ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
The Peace March in East Palo Alto
I think that the people should have marched to were the people died. Then go around other places were it is starting to happen. Then I think that theyshould have walked to E... |
Vita Talakai |
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on Feb 9, 2007 at 11:17 am by People Have Been Marching, a resident of East Palo Alto |
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Iraq
29, January 2007
A startling new book authored by Barry Lando, a former 60 Minutes producer, sheds new light on the complicity of Western nations arming Saddam Hussein when h... |
Jag Singh |
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on Feb 4, 2007 at 10:01 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Norm Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein, professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago, delivered an enlightening talk at Stanford University last Thursday to a packed audience. H... |
Jag Singh |
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on Feb 3, 2007 at 11:40 am by Robin, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Why can't the American public see what's coming?
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 occurr... |
The Cohen Brother |
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on Feb 3, 2007 at 8:50 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Suicide Bombing in Israel
A suicide bomber killed 3 people at a bakery in Eilat, Israel today. Strange we didn't see the usual crowd of Israel haters comment on that today.
Here's a link to the sto... |
Silver Bullet |
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on Jan 31, 2007 at 7:33 am by Marvin, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
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Edits
It would be instructive if, when editing or deleting a comment, that comment would be returned to the author with guidance.
We all decry the personal attack as a response to ... |
Walter_E_Wallis |
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on Jan 30, 2007 at 8:34 am by Robin, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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The Stanford Daily fails to justify labeling Dr. Norman Finkelstein a holocaust denier
Rather than furnishing quotations from Dr. Finkelstein's books or commentaries, Stanford Law School fellow Amichai Magen paraphrases Finkelstein's thesis:
"Finkelstein’s ar... |
Robin |
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on Jan 30, 2007 at 6:58 am by Robin, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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So Much For Us Being Greeted As Liberators
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company's helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad were shot execution st... |
EnoughAlready |
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on Jan 29, 2007 at 5:40 pm by Ron, a resident of another community |
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ISRAEL
There has been extremely disturbing reports that Israel has dramatically expanded its ethnically cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza by effectively denying the return of natio... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 29, 2007 at 7:00 am by Batman, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood |
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Bush's Private Army
Largely ignored in the ongoing debate of planned troop escalation is the role of US private security firms such as Blackwater. Since its founding in 1996, Blackwater has bec... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 27, 2007 at 9:00 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Senator Dianne Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms
In her annual Public Financial Disclosure Reports, Feinstein records a sizeable family income from large investments in Perini, which is based in Framingham, Mass., and in URS... |
Robin |
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on Jan 27, 2007 at 3:13 pm by Robin, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Iraq's Oil
In breaking news, the London (UK) Independent has published details of a new law – the ‘Hydrocarbons Law’, drafted to ensure the ‘sale’ of Iraqi oil on terms extremely favorab... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 9:33 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Dear Mr President
Dear Mr. President,
Thanks for your address to the nation. It's good to know you still want to talk to us after how we behaved in November.
Listen, can I be frank? Sendi... |
The Cohen Brother |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 9:24 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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The Criminal Mind of george Bush
Not "cogito ergo sum," but "I think; therefore it is so."
Let's see now. What was that guy's name, the psychologist whose area of expertise was the criminal personality? I ... |
Senior Blues |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 9:04 am by Senior Blues, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Colonialism and Israel
Prior to the onset of European colonization a century ago, generations of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinians cohabited in the Holy Land with little or no conflict. Zio... |
The Cohen Brother |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 8:33 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Condi Rice plans return to Stanford where she will "look back and write books"
This is an article from December 2006:
Web Link
An excerpt:
"Once her tenure as secretary of state is over... |
Robin |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 7:37 am by Robin, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Agony Of Victory
An article in todays Chronicle deals with life after football for the SF 49rs Super Bowl winning roster. Almost all of the players willing to be interviewed suffer from very s... |
green |
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on Jan 23, 2007 at 11:58 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
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RIP Larissa Keet
I just read the piece on the Palo Alto Online home page about the death of Larissa Keet in Kenya. Web Link
I hope there ... |
Theresa |
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on Jan 23, 2007 at 9:26 am by Theresa, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Horses need to be banned on peninsula trails
I did a couple long runs in Huddart, Phelger and Wunderlich parks this week and almost twisted an ankle a couple times in the hoof shaped mud holes. There are mosquito ridden ... |
Bret |
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on Jan 22, 2007 at 6:06 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Somalia
Compounding the Iraq war debacle, the Bush Administration is off and running squandering more lives and US tax money on ill-fated adventures in Somalia. During the cold war al... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 22, 2007 at 5:51 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Iraq Surge
Our fragile nation, indeed the whole world is in urgent need to protect itself with a ‘surge protector’ from our warmongering president. The newly elected Democrats have vo... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 20, 2007 at 1:05 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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TORTURE
It is encouraging to learn that Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy and other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are holding Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, ‘feet to t... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 20, 2007 at 7:45 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Stifling Debate: Reflections of the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Explotations of Jewish Suffering
Please join us on Thursday, January 25 at 7:30PM
for an evening with Professor Norman Finkelstein.
Web Link
Title of Event:
Stifling Debate: Reflecti... |
Robin |
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on Jan 19, 2007 at 5:48 pm by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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ISRAEL (A courageous Israeli Jew)
Susan Nathan, an Israeli Jew was in Stanford University last week to discuss her widely acclaimed book, ‘Other Side of Israel’. After experiencing the sting of racism in Engla... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 16, 2007 at 6:53 pm by Roy, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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A Troubled Sister City -- Oaxaca
I have been feeling great empathy for the situation in Oaxaca, Mexico. As you know Oaxaca has been a sister city for more that 20 years. It seems as we are "family", there cou... |
Bob Wenzlau |
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on Jan 16, 2007 at 12:16 pm by Gail Sredanovic, a resident of Menlo Park |
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