Google This: 1996 "A Clean Break"

What's going on in the Middle East? by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.
Reports of a conspiracy--a war planned by Israel for over a year--have surfaced. FTW addesses that report in this story and analyzes a situation that is having an effect on Israel similar to the effect the Iraq War is having on the United States. Many unanswered questions linger. While we do not yet know the role of oil in the current scenario, other factors such as several nations' pegging their currencies to the euro, not the dollar, water, and the Iranian nuclear program are key aspects for understanding the conflict.

If you 'Googled' whats in the subject; you'll get this -very interesting reading, huh?
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm

American Bar Association on Bush Signing Statements
The nation's premier legal group has denounced President Bush's use of signing statements as "contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional system of separation of powers." To date, Bush has objected to more than 800 provisions of legislation in "signing statements," which allow the President to claim "the power to disregard selected provisions of bills that he signed." By contrast, all other presidents combined have had just 600 signing statements. In response, a bipartisan 11-member panel of the American Bar Association (ABA) released a report yesterday condemning this practice as an effective line-item veto which "improperly deprives Congress of the opportunity to override the veto." The report called for an end to the practice and for more congressional oversight in the event that a signing statement is issued. However, the strongest rebuke came from ABA president Michael S. Greco: "If left unchecked, the president's practice does grave harm to the separation of powers doctrine, and the system of checks and balances that have sustained our democracy for more than two centuries." Many congressional leaders have also come out against Bush's use of signing statements; Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) called the practice "a challenge to the plain language of the Constitution." He'll be back in line soon -he always is -isn't he?

People With The Most Money Should be Audited Less?
The administration is pushing to reduce the number of estate tax auditors nearly in half over the next two months. These lawyers are responsible for auditing the tax returns of America's wealthiest citizens. President Bush has been a strong opponent of the estate tax, claiming it hurts the growth of small, family-owned businesses. But as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities notes, "At an exemption level of $3.5 million ($7 million per couple), as will exist in 2009, fewer than 100 family businesses and only 65 farm estates would have paid any estate tax." Sharyn Phillips, a veteran IRS estate tax lawyer, believes this personnel reduction is a "back-door way for the Bush administration to achieve what it cannot get from Congress, which is repeal of the estate tax." For each hour these lawyers work, "they find an average of $2,200 of taxes that people owe the government," according to Kevin Brown, an IRS deputy commissioner. Last year, just 30 out of more than 180,000 millionaires were audited by the IRS. Low-income taxpayers were almost twice as likely to be audited as the wealthy.

Quickies:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Lebanon today. The total death toll from the recent violence has climbed to 36 people in Israel and nearly 400 in Lebanon. The estimated damage cost from the conflict is $1.5 billion in Israel and $3 billion in Lebanon.

On the July 23 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, guest host and Washington bureau managing editor Brit Hume used the pronoun "we" in reference to the Republican-led House of Representatives, which recently passed a bill to cut the estate tax. Hume said: "We've passed" a measure that would eliminate the estate tax "for nearly everybody," but that the measure is "stuck in the Senate.

In a "dramatic escalation of violence," bombs killed more than 60 people and wounded more than 200 Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk.

The Institute of Science and International Security concluded Pakistan is building “a powerful new reactor for producing plutonium, a move that, if verified, would signal a major expansion of the country's nuclear weapons capabilities and a potential new escalation in the region's arms race.”

Wage stagnation, long the bane of blue-collar workers, is now hitting people with bachelor's degrees for the first time in 30 years. Earnings for workers with four-year degrees fell 5.2% from 2000 to 2004 when adjusted for inflation, according to White House economists.

Hundreds of Taliban guerrillas firing rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station on Monday in southwestern Afghanistan, amid heightened violence in the south before a NATO deployment.

Just when you thought you know the "stay the course" script, you find out what 'playbook' they're really using! Like this: October 2003
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3040cleanbreak.html
(website of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr)

then this: February 2005
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3208hariri_killed.html
(website of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr)

And you thought people were stupid for falling for the 9-11 story? (as reported by the media/ government) HA!

Quote Of The Day:
"If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign."
William F. Buckley (referred to as the father of modern conservatism) on President Bush
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/22/eveningnews/main1826838.shtml

(sources: FromTheWilderness, Center for American Progress, LaRouche web, IASPS, Media Matters, FOXNews, CNN)