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Sadly, money is the primary currency of influence, and as such it's a two-edged sword, able to corrupt all  who…
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Effective public protest raises awareness and forces otherwise reluctant leaders to step up to the plate and act in response…
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It's not the nation that's a disgrace, it's the people who've hijacked it's government and the multitude of self-absorbed, steeped…
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DLC cohorts, doesn't understand the very essence of the the fundamental motivation underlying the opposition to the Vietnam debacle in…
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Public pressure would be the only way to stop such usurpation. We'd have to revolt, in essence. We'd possibly need…
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I agree with your assessment completely, and I'm glad you chose to read this diary.
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You're right. But this Bush regime blatantly violates the law with an impunity several orders of magnitude more energetic than…
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it was inevitable that the putative "constitutional process" within Iraq would wind up going nowhere, I'm not surprised by these…
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is that with any authoritarian-style regime, the very concept of "legal" has virtually no meaning. And when conditions on the…
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The reason Constantine chose to support the Christian ideology of the day was because he had a vision that he…
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"Post" is not the same as "Preview"! "Nut" above, is really "but". The other thing I was going to say…
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UN have already started to work out strategies for working around Bolton's inevitable pathological obstructionism. Certainly the veto is a…
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Only because you said you were not "...keen" to compromise...". "Keen" is the word that prompted my remark as it's…
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Haldeman and Erlichman had almost no name recognition at all until the Watergate coverup started to unravel. Besides, the main…
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That's good to know. I'd missed the reports at the time. Hopefully such facts will help prevent random speculation from…
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The points I've been attempting to make do not in any way suggest "writing off" any particular constituency. Indeed I…
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While on the subject of ESSO, this is a fun site here. (Move your cursor into the photo frame.)
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Actually most of the big oil companies that pulled out of "Arctic Power" pulled out because they realized that even…
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I haven't bought fuel at Exxon stations since the Valdez spill. But for me this is mainly a symbolic gesture,…
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I believe Fitzgeralds's initial term as special prosecutor expires in October, more or less at the same time as the…
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