The other presidential candidate Clinton says "we have to slow down our economy to fight global warming".

http://blogs.abcnews...

Get your popcorn ready guys... this is going to be a good one!

Captain America is back! All is well in America again! Return to your homes, safe in the knowledge that, um, a fictional character, is...back?

http://www.cnn.com/2...

In a story entitled "Soldiers’ brain injuries might be overstated, military docs say"

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE of the Associated Press

Published on Thursday, January 31, 2008 published the notion that the role of traumatic brain injury — blamed for symptoms plaguing thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq — might be overstated, and cites a provocative military study that offers hope for successful treatment.

The story seems to focus on the thesis statement that TBI is probably not the cause of much of maladies being suffered by returning troops, but rather pins the blame on PTSD instead and cites that the only concrete symptom of TBI proven in the study is headaches. 

Regardless of this study, I suspect that the study and its data will be ignored by the press.  What I predict is that TBI will quickly become the illness of common cause for the press such as Agent Orange of the late 70's and PTSD of the mid - 80's.  The VA will quickly be overloaded by claims of TBI by persons wearing faded Desert Camouflage Uniforms and beards who seek "Treatment" but have no proof that they ever served in the military.

Murderers will attempt to prove that TBI cause dthem to kills their spouses, and the unemployed will cite TBI as reasons to not show up for work.

Those who actually suffer from TBI will quietly go about their lives much like the rest of us.  Working in jobs with conviction, raising their families as well or better as the rest, regardless of the pain that it will inflict upon them.

Couple of days ago, Jim Cramer of "Mad Money" wondered aloud if the 75 point cut was maybe due to one of the major lenders secretly divulging to the FED it was about to go bankrupt.

As good a guesstimation as any.

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Let's all please take a moment to reflect what the past eight years have done for us and where that leaves us now:

Pros:

• no attack since 9/11
• five years in Iraq
• temporary tax cuts
• Roberts and Alito

Cons:

(if McCain gets the nod)

• We've lost the fight to stop amnesty.
• Social Security swells as 15 million fresh citizens use illegal employment as credit.
• The war in Iraq is used to capture bad guys, fly them into the states, and give them lawyers on our tax dime.
• We've lost on global warming and resign ourselves to sacrifice for the planet.
• All tax cuts for the rich expire and a new wave of tax breaks for the poor ensues.
• The White House reaches across the aisle to cut a deal on government healthcare.
• Any Republican who complains about McCain is thrown beneath the wheels.
• All criticism shifts from being called BDS to MDS.
• Judges like Alito are ignored while the White House consults Democrats to find good compromises.

(if Romney wins)

• The fight for global warming is given one more chance.
• The White House works with Democrats to compromise on universal healthcare.
• Social Security is ignored.
• The Bush tax cuts expire and the White House doesn't have the muscle to re-enact them.
• Congress and the White House compromise on anmesty, the fence is never built.
• The war in Iraq drags on for a few more years: Congress ups the ante for a veto override to end the war.

....and these are the best we can hope for.

I have been posting here wondering why on earth the cartel has been after the Clinton's in blackmailing them to take a dive on this presidential campaign and the New York Times have given the information in a story exposing Bill Clinton as the uranium supplier to the world terrorist Muslim nations.

I have recorded here the evidence before that Bill signed off on Saddam staying in power in return for millions in bribes via Marc Rich laundering the money for numerous UN, Clinton and European leaders.
This same clique also refined NIGER URANIUM via France which VAL PLAME WAS SENT IN TO COVER UP.

Bill dealing in uranium was very profitable for him and is worth millions more now due to his Canadian buddy, Frank Guistra........BILL CLINTON WAS ON THE PLANE TO KHAZAKISTAN BROKERING THE DEAL WHICH MADE GUISTRA THE BIGGEST URANIUM EXPORTER IN THE WORLD.
Clinton got the Chicoms and India on board.........AND CUT OUT RUSSIA, the ROTHSCHILDS AND ROCKEFELLERS.

THIS IS WHY THEY ARE AFTER HILLARY NOW as the Clintons screwed over their masters in dealing nuclear death around the world.

I hope Newsbusters follows up on this as this is the key portion I was searching for and the NEW YORK TIMES TO SINK HILLARY HAS JUST BLOWN THIS ENTIRE SCAM WIDE OPEN!

Links and story below for those too lazy to surf the Times.

http://www.nytimes.c...

January 31, 2008

After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton Charity

By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.

Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a
private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra
touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan.
Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted
deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world.
And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to
uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his
fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections.
Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that
day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

Upon landing on the first stop of a three-country philanthropic
tour, the two men were whisked off to share a sumptuous midnight
banquet with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose
19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political
dissent.

Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup,
after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh
leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors
elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration
undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of
Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s
wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came
up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it
the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s
state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.

The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown
shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a
transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr.
Giustra, analysts said.

Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s
charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million
donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he
acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more
recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an
additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s
inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which
friendship with the former president has its privileges.

Mr. Giustra was invited to accompany the former president to Almaty
just as the financier was trying to seal a deal he had been negotiating
for months.

In separate written responses, both men said Mr. Giustra traveled
with Mr. Clinton to Kazakhstan, India and China to see first-hand the
philanthropic work done by his foundation.

A spokesman for Mr. Clinton said the former president knew that Mr.
Giustra had mining interests in Kazakhstan but was unaware of “any
particular efforts” and did nothing to help. Mr. Giustra said he was
there as an “observer only” and there was “no discussion” of the deal
with Mr. Nazarbayev or Mr. Clinton.

But Moukhtar Dzhakishev, president of Kazatomprom, said in an
interview that Mr. Giustra did discuss it, directly with the Kazakh
president, and that his friendship with Mr. Clinton “of course made an
impression.” Mr. Dzhakishev added that Kazatomprom chose to form a
partnership with Mr. Giustra’s company based solely on the merits of
its offer.

After The Times told Mr. Giustra that others said he had discussed
the deal with Mr. Nazarbayev, Mr. Giustra responded that he “may well
have mentioned my general interest in the Kazakhstan mining business to
him, but I did not discuss the ongoing” efforts.

As Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign has intensified, Mr.
Clinton has begun severing financial ties with Ronald W. Burkle, the
supermarket magnate, and Vinod Gupta, the chairman of InfoUSA, to avoid
any conflicts of interest. Those two men have harnessed the former
president’s clout to expand their businesses while making the Clintons
rich through partnership and consulting arrangements.

Mr. Clinton has vowed to continue raising money for his foundation
if Mrs. Clinton is elected president, maintaining his connections with
a wide network of philanthropic partners.

Mr. Giustra said that while his friendship with the former president
“may have elevated my profile in the news media, it has not directly
affected any of my business transactions.”

Mining colleagues and analysts agree it has not hurt. Neil
MacDonald, the chief executive of a Canadian merchant bank that
specializes in mining deals, said Mr. Giustra’s financial success was
partly due to a “fantastic network” crowned by Mr. Clinton. “That’s a
very solid relationship for him,” Mr. MacDonald said. “I’m sure it’s
very much a two-way relationship because that’s the way Frank
operates.”

Foreseeing Opportunities

Mr. Giustra made his fortune in mining ventures as a broker on the
Vancouver Stock Exchange, raising billions of dollars and developing a
loyal following of investors. Just as the mining sector collapsed, Mr.
Giustra, a lifelong film buff, founded the Lion’s Gate Entertainment
Corporation in 1997. But he sold the studio in 2003 and returned to
mining.

Mr. Giustra foresaw a bull market in gold and began investing in
mines in Argentina, Australia and Mexico. He turned a $20 million shell
company into a powerhouse that, after a $2.4 billion merger with
Goldcorp Inc., became Canada’s second-largest gold company.

With a net worth estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars,
Mr. Giustra began looking for ways to put his wealth to good use.
Meeting Mr. Clinton, and learning about the work his foundation was
doing on issues like AIDS treatment in poor countries, “changed my
life,” Mr. Giustra told The Vancouver Sun.

The two men were introduced in June 2005 at a fund-raiser for
tsunami victims at Mr. Giustra’s Vancouver home and hit it off right
away. They share a love of history, geopolitics and music — Mr. Giustra
plays the trumpet to Mr. Clinton’s saxophone. Soon the dapper Canadian
was a regular at Mr. Clinton’s side, as they flew around the world
aboard Mr. Giustra’s plane.

Philanthropy may have become his passion, but Mr. Giustra, now 50, was still hunting for ways to make money.

Exploding demand for energy had helped revitalize the nuclear power
industry, and uranium, the raw material for reactor fuel, was about to
become a hot commodity. In late 2004, Mr. Giustra began talking to
investors, and put together a company that would eventually be called
UrAsia Energy Ltd.

Kazakhstan, which has about one-fifth of the world’s uranium
reserves, was the place to be. But with plenty of suitors, Kazatomprom
could be picky about its partners.

“Everyone was asking Kazatomprom to the dance,” said Fadi Shadid, a
senior stock analyst covering the uranium industry for Friedman
Billings Ramsey, an investment bank. “A second-tier junior player like
UrAsia — you’d need all the help you could get.”

The Cameco Corporation, the world’s largest uranium producer, was
already a partner of Kazatomprom. But when Cameco expressed interest in
the properties Mr. Giustra was already eying, the government’s response
was lukewarm. “The signals we were getting was, you’ve got your hands
full,” said Gerald W. Grandey, Cameco president.

For Cameco, it took five years to “build the right connections” in
Kazakhstan, Mr. Grandey said. UrAsia did not have that luxury.
Profitability depended on striking before the price of uranium soared.

“Timing was everything,” said Sergey Kurzin, a Russian-born
businessman whose London-based company was brought into the deal by
UrAsia because of his connections in Kazakhstan. Even with those
connections, Mr. Kurzin said, it took four months to arrange a meeting
with Kazatomprom.

In August 2005, records show, the company sent an engineering
consultant to Kazakhstan to assess the uranium properties. Less than
four weeks later, Mr. Giustra arrived with Mr. Clinton.

Mr. Dzhakishev, the Kazatomprom chief, said an aide to Mr.
Nazarbayev informed him that Mr. Giustra talked with Mr. Nazarbayev
about the deal during the visit. “And when our president asked Giustra,
‘What do you do?’ he said, ‘I’m trying to do business with
Kazatomprom,’ ” Mr. Dzhakishev said. He added that Mr. Nazarbayev
replied, “Very good, go to it.”

Mr. Clinton’s Kazakhstan visit, the only one of his
post-presidency, appears to have been arranged hastily. The United
States Embassy got last-minute notice that the president would be
making “a private visit,” said a State Department official, who said he
was not authorized to speak on the record.

The publicly stated reason for the visit was to announce a Clinton
Foundation agreement that enabled the government to buy discounted AIDS
drugs. But during a news conference, Mr. Clinton wandered into delicate
territory by commending Mr. Nazarbayev for “opening up the social and
political life of your country.”

In a statement Kazakhstan would highlight in news releases, Mr.
Clinton declared that he hoped it would achieve a top objective:
leading the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which would confer legitimacy on Mr. Nazarbayev’s government.

“I think it’s time for that to happen, it’s an important step, and I’m glad you’re willing to undertake it,” Mr. Clinton said.

A Speedy Process

Mr. Clinton’s praise was odd, given that the United States did not
support Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid. (Late last year, Kazakhstan finally won
the chance to lead the security organization for one year, despite
concerns raised by the Bush administration.) Moreover, Mr. Clinton’s
wife, who sits on a Congressional commission with oversight of such
matters, had also voiced skepticism.

Eleven months before Mr. Clinton’s statement, Mrs. Clinton co-signed
a commission letter to the State Department that sounded “alarm bells”
about the prospect that Kazakhstan might head the group. The letter
stated that Kazakhstan’s bid “would not be acceptable,” citing “serious
corruption,” canceled elections and government control of the news
media.

In a written statement to The Times, Mr. Clinton’s spokesman said
the former president saw “no contradiction” between his statements in
Kazakhstan and the position of Mrs. Clinton, who said through a
spokeswoman, “Senator Clinton’s position on Kazakhstan remains
unchanged.”

Noting that the former president also met with opposition leaders
in Almaty, Mr. Clinton’s spokesman said he was only “seeking to suggest
that a commitment to political openness and to fair elections would
reflect well on Kazakhstan’s efforts to chair the O.S.C.E.”

But Robert Herman, who worked for the State Department in the
Clinton administration and is now at Freedom House, a human rights
group, said the former president’s statement amounted to an endorsement
of Kazakhstan’s readiness to lead the group, a position he called
“patently absurd.”

“He was either going off his brief or he was sadly mistaken,” Mr.
Herman said. “There was nothing in the record to suggest that they
really wanted to move forward on democratic reform.”

Indeed, in December 2005, Mr. Nazarbayev won another election, which
the security organization itself said was marred by an “atmosphere of
intimidation” and “ballot-box stuffing.”

After Mr. Nazarbayev won with 91 percent of the vote, Mr. Clinton
sent his congratulations. “Recognizing that your work has received an
excellent grade is one of the most important rewards in life,” Mr.
Clinton wrote in a letter released by the Kazakh embassy. Last
September, just weeks after Kazakhstan held an election that once again
failed to meet international standards, Mr. Clinton honored Mr.
Nazarbayev by inviting him to his annual philanthropic conference.

Within 48 hours of Mr. Clinton’s departure from Almaty on Sept. 7,
Mr. Giustra got his deal. UrAsia signed two memorandums of
understanding that paved the way for the company to become partners
with Kazatomprom in three mines.

The cost to UrAsia was more than $450 million, money the company did
not have in hand and had only weeks to come up with. The transaction
was finalized in November, after UrAsia raised the money through the
largest initial public offering in the history of Canada’s Venture
Exchange.

Mr. Giustra challenged the notion that UrAsia needed to court
Kazatomprom’s favor to seal the deal, contending that the government
agency’s approval was not required.

But Mr. Dzhakishev, analysts and Mr. Kurzin, one of Mr. Giustra’s
own investors, said that approval was necessary. Mr. Dzhakishev, who
said that the deal was almost done when Mr. Clinton arrived, said that
Kazatomprom was impressed with the sum Mr. Giustra was willing to pay
and his record of attracting investors. He said Mr. Nazarbayev himself
ultimately signed off on the transaction.

Longtime market watchers were confounded. Kazatomprom’s choice of
UrAsia was a “mystery,” said Gene Clark, the chief executive of Trade
Tech, a uranium industry newsletter.

“UrAsia was able to jump-start the whole process somehow,” Mr. Clark
said. The company became a “major uranium producer when it didn’t even
exist before.”

A Profitable Sale

Records show that Mr. Giustra donated the $31.3 million to the
Clinton Foundation in the months that followed in 2006, but neither he
nor a spokesman for Mr. Clinton would say exactly when.

In September 2006, Mr. Giustra co-produced a gala 60th birthday for Mr. Clinton that featured stars like Jon Bon Jovi and raised about $21 million for the Clinton Foundation.

In February 2007, a company called Uranium One agreed to pay $3.1
billion to acquire UrAsia. Mr. Giustra, a director and major
shareholder in UrAsia, would be paid $7.05 per share for a company that
just two years earlier was trading at 10 cents per share.

That same month, Mr. Dzhakishev, the Kazatomprom chief, said he
traveled to Chappaqua, N.Y., to meet with Mr. Clinton at his home. Mr.
Dzhakishev said Mr. Giustra arranged the three-hour meeting. Mr.
Dzhakishev said he wanted to discuss Kazakhstan’s intention — not
publicly known at the time — to buy a 10 percent stake in Westinghouse,
a United States supplier of nuclear technology.

Nearly a year earlier, Mr. Clinton had advised Dubai on how to
handle the political furor after one of that nation’s companies
attempted to take over several American ports. Mrs. Clinton was among
those on Capitol Hill who raised the national security concerns that
helped kill the deal.

Mr. Dzhakishev said he was worried the proposed Westinghouse
investment could face similar objections. Mr. Clinton told him that he
would not lobby for him, but Mr. Dzhakishev came away pleased by the
chance to promote his nation’s proposal to a former president.

Mr. Clinton “said this was very important for America,” said Mr.
Dzhakishev, who added that Mr. Giustra was present at Mr. Clinton’s
home.

Both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Giustra at first denied that any such
meeting occurred. Mr. Giustra also denied ever arranging for Kazakh
officials to meet with Mr. Clinton. Wednesday, after The Times told
them that others said a meeting, in Mr. Clinton’s home, had in fact
taken place, both men acknowledged it.

“You are correct that I asked the president to meet with the head of
Kazatomprom,” Mr. Giustra said. “Mr. Dzhakishev asked me in February
2007 to set up a meeting with former President Clinton to discuss the
future of the nuclear energy industry.” Mr. Giustra said the meeting
“escaped my memory until you raised it.”

Wednesday, Mr. Clinton’s spokesman, Ben Yarrow, issued what he
called a “correction,” saying: “Today, Mr. Giustra told our office that
in February 2007, he brought Mr. Dzhakishev from Kazatomprom to meet
with President Clinton to discuss the future of nuclear energy.”

Mr. Yarrow said his earlier denial was based on the former
president’s records, which he said “show a Feb. 27 meeting with Mr.
Giustra; no other attendees are listed.”

Mr. Dzhakishev said he had a vivid memory of his Chappaqua visit,
and a souvenir to prove it: a photograph of himself with the former
president.

“I hung up the photograph of us and people ask me if I met with
Clinton and I say, Yes, I met with Clinton,” he said, smiling proudly.

David L. Stern and Margot Williams contributed reporting.

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BERKELEY, Calif. - Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.

That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 8-1 Jan. 29 to tell the Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."

In addition, the council voted to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines, and officially encouraged the women's peace group Code Pink to impede the work of the Marines in the city by protesting in front of the station.

In a separate council item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m.

Rush's Black employees are sick and tired of their boss's openly racist attitudes.

Internal meetings have already been scheduled to address Rush's insane use of his pathetic Barack the Magic Negro song (yes, that's actually something he plays on his show).

Furthermore, radio stations that broadcast Rush are having similiar reservations. 

Can you believe it?  Black employees don't like the Magic Negro song.  Wonder why?

The right cries when they get accused of racism, but what can you expect when your slob of a spiritual leader plays racist songs on his show to the delight of his racist audience.