The Bush-Backed Coup Leader's Days in Power should be numbered.

Musharraf has canceled his travels to the China Olympic Games where he would meet with Bush because of his fears of impeachment.

No doubt, more judicial appointees will be replaced and a 'State of Emergency' will ensue once again.

Musharraf cancels China visit amid impeachment rumours (click here)
Islamabad - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday called off his visit to China, hours before his departure, as the possibility of his impeachment brewed amid crucial meetings of the country's ruling coalition.
Musharraf was scheduled to leave for China in the afternoon to attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and meet Chinese leaders, including Prime Minister Hu Jintao.
"President Musharraf's visit now stands cancelled and the organizers have been informed about the development," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said.
Musharraf's abrupt decision was preceded by a marathon meeting overnight between the two main partners in the ruling coalition....

U.S. lawmaker urges India nuclear deal be delayed (click here)
Wed Aug 6, 2008 11:39pm BST
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has urged the Bush administration to shelve a nuclear trade deal with India unless it can guarantee compliance with a U.S. law that would suspend trade if India tested a nuclear weapon again.
In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, California Rep. Howard Berman, a Democrat, said it would be better to suspend congressional approval of the deal until the next Congress which convenes in January 2009.
"Given the lateness in the congressional session, it would be better to review these complex matters in the next Congress when they can receive a full and serious examination," Berman, a California Democrat said....

THIS IS ABOUT NUCLEAR ESCALATION. Either the USA believes in the Non-Proliferation Treaty while engaging in diplomatic channels to achieve reductions in nuclear dangers or they don't. The Candidates are very clear about this treaty. Obama wants a return to diplomatic strength in solving the issues of nuclear dangers while Bush simply gave free reign to fear mongering and proliferation.

The issue of 'using' India to secure some kind of odd leverage over China is hideous. The relations between China and India have never been better.

...And if India is unwilling to serve as America's deputy in Asia, does the nuclear deal deserve congressional support anyway?...(click here)

The policies of Republicans are NOT prudent when it comes to National Security.

They are 'rush to war,' 'rush to decision' and 'get away with crime' that later can be legislated as legitimate.

We have witnessed Republican exploitation of the USA in the housing market only to have the Fed and USA Treasury attempt to legitimatize dumping funds into a market place that is grossly oversaturated with building startups and undermining financial venues.

We have witnessed exploitation of privacy rights of Americans leading to Republican 'CYA' when it came to illegal wiretaps.

This is more than a trend by the Republicans, it is revealing a grossly 'UNKNOWN' agenda of political power that later seeks legitimate venues when power can be leveraged against the best interests of the American people.

How can any American 'trust' Republicans, when overt proof of their criminality exists, in elections when they seek undisclosed agendas that undermine the American Middle Class and cast the USA into self-perpetuating war?

The war in Afghanistan still awaits conclusion due to a faux agenda of Bush/Cheney after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. That was seven years ago. The terrorists that have perpetrated the attacks on the USA, hence, facilitating the 'lies that lead' to an Iraq invasion are still at large. That is a failure of the American people to protect their own best interests while propagating the interests of global terrorists. Allies are risk this election season if the American people cannot properly prioritize their best interests.

The Iraq Government is STILL indecisive and poorly received after five years of American occupation of that country. We don't belong in Iraq.

Agencies

Published: August 06, 2008, 17:59

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament has adjourned for a month-long break after adopting a supplementary budget of $21 billion, but failing to reach agreement on a provincial elections law.

Parliamentary speaker Mahmoud Al Mashhadani says the lawmakers will resume sessions on September 9, but he also ordered a committee to continue negotiations over the provincial elections law.

Wednesday's decision comes after lawmakers failed to reach agreement on the legislation despite days of intense negotiations and heavy pressure from US and UN officials.

Officials involved in preparations for the elections have said the lack of an agreement will likely delay the US-backed vote until next year.

The Democrats made the bold decision to run 'an honest' candidate that would work outside The DC Establishment. That is why McCain is NOT the choice

...Through Mr. Abu Naba’a’s connections, Mr. Sargeant has raised more than $100,000 in contributions from several dozen Arab Americans in California, including the Abdullahs, for four candidates: Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Giuliani, Mr. McCain and Charlie Crist in his successful campaign for Florida governor in 2006. Mr. Crist is a close friend and college fraternity brother of Mr. Sargeant....

The choices the electorate is faced with this Presidential Season results from exploitive Republican priorities.

Americans aren't going to 'brave' a new frontier that removes them from exploitation ?

You've got to be joking !

We have witnessed a stifled Democratic House and Senate due to the lack of 'guts' of a USA President to make bold moves in redirecting the USA out of the shadows of lies that led to war. Certainly, the American Electorate isn't going to fall 'back' into old patterns of self-defeat while electing an ultra-conservative Republican AGAIN ?

That would be a darn shame.

Yesterday, John McCain in his 'W'rong-headed propaganda stated the Iraq Surplus is due to the success of 'The Surge.' That is hideous. That is propaganda plain and simple and an out-right lie. Do Americans want a president that continues to lie and place faux priorities at the top of the agenda of American concerns?

I sincerely hope not.

If John McCain is lying about 'The Surge' and its link to the Iraq Surplus, what else he is lying about ?

A river of red ink (click here)
By NEWS SERVICES, Washington Post
Last update: July 28, 2008 - 11:12 PM
WASHINGTON - The White House predicted Monday that President Bush would leave a record $482 billion deficit to his successor, a sobering turnabout in the nation's fiscal condition from 2001, when Bush took office after three consecutive years of budget surpluses.
The new figure is driven by war costs, tax rebates and a slowing economy that will leave the next president little room to fulfill costly campaign promises. And the worst may be yet to come....

Paris Hilton goes from Food Porn to Politics. I guess it had to happen sooner or later. Carl, Jr. must be so proud.

John McCain stated, "...everyone is just having good fun..."

So, while spending millions in frivilous and defaming 'bigot' ads that seek 'character assassination' rather than addressing the USA's issues, it was all good clean fun.

Really?

Chill, everybody. Paris Hilton's no Willie Horton (click here)
JOHN IBBITSON
jibbitson@globeandmail.com
August 7, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Why is everyone beating up on John McCain?
A week after it debuted, the Britney Spears/Paris Hilton ad still has legs. The Republican spot juxtaposes images of the tabloid sensations with Barack Obama's rally in Berlin, claiming that the Democratic presidential nominee is "the biggest celebrity in the world," but not ready to lead.
Ms. Hilton responded with her own video, released on funnyordie.com. "That wrinkly, white-haired guy used me in his ad, which I guess means I'm running for president," she declares, from her poolside chair.
"So thanks for the endorsement, white-haired dude, and I want America to know I'm, like, totally ready to lead."...

Some time ago, I set parameters as to what constitutes bigotry in a Presidential Election and what doesn't. The rule is simple. If the 'attack' focuses on 'personal' traits rather than issues that beset the nation, it is bigotry.

Celebrity status of a USA President is a given. Those running for office are granted the opportunity to be in 'the spotlight.' It's just that simple. If Mr. McCain can't stand the fact taht Barak Obama is charismatic, no different than JFK, then I suggest he surrender to the conquests of a man more than qualified to lead the USA.

Running frivilous, unsubstantive ads to distract from reality and FACTS, as McCain is chronically doing is admitting he is defeated. McCain has no policy that works or provides a CLEAR framework to changing the path the USA has taken under Republican leadership.

Offshore oil drilling is a matter of State's Rights. It has little to do with federal regulations. While the federal government can 'stand down' from prohibiting Offshore Oil Drilling, that doesn't actually mean it will happen. If today, the federal government stepped aside as the Republicans are demanding happens, it WOULD NOT facilitate the actual puncturing of the Earth's crust for 'anticipated' oil finds. Those directives are entirely up to State Governments. Every state with a shoreline has the RIGHT to say 'No.'

Sorry, Paris. While she is a fashion bug with a lot on the ball when it comes to making decisions regarding what is important in the field of energy, she also displays the 'derailing' of the issues at hand and why the Republicans resorted to 'gimmicks' rather than facts.

The fact is that, in the length of time it would take to pass a bill at the federal level to deregulate offshore oil drilling, then have the States address their concerns and pass their own legislation to drill, the USA could INVEST billions into modern technology to REPLACE fossil fuel energy rather than langish in prolonged stupidity.

More oil exploration, other than that needed for military purposes is NOT prudent or environmentally important. Got that. Oil exploration IS NOT important !!

Slick John McCain and the offshore oil ruse (click here)
The safety and economics of offshore drilling are distractions from the much larger challenges that humanity faces: Climate change and peak oil.
By Andrew Leonard
June 25, 2008 An example of leadership or reckless chutzpah? On Monday, John McCain visited Santa Barbara, the scene of one of the great environmental disasters in American history, and proceeded to downplay the potential consequences of lifting the federal moratorium on new offshore drilling. Modern drilling technology is environmentally safe, he told the audience. According to the Associated Press, McCain "cited the examples of Louisiana and Texas, noting they have allowed drilling and weathered two devastating hurricanes with minimal or no oil spills."
McCain exaggerated. A 2007 report by the U.S. Minerals Management Service unearthed by Outside the Beltway documented the damage caused in the Gulf of Mexico by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: "124 spills were reported with a total volume of roughly 17,700 barrels of total petroleum products."
Now, 17,700 barrels of oil equals 743,400 gallons. Whether you consider that a lot or a little depends on your perspective. Compared with the 1.5 million barrels pumped out of the Gulf every day, it is a trivial amount. But it's also within shouting distance of the 3 million gallons of oil spilled in the Santa Barbara offshore oil disaster of 1969....

Paris is showing symptoms of Republican Propaganda. "Good Ole Boy" mind set that exploits the 'innocence' of the electorate.

Bringing people 'up to speed' on facts and issues is supposed to be the 'fain' of the media.

But.

In the year 2008, when Republicans are viewed as 'the preferential greed machine' to place in political power positions such as President; the information is grossly missing across the board in media expertise and facts. Instead, the media is sequestered into pundancy and that is the saddest reality of any that exists in today's elections.

There is dearly little policing of the facts so much as pundancy to political power based in greed rather than need.

Wind farms linked to electric cars would completely liberate Americans from exploitation by Wall Street while freeing them to engage the free market.

The 'retooling' of the car industry, which has to be facilitated by government, is paramount to providing Americans with a return of their incomes and freedom to spend it. Every industry across the board is suffering from the exploitation of the Bush/Cheney economy, including tourism. When consumers have no disposable income the eoncomy suffers immeasurably.

When 'jobs' shift from fossil fuel to those of Wind, Solar and High Speed Magnetic Rail, the country will again have the 'freedom' to enjoy its economy rather than 'be captured' and 'held hostage' to exploitive fossil fuel industries.

Okay, let me get this right. The USA has a lab. Unsupervised where employees are allowed free reign. Really?

Now, the American public is supposed to believe that Bruce Ivins was a raving nut case with several personalities, under treatment and STILL allowed military access to stores of WMD.

Right.

The poems being expounded by the media sound extremely similar to the poems of Rove when he pretended '...lump in the bed...' was written by Bush to Laura.


Anthrax suspect Bruce Ivins' emotional state is detailed (click here)
The government releases documents indicating that the scientist's mental illness flared around the time of the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings.
By Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 10:32 PM PDT, August 6, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Bruce E. Ivins, the bioweapons scientist who apparently killed himself as the government was preparing to indict him in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had a long history of mental illness that flared just before mail contaminated with the fatal spores was received in New York, Florida, Connecticut and Washington, D.C.
Newly released government documents show that in the months before the mailings that led to the deaths of five people and made 17 ill, Ivins -- who had worked at the Army's top biodefense laboratory for 28 years -- told a friend that he had "incredible paranoid, delusional thoughts at times" and feared that he might not be able to control his behavior....

Bruce Ivins never had any other problem in his life that would raise suspicions regarding NATIONAL SECURITY before he engaged in poisoning the American public. Why does that seem like Sci-Fi ?

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (click here).

I am supposed to believe this ?

I don't think so.

WHERE IS THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE INVESTIGATION ?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where did the USA Economy go? First the surplus belonged to the USA...then...it belonged to Iraq.

President Clinton announces another record budget surplus (click here)
From CNN White House Correspondent Kelly Wallace
September 27, 2000Web posted at: 4:51 p.m. EDT (2051 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton announced Wednesday that the federal budget surplus for fiscal year 2000 amounted to at least $230 billion, making it the largest in U.S. history and topping last year's record surplus of $122.7 billion.
"Eight years ago, our future was at risk," Clinton said Wednesday morning. "Economic growth was low, unemployment was high, interest rates were high, the federal debt had quadrupled in the previous 12 years. When Vice President Gore and I took office, the budget deficit was $290 billion, and it was projected this year the budget deficit would be $455 billion."...



Haliburton Company: Accounting for Cost Overruns and Recoveries (click here)
In July 2002, a legal watchdog group, Judicial Watch, announced that it was suing Halliburton Company for overstating revenues during the period 1998 to 2001. The group's contention was that Halliburton used fraudulent accounting practices to boost revenues and hide a deteriorating financial position from investors. Specifically, the lawsuit centered around the way the company recognized claims recoveries on long-term construction projects. Prior to 1998, the company's policy was to book cost overrun expenses as soon as they occurred, but not to book claims recoveries as revenue until the repayment amount was agreed to with the client. In 1998, the company changed policies to begin estimating future recoveries and recognizing them in the same period that overrun expenses were realized. The company, which had been suffering from a recent slowdown in business and large litigation losses from asbestos lawsuits, claimed that its accounting practices were permitted under generally accepted accounting principals (GAAP). Judicial Watch, however, claimed the accounting policy inflated revenues over the four-year period by as much as $534 million. This case focuses on the accounting issues and disclosure policy of the company during the 1998 to 2001 period. Readers of the case are asked to assess whether the company's policies and decisions were appropriate in the relevant areas of accounting and disclosure.



Iraq spends little on rebuilding despite huge surplus: US report (click here)
18 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iraq is amassing a huge budget surplus of soaring oil export revenues, but is spending little on reconstruction, for which the United States is bearing the financial burden, a US government report said.
The Government Accounting Office report issued Tuesday said that, counting Baghdad's actual budget balance for 2005 to 2007, and the projected budget of 2008, the country would have amassed a surplus of up to 79.3 billion dollars out of revenues of up to 182.2 billion dollars.
But little of that money is going to maintaining and rebuilding key civil infrastructure, the GAO report said.
Over 2005-2007, "the Iraqi government spent only one percent of total expenditures to maintain Iraq- and US-funded investments such as buildings, water, and electricity installations, and weapons."...