“To think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration”
Bretton Woods Agreements - July 22 1944
Coalition Provisional Authority
“The president did not break the law. Every wartime president, even every wartime leader going back to George Washington, when he authorized the opening of British mail coming into the United States during the American Revolution, has done this kind of behavior. It's essential to the successful conduct of war.”
Prof. Robert Turner,
David Stout, “Senate Debates Resolution to Censure the President,”
But even if the campaign to stamp out 527 groups succeeds, it may not greatly impede third-party involvement in political campaigns, which is flourishing as advocacy groups adapt and discover ever more creative ways to pour their contributions into the political process.
Independent organizations are already working on behalf of candidates in both parties, rallying support behind issues, canvassing for voters and preparing for big-money efforts, with many steering clear of the 527 approach.
Carl Hulse, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “G.O.P. Is Taking Aim at Advocacy Groups,”
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Ron Gettelfinger, UAW president, Richard Shoemaker, and vice president, statement.
Micheline Maynard, “Delphi Asks Bankruptcy Court to Void Union Deals,”
“You're going to see the tumbleweeds. This whole city is going to suffer. …It's going to have a tremendous impact on us. You don't just move the jobs. You destroy a city. You destroy people's lives.”
Allen Huguely,
James Hannah, “Delphi Plants Proposal Upsets Employees,” AP,
“The Jewish Caesar is there alive.”
… “[Jews] knew they could sleep at night because he was not sleeping, that there was someone to guide the Zionist ship in a sea full of mines. They feel that the captain is gone.”
… “[
Uri Dan,
Steven Erlanger, “Sharon’s Spirit, and Absence, Pervade Election,”
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalternable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”
“We spent seven years trying to get Chávez out of Miraflores. What we have to do is get Chávez out of people's hearts.”
Julio Borges, Venezuelan presidential candidate.
Juan Forero, “Rifts Plague Anti-Chávez Venezuelans,” New York Times,
“I feel guilty. I also feel that it just shows that the mujahedeen are good people fighting an honorable fight, a good fight. While the Americans are here, the occupying forces, you know, treating the people in a very, very bad way. So I can't be happy totally for my freedom because there are people still suffering in prisons, in very difficult situations.”
Jill Carroll.
“It's a form of brainwashing in a deprived state where victims emotionally bond with the captors in order to survive. People can feel helpless and hopeless, and any small act of kindness — not killing her, giving her food, letting her have a shower — can lead to bonding with the captor.”
Dr. Alan Manevitz, a psychiatrist and trauma expert,
Kirk Semple, Dexter Filkins, “Reporter Freed in Iraq, 3 Months After Abduction,”
[Corporate] Profits have been so high because almost all of the benefits from productivity improvements are flowing to the owners of capital rather than to the workers.
While profits are up 21.3% in the past year, labor compensation is up just 5.5%. After adjusting for inflation, population growth and taxes, real disposable per capita incomes are up just 0.5% in the past year.
Rex Nutting, “Profits surge to 40-year high: when will corporations spend some of their bread?” MarketWatch,
“It is important for our colleagues in
Carlos Gutierrez,
Richard McGregor, “US adds pressure on China over trade,” Financial Times
“There can't be one set of rules when your team plays away and a different set of rules when they play at home. Such hypocrisy makes global progress impossible. How can the richest countries in the world lecture others about the gains from liberalisation whilst adding further barriers to entering their own markets?”
Alan Johnson, British trade and industry secretary.
Jean Eaglesham, “Free trade ‘is not a one-way street’ say UK in attack on US ‘hypocrisy,’” Financial Times
“Our perception is that there are not enough metals for such growth. There is explosive development in
Jaime Lomelin, CEO, Penoles.
Frank Jack Daniel, Monica Medel, “Mexico’s Penoles says stars aligned for miners,” Reuters,
“I've been competing with a 900-pound gorilla with my hands tied and I will love it, enjoy it, to compete with that gorilla with my hands loose.”
Nelson Ramiz, president, Aeropostal.
Natalie Obiko Pearson, “U.S., Venezuela Hold Talks on Airline Ban,” AP,
“It's very difficult for us to investigate ourselves.”
“The ratio of meetings to patients [about avian flu] is probably 10 to 1:
Elisabeth Rosenthal, “On the Front: A Pandemic Is Worrisomebut ‘Unlikely’,”
“There was something tragically wrong, and [the attack on the mosque has] got to be explained or it's going to be seen by many to be a crackdown on certain political factions in Iraqi politics. We are facing a crisis.”
… At least 267 bodies showing signs of execution-style killings have been recovered in
Kirk Semple, “Shiite Leaders Suspend Talks Over Government,”
Disdain for what is called the “Anglo-Saxon model” sometimes becomes confused with residual criticism of
Elaine Sciolino, “French Youth at the Barricades, But a Revolution? It Can Wait,”
“How can they do this? An ambassador telling a sovereign country what to do is unacceptable. The perception is very strong among certain Shia parties that the
Haider al-Ubady, spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
Edward Wong, “Shiites Say U.S. Is Pressuring Iraqi Leader to Step Aside,” New York Times,
“Yes, we used a worst-case analysis. You should always use a worst-case analysis in this business. You can't afford to be wrong. In the end, we won the cold war, and if we won by too much, if it was overkill, so be it.”
Caspar W. Weinberger.
David Stout, “Caspar W. Weinberger, Defense Chief Under Reagan, Dies at 88,”
“The big lie about this whole program is that it doesn't cost anything. Taxpayers are being asked to provide huge subsidies to oil companies to produce oil — it's like subsidizing a fish to swim.”
… “It is indefensible to be keeping these companies on the government dole when oil and gas prices are so high. We might as well be giving tax breaks to Donald Trump and Warren Buffett.”
Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Ma.).
Edmund L. Andrews, “Vague Law and Hard Lobbying Add Up to Billions for Big Oil,”
“There is no state with a democracy except
Muammar Gaddafi.
Claudia Parsons, “Libya’s Gaddafi lectures U.S. on democracy,” Reuters,
“To win, we have to win the battle of ideas as much as (that of) arms. We have to show these are not Western, still less American or Anglo-Saxon values, but values in the common ownership of humanity, universal values that should be the right of the global citizen.”
Adrian Croft, “U.S. allies must not quit Iraq now: Blair,” Reuters,
“The American forces went into Mustafa mosque at prayers and killed more than 20 worshippers. They tied them up and shot them.”
Hazim al-Araji said, aide to Moqtada al-Sadr.
Michael Georgy, “US troops mount raids in Baghdad, up to 20 dead,” Reuters,
“We're hearing a lot today about Net neutrality, it's in the newspapers just about every day. The chairman of Disney said this is not an area to legislate in.”
Walter McCormick, CEO, USTA [US Telecom Association].
Jeremy Pelofsky, Robert MacMillan, “US telecom execs battle Net neutrality demands,” Reuters,
“Not having negotiations doesn't mean we are not accomplishing our goals. Ten years of negotiations did not dismantle settlements, but when
Farhat Asaad, Hamas.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti, “Palestinians on Internal Politics,” AP
“It wasn't just another [Putin] visit to
Yevgenia Albats, Russian journalist.
Judith Ingram, “Russian Spy Agency Denies Pentagon Report,” AP,
“The energy cooperation between
Russian-Chinese joint statement.
“China, Russia sign joint statement,” Xinhua,
“As
Robert Holleyman, president, Business Software Alliance.
Paul Eckert, “Software sector eyes China piracy breakthrough,” Reuters,
“I think [being a
NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Andrew Jacobs, “Even Before, Recruiting for the Blue Could Be a Hard Sell,”
“Everything we hear is about how this is going to be a better thing for the Yankees and their fans. But I don't care about the Yankees, I care about my constituents.”
Helen Diane Foster,
Timothy Williams, “$28 Million for the Bronx in the Yankee’s Stadium Plan,”
“I'm not the slightest bit concerned. We'll blow the doors off the barn with a high-profile acquittal. I'll take a week off with my family and then come back, campaign for a week, and win.”
Donald Siegelman, fmr.
Rick Lyman, “In Race to Lead Alabama, It’s Politics as Unusual,”
“As we declared, our strong revolutionary might put in place all measures to counter possible
… “We have built nuclear weapons for no other purpose than to counter
… “In a word, it is a robbery-like declaration of war. Through this document [
North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Jae-Soon Chang, “North Korea Touts First-Strike Capability,” AP,
“The Russians have obviously taken a position regarding the elections in
Adam Ereli, State Department spokesman.
“White House Joins in Sanctions Vs. Belarus,” AP,
“It's not what [CSC] asked for but at this point it doesn't really matter. Approve it [the $456,211 CACI invoice].”
… Auditors also identified as excessive the $52,000 CACI spent on 60,000 pens that were custom-made for FBI computer training sessions.
CSC [Computer Sciences Corp.] employee email.
Mark Sherman, “2 Cos. in FBI Computer Team Cited in Audit,” AP,
“We have no time or energy to waste on institutional niceties. The cost of learning lesson has been extremely high in the fight against terrorism.”
John Colston, the assistant secretary general, NATO.
Lolita C. Baldor, “Pace Says 700 Troops Leaving Iraq Soon,” AP,
… “Commumits” are those who attempt to use their resources for their own purposes, thus interfering with the right to rob and to exploit, the central doctrine of [
... we have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population.... In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment of our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction.... We should cease to talk about vague and - for the
Chomsky, Noam. On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures (South End Press, 1987).
“I am rather appalled that our country's laws silence John Doe and require him to remain anonymous for standing by his professional ethics, for standing up for the principle that it is nobody's business what you read, or listen to, or look at in the library but yours.”
Judith F. Krug, Freedom to Read Foundation.
Alison Leigh Cowan, “Librarian Is Still John Doe, Despite Patriot Act Revision,”
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Gonzalo García, Peruvian vice-presidential running mate of Ollanta Humala.
Richard Lapeer, Hal Weitzman, “Peru mines group fear tax increases,” Financial Times
The Iraq Insurance Company, a state-owned group, has sold about 200 individual terrorism policies in the last year, and is now negotiating with several government ministries and private companies for group policies that would cover thousands of employees.
Robert F. Worth, “New Business Blooms in Iraq: Terror Insurance,”
The [Geico underwriting] guide, in addition to listing factors such as driving history, age, mileage and vehicle type, includes a section dividing drivers into eight groups based on their education and occupation. Considered “more favorable” are professionals with college degrees and graduate students. “Least favorable” are “minimally skilled clerks, assistants, stock clerks and postal clerks,” as well as long-haul drivers and “unskilled and semiskilled blue and gray collar workers.”
Albert B. Crenshaw, Caroline E. Mayer, “Geico’s Risk Criteria Challenged,” Washington Post,
Atty. Edward B. MacMahon Jr.: You thought a terrorist attack was coming, and you were being obstructed, right?
FBI Agent Harry Samit: Yes, sir.
… EM: You never stopped trying, did you?
HS: No, sir.
Jerry Markton, Timothy Dwyer, “FBI Was Warned About Moussaoui,”
…By 2004, the share (of jobless blacks in their 20s) had grown to 72 percent, compared with 34 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts.
…In 1995, 16 percent of black men in their 20's who did not attend college were in jail or prison; by 2004, 21 percent were incarcerated. By their mid-30's, 6 in 10 black men who had dropped out of school had spent time in prison.
In the inner cities, more than half of all black men do not finish high school.
Erik Eckholm, “Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn,”
“The state does not assume its responsibilities properly. In many cases there is a deliberate intention to show that public utilities work badly.”
Cuauhtémoc Abarca, Mexican activist.
Elisabeth Malkin, “At World Forum, Support Erodes for Private Management of Water,”
“We have some big plans for growth here in
“We see this as a fantastic opportunity for us to attract some of the best and bright engineers for our software and hardware activities.”
“It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.”
“I joined the military because it seemed to offer stability and camaraderie. No soldier signs up for a war for oil.”
Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia,
