Is
America Headed Towards Fascism? — Commentary
Back in 1935, amid the flurry of legislation by FDR (Employment
Relief Act, Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation
Corps, Social Security), Arthur Henning of the Chicago
Tribune said, "The New Deal will bring the Communist
Party within striking distance of overthrow of the American
form of government..." - NewsWithViews.com
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Protests
Hit Indonesia Over Planned Fuel Price Hike
Angry students burned tyres and seized an oil truck in
Jakarta on Monday in protests that hit four Indonesian
cities over the government's planned hike in domestic
fuel prices. - Reuters
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Five
Days That Shook World Politics
There is no Cold War ahead. Yet the period between February
20 and 24 was extraordinary. Seldom have fault-lines in
world politics surfaced with such clarity. - Asia Times
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Water:
America’s Looming Crisis
At a whopping 36 million on its way to 56 million people
in the next 30 years, California leads the nation as the
site of the next water crisis. In Arizona, it’s so
hot and dry, a man can’t spit on a 110 degree summer
day. Like lemmings jumping over a cliff, Colorado follows
as it doubles its population by four million people at
mid century. - NewsWithViews
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How
Communism and the U.N. Set Out to Destroy America Part
1 — Commentary
I remember the protests that took place near the lawns
of the White House. From the late 1960s into the 1980s,
shrill voices filled Washington, DC with anti-American
rhetoric wrapped in blame-America-first rampages. It made
me wonder why those speaking and those attending didn't
just pack up and move to different pastures˜places
where they could build something instead of trying to
tear down the nation that gave them so much freedom. -
NewsWithViews
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Rule
of (International) Law
One of the more dangerous fads in Supreme Court jurisprudence
of late is something called "international law,"
in which American laws are measured not just against the
Constitution but against the laws of foreign countries.
The purpose is to put the U.S. law in what supporters
delicately call a "global context." What they
really mean is that they can't persuade enough Americans
of their views to change U.S. law so they want to persuade
judges to do it for them. - Wall Street Journal
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Should
the U.N. be lord of the oceans?
"Sovereignty. The issue is huge. The mere mention
of Kofi Annan in the U.N. caused the crowd to go into
a veritable fit. The coalition wants America strong and
wants the American flag flying overseas, not the pale
blue of the U.N." - WorldNetDaily.com
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Iran
refuses to stop uranium enrichment
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told journalists
in Tehran that most European countries did not agree with
Britain in its call on Iran to permanently stop the enrichment
of uranium. - UPI
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Russian
deal will send nuclear fuel to Iran soon
Russia and Iran signed a long-awaited agreement yesterday
which paves the way for the delivery within weeks of nuclear
fuel to a regime which Washington claims is seeking an
atomic bomb and sponsors terrorism. - The Guardian UK
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Coming
Military Uses of Nanotechnology
Militaries all around the world are
about to embark upon the use of Nano-materials--Nano-bots
and Nano-technologies that will make current WMD look
miniscule.
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Will
Bush’s judicial nominees win with the “nuclear
option”?
Most popular histories of Congress
include an exchange, very likely apocryphal, in which
Washington and Jefferson discuss the difference between
the House and the Senate. “Why did you pour that coffee
into your saucer?” Washington asks. “To cool it,” Jefferson
replies. “Even so,” Washington says, “we pour legislation
into the senatorial saucer to cool it.” But the filibuster
rule may soon be altered in a dramatic way, and the
Senate itself may change along with it -JEFFREY TOOBIN/NewYorker
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North
Korea to suspend nuke drive for aid, US pledge--report
North Korea has told South Korea it
would return to talks on its nuclear drive in June and
offer to suspend the program in hopes of aid and a US
pledge not to invade, a Japanese newspaper said Monday.The
communist state told Seoul through unofficial channels
about its intention in late February after it announced
it was indefinitely pulling out of nuclear talks, the
Sankei Shimbun said, citing Japanese government sources
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$19
billion natural gas deals signed
Qatar's state-run petroleum company
and two international oil companies signed deals on
Sunday worth about $19 billion to develop liquefied
natural gas for European and U.S. markets.Qatar Petroleum
and Exxon Mobil Corp. announced the launch of a $12.8
billion liquefied natural gas, or LNG, project that
aims to ferry gas to Britain for the next 25 years
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Political
funding debate to play out
The civil lawsuit itself is small:
five losing Democratic House candidates against the
treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority, or TRMPA.But
the lawsuit is painted against a backdrop of state and
national politics that has ensnared Craddick and U.S.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in the ongoing controversy
-Houston Chronicle
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Early
French vote on EU constitution
The great and the good of France will
put on a grand display of Gallic unity in the symbolic
setting of the Palace of Versailles today in an attempt
to reverse a slide in support for the EU constitution.In
the gilded splendour of L'Aile du Midi (the south wing),
576 deputies and 331 senators will formally approve
changes to the French constitution to allow the EU constitution
to be put before the people -Guardian UK
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Kyrgyzstan
Votes, Some Candidates Excluded
Kyrgyzstan chose a new parliament Sunday,
with some opposition figures and prominent politicians
disqualified from the ballot in a country once seen
as an island of democracy in former Soviet Central Asia.President
Askar Akayev is prevented by the constitution from seeking
a third term, but opposition forces have suggested Sunday's
vote would be manipulated to ensure a compliant parliament
that would amend the constitution to allow him to run
again
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Governors
take aim at high school
While President Bush's proposal to
expand his signature No Child Left Behind law to the
nation's high schools has all but flunked before arrival
on Capitol Hill, many of the nation's governors are
claiming the mantle of high school reform as their own
-Christian Science Monitor
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