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9 hours ago ago from Spiritual Politics

As Michael Sean Winters has pointed out with asperity, the Beltway reaction to President Obama's N obel speech as amounting to an "echo" of George W. Bush has been idiotic. Yes, there's evil in the world. That was the point of the speech? But it wasn't simply that Obama laid out an approach to American war-making that was, in its careful Niebuhrianism, a very far cry from the George Bush who declared as recently as a couple of years ago ...

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Anthony DiPaola and Maher Chmaytelli ( Bloomberg News ) report Shell Oil (Royal Dutch Shell) has been given the power "to develop the 12.6 billion barrels of oil reserves in Iraq's Majnoon field" beating out China National Petroleum Corporation and Total. Al Jazeera explains it's a joint-contract, a joint-'win' for Shell and Petronas Oil of Malasyia whicl CNPC has been given the power to develop the Halfaya oilfield. Missy Ryan and Ahmed ...

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1 hour, 36 minutes ago ago from Education News|Education Blog|Education Video|BOOKCOST.NET

December 12, 2009 Filed Under: Education Blog Tags: assembly , back , gop , in , into , relaxrict , sweeps WASHINGTON Republicans regained carry out of Congress in yesterday s election, preserving their infancy in a House of Representatives as good as unconditional at a back of to energy in a Senate. It was a clever display for President Bush as good as a Republicans, nonetheless they did not benefit a vast series of seats ...

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20 hours ago ago from Original Dialogue

Listening to President Obama's speech a s he received the Nobe l Peace Prize made me cringe. I cringed because I half-way expected that he would refuse to accept it. In light of the fact that he is waging two wars and escalating troop levels to unprecedented heights at the time of the award, I just thought that maybe his conscience would bother him enough that he would, in a moment of sanity and contrition, refuse the award. Boy, was I wrong ...

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When accepting his Nobel Peace Prize a ludicrous, debased award also bestowed on murderers like Yasser Arafat President Obama spoke about his foreign policy. Pervading his Nobel speech there was a peculiar undertone of contrition. If translated into words, it would go something like this: Ideally, we would behave like Ghandi, never resorting to the use of force in asserting our rights . . . but alas, as commander-in-chief of the United ...

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How now, you secret, black and midnight hags! - Shakespeare, Macbeth The good news for Blackwater fans is that things are not as bleak as they might first appear. Blackwater has more lives than the victims of its blunders. Earlier this year, I erroneously suggested that Blackwater might very soon be leaving Iraq since it had been told to leave by the Iraqi government. It turned out that the Iraq government lacked the authority to tell ...

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