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Bush Setting Up America For War With Iran

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:36:12 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons programme are doomed to fail.

Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.

Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action.

Tags: don't, say, i, didn't, clip, it

Brown Recluse Spider. What can happen if bitten

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:59:30 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: skywalker.cochise.edu

This guy was bitten by a Brown Recluse spider.

The affected skin actually dies on his body.

Some of the pictures towards the end are pretty nasty, but take a look at the last one
-- it is a picture of the spider itself.

it is a picture of the spider itself.

The Brown Recluse Spider is the most dangerous spider that we have here in the USA.

A person can die from it's bite.

We all should know what the spider looks like.

Send this around to people you love, because it is almost summertime.

People will be digging around, doing yard work, spring cleaning, and sometimes in their attics.

The Dangerous Brown Recluse Spider

Please be careful.

Spider bites are dangerous and can have permanent and highly negative consequences.

They like the darkness and tend to live in storage sheds or attics or other ,
areas that might not be frequented by people or light.

Tags: animals, interesting, science

Stop Badgering me !!

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:51:37 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: They look lost

Clip Source: img.photobucket.com

Tags: badger, photo

Once a week I want to start clipping Positive things to help me help others

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:31:47 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Once a week I want to start clipping Positive things to help me help others. I am celebrating my 50th year on this planet and want to begin this next century being a better person to myself and to others.

Clip Source: www.channelg.tv

mission: to maximize funding & awareness for nonprofit projects that focus on environmental, social and health-related issues.
vision: a world of sustainable values, social justice, and cultural and biological
diversity with resources readily available for solution-oriented people and

Tags: diversity, social justice, cultural diversity, humanity

Iranian TV Miniseries about the Halocaust a hit with viewers

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:35:45 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: From the article:

"The series could not have aired without being condoned by Iran's clerical leadership. The state broadcaster is under the control of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei, who has final say in all matters inside Iran."

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

TEHRAN, Iran — It is Iran's version of "Schindler's List," a miniseries that tells the tale of an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust _ and viewers across the country are riveted.

That's surprising enough in a country where hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned whether the Holocaust even took place. What's more surprising is that government media produced the series, and is airing it on state-run television.

The Holocaust is rarely mentioned in state media in Iran, school textbooks don't discuss it and Iranians have little information about it.

Though the Habib character is fictional, it is based on a true story of diplomats in the Iranian Embassy in Paris in the 1940s who gave out about 500 Iranian passports for Jews to use to escape.

About 25,000 Jews live in Iran, the largest Jewish community in the Middle East after Israel. They have one representative in parliament, which is run mostly by Islamic clerics.

Tags: iran, holocaust, tv, politics, history

Belgian Beer in Brussels

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:04:06 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: gridskipper.com

Belgian Beer in Brussels

Belgium makes some incredibly delicious beers. You can get them all over the world, but you can never find the same diverse selection on tap as in Brussels. Most bars in the city will have almost a dozen lambics, trappists, blondes, ambers, and abbey ales on tap, with over a hundred choices in bottles. Just steer clear of tourist Rue des Boucher, and you're bound to find a good place. Here are our top picks.

Spinnekopke:

Brasserie Cantillon:

Bier Circus:

Poechenellekelder:

Beer Mania:

Café Delirium: With 2004 different types of beers, Café Delirium has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for their selections. Go here for the rare beers you've never seen anywhere else. It can seem dark and dank and is a little hard to find, but this is a real treasure. Even on off nights, you'll spot at least one or two foreign beer aficionados relishing an obscure vintage.

Toone:

La Becasse:

La Mort Subite:

In De Oud Pruim:

Tags: belgium, brussel, brussels, beer, bier, café, drinking, drinks, culture, list

Alan Greenspan: US Soldiers Die for Oil

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:21:20 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Cannot be repeated enough:

“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.

In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies.

However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.

Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East.

Britain and America have always insisted the war had nothing to do with oil. Bush said the aim was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and end Saddam’s support for terrorism

Tags: bush, lying sack of feces, war, terror, iraq, greenspan, conservative, liberal, election, politics

What's More Obscene, Sally Field's Comment or War?

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:44:37 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.tvweek.com

Sally Field gave a heartfelt affirmation of motherhood on the Emmy stage when accepting her award for ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" that segued into a criticism of the Iraq War.

“At the heart of [her character] Nora Walker, she is a mother,” Field said. “May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised, and to especially the mothers who stand with an open heart and wait – wait for their children to come home for from danger, from harm’s way and from war. I’m not finished. I have to finish talking … if the mothers ruled the world there would be no goddamn wars in the first place.”

When she said “goddamn” onstage, however, Fox censors apparently took the opportuntity to bleep the rest of her comments.

“I wanted to say someting about the mothers who wait for their military children to come home from harm's way,” she said backstage. “I said at the end that if mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars."

Tags: their, priorities, are, right, on, target

Hell No -- they won't go

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:21:11 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: Wonder if this will ever make it to mainstream media?
Really, the entire article should be read

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

Pablo Paredes, an ex-Navy petty officer who refused to board the Iraq-bound USS Bonhomme Richard in December 2003, estimates that up to 40,000 U.S. servicemen and -women have either gone AWOL (absent without leave) or deserted since 2000. The number of deserters from the Iraq War alone is estimated at around 10,000.

“They’ve all seen something incredibly traumatic; they’ve watched friends die, civilians die, women assaulted and raped. They’ve had enough.

Court-martialed for refusing to ship out to the Gulf, Paredes was administratively discharged

numbers involved are the highest since the Vietnam War, during which an estimated 1.5 million soldiers deserted and went AWOL. Back then, George W. Bush moved to Texas and used his family connections to dodge combat duty

Hinzman has no regrets. He joined the Army for the college funding, but was so horrified by the bloodthirsty values of basic training that he applied for conscientious objector status

Tags: soldiers, deserters, awol, war, trauma

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Bush Setting Up America For War With Iran

Brown Recluse Spider. What can happen if bitten

Stop Badgering me !!

Once a week I want to start clipping Positive things to help me help others

mission: to maximize funding & awareness for nonprofit projects that focus on environmental, social and health-related issues.vision: a world of sustainable values, social justice, and cultural and biologicaldiversity with resources readily available for solution-oriented people and

Iranian TV Miniseries about the Halocaust a hit with viewers

Belgian Beer in Brussels

Belgian Beer in Brussels

Alan Greenspan: US Soldiers Die for Oil

What's More Obscene, Sally Field's Comment or War?

Hell No -- they won't go

mission: to maximize funding & awareness for nonprofit projects that focus on environmental, social and health-related issues.
vision: a world of sustainable values, social justice, and cultural and biological
diversity with resources readily available for solution-oriented people and