Friday, October 21, 2005

Price

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St. Johnsbury, Vermont · Thursday, October 20th, 2005 · Updated 11:40am

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The price of war

Thursday October 20, 2005





To the Editor:

Despite the relatively small number of American armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (140,000), the war effort is rapidly shaping up to be the third-most expensive war in United States history. This conflict has already cost each American at least $850 in military and reconstruction costs since October 2001.

If the war lasts another five years, it will cost nearly $1.4 trillion, calculates Linda Bilmes, who teaches budgeting at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory or oil - which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. They are trying to pull a compromise by replacing the American soldiers with Gulf War II, and keeping the war running to maintain the sick economy. So Big Business continues to produce war toys, well-lubricated with the blood of human sacrifices, as usual.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park, Calif.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Court

Spartan Daily

San Jose Spartan Daily




Was it important for President Bush to have nominated a woman to the Supreme Court? NO

Posted 10/17/2005

Newly installed Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to fulfill a pivotal Supreme Court vacancy,then President Bush nominated Harriet Ellan Miers, his White House counsel and former personal attorney, to the Supreme Court. Bush has fulfilled what neoconservative were looking for.The only way that the President can get a dictatorial control on the country is to get control of the Supreme Court. If any two of those can get together, they can control the other. But, if he can get control of five men.
Both Roberts and Miers are very "religious". The rich also need religion and rich religious organisation like the churches to try to comfort themselves for all the evil they've been doing , the poor they've been robbing. The wars they've been fighting, and also to subdue the poor and keep them from complaining about their poverty.
This is what Hitler said, this is what Stalin said, this is what every dictator has said! "First make your own country strong! Get rid of these enemies within!" The function of the religious system is to bless and sanctify rightist way . Mussolini and the Nazis had the blessing of the Pope, because the Catholic Church depends upon the right for its existence.
Ted Rudow III,MA
former Grad Student
Tedr77@aol.com
Counselor
Menlo Park,CA

Friday, October 14, 2005

Liars

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St. Johnsbury, Vermont · Friday, October 14th, 2005 · Updated 10:15pm




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Expert liars

Friday October 14, 2005



More Letters to the Editor:

To the Editor:

Just like Bush's lying spirit in Iraq, one of the Republicans' most visible leaders, a defiant DeLay, said he had done nothing wrong and denounced the Democratic prosecutor who pursued the case as a "partisan fanatic."

He said, "This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham." DeLay, 58, was indicted on a single felony count of conspiring with two political associates.

Politicians are expert liars, because they make their living by telling people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. Otherwise, they wouldn't get elected - at least in the U.S. (ha!). And once they do get elected, especially when they rise as far as the presidency, they just continue to lie - it becomes a habit with them. I think it's gotten worse and more blatant in recent years than it used to be.

Bush is setting the tone as politicians, authorities and government agencies can be very disagreeable toward those who disagree with them! Because the bigger the lie is, the more people are apt to believe it, because they can't possibly believe you would dare to tell such a big lie unless it was the truth! Big lies are often hard to refute, it's the little lies that can be proven false.

Ted Rudow III, MA

Menlo Park, Calif.

Military

Spartan Daily



San Jose Spartan Daily







Military "don't ask, don't tell" rules still in conflict with campus anti-discrimination policy

Posted 10/09/2005

Despite the relatively small number of American armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (140,000), the war effort is rapidly shaping up to be the third-most expensive war in United States history. This conflict has already cost each American at least $850 in military and reconstruction costs since October 2001.
If the war lasts another five years, it will cost nearly $1.4 trillion, calculates Linda Bilmes, who teaches budgeting at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory or OIL!--Which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. They are trying to pull a compromise by replacing the American soldiers with Gulf War II, and keeping the war running to maintain the sick economy. So Big Business continues to produce war toys, well-lubricated with the blood of human sacrifices, as usual.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Former Grad Student
Tedr77@aol.com
Counselor
Menlo Park

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Still a while before

oil effects appear

Editor,

Still, oil companies and governments are betting “at least in public” that new discoveries and technology will keep the world supplied for at least the next generation. And there are those who would welcome the tipping point, believing the psychological impact will push the world into a serious drive to wean itself off oil.

The U.S. Geological Survey has predicted that a peak in recoverable oil production won’t come until 2037. More recent predictions also focus on high demand and lagging resupply exploitation efforts, noting a worrisome drop in oil discoveries in recent years.

In a speech six years ago, before he became U.S. vice president, Richard Cheney spoke of estimates of 2 percent annual growth in global oil demand and at best a 3 percent annual decline in production from existing reserves.

Some people have been reading the handwriting in the desert sands for a long time and have been trying to get the world’s attention. But like all true prophets, they only get the attention of a few, and those few aren’t enough to make a difference. It will be a while before the effects really start to be felt. Production will peak and then slowly fall away.

The phony prophets of peace have the money on their side, so don’t expect a lot of publicity to be given to this. And then every time a true prophet brings this up, you can be sure he or she will be ridiculed. But that’s the way it goes for true prophets.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park