tth_081117[November 17 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The First Order Of Business For The Obama Administration Is 'Undo The Actions Of The Bush Administration'... The Same Is True Of Iraq's Government And The Force-Fed Status Of Forces AgreementTravus T. Hipp - Cabale News ServiceaudioCabaleNewsServices<strong>In The News:</strong> Iraq is ready to boil over - The al Maliki government votes for a Status of Forces Agreement using the 'Sovereignty Portfolio' ministers<blockquote>Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that an unnamed high official in Iraq said that he expected the cabinet to pass the agreement on Sunday or Monday, since it was supported by the ministers with "sovereignty portfolios" (Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs, and Finance) <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2008/11/al-maliki-backs-security-pact-muqtada.html" rel="nofollow">More @ Juan Cole's Informed Comment</a></blockquote> (read Some ministers are "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_di_tutti_capo" rel="nofollow">Capo di tutti capi</a>" in an Iraqi/US MAFIA)... but it's unlikely the parliament will get a quorum to vote on it. Expect it to get rammed down Iraq's throat with the end result of MORE MAYHEM. Details.
Pakistan shuts down the Khyber Pass to battle the rebels, which also effectively shuts down the primary US supply route to Eastern Afghanistan. The Pakistani government is also claiming (correctly) the US drone incursions to hunt 'al Qaeda' violate their sovereignty and airspace. Also, the International Monetary Fund is about to loan Pakistan $27+- Billion dollars. More.
Hamid Karzai's Afghanistan 'government' is offering Mullah Omar , with a 10 million dollar US bounty on his head, protection in return for peace talks with the Taliban.
We can hardly afford to remodel our homes but we're going to remodeling the International Space Station. Kitchen, bedroom, bath, reverse osmosis urine to drinking water... All the conveniences.
Congress reconvenes today and they are going to work on taking some of the 700 BILLION dollar economic bailout and use it to pay off the mostly defunct US auto industry. As <a href="http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/11/presto-change-o.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Kunstler at Clusterfuck Nation</a> put it:<blockquote>The dilemma is essentially this: the consumer economy we all knew and loved has died. There will be pressure from nearly every quarter to keep it hooked up to the costly life support machines even though it is dead. A different economy is waiting to be born, but it is nothing like the one that has died.
The economy-to-come is one of rigor and austerity. It is not the kind of thing that a nation of overfed clowns is used to. Do we even have a prayer of getting to it, or are we going to squander our dwindling resources on life support for something that is already dead?
A case in point: the car industry. The Big Three, all functionally bankrupt, are now lined up for bail-outs from the treasury's bottomless checking account. Personally, I believe the age of Happy Motoring is over.
Many Americans have already bought their last car -- they just don't know it yet. </blockquote>
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