middleeastsolutions.org - 12/14/2008
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amazon.com - 12/17/2008
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The White House and the Middle East—from the
Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle
East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into ...
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A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/18/2008
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Kevin Drum writes that One way or another,
there's really no way for the economy to grow
strongly and consistently unless middle-class consumers spend more, and they can't spend more unless they make more. This is a widely held view, and I'm as much ...
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Do we need the middle class?
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Mumbai and the Jewish ‘Peace Camp’
Israpundit —
... political activities but they offered no charity for Jews in need. The Jewish term for charity is ‘tzedaka’ but that word is missing from the vocabulary of the ‘peace camp.’
There was not one word of personal sadness or remorse for the loss of the Jewish kedoshim (saintly people) of Mumbai from a single member of the leadership of peacenow.org. Israel treats captured terrorists far better than peacenow.org has treated the memory of these Jewish victims.
Please, visit MiddleEastSolutions.org
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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/15/2008
Gates of Vienna —
Watch for all the news stories about the bailouts. Massive quantities of money are being directed EU-style (i.e. with no transparency or accountability) to favored businesses and institutions. This money is used to make good on loans that were issued to people who couldn’t pay them back and defaulted on them. Since all this money is really just a promise by the feds to pay up in the future, it is in effect being borrowed from future taxes, which will be paid by taxpayers… …who will have no money because of the financial catastrophe that is only just beginning to envelop us all. In other ...
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