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by Jeff Davis

That rumbling sound you hear is Henry Ford turning over in his grave.

Yahoo News reports that “Ford Motor Company…capped the worst year in its 103-year history with a deeper-than-expected fourth quarter loss and said it would cut its production for the current quarter and lose market share through September. The No. 2 U.S. automaker posted a fourth-quarter net loss of almost $5.8 billion, or $3.05 per share, on declining sales of its profitable trucks and charges for employee buyouts. That compared to a loss of $74 million, or 4 cents per share, a year ago.”

Yahoo goes on to say:” The company posted a record loss of $12.7 billion for 2006, leaping past Ford’s previous record net loss of $7.39 in 1992. Ford shares slipped initially in pre-market trade and then recovered to be unchanged from Wednesday’s close of $8.20 on the New York Stock Exchange.” This dismal performance is AFTER closing 16 plants and laying off 45,000 jobs in North America. (more…)

by Paul Craig Roberts

“The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”
- John Maynard Keynes

A ray of realism appeared in the confirmation hearings for Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Gates himself said that the U.S. was not winning in Iraq, a statement with which everyone agreed except the White House.

The U.S., however, is not out of the woods. The question remains: what will be the U.S. government’s response to the lost war and the terrible calamity that Bush has created in Iraq?

Many Americans are still fighting the Vietnam War. They see Iraq through the lens of the futile Vietnam misadventure and express their dismay that America will lose another war because “the Democrats will cut and run like they did in Vietnam.” These Americans have forgotten that it was a Republican administration that got the U.S. out of Vietnam and that it was the Democrats who committed the U.S. to that conflict. Moreover, Democrats are not showing a cut-and-run propensity. (more…)

by Paul Craig Roberts

In her historical mystery, The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey (a pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh), has Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, while confined to his hospital bed, solve the 15th century murder of the two York princes in the Tower of London. The princes were murdered by Henry VII, and the crime was blamed on Richard III in order to justify the upstart Tudor’s violent seizure of the English throne.

Tey makes the point that if a 20th century mystery writer can detect the truth about a 15th century murder, historians have no excuse to persist in writing in school textbooks that Richard murdered his nephews. British historians remained loyal to the Tudor propaganda long after the Tudors were no longer around to be feared or served. (more…)

Why Can’t Americans See it?

by Paul Craig Roberts

The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush’s decision to intensify the war in Iraq.

This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue – the Bush Regime’s looming attack on Iran.

Rather than winding down one war, Bush is starting another. The entire world knows this and is discussing Bush’s planned attack on Iran in many forums. It is only Americans who haven’t caught on. A few senators have said that Bush must not attack Iran without the approval of Congress, and postings on the Internet demonstrate world wide awareness that Iran is in the Bush Regime’s cross hairs. But Congress and the Media – and the demonstration in Washington – are focused on Iraq. (more…)

by Rep. Ron Paul

While the president’s announcement that an additional 20,000 troops would be sent to Iraq dominated the headlines last week, the real story was the president’s sharp rhetoric toward Iran and Syria. And recent moves by the administration only serve to confirm the likelihood of a wider conflict in the Middle East.

The president stated last week that, “Succeeding in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity – and stabilizing the region in the face of the extremist challenge. This begins with addressing Iran and Syria.” He also announced the deployment of an additional aircraft carrier battle group to the Persian Gulf, and the deployment of Patriot missile defense systems to countries in the Middle East. Meanwhile, U.S. troops stormed the Iranian consulate in Iraq and detained several Iranian diplomats. Taken together, the message was clear: the administration intends to move the U.S. closer to a dangerous and ill-advised conflict with Iran. (more…)

by Ian Mosley

In an alarmingly short period of time, George W. Bush has seriously undermined the Bill of Rights and paved the way for the US government to arrest political dissidents without any specific charges and to whisk them off to secret prisons in Third World nations where they could be tortured and imprisoned for the rest of their lives. The Soviet gulag system is being speedily transplanted to the US and very little has been done so far to stop it.

The massive defeat of the GOP in the 2006 elections is an encouraging sign that ordinary Americans oppose Bush’s perpetual war in Iraq and shredding of the Constitution. But will the Democrats do what they were elected to do –namely end the Iraq War and overturn the Torture Bill? Or are we in for some bi-partisan tyranny?

In the latest development, bloggers who criticize the government may soon face arrest and imprisonment. If I suddenly vanish from this website, you’ll know I’m down catching the rays in Guantanamo …at least whatever rays shine between the prison bars into my cell. (more…)

by Rep. Ron Paul

Former President Carter’s new book about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised the ire of Americans on two sides of the debate. I say “two sides” rather than “both sides,” because there is another perspective that is never discussed in American politics. That perspective is the perspective of our Founding Fathers, namely that America should not intervene in the internal affairs of other nations.

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

It just never stops, does it? I recall stories like this from the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the early 2000s. White men, women, children, butchered like animals by blacks, whom the liberals have done everything they can to shove into our neighborhoods and schools. Will it EVER stop? Will the white man EVER wake up?

Knoxville television station WATE reports that “Police are questioning two brothers who were taken into custody Thursday in connection to the murders of a UT student and her boyfriend…..Police are questioning Cobbins and Davidson about the murders of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23. According to the U.S. Marshals Office in Kentucky, two or three suspects carjacked Christian and Newsom the night they disappeared. Newsom was shot to death while Christian was held hostage for a number of days before she was also shot to death.” (more…)

by Ian Mosley

Global Warming is the theory that industrial pollution by man is the primary cause of recent increases in the earth’s average temperature. Added to this is the frequent assertion that something must be done now –as in forcing industry to spend billions of dollars and creating a new federal bureaucracy to “fight” global warming.

What is particularly disturbing is that the same liberal crowd which is wrong about gun control, wrong about the effect of diversity on America and wrong about the continued “need” for Affirmative Action is apparently 100 percent committed to the Global Warming theory. This alone should prompt an intelligent, independent-minded person into taking a second look at it. (more…)

by Gordon Prather

Jury selection has begun for the trial of Lewis Libby, charged with lying to the Feds about lies Libby claims he didn’t tell to sycophantic “reporters.”

Since the lies Libby is alleged to have told – and the circumstances of their telling – are unlikely to become an issue at trial, it is perhaps worthwhile explicating them a bit.

In late 2001 the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service had informed the CIA that the Iraqi ambassador to the Vatican had reportedly attempted on a visit to Niger to arrange the purchase of “yellowcake” – a mixture of natural uranium oxides.

At that time no documentation was provided. (more…)