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 [Gristmill] On science vs. economics: This has led to the current state of affairs where despite the scientifically obvious and horrific damage caused by existing GHG emissions certain economists are advocating continuing emissions in order to maximize "economic benefit."

[Fold / Spindle / Mutilate 2.0] The next bubble:: In its 2005 report card, the American Society of Civil Engineers called for $1.6 trillion to be spent over five years to bring the United States back up to code, giving America a grade of “D.” Decades of neglect have put us trillions of dollars away from an “A.” After last August’s bridge collapse in Minnesota, it took only a week for libertarian Robert Poole, director of transportation studies for the Reason Foundation, to renew the call for “highway public-private partnerships funded by tolls,” and for Hillary Clinton to put forth a multibillion-dollar “Rebuild America” plan.

[Libertarian Think Tank] Dear Cato Institute and David Boaz: Thanks for Nothing: Paul’s newsletters should be judged on their own merits, yes, but Cato and everyone else let Kirchick frame this issue for them. The day before he published his article, Kirchick was on national television claiming that Ron Paul speaks to white supremacists in a secret code that only they can decipher.

 [portland indymedia - 9.11 investigation newswire] Who is Dick Cheney?: The existence of a June 2002 memo—revealing that intelligence from the INC was being sent directly to the offices of Dick Cheney and William Luti—is reported in the December 15 issue of Newsweek magazine, which also reports that Francis Brooke, a DC lobbyist for the INC, admits having supplied Cheney's office with information pertaining to Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam's supposed ties to militant Islamic groups. [Newsweek, 12/15/2003 Sources: Memo, Francis Brooke] Furthermore, he acknowedges that the information provided by the INC was driven by an agenda.

[Across the Aisle] Debating Pro-War Partisans: The advocates for war told us that a congenital liar and a convicted crook, a man who had fled Iraq in the late 1950s while still in his teens, should become the leader of Iraq. Ahmed Chalabi proved so unpopular among Iraqis that his party won less than one half of one percent of the vote in the December 2005 elections, not enough support to win even a single seat in Parliament.

[Cato-at-liberty] What if the ”˜Surge’ Succeeds?: Kagan and Kristol were particularly encouraged by the “hopeful signs that Iraqis of differing religious, ethnic, and political persuasions can work together.” Then they took a shot at the Iraq war skeptics, “both here and in Europe”

 [History News Network] Interview with William R. Polk: Out of Iraq Now: And the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute determined that the resistance in Iraq is expanding and becoming more deadly as a consequence of our presence there. As one of the younger officers out in the field in Iraq told a Washington Post reporter last August, “No body wants us here…if we leave all the attacks would stop, because we’d be gone.”

[Darkstar] Al Gore Speaks on Iraq: Just as the appointment of industry lobbyists to key positions in agencies that oversee their former employers has resulted in institutionalized corruption in the abandonment of the enforcement of laws and regulations at home, the outrageous decision to brazenly violate the law in granting sole-source, no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars to Vice President Cheney’s company, Halliburton, which still pays him money every year, has convinced many observers that incompetence, cronyism and corruption have played a significant role in undermining U.S. policy in Iraq. The former four star general in charge of central command, Tony Zinni, who was named by President Bush as his personal emissary to the middle east in 2001, offered this view of the situation in a recent book: “In the lead up to the Iraq war, and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility;

[Liberty For All] Why the Libertarians must draft Ron Paul: If the tea leaves did not reveal a furious conservative electorate, GOP senators would not be scrambling to confront the President on his silly immigration schemes, or to undercut the Bush war in Iraq. They smell blood”¦and it’s their own.

 [SF Bay Area Indymedia] Traian Bãsescu comes to SF/ an Indy Romania perspective: traditions, or who may also be against the war in Iraq, but because they consider it to be a Jewish conspiracy. Resistance and opposition are negative attitudes;

 [US Air Force ROTC] Local retailers opening new sites: The CIA operation that should have prevented the Iraq war. NC candidate filing list. New Study Shows What Men and Women Look for in a Date. Pitt County grand jury. Expanded Erlanger 911 Dispatch Center Targets May 1 Opening. ...

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