when a manufacturer is allowed to externalised it’s expenses, getting the working class to pay the manufacturers bills, like cleaning the crap they dump in the air, like the roads and water works, like the health of it’s labor force

when they are allowed to produce their product without paying those bills and export to here at a price that looks lower then our product, the businesses that do pay their own bills will go out of bussiness

now, franchises and big business buy in bulk from these countries that externalise their expenses and small business is forced out

what has to happen, a tariff placed on any product that comes from a country that does not provide for collective bargaining and does not pay their other bills, thus, creating what is REALLY “free trade”, thus creating “fair trade” which is far more free then the deregulated principles promonted by corporate america

also, our taxes have to be reduced to the point before reagan raised those taxes

and in order to lower our taxes to those levels, the tax burden must be redistributed to the same metric that applied before reagan raised our taxes

notice my last paragraph, that is the way democrats have to talk when discussing raising infrastructure revenue

Are they going to try to get “enhanced interrogation techniques” added?

Let’s hope so. Here is the agenda for the hearing and it looks the same as it was yesterday when selise first pointed out the hearing in another thread:

1. Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V)
to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions
on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons
Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious
or To Have Indiscriminate Effects, done at Geneva
on November 28, 2003 (Treaty Doc. 109-10)
2. Amendment of Article 1 of the Convention
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of
Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be
Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious or To Have
Indiscriminate Effects, done at Geneva
December 21, 2001 (Treaty Doc. 109-10)
3. Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural
Property in the Event of Armed Conflict signed by the
United States on May 14, 1954 (Treaty Doc. 106-1)
4. Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions
on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III)
Additional to the Convention of October 10, 1980
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To
Be Excessively Injurious or To Have Indiscriminate
Effects, done at Geneva October 10, 1980
(Treaty Doc. 105-1)
5. Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV)
Additional to the Convention on October 10, 1980
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To
Be Excessively Injurious or To Have Indiscriminate
Effects, done at Vienna on October 13, 1995
(Treaty Doc. 105-1)

The witnesses:

+The Honorable John B. Bellinger
Legal Adviser
Department of State
Washington, DC

+Mr. Charles A. Allen
Deputy General Counsel
International Affairs
Department of Defense
Washington, DC

+Brigadier General Michelle D. Johnson
Deputy Director for the War on Terrorism
and Global Effects
J-5 Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate
Joint Staff
Washington, DC

Should be interesting hearing on torture. I hope the questions are hard hitting. And the Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, too.

A statement by Multinational Forces-Iraq said Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, commander of coalition detention facilities in Iraq, signed the release order after confirming the Iraqi committee’s decision to grant Hussein amnesty — a ruling that drops legal proceedings but does not assume or determine guilt or innocence.

Hussein — who had been held since April, 12, 2006 — was never brought to trial.

“After the action by the Iraqi judicial committees, we reviewed the circumstances of Hussein’s detention and determined that he no longer presents an imperative threat to security,” Stone said in the statement.

I’m confused, though. I don’t see anything in the coverage suggesting he already has been freed. Call me a skeptic, but I won’t breathe easier until I see confirmation he is out of custody and has left Iraq.

To hold hearings to examine protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949….

Are they going to try to get “enhanced interrogation techniques” added?