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10,000 unemployed PEOPLE, their families, their homes, and the taxes they pay are nothing to sneeze at. Today the unemployment rate is the highest in 6 years.

Posted by bosskitty August 8th, 2008 | Tags: Collateral, corporations, credit crunch, DHL, domestic policy, downsize, foreclosures, job loss, John McCain, mergers, Ohio, Politics, Presidential Candidates, unemployment | Category: Collateral, DHL, John McCain, Labor Laws, Ohio, Politics, Presidential Candidates, consequences, credit crunch, depression, displaced persons, domestic policy, downsize, economics, ethics, foreclosures, injustice, markets, responsibility | Leave a comment

Mississippi River closed to Gulf of Mexico
Workers along the Mississippi River try to contain the hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel oil from a barge and ship collision on Wednesday. The river is now closed to the Gulf of Mexico.

The massive oil spill that remains a major threat to the area’s fragile delta ecosystem [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 25th, 2008 | Tags: consequences, contamination, Environment, Mississippi, Oil Spill, transportation, US Coast Guard, water safety, Wildlife | Category: Collateral, Environment, Mississippi, Oil Spill, US Coast Guard, consequences, contamination | Comments (1)

Afghanistan dangerously off the radar
It’s hardly an anniversary many will register, but last week marked 30 years since President Jimmy Carter authorised the first covert CIA operations against the government of Afghanistan.
By backing the anti-Communist mujahideen and creating civil unrest, the plan was to provoke a Soviet invasion and thus, in the words of Carter’s [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 6th, 2008 | Tags: Accountability, Afghanistan, Bozo, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, civilian deaths, Clash of Civilizations, Cold War, Collateral, consequences, contradictions, Corruption, economics, Foreign Policy, Future Shock, global community, global policies, Karzai, Mismanagement, mujahideen, Pakistan, policy, Politics, Power Shift, profiteers | Tagged: Bush | Category: Accountability, Afghanistan, Bozo, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, Clash of Civilizations, Cold War, Collateral, Corruption, DoubleSpeak, Election, Future Shock, Karzai, Mismanagement, Pakistan, Pentagon Corruption, administration, consequences, contradictions, deployment, economics, global policies, mujahideen | Leave a comment

 
Update: March 27, 2008
Pakistan’s new leaders tell US: We are no longer your killing field
· Visiting envoys earn cold reception from coalition
· PM wants new approach to fight Islamic extremism
In blunt remarks, Sharif said he told Negroponte that Pakistan was no longer a one-man show. “Since 9/11, all decisions were taken by one man,” [...]

Posted by bosskitty March 26th, 2008 | Category: Bush, Collateral, Musharraf, Pakistan, Sharif, War Cost, War on Terror | Comments (2)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Map, News) – A missile from a U.S. Predator drone struck a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan and killed a top al-Qaida commander believed responsible for a brazen bomb attack during a visit last year by Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The strike that killed Abu [...]

Posted by bosskitty January 31st, 2008 | Category: Abu Laith al-Libi, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Casualties, Cheney, Collateral, Karzai, Musharraf, Pakistan, Politics, Taliban, Waziristan, cruise missiles | Comments (4)

UNICEF:
– An estimated 2 million children in Iraq continue to face threats including poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education.
- Many of the 220,000 displaced children of primary school age had their education interrupted.
- An estimated 760,000 children (17 per cent) did not go to primary schools in 2006.
- An average 25,000 [...]

Posted by bosskitty January 5th, 2008 | Category: Children, Christians, Collateral, European Union, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Human Traffiking, Iraqi Children, Islam, Legacy, Middle East, Time Bomb, US State Department, United Nations, adoption, displaced persons, innocents, negligence, orphans, refugees, slavery, survivors, victims | Comments (13)

Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.
BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 24th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, America, Anti-War, Arab Nations, Armageddon, Arms Trade, Black Ops, Bush, Casualties, Coalition Troops, Collateral, Corporate corruption, Deception, Holy War, Hypocracy, Islamic Jihad, Narcotics, Occupation Army, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Contractors, War Cost, addicts, administration, arrogance, candidates, consequences, cover up, disinformation, economics, escalation, illegal arms, profiteers, responsibility, terrorists, troops, veterans, victims | Leave a comment

Over 1.3 million people, one in six New Yorkers, cannot afford enough food, with queues at soup kitchens getting longer, anti-poverty groups say.
The New York City Coalition Against Hunger says the number of people who use food pantries and soup kitchens in the city increased by 20% in 2007. … food distribution points are [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 22nd, 2007 | Category: America, Collateral, Declaration of Independence, Federal Cutbacks, New York, Nouveau Poor, Revolution, USDA, consequences, cover up, disparity, displaced persons, economy, food pantries, humanitarian, hunger, migrants, poverty, predjudice, soup kitchens | Comments (4)

LAHORE/LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistani police put opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a week on Tuesday as the Commonwealth threatened suspension unless President Pervez Musharraf repealed a state of emergency.
Army chief Musharraf set off a storm of criticism when suspended the constitution, sacked most judges, locked up lawyers, rounded up thousands of opposition [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 12th, 2007 | Category: Bhutto, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, Collateral, Condoleezza Rice, Corruption, Deception, Defiance, Democracy, Elections, Foreign Policy, Holy War, Horror Flick, Hypocracy, Islamabad, Islamic Jihad, Lahore High Court, Marshal Law, Musharraf, Nuclear, Pakistan, Russia, Taliban, US State Department, War, civil war, consequences, escalation, nation building, profiteers, responsibility, state of emergency, terrorists | Leave a comment