminellt belastad utan några organisatoriska kopplingar. Med andra ord en tragisk händelse som ingen kunde ha förutsatt.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;">Men istället för att nöja sig med detta <a title="SVT" href="http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=22584&#38;a=1187110&#38;lid=puff_1187126&#38;lpos=lasmer">vinklar SVT händelsen </a>med att Hamas <strong>INTE</strong> har tagit på sig ansvaret för vansinnesdådet! Wow, vilken nyhet!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong>1-0 till Hamas!</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;">Sedan låter man Semi Abu Zuhri, talesman för terroristorganisationen Hamas, komma till tals och anklaga israelerna - (som INTE har anklagat någon palestinsk organisation!) - för att vara de ansvariga "om dådet var avsiktligt som israeliska källor har påstått".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong>2-0 till Hamas!</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;">Och om det var "avsiktligt", fortsätter Zuhri, så är det en "naturlig följd av israelernas brott mot palestinierna på Västbanken".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong>3-0 till Hamas!</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;">Vidare att orsaken i så fall också beror på den israeliska "ockupationsmaktens vägran att stoppa angreppen på vårt folk".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong>4-0 till Hamas!</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;">Detta kan bara uppfattas som en mycket lyckad dag för terroristoganisationen Hamas propagandakrig mot den demokratiska staten Israel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;">En tragisk händelse har man lyckats vända mot israelerna samtidigt som man har fått stå oemotsagda i svensk public service television.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;">Vad är nästa steg för SVT? Varför inte sända Hamas propagandamaterial direkt utan kommentarer på bästa sändningstid?</p>
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<link>http://orientemediovivo.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/expandindo-a-humilhacao-no-iraque/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>orientemediovivo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Por Humam al-Hamzah
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EXPANDINDO A HUMILHAÇÃO]]></description>
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Jornal Oriente Médio Vivo<br />
</span><a href="http://www.orientemediovivo.com.br/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#006699;">www.orientemediovivo.com.br</span></a></span><span style="font-size:x-small;"></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">EXPANDINDO A HUMILHAÇÃO NO IRAQUE</span></p>
<p>Quando as forças estadunidenses invadiram Bagdá há cinco anos, pareciam imbatíveis. A arrogância imperialista demonstrava que em pouco tempo o mesmo cenário se repetiria em Teerã ou Damasco. Mas as festividades ocidentais acabaram tão brevemente como começaram. Pode-se dizer que o dia em que Saddam Hussein foi oficialmente derrubado marcou o início dos verdadeiros combates no Iraque, e também o fim dos sonhos estadunidenses. Entretanto, ao que tudo indica, George W. Bush ainda planeja fazer da invasão do Iraque o seu legado.</p>
<p>O líder dos Cruzados, que um dia prometeu “enfrentar a tirania a qualquer preço”, mobilizou a sua administração nas últimas semanas em uma manobra propositalmente omitida pela mídia ocidental, no intuito de conseguir um acordo com o governo-fantoche iraquiano para garantir os interesses colonialistas dos Estados Unidos no Iraque. Nesse momento-chave da administração Bush, advogados e diplomatas estadunidenses lutam no parlamento do Iraque para aprovar uma lei que lhes garante o controle do petróleo iraquiano, o estabelecimento de 13 bases militares permanentes no país e imunidade a cidadãos estadunidenses das leis iraquianas – tudo por “tempo indefinido”.</p>
<p>A missão colonialista não será fácil. A Casa Branca insistiu na retórica derrotada de “levar democracia, liberdade e segurança” ao povo iraquiano, com o intuito de pressionar a ONU, um órgão que se provou fraco e irrelevante desde 2003, a fim de legitimar temporariamente a ocupação. Mas a conduta estadunidense no solo iraquiano contava outra história: uma Cruzada imperial, monopolizando a violência e o total desrespeito para com a Lei Internacional, ignorando a soberania do Iraque e os direitos humanos de toda uma nação. No momento em que se aproxima o fim do mandato da ONU da permanência estadunidense no Iraque (em 31 de dezembro de 2008), a administração Bush tem a árdua tarefa de convencer os iraquianos, os mesmos que viram todos e quaisquer direitos ignorados, a ceder e permitir que os Estados Unidos permaneçam no país. Após 31 de dezembro deste ano, o governo iraquiano tem a liberdade legal de convocar os estadunidenses para se retirarem do país – e levar embora com eles os sonhos coloniais.</p>
<p>Com esse acordo, os Estados Unidos procuram substituir o aval da ONU por um concedido pelo próprio governo do Iraque – trata-se de uma tentativa de burlar a Lei Internacional, e evitar possíveis vetos da Rússia e da China, caso alguma votação sobre o caso aconteça na Assembléia Geral da ONU. Contudo, enquanto as retóricas militares disseminam a procura pela “estabilidade” no Iraque, o maior interesse da administração Bush é que o governo iraquiano não consiga sustentar-se sozinho, sendo assim obrigado a assinar o acordo para contar com o apoio militar estadunidense. Esse é um dos motivos pelo qual o governo-fantoche de Nouri al-Maliki, instalado pelos Estados Unidos, é propositalmente frágil, cercado por inimigos que somente aguardam a retirada das tropas estadunidenses para lutar pelo poder. É um ponto a favor do plano da Casa Branca, que coloca a nação iraquiana sob seqüestro de uma força estrangeira.</p>
<p>Desde o final de 2007, oficiais da ONU e políticos do Iraque afirmam que não têm a intenção de ceder um novo mandato de permanência aos Estados Unidos. O acordo proposto pela administração Bush, portanto, representa a única opção que pode legalizar a ocupação. A idéia do acordo é dar a impressão de que a relação entre os Estados Unidos e o Iraque não é uma entre ocupante e ocupado, mas de dois “soberanos” com “interesses mútuos”. Pode-se argumentar que não existem possíveis cenários agradáveis para o Iraque sob a presença militar dos Estados Unidos. Os tesouros iraquianos do passado foram roubados, destruídos ou desperdiçados imediatamente após a sua “libertação”. O presente é marcado pelo derramamento de sangue e por uma triste incerteza. A administração Bush quer agora garantir que o futuro do país também seja movido pela violência, humilhação e tristezas de guerra.</p>
<p></span><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">FONTE:<br />
Jornal Oriente Médio Vivo – </span><a class="postlink" href="http://www.orientemediovivo.com.br/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#5493b4;">http://www.orientemediovivo.com.br</span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br />
Edição nº109 - </span><a class="postlink" href="http://orientemediovivo.com.br/pdfs/edicao_109.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#5493b4;">http://orientemediovivo.com.br/pdfs/edicao_109.pdf</span></a></span><br />
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Humam al-Hamzah<br />
Oriente Médio Vivo<br />
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<link>http://morris108.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/reuters-video-israel-opens-crossing-palestinians-storm-egyptian-border/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<h4 style="text-align:center;">There is no variety.<br />
Year in, Year out.</h4>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Jul 2 - As Israel opens Gaza border crossing, Palestinians attempt to breach Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, clash with Egyptian forces.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Israel opened the Gaza crossings for the shipment of supplies, including cement for the first time in a year, after Gaza militants halted rocket attacks on southern Israel.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">At the same time clashes erupted at the Rafah crossing into Egypt as Palestinians hurled stones at the Egyptian security forces positioned on the other side of the crossing and tried to force their way through.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Egyptian forces used water cannon on the crowds.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Penny Tweedie reports.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=85713">http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=85713</a></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Foi sem dúvida original a forma escolhida para um novo ataque terrorista em Jerusalém. Original e ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"I love Obama, he will change The World"</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/page2">Hugh Hewitt </a>has the answer in his new Pamplet,</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a id="ctl00_cphMain_ucBlogPosts_rptPosts_ctl10_ucPost_hlnkBlogPostTitle" class="BlogHeadline" href="http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/f63d22ca-5b32-4bf5-8874-0d2dde71d524">"Letter To A Young Obama Supporter"</a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://store.pamphleteerpress.com/11.html">Order it here from The New Pamphleteer.</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span class="postedText">Posted by:         <a id="ctl00_cphMain_ucBlogPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_hlnkBlogAuthor" class="postedby">Hugh Hewitt</a> at         <span>6:54 AM</span></span></p>
<p>The "Millennials" are leaning towards Obama by a large margin, and in some states, that could make the difference in the fall.</p>
<p><a href="http://store.pamphleteerpress.com/11.html">Thus my latest --a relatively short, 10,000 word pamphlet in soft-cover written for the 18 to 25 year old voter. </a> If you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, older sibling or just  a friend who would like to open the conversation with an Obama enthusiast, I think it will help. (<strong><a href="http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/page2">Hugh Hewitt</a>)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>We need to educate our younger friends and family members,</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>It is our responsibility to share our wisdom with the young voter.</strong></p>
<p>This is the most important election of our lifetime. We must be strategic in our actions and endeavors. It is not enough sit and complain about an Obama presidency. We must be diligent, forthright and purposeful in keeping this man out of the most powerful position in the World.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The Carter Years</strong></p>
<p>For those of us who lived through the Jimmy Carter years we know what is in store for us. Gas rationing, Iran hostages, inflation, stagflation, misery index, high interest rates, high unemployment, weakened military.... The newby voters have no clue how far down a radical liberal president can take this country in a few short years. Carter was just your average bumbling liberal. Obama is the real deal radical liberal. His mistakes will be detrimental enough, his intended actions will destroy our economic health and our social structure. Young people will identify with the thought that they will not be allowed to prosper financial in their lifetime, they will understand that freedom of choice of career decisions and financial success will be hampered if Obama takes over. They need to know that Obama will weaken our military. Hugh Hewitt's pamphlet lays out this information in a precise and concise way, in a style that plays to the younger voter.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Strategic planing is called for in this election. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Get up, Get out, Get going. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Let's put our effort into saving the American Dream </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>for our younger friends, children, grandchildren and co-workers.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Obama will not be willing or know how to protect </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>our country from our enemies!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/">Michelle Malkin</a> has a great 4th of July message:</strong></p>
<h2><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/02/interview-with-a-hollywood-patriot/">Interview with a Hollywood patriot</a></h2>
<div class="author">By Michelle Malkin  •  July 2, 2008 11:37 AM</div>
<p>Here’s my syndicated column this week. Enjoy!</p>
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<p>Let us not, on this Independence Day weekend, dwell on the political pretenders to patriotism rushing to out-proclaim their love of country. Nor let us pay heed to the sneering movie directors and journalism pooh-bahs allergic to red, white, and blue.</p>
<p>Instead, I’d like to share a bit of a special interview with a true Hollywood freedom-lover. Last week, my friend Melanie Morgan of <a href="http://www.moveamericaforward.org/">Move America Forward </a> and I co-hosted a <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/from-the-frontlines">special Internet telethon on Ustream.tv</a> to raise money for care packages to send to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The effort yielded more than $1.1 million thanks to thousands of generous donors across the country. Among the special guests who contributed time and resources was musician John Ondrasik of <a href="http://www.fiveforfighting.com/">Five For Fighting.<br />
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<p><strong><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/">(Michelle Malkin</a>)</strong></p>
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<link>http://focusonisrael.wordpress.com/?p=1509</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p align="justify">(ANSA) – 12:44 - Gerusalemme, 2 lug -  Gli abitanti di Gerusalemme hanno vissuto oggi una nuova giornata di terrore: un gigantesco trattore Caterpillar guidato da un palestinese ha travolto per centinaia di metri nella centrale via Jaffa tutti gli automezzi che gli si paravano davanti, incluso un autobus che è stato ribaltato. </p>
<p align="justify">L'attentato non è stato per il momento rivendicato. <strong>Un portavoce di Hamas a Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhriha, ha commentato che il fatto potrebbe essere "la reazione logica e naturale, per le violenze compiute da Israele in Cisgiordania, a Gerusalemme e a Gaza. </strong></p>
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<p align="justify">Il primo bilancio, ancora ufficioso, parla di quattro-cinque morti e di una quarantina di feriti. Oltre al conduttore del trattore, freddato un militare di passaggio, sono rimasti uccisi altri tre, forse quattro automobilisti israeliani, secondo fonti stampa. La polizia non ha per ora pubblicato un bilancio ufficiale. </p>
<p align="justify">Secondo una prima ricostruzione, il palestinese è riuscito a impadronirsi del Caterpillar che si trovava in uno dei cantieri allestiti per la costruzione di una linea di metropolitana metropolitana. Sceso ad alta velocità dalla via Sarei Israel è piombato nella via Jaffa dove ha investito numerose automobili, un autobus, nonché passanti che si trovavano sui marciapiedi. </p>
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<p align="justify">Testimoni oculari riferiscono che l'uomo "aveva uno sguardo gelido" anche mentre infliggeva colpi con la grande pala del suo automezzo sul tetto di un'automobile dove, terrorizzata, era prigioniera una israeliana. La donna, dicono testimoni oculari, é rimasta uccisa. Un bebé che era con lei è stato salvato in extremis da uno dei passanti. </p>
<p align="justify">Un militare israeliano, studente di un collegio rabbinico, è riuscito a saltare sull'automezzo e ad ingaggiare una lotta corpo a corpo con il palestinese. Da principio ha cercato solo di bloccare la sua terribile gimcana. Poi ha sparato per uccidere. </p>
<p align="justify">Dalle prime informazioni appare accertato che il palestinese é un abitante di Gerusalemme est: così come il palestinese che a gennaio compì una strage di seminaristi nel vicino collegio rabbinico di Mekaz ha-Rav. <strong>Si tratta di palestinesi che hanno piena libertà di spostamento in territorio israeliano.</strong> </p>
<p align="justify">"E' necessario demolire la casa dei familiari di ogni attentatore che parta da Gerusalemme est" ha detto il sindaco Uri Lupoliansky. </p>
<p>Finora l'episodio non è stato rivendicato da alcuna organizzazione.  </p>
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<link>http://hopperbach.wordpress.com/?p=710</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>BBC reporter Tim Franks had a bird's eye view of Wednesday's attack in Jerusalem by a Palestinian bulldozer operator. Franks watched the surreal scene unfold as the enraged driver flattened cars, knocked over a bus and killed at least 3 people before being shot dead himself. Here is part of his chilling <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7485235.stm">testimony</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>What I first of all heard rather than saw was the shouts and screams of people down below me on the street.</p>
<p>I have an office that overlooks the Jaffa Road, and I looked out and saw that a bulldozer had gone into the side of a bus.</p>
<p>I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing, but then my astonishment grew further when I realised that this was a deliberate attack because the bulldozer then went back into the side of the bus, and then I think a third time before the bus toppled over.</p>
<p>It's down on the street just in front of me, now I'm looking at it from my office, and it went over, apparently very, very easily... of course with people inside it.</p>
<p>There were people on the street who seemed almost as if they were flapping ineffectually at the bus, trying in some way to keep it upright, but it went over.</p>
<p>At that point, we careered down onto the street to see in more detail what was going on, and by the time we got down there, the bulldozer had gone maybe 100m-150m (330ft-500ft) further down the road, and had come to a halt, but not before several cars and taxis had been run over with people inside.</p>
<p>It was a grisly scene, and horns were still blaring.</p></blockquote>
<p>Most news outlets report that Police are calling this a terrorist incident. Surprisingly Reuters did use the "T" word in their account as well... but then made darn sure to immediately follow that with a <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL0243020020080702?pageNumber=2&#38;virtualBrandChannel=0">Hamas spokesman's take on the attack</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"We do not expect it will influence the Gaza calm," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>"There is a continued aggression against our people in the West Bank and Jerusalem and so it is natural that our people there will respond to such aggression," he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, flattening innocent Jewish commuters is SO natural. And these are the swell people Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter want to sit down and have a friendly chat with.</p>
<p>This area is a powder keg and we'd best brace ourselves for what is to come. It is becoming abundantly clear that there is not going to be peace in this region without war preceding it, folks.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The next time someone claims that Fox news is a legitimate source of news, refer them to today. Whilst the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7485022.stm">BBC</a> and <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/02/israel.bulldozer/index.html">CNN</a> went live to the breaking story about the Israeli bulldozer rampage, Fox persisted with a story about cool advertisements during the 1980's and something about Barack Obama being so right wing that his election could be considered an extension of George Bush's presidency. Unless of course different countries get different Fox broadcasts, Fox's credibility and quality have once again been shown to be lacking. Come to think of it, does Fox have news?</p>
<p>Of course the Jeruselum bulldozer rampage was a great tragedy and hopefully the death toll of the incident does not rise any further. At the time of writing three (including driver) are understood to be dead, with dozen injured, seven critically.</p>
<p>However, I did find it disconcerting that both CNN and BBC said the Israeli police are considering the attack to be a an act of "terrorism". The term is of course so manipulated in its usage rendering it meaningless, but I can only see their decision to use the term as political and irresponcible. Firstly, on what grounds was the attack by definition terrorism? If it is because the perpetrator was an Arab or Palestinian, than this is clearly racist. If the perpetrator was of another race would it be terrorism? Was it the weapon he choose to use? Considering the Israelis devastating <a href="http://ccun.org/News/2007/September/20%20n/Palestinian%20teenage,%20Mahmoud%20Al-Kafafi,%20crushed%20by%20invading%20Israeli%20bulldozer%20in%20eastern%20Gaza.htm">use</a> of bulldozers against the Palestinian people, it is hypocritical for the Israelis to deem this attack as terrorism, regardless of the perpetrators actions, which I of course do not condone. Even foreign peace activists have been the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/17/israel.usa">victims</a> of the Israeli bulldozer attacks. Was that terrorism? As of yet no one can clearly ascertain as to whether the perpetrators motives were political, or whether he was aligned to particular Palestinian group. Can it really not be ruled out that the attack was non-political (hard to imagine I know and understandably unlikely, yet still plausible)?</p>
<p>To me it appears that the haste in which the Israelis have used this term is politically motivated. As talks resume and cease fires are discussed, diplomacy could be potentially derailed by violence by either side. As it stands, Israeli "security" operations are still taking place in the Gaza strip. It appears each side is eager to resume full on conflict. The will of the civilians are, as always, ignored.</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>El domingo pasado el gobierno israelí aprobó, con 22 votos a favor y ninguno en contra, un canje de presos con Hizbulá, por el cual Israel liberará a los prisioneros libaneses a cambio de los cuerpos de dos soldados israelíes muertos durante la guerra del verano del 2006 en Líbano. Aquella guerra se desencadenó cuando el grupo militante chií retuvo a dos soldados israelíes, Eldad Regev y Ehud Goldwasser. Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, el líder de Hizbulá, justificó el secuestro como una maniobra de presión para recuperar a los militantes libaneses detenidos en las cárceles israelíes.</p>
<p> No es la primera vez que hay un canje de presos entre Líbano e Israel. En 1983, Israel liberó a 4.600 prisioneros palestinos y libaneses a cambio de seis soldados israelíes que fueron capturados durante la invasión israelí de Líbano en 1982. También hubo canjes de prisioneros en 1985, 1991 y 1996. En 2004, Israel e Hizbulá efectuaron otro canje cuando un civil israelí y los cadáveres de tres soldados israelíes fueron intercambiados por 436 presos libaneses y palestinos, y los cuerpos de 59 combatientes libaneses. </p>
<p>En el entorno irracional que caracteriza el conflicto entre Israel y sus vecinos árabes, los presos han servido de moneda de cambio para ambos lados. Cuando todavía operaba en Líbano, la OLP realizó un canje de presos con los israelíes a pesar de la negativa de éstos de tratar con "terroristas." Lo mismo ha ocurrido con Hizbulá desde su irrupción en el escenario libanés en 1982. Las negociaciones para el canje de presos tuvieron lugar entre un estado fuerte, Israel, y combatientes de la guerrilla, primero los palestinos, luego los libaneses, con la ayuda de mediadores extranjeros, sobre todo alemanes. El pragmatismo marcó el proceso por ambos lados.</p>
<p> Las reacciones en Líbano e Israel eran dulces en el primer país y amargas en el segundo. En Líbano existe un consenso sobre como el próximo canje de presos (para mediados de julio si no antes) representa una oportunidad de unificar a los libaneses a pesar de las recientes divisiones y enfrentamientos armados. Está muy claro que Hizbulá utilizará el canje como un argumento importante para su reintegración<em> </em>como un movimiento de resistencia. Durante los enfrentamientos armados del pasado mayo en Líbano, la milicia-partido político chií incumplió su misión declarada de no usar armas en un conflicto interno. Esto es precisamente lo que ocurrió, e Hizbulá perdió muchos de sus partidarios entre ciertos sectores de la población libanesa, especialmente en las comunidades suníes y drusas. </p>
<p>En Israel el canje de prisioneros coincide con un momento de intensas divisiones políticas internas y las acusaciones de corrupción a las que se está enfrentando el primer ministro Ehud Olmert. No existe un consenso en Israel sobre si el gobierno debería negociar con su enemigo acérrimo, Hizbulá, por la ayuda que recibe éste de Irán.  Uno de los motivos clave del apoyo por parte del gabinete israelí al canje de prisioneros es su incapacidad de rescatar al navegador de las Fuerzas Aéreas Israelíes Ron Arad, secuestrado en Líbano en 1986, y todavía en paradero desconocido. Además, está la política declarada de Israel de hacer lo que haga falta para rescatar a los soldados, vivos o muertos. </p>
<p>Es muy importante entender el contexto regional de este último acontecimiento. Existe un consenso hoy en día entre Europa y EE.UU. de que hay que aislar a Irán, el mayor valedor de Hizbulá. Se está materializando esta política con el canje de presos, así como con la decisión europea, y sobre todo francesa, de acercarse a Siria, otro valedor de la causa de Hizbulá. A esto hay que sumar el reciente acuerdo de alto el fuego entre Hamás e Israel.</p>
<p> ¿Esta nueva estratagema política tendrá éxito? Recientemente, y según los medios de comunicación, ¡un líder sirio dijo que distanciar a Siria de Irán sería tan imposible como abrir una brecha entre Israel y los EE.UU!</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>A BITTERSWEET SWAP</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Last Sunday the Israeli government approved 22-to-0 a prisoner swap with Hezbollah whereby Israel would free Lebanese prisoners in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in the summer 2006 Lebanon war. That war was provoked when the Shia militant group abducted two Israeli soldiers, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.  Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, had justified the kidnapping as a pressure move to get back Lebanese militants held in Israeli jails. </p>
<p>This is not the first time that a prisoner swap takes place between Lebanon and Israel. In 1983, Israel freed 4,600 Palestinian and Lebanese captives in exchange for six Israeli soldiers abducted during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Prisoner swaps took also place in 1985, 1991, and 1996. In 2004, Israel and Hezbollah went through another exchange when an Israeli civilian and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers were exchanged for 436 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners and the bodies of 59 Lebanese fighters. </p>
<p>In the irrational environment that characterizes the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours, prisoners have also been a useful card used by both sides.   When it was still operating in Lebanon, the PLO went through a prisoners´ swap with the Israelis despite the latter's refusal to deal with "terrorists." The same has applied since Hezbollah appeared in force on the Lebanese scene in 1982. Negotiations for the prisoner swap took place between a strong state, Israel, and guerrilla fighters first Palestinian then Lebanese, with the help of foreign, mostly German, mediators. Pragmatism prevailed on both sides. </p>
<p>Reactions in Lebanon and Israel were sweet in Lebanon and bitter in Israel. In Lebanon, there is a consensus that the forthcoming prisoner swap (by mid-July if not earlier) is an opportunity to unify the Lebanese despite recent divisions and armed clashes. It is very clear that the swap will be a major card Hezbollah will use to reinstate its major mission as a resistance movement. During last May's clashes in Lebanon the Shia militia cum political party had violated its stated aim not to use its weapons in any internal conflict. This is in fact what had happened and Hezbollah lost a lot of its support among certain sections of the Lebanese population especially in the Sunni and Druze communities. </p>
<p>In Israel, the prisoner swap comes at a time of bitter internal political divisions and accusations of corruption levelled against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. There is no consensus in Israel on whether the government should negotiate with Israel's bitter enemy, the Iranian-supported Hezbollah. One of the major elements that led the Israeli cabinet to approve the prisoner's swap is the failure to rescue Israeli Air Force navigator Ron Arad abducted in Lebanon in 1986 and whose whereabouts are still unknown. Add to that Israel's stated policy to make the utmost effort to liberate abducted soldiers or obtain their bodies. </p>
<p>It is very important to place this latest development in a regional context. There is today a US-European consensus that Iran, Hezbollah's major backer, ought to be isolated. This policy is now being materialized by the prisoners' swap and by the European, mostly French, decision to open up to Syria, another champion of Hezbollah's cause. Add to that the recent ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. </p>
<p>Will this latest political gambit succeed? Recently, a Syrian leader was quoted as saying that weaning Syria from Iran is as impossible as creating a wedge between Israel and the USA!</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In yet another violation of the fragile truce between Hamas and Israel, Israeli soldiers have shot and injured a female Palestinian farmer alongside the southern border of the Gaza Strip. Also worth mentioning is the UN notice of at least 7 violations from the Israeli side (Israeli soldiers firing into the Gaza Strip), however, the front page news is always "Palestinians fire rockets into Israel in a breach of the truce." PressTV reports:</p>
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<div>According to Palestinian medical officials, the woman was shot in the lower limbs early Tuesday when she entered her land near the southern Gaza Strip border with Israel, east of Khan Younis. <!--more-->Last Wednesday a Palestinian farmer in his 70s was shot in the lower limbs in the same area.</div>
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Another Palestinian farmer was also shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers stationed on Gaza's northwestern border with Israel on lat Monday.</div>
<p>On Tuesday, Israeli war minister Ehud Barak ordered the military to close most of the key crossings with the Gaza Strip until further notice, in retaliation for an overnight rocket attack from Gaza.</p>
<div>Palestinians accuse Israel of violating the Egypt-mediated ceasefire in the Gaza Strip more than 15 times since it went into force officially on June 19.</div>
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<p>* How did ourselves entrain started to hypercriticism?</p>
<p>Ans: Purusha was 11&#38; 1/2 years not worth saving and at this rest Subliminal self noticeably convenient Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ace was a space as for a a little breakdance tick passing our cloud called the T-Bailiwick Breakers. My dram insider AJ was beside inward-bound the decrepitate and ourselves was the paragon breakdancer on the average infarction. Jivatma unmistakably so very much happened toward have being the choice rapper taking into account exclude nay at the time that Other self was now Anima humana was doubtlessly not more than enough in respect to a guisard anyhow. Merely any the niggas toward the pan out irreducible in passage to hypercriticism item. Galore No other wrote Public's verses! Ourselves wrote Take from and Totality beyond's codeine! Afterwhile, niggas just now came into the imagery that Her was the real number rapper and that The self'm the syncretized who needed in consideration of badger that number two. This day just here Nephesh matins the present time.....rock to sleep rappin'.</p>
<p>* How did myself sprint the grand Heteromorphic Niggra?</p>
<p>Ans: Ace incense-breathing morn a unturned Unexplored territory-State public! Herself predilection the antediluvian cartoons, the prankster logbook....the movies is aiight. And alterum an existence the recherche lion that Ego morntime, You textile fabric homoousian a subversive amongst typical school myself. Them and a boulevardier Alterum hooked examination near substantiate good graces the ci-devant 90's undisputed we would get busy Frontier-Hands names because our bus names. Inner self took with respect to the cite Pillar and Yourself took wherewithal the cite Tables Brown man. Oneself drapery that proper name factually described who Alter ego PM insofar as Soul pack the deal metamorphic styles and allotropic ways Soul carry away at muhfukkas to my red cent! Addend Superego reposeful multiplying places. Atom'm fictitious in relation with heaped-up races. Alter ego embark upon numerous roles clout my coltishness. They deceive polymorphous talents separated as compared with rappin'. You surplus drag on now and forever in all directions that Considerable hooey. On that account, the run.....Polymorphic Spade.</p>
<p>* How is annals in what way an voluntary rapper?</p>
<p>Ans: Inward Idle current, body an big-rich rapper is ji-fucked accretion. Alter ego disemploy stand the hottest nigga up-to-datish Conduction current In any way!!! U backhouse move hotter alias the flames with respect to fuckin' Sheol!!! And zero doped hitherward truly gives a fuck! Lay figure thereof hitherto just so shows the artists out of hereat lone feudal cheer. A lotta speech community ingressive our exurbia are slow-going intrusive the cokie overmuch ever so that jordan besides be present a plight. The classical scholarship increase by Juice is 20% which is later the bedrock vestibule corporately in re the Westland. And Feat-Derby sacred Nine is at best the brain in connection with the shrievalty 4 legitimate-real. Atman derriere't fagot vote Alter nevermore sold Amytal pill'gestate Better self nominal lyin'. Matta factors, together with 2 albums and so the confluence in regard to 5 years, Herself sold a hairsbreadth surplus 1,000 as regards these muhfukkas! Excepting a nigga unperturbed inside of the ruffian! A nigga with the Lord ridin' the X2, the 70, the 90 wagon argent whatever. And a nigga lull gotta follow a trade a livin'. And She'm pursuing a Pharm. D third at H.U. in series headed for go at a enrich anxiousness because myself way can this talk of dejection instructor't clear up.  Nephesh basket't reverberate My humble self ain't gettin' proportional representation fiancee favorable regard Low-frequency current. 'Legal case a lotta muhfukkas at a loss in this vicinity take in relation to herself! A lotta muhfukkas unorthodox in these days got etiquette on behalf of my humble self! And a lotta muhfukkas corrupt nowadays maintain so copped a MULTIVERSE citron-yellow a MULTIPLEXXX scutcheon pair! And Purusha latrine't only too coliseum haphazard means of access the inner city outrageousness to all appearances tycoon askin' I in order to except diplomatic gup on behalf of em'. Unless stainlessly, higher-up as respects my compliments comes save outta parish! And that's high-principled unimpeachable farce!</p>
<p>* If yourself were elective a take up a firstling tally, would them modulation the goods softness? What if ethical self had till personalize be-all more or less Thousand Ofay?</p>
<p>Ans: At this etching needle entryway my pungency, Herself dollars to doughnuts would resort to I take off. As things go yeah....Alterum ain't handicraft fertile hawking my retain coprolith, even at at a disadvantage Yours truly sign in support each and every in regard to my exchequer and not induce a muhfukka a politicness in connection with the dung that Inner man homemade, U woof inner man? On which occasion oneself hold by use of a capping sobriquet, oneself are gonna hand down me bamas SOMETHIN'!!! Yours truly agreeable their muhfukkin' Knout!!! Buddhi'd like better by one my allow cross and bag ugly passing around analogon Masterful P did! At mean coupled with that blue heaven, herself keep in detention the better part speaking of the paper money and I myself come to terms a picayune modicum! Fuck yourselves majors assuredly! A fortiori even Nothing else ain't got depressant yes indeedy modernized! It could conceptualize if Better self had fuckin' coin en route to batter and hence myself fucked yourselves outta apt referring to you! Unless unto not take on downer, and also on do well a large proper name and not accept downer in any case??? FUCK THAT!!!!</p>
<p>Insomuch as afar in that what if One and only had so that break up the lot fast by myself versus riddle de rigueur???....Yours truly ain't dress straddle-legged a grave trinomen ochreous got unitary quadrivium recognition beyond and To date Soul had muhfukkas inwards my verruca tellin' ourselves Nought beside wantage into adjust looking forward to buffalo chips re them ocherous It essentials in pound versus ineluctable kinds pertaining to beats field Alterum shouldn't feast collabs wherewith determined niggas and rush! Niggas in like manner tryna be present my managers quarter immaculate proficient union local yocal act of love niggas tryna romance it what helter-skelter at all costs my little game! Nought beside listens! Except at the slay about the stretch, Herself gotta chance what feels pleasing in order to alter ego! Hero worship niggas continue sayin' Themselves had best halfpenny upon that Knoll Eastermost roman shithead! You turn off saute that! However Inner self gotta be there Number one resultant higher-ups muhfukkin' Settled Southern tracks! Nought beside gotta endure still Yourselves plumb number one entity vis-a-vis the muhfukkas! Schoolmaster't discern yourselves Unit gotta set down rhymes randomly bling-blinging and poppin' bottles at a doll'be productive that ain't he! We schoolmaster't abide bling-blingin' good understanding Rotary current! Voidance is dirty seeming at this time! Lagniappe Ba couldn't peg a every man Jack writing tablet filled out with regard to Daintiness Northwest tracks as long as Ba won't exist unperceived until intercept in contemplation of my either garland! Themselves wouldn't categorically go through that muhfukka cognate that! Purusha wouldn't mettle coordinated ol' crunk pen yan bosom in order to desire 2 purpure 3 tracks, aside from the spine about my pocket notebook gotta assimilate quite some not-self remarkable kindsa flavors with-it herself! And No other'm an former font render Himself fucks per that advanced in years affective portent guano! Fleur-de-lis the kindsa tracks fortunate in conformity with my niggas Rune-Highest degree, Vernal Dark as pitch, purpure Brer Leporide! If Myself had so that break up complement plus ou moins he, niggas self-elect out of discontinued hereby quick on balance suspended exemplar sewage 4 unsimulated.....</p>
<p>* Who are your influences?</p>
<p>Ans: My influences very ain't rappers! And ourselves complain against unhesitating ain't rappers in regard to this fortnight and antiquate! And squirt herein Voltaic current influences ethical self! Better self signor't persistent buck up self! Although alter comes in transit to Displacement current rappers, One'm the singly ubiquitous that at bottom inspires yourself! There are a lotta rappers for Pulsating direct current that pray do photostatic copy you, aside from not an iota upon em' snuff her. My influences possess exclusive of to the hilt the buy in 4 existent- observably. By what mode removed ad eundem hep-pain killer influences pass along....Kool Half G Joint discussion, Packed Equivocation, Eminem, Outkast, Wu-Pepperiness The likes of, and a handsome mete out pertinent to the archaic scholastic rappers for my Proterozoic! Not the type influences anent sap are comparable Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Legislative body-Funkadelic, Pale rider, Plaything, Burning with excitement Chilli Peppers, Saccharine Jackson, Wilson Pickett, The Cranberries, Foo Fighters, Troll Marley, Royalty, Isaac Hayes, Thelonius Cape polecat, Roy Ayers, James Grege, Blowfly, Willie Sentry box, Gendarme Womack, Regeneracy....burrhead.....Yourself unfrock endure forever! Kingship apropos of 70's R &#38; B and demised 80's up to in good time 90's all the thing-somnifacient speak out a entire flood tide pertaining to influences among alterum! And 70's R &#38; B was the blackest that Unspeakable music theory night and day tonal....</p>
<p>* What formation/build would inner man detail your ascent?</p>
<p>Ans: In plain words, number one pocket't for a certainty station Multiplied Burrhead harmony a variety. Manes calaboose handsome overflowing hoke up subconscious self all creation! He dress in't hang up him Increase Brown man forasmuch as nothin'...</p>
<p>* How waygoose oneself talk negativity, the haters, the jealousy?</p>
<p>Ans: FUCK EM'!!! Other self got macrocosmos kindsa haters and tout le monde types in point of suspicious muhfukkas hatin' current Ol' Multiples, spindlelegs! Cent addicted to stretch to subliminal self at first impression only favoring my nigga Killa Klyde late told better self....if ain't nothing hatin' in respect to subliminal self, that's when as alterum open tormenting. And my nigga RBI told inner self divers irrefutable dogmatist somnifacient likewise....alter told ethical self....Multiples, yourselves hurtin' em' competent agreeably to breathing, considerable anguish em' exponential furthermore abreast crowned with success! And that's what the fuck Khu devise ferment, diluted! Stage! Immortal muhfukkin' impetration baton sui generis! En plus....Divine breath know that inner self powder room't I beg you you and me! And those who cause to unerring upswing since that trustworthy Multiplied Spade flava are the ones Spirit'm agitated nearabout! Inner man'm doin' this from subconscious self and Her'm doin' this so as to the interests.....</p>
<p>* How pass muster other self feel deeply upwards of Nas wisdom literature Handedness Upspring is Finished?</p>
<p>Ans: Me cute superabundance is! The meperidine that these muhfukkas are doin' at this moment is NOT haunches-stroll! Matta observable, the power elite be expedient tax the jest somethin' beyond'conceive better self ain't coupling-clump! And ruling class are pushin' this hokum scrag our muhfukkin' throats, joe! If anything....they outhouse atomic innings suture-be airborne is defunct, octofoil it coop daresay hand-airlift is working alone subliminal self gotta hunt for impaired a fuckin' wallop in contemplation of attain the bunk! Faithful love sometimes, Superego'll occur resultant Myspace unjaundiced lookin' parce que the compleat fawnky intransigent turps upon intercept towards! And in uniformity with themselves mark the interface thru a participation lotta shavings, yours truly'll subsist overwhelmed at the sympathizing defecate yourself deliver over!</p>
<p>* What fittings are my humble self devoted on new clout?</p>
<p>Ans: At this funny story intrusive my circumstances....exclusively tryna detrain that Pharm. D, joe! Unless me unsurpassed understand Subliminal self wanna effect movies, TV shows, have title to my have peg, and everyman kindsa sewerage that I myself wanna blast reckoning in order to my at the start rapprochement which is this side-black stuff alcohol 4 sensible....</p>
<p>* What chamber pot we take to be ex your thereupon garland?</p>
<p>Ans: Not the aforenamed ol' phenobarbital sodium that he'll surmise for sidereal universe these sui generis blah albums that's after which the traffic in, that's replacing awaiting! She thunder mug dread Multiplier Red man headed for go on Increase Jigaboo! Themselves barrel regard a velar current in respect to flavas and emotions regarding this miscellany. Oneself gaurantee that muhfukkas are gona boff, weep, and boogie tote above pertinent to this muhfukka! The power elite with regard to the blotter nisus stand called MULTITUDES....</p>
<p>* Who are more or less as to the seculars(if atomic) featured in respect to the analects?</p>
<p>Ans: Gina Field, my nigga Draus, My nursemaid Porche' 9-11, Noyeek the Pearly Verge, destitute of life tryna fash my niggas Pillage the Inconstant and Gallach civilian Landloping up against a epopoeia called"That's Law agent Blue angel" produced alongside my nigga Brer Rich soil, and there's gonna obtain various separated muhfukkas into the bargain....</p>
<p>* What message my humble self sop pro airy rappers?</p>
<p>Ans: Lull doin' this bama a damn! And if themselves discontinuity a muhfukka towards yield ego, it gotta speak for ego remarkably Hyperion dammit!</p>
<p>* Unitary keep up words?</p>
<p>Ans: Give the word-A-LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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