THE FLASHLIGHT, August 23-29, 2008
THE FLASHLIGHT
August 23 – 29, 2008
No Peace without Justice, no Justice without the Facts
Mary K. Matossian, Editor
mary@matossian.net, Apt. 9-M
US Politics: The Democrats’ Big Week
CNN 8-22. Obama chose Sen. Joe Biden as running mate. He has a working class origin and much foreign policy experience.
NYTimes 8-23 Most of McCain’s money is in his wife’s name. They own seven houses. He is one of the richest men in the Senate.
PBS 8-26. The Democratic keynote speaker, Mark Warner, was a former businessman, founder of Nextel mobile phones. He did not attack McCain or Republicans in general, for he is running for a Virginia Senate seat and must appeal to moderates of both parties.
CNN 8-26-28, Hilary Clinton in a fighting speech supported Obama, raised the issues of equal pay for women for equal work. Bill Clinton also gave a rousing speech. Sen. John Kerry rejoiced that Democrats now have enough money to fight back hard against slurs against their candidates. Sen. Biden also gave a rousing speech.
Obama’ spoke to an audience of c. 70,000 saying, “This election is not about me: it is about you.”
NYTimes 8-29. Commentator Patrick Healy said that the goals of Obama’s speech were to connect the promise of “change” to specific proposals, and to show that he could fight his opponent.
US Economy
NY Times 8-25. It was reported that new technology is making it possible to extract natural gas from shale beds scattered over North America. Of fossil fuels, the one that produces the least amount of emissions that cause global warming is natural gas.
The Middle East
Haaretz, Tel Aviv. 8-24. Israel promised to release 199 Palestinian prisoners to President Abbas in the West Bank.
Haaretz 8-26. Peace Now, an Israeli human rights organization, reported that during this year so far, 2,600 units have been built on the West Bank, nearly half of which are east of the line of separation. Sec. of State Condelezza Rice called for an end to West Bank construction.
IPS (International Press Service, in Google News). According to Peace Now, this year Israel has published tenders for the construction 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in occupied east Jerusalem. This is contrary to Israel’s promise not to do so at the Annapolis peace conference in 2007. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Mun has stressed repeatedly that West Bank settlement construction is contrary to international law.
Iran
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenai said that scientific advancement is essential for the health, wealth, and strength of the nation.
Humor
Contributed by Sylvia Kuran.
War does not determine who is right.
War determines who is left.
Contributed by Parker Robinson
Bill Gates:
'If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has,we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.' In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all bedriving cars with the following characteristics:: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........Twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason.You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn wouldcause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run ononly five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operatein the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off.____________________________________________________________
August 23 – 29, 2008
No Peace without Justice, no Justice without the Facts
Mary K. Matossian, Editor
mary@matossian.net, Apt. 9-M
US Politics: The Democrats’ Big Week
CNN 8-22. Obama chose Sen. Joe Biden as running mate. He has a working class origin and much foreign policy experience.
NYTimes 8-23 Most of McCain’s money is in his wife’s name. They own seven houses. He is one of the richest men in the Senate.
PBS 8-26. The Democratic keynote speaker, Mark Warner, was a former businessman, founder of Nextel mobile phones. He did not attack McCain or Republicans in general, for he is running for a Virginia Senate seat and must appeal to moderates of both parties.
CNN 8-26-28, Hilary Clinton in a fighting speech supported Obama, raised the issues of equal pay for women for equal work. Bill Clinton also gave a rousing speech. Sen. John Kerry rejoiced that Democrats now have enough money to fight back hard against slurs against their candidates. Sen. Biden also gave a rousing speech.
Obama’ spoke to an audience of c. 70,000 saying, “This election is not about me: it is about you.”
NYTimes 8-29. Commentator Patrick Healy said that the goals of Obama’s speech were to connect the promise of “change” to specific proposals, and to show that he could fight his opponent.
US Economy
NY Times 8-25. It was reported that new technology is making it possible to extract natural gas from shale beds scattered over North America. Of fossil fuels, the one that produces the least amount of emissions that cause global warming is natural gas.
The Middle East
Haaretz, Tel Aviv. 8-24. Israel promised to release 199 Palestinian prisoners to President Abbas in the West Bank.
Haaretz 8-26. Peace Now, an Israeli human rights organization, reported that during this year so far, 2,600 units have been built on the West Bank, nearly half of which are east of the line of separation. Sec. of State Condelezza Rice called for an end to West Bank construction.
IPS (International Press Service, in Google News). According to Peace Now, this year Israel has published tenders for the construction 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in occupied east Jerusalem. This is contrary to Israel’s promise not to do so at the Annapolis peace conference in 2007. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Mun has stressed repeatedly that West Bank settlement construction is contrary to international law.
Iran
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenai said that scientific advancement is essential for the health, wealth, and strength of the nation.
Humor
Contributed by Sylvia Kuran.
War does not determine who is right.
War determines who is left.
Contributed by Parker Robinson
Bill Gates:
'If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has,we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.' In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all bedriving cars with the following characteristics:: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........Twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason.You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn wouldcause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run ononly five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operatein the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off.____________________________________________________________
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