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Iraqi schools turn away from secular teachings

Religious fundamentalism takes root after Saddam

 

BAGHDAD - Four-year-old Beytool Hamid is going to school for the first time, but it's a very different school than her brothers and sisters attended.

 

Under Saddam, schools were militarized and secular. To revitalize the education system, the U.S. has spent $225 million to renovate 2,400 of Iraq's 18,000 schools, print nine million new textbooks and retrain one in 10 teachers.

 

Still, many Iraqis are opting out of the public school system.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6125357/

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Party registration in the US goes back over 100 years to a time when being registered with a party was like joining a gang. A lot of patrionage was attached. Time was in NYC only registered, card carrying Democrats could get the city jobs such as cop or fireman or garbage collection or just about any other high paying occupation. The way the precinct bosses could identify their friends was through party registration and such identification carried with it the spoils of victory. Now some benighted souls might consider that to be a system of graft rife with corruption and so it was. But in those days politicians were the rich men and they made sure the poor folks were fed and had coal to put in the fire place and had jobs (as long as they were registered in the party). Of course the pols were only doing the bidding of the owners and were keeping the proletariat occupied while the owners were busy exploiting them.

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DJ Fed's Bies: GSEs Pose Big Threat To US Taxpayers

 

  NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Federal Reserve Governor Susan Bies said Tuesday that government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) pose a threat to U.S. taxpayers because of their size, aggressive growth plans and lack of oversight.

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Bies struck a note of caution about Freddie and Fannie.

 

  "If something happens to disrupt their ability to buy liquidity to originate new mortgages there's going to be an impact on mortgage markets across the country," Bies warned. "What I worry about is that these organizations have gotten so large and have such aggressive growth plans...."

 

  "If they don't do things right it'll be like the savings and loans," Bies said, referring to the 1980s banking scandal in the U.S., "and every taxpayer will have to bail them out even if it benefits their shareholders."

 

  Bies added that "if they want to act like a shareholder company they should privatize and abandon the government." She called for strong Congressional oversight to monitor Freddie and Fannie.

Dow Jones Newswires

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Trampled under foot/ Led Zep. Listening to it now.

 

Grease me straight down, good electric

I could lay it on the road, mama, it ain?t no trick

 

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout

 

Ooh, trouble-free transmission, helps your oil?s flow

Mama, let me pump your gas, mama, let me do it all

 

Talkin? ?bout love, huh

Talkin? ?bout love, ooh

Talkin? ?bout

 

Take that heavy metal underneath your hood

Baby, I could work all night, leave a big pile of tubes

 

Talkin? ?bout lo-ove

Talkin? ?bout lo-ove

Talkin? ?bout

 

Automobile club-covered, really built in style

Special is tradition, mama, let me feast my eyes

 

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout

 

Factory air-conditioned, wind begins to rise

Guaranteed to run for hours, mama, and brand-new tires

 

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout

 

Groovin? on the freeway, blazes on the road

]from now on my gasoline is even gonna conk your hair

 

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout

 

I can?t stop talkin? about

I can?t stop talkin? about

 

Ooh, yeah-yeah, yes, ah, drive on

 

Ooh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yes, I?m comin? through

 

Come to me for service every hundred miles

Baby, let me check your valves, fix your overdrive

 

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout

 

Ooh, yes, fully automatic, comes in any size

Makes me wonder what I did, before I got synchronized

 

Talkin? ?bout lo-ove

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout

 

Ooh, feather-light suspension, coils just couldn?t hold

I?m so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors

 

Talkin? ?bout love

Talkin? ?bout lo-oo-oh-ove

Talkin? ?bout

 

Oh yeah, oh yeah

 

Oh, I can?t stop talkin? about love

I can?t stop talkin? about love

Ooh, let me go in down, go in down, go in down, go in down, go in down, yes

 

I can?t stop talkin? about

I can?t stop talkin? about lo-oh?, baby

I can?t stop talkin? about love, or my baby

I can?t stop talkin? about love, my baby, uh, my baby, my baby, yeah

 

Unnh, push, push, push it, push, push

 

Ounheahhonhouh

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Next song up by Zep, Rock & Roll.

 

It?s been a long time since I rock and rolled,

It?s been a long time since I did the stroll.

Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back,

Let me get it back, baby, where I come from.

It?s been a long time, been a long time,

Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.

Yes it has.

It?s been a long time since the book of love,

I can?t count the tears of a life with no love.

Carry me back, carry me back,

Carry me back, baby, where I come from.

It?s been a long time, been a long time,

Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.

Seems so long since we walked in the moonlight,

Making vows that just can?t work right.

Open your arms, opens your arms,

Open your arms, baby, let my love come running in.

It?s been a long time, been a long time,

Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.

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Wachovia: SEC May Take Action Against Unit

Tuesday September 28, 4:58 pm ET

Wachovia Says SEC May Take Action Against Its Brokerage Unit for Alleged Improper Fund Trading

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040928/wachovia_sec_4.html

If the bear market never started, none of this would have ever happened. Martha, never. Putnam and Strong ...etc... , never. They need to blame people to feel better about losing 7 trillion doo-lars. Wait till they lose 15 trillion.

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(page/plant)

 

Then as it was, then again it will be

An? though the course may change sometimes

Rivers always reach the sea

Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays

On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey

Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn?t have to grow

But as the eagle leaves the nest, it?s got so far to go

 

Changes fill my time, baby, that?s alright with me

In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be

 

Did you ever really need somebody, and really need ?em bad

Did you ever really want somebody, the best love you ever had

Do you ever remember me, baby, did it feel so good

?cause it was just the first time, and you knew you would

 

Through the eyes an? I sparkle, senses growing keen

Taste your love along the way, see your feathers preen

Kind of makes makes me feel sometimes, didn?t have to grow

We are eagles of one nest, the nest is in our soul

 

Vixen in my dreams, with great surprise to me

Never thought I?d see your face the way it used to be

Oh darlin?, oh darlin?

 

I?m never gonna leave you. I never gonna leave

Holdin? on, ten years gone

Ten years gone, holdin? on, ten years gone

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Nigerian rebels threaten attacks on oil workers

Foreign oil companies have increased security precautions amid fears of attacks by rebels in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.

 

A group known as the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force says it will attack foreign oil workers.

 

It accuses international companies of neglecting impoverished communities in the oil fields.

 

The Nigerian Army is warning it will use force if the rebels attempt to carry out their threats.

 

Shell and several other companies have increased security.

 

The Niger Delta produces up to 2.3 million barrels per day.

 

The region has been the site of ongoing tension between the oil companies and local activists.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1209426.htm

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