story on chevron includes a phone number so you can call them

raven at 10 — Well, me neither, frankly, considering how much of our debt China is holding at the moment, it doesn’t exactly give us a lot of leverage to push for change. Oh, and our record on human rights lately? Not so stellar either. Heckuva job, Bushie…

And the Chinese will do just what with that debt? Lose hundreds of billions of dollars if the US dollar tanks, that’s what. Don’t you think that Bush would love to pay them off in worthless currency?

But of course, Bush loves America, is careful of its economic security, and would do anything to avoid the US dollar taking a serious dive. Oh, wait….

The scam that Bush has run on China is probably his most successful government action ever. I’m not saying that it is moral, or good, or even productive in the long term. Certainly the money borrowed has almost all been wasted on Bushite costume jewelery (necklaces of skulls of Iraqis and so on). But he got the money, he spent it on his lethal toys and gifts to his friends, it’s lost value since, and if the Chinese kick up too hard, it will lose more value.

Now, who’s got whose nads in the vice?

The conclusion of this article leads me to Chris Dodd. I think Dodd, knows what is at stake here in America. His father’s role in the process, is something he is proud of and should be. His message on this has been consistant and I hear it!!!

Generally just lurk at FDL. Thank you for these words Christy and Kathleen.

Welcome J!

New thread upstairs, gang.

I just read Glenn’s morning missive.

Shades of 1933.

I repeat what I posted in the last thread. A quote that opens Scot Horton’s piece from a year ago on “When Lawyers Become War Criminals”

“In France, innumerable summary executions occur, even as I sit here writing. Each day certainly more than a thousand people are killed, and thousands of German men experience murder as a matter of routine. And yet all of that is child’s play compared to what’s going on in Poland and Russia. Can I learn about this and just sit at the table in my heated apartment and drink tea? Don’t I establish my complicity simply by doing nothing? What will I say in the future, when someone asks me: and what did you do during this time?”

- Helmuth von Moltke, in a letter to his wife, Oct. 19, 1941

Can I learn about any of this and just sit in front of my laptop and do nothing?

No I can’t.

The question is . . . what to do?

You have before you the most powerful tool the average citizen has ever seen, the ability to communicate with millions with the push of a the enter key. Email your reps, call yor reps, be assertive but be polite and tell them like I say. I will not be like the silent germans, I’m an American!!!!. Talk to people and shame them with thier own ignorance and preconcieved notions. The nation’s patience has ended whether Independant, Democrat or Republican. It is what it is, an adminstration hell bent on protecting the oil interests. Call it what it is!!!