Get out of Iraq now

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Countrywide just got $11.2 billion in emergency funding while a major German bank has ben bailed out with 17.3 billion euros.

So, if everything is so contained, why are major corporations getting bailed out as the Fed does emergency unscheduled rate drops? Just wondering…

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From an interview with Derek Hall, writer, economist, and Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Capitalism is based on infinite economic growth, that is ecologically impossible and social injust. So if we are to tackle ecological crisis we need socialism, capitalism is totalitarian, everything ends up being based on the need to expand profit, even education is about providing a willing work force. So the future has to be red-green.

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Just got fundraiser mail from Bill Richardson. The outside of the envelope said

The war is Iraq is not the disease.

Iraq is a symptom. The disease is arrogance.

His 7 point plan on Iraq

- Troops out in 6 months
- No troops left behind
- Congressional deauthorization of war
- Promote Iraqi reconciliation conference
- Work with all neighbors and allies
- Cooperation in reconstruction
- Redeploy to meet real threats

Some of his points make the faulty assumption that the US must lead the way to peace and reconstruction rather than understanding that those who live there are the best qualified to do so, which just more of that American Exceptionalism. But hey, even with that, Richardson is more overtly anti-war than any other candidate and the only one with a specific timeline for when to get out.

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The intake river water was 90 degrees and too hot to act as coolant for the reactor, hence the shutdown, their first ever for that reason.

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