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it is kind of odd that plain clothes cops were sent there in the first place....
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the fact that the original charges were downgraded speaks volumes......
Posted on: 2007/9/6 14:44
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Re: Get your "to-go bag" -- FEMA worried people won't evacuate in a major hurricane.
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Posted on: 2007/7/30 16:08
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Published on Thursday, July 26, 2007 by The Nation
Clinton, Kissinger and the Corruptions of Empire by John Nichols Of all the corruptions of empire, few are darker than the claim that diplomacy must be kept secret from the citizenry.This hide-it-from-the people faith that only a cloistered group of unelected and often unaccountable elites - embodied by the nefarious and eminently indictable Henry Kissinger - is capable of steering the affairs of state pushes Americans out of the processes that determine whether their sons and daughters will die in distant wars, whether the factories where they worked will be shuttered, whether their country will respond to or neglect genocide, whether their tax dollars will go to pay for the unspeakable. It allows for the dirty game where foreign countries are included or excluded from contact with the U.S. based on unspoken whims and self-serving schemes, where trade deals are negotiated without congressional oversight and then presented in take-it-or-leave-it form and where war is made easy by secretive cliques that are as willing to lie to presidents as they do to the people. Unlike the excluded and neglected people, however, presidents have the authority to break this vicious cycle by making personal contact with foreign leaders, by publicly meeting with and debating allies and rivals, by taking global policymaking out of the shadows and into the light of day. When the president is personally and publicly in contact with the world, diplomacy is democratized. As the most scrutinized figure on the planet, an American president who meets and maintains contact with leaders who may or may not follow the U.S. line on any particular issue involves not just him- or herself in the discussion but also the American people. The president lifts the veil of secrecy behind which horrible things can be done in our name but without our informed consent. So it matters, it matters a great deal, whether those who seek the presidency promote transparent and democratic foreign policies or a continuation of a corrupt status quo that has rendered the United States dysfunctional, misguided and hated by most of the world - and that has caused more than 80 percent of Americans to say the country is headed in the wrong direction. In the race for the Democratic nomination for president, the two frontrunners are lining up on opposite sides of the question of whether foreign policy should be conducted in public or behind the tattered curtain of corruption that has given us unnecessary wars in Vietnam and Iraq, U.S.-sponsored coups from Iran to Chile, trade policies designed to serve multinational corporations and a seeming inability to respond to the crisis that is Darfur. Hillary Clinton, the candidate of all that is and will be, wants there to be no doubt that she is in the Kissinger camp. The New York senator?s campaign is attacking her chief rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama ☼, for daring to suggest that, he would personally meet with foreign leaders who do not always march in lockstep with the U.S. government. In Monday?s night?s YouTube debate, candidates were asked it they would be willing to meet ?with leaders of Syria, Iran, Venezuela during their first term,? Obama immediately responded that, yes, he would be willing to do so. He explained that ?the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them ? which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration ? is ridiculous.? Clinton disagreed in the debate and now her camp is declaring that, ?There is a clear difference between the two approaches these candidates are taking: Senator Obama has committed to presidential-level meetings with some of the world?s worst dictators without precondition during his first year in office.? Leaving aside the fact that Venezuela?s Hugo Chavez, a popularly elected leader, is not one of the ?world?s worst dictators,? it is particularly galling that Clinton ? in her rush to trash Obama ? is contradicting her own declaration in an April debate that, ?I think it is a terrible mistake for our president to say he will not talk with bad people.? Unfortunately, Clinton?s vote to give Bush a blank check for war in Iraq and her defense of that war, her support for neo-liberal economics and a Wall Street-defined free trade agenda and her general disregard for popular involvement in foreign-policy debates suggests that the senator is showing true self when she dismisses the value of presidential engagement with the leaders of foreign lands. Clinton is playing politics this week. But in a broader sense she is aligning herself with a secretive and anti-democratic approach to global affairs that steers the United States out of the global community while telling the American people that foreign policy is the domain only of shadowy Kissingers. She is not just wrong in this, she is Bush/Cheney wrong.
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their proximity to the biggest art market in the world (NYC) is what makes them special. It is hard enought for an artist to get a curator or art dealer to visit their studio in JC and it would be even harder to get a curator or dealer to visit you in elizabeth or newark. that said, the JC art scene has a long way to go before it reaches big league status. the poorly curated galleries are never represented in the major art fairs, and the few JC based artists of note are represented by NY galleries.......
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Re: So much for all of you folks who predicted a JC/NYC RE Crash
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Jsalt and GrovePath,
thanks for posting such informative articles on this thread. it's so sad that one of the foundations of the recent realestate boom is predatory lending on a wide scale. That said, I've met plenty of JClisters who have nice jobs and want to purchase in the JC, but are still locked out of this market due to overvaluations. I think that one of the good points of a potential market correction is that some of these folks will be able to afford to buy here now...... and I say this as an owner with a long term investment in this community
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frivilous posts??!!! i thought this was part of JC's community outreach program.
Posted on: 2007/3/8 17:20
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Falcon, good first effort with the new camera. your exposure choices worked well and your use of the monopod...was very steady yet hand held enough to draw the audience in. there are flaws, however....your misuse of the autofocus yields very blurry results especially for the long shot in the first half. once you are in tighter, the focus improves slightly, but we still see tell tale autofocus shifts, which seems somewhat amateurish. the sound is legible, which is good but there is still room for improvement here: the use of an external shotgun microphone would eliminate much of the peripheral room reflection. the use of cheesey transitions is expressly prohibited as per course policy. but because this is your first project I will give you a B
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that's actually fairly common in many parts of europe. paris and prague definitely come to mind.....
Posted on: 2007/1/31 16:58
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Re: "Reality of Unreality," $35G painting found being dragged down Jersey City street, cops say
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wonder if he had a dealer or buyer lined up.......
scope ny is just a month or so away......
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isn't that an active mosque, MCA?
they probably wouldn't wanna screen any decadent western art-crap there
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Re: Plans for a tower at Manischewitz site seem to please -watershed moment for Powerhouse Arts District
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checked my map.
the manischewitz parcel is outside of the Morgan/ Grove/ Marin redevelopment zone and technically part of the PAD. which means anything goes! but that mysterious plan is still gonna have to go before the planning board to get approved.... isn't it?
Posted on: 2006/12/21 20:30
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Re: Franciscan priest accused of sex abuse now living at the Parish Of The Resurrection in Downtown JC
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hmmmmm
i wonder if this guy is running the new catholic cyber cafe?
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i just don't see that area as a great high density kinda place. is this developer insane?
what are they gonna call it...overpass pointe?
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i'm soooo there.
let them call bayonne the next anything......
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i'm way to cool for here.
i'll be moving to bayonne now...... and a 2 word review for mr sternberg's attempt at writing: banal insipid
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whiteysezkeepmovin' ave?
jimcrowe ave?
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which raises an interesting question: what is crime? developers bribing city officals for tax abatements? tax abated developments that don't pay substantially into a low cost housing fund? hmmmmmmm
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thanks mr. bright.
very helpful and illustrative. we just gotta hope that the right (non hawk) dems are calling the shots if they do indeed take control of congress. i just have alot of baggage (as i'm sure you can tell) from feeling consistently sold out by the dems on these kind of issues. we'll just call it the humphrification of the democratic party. me? i'm more into the mcgovernification....***sigh*** or carterization but not dukakisification mondalienation clintonation or kerryization
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i think that is an excellent question, capnjon. is there a specific democratic policy proposal to get us out out iraq? or to do anything differently or more effectively than the bush admin? i have yet to see one..but i could be wrong and that's why i am still officially undecided.....though i won't be voting for kean....
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Posted on: 2006/9/28 19:30
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agreed. their enforcement of this particular parking violation is inconsistent at best. they rely on people using the faded red paint on the curbs as a marker, when they could easily install "no parking from here to corner" signs. in general their seems to be a genuine and astounding contempt for pedestrians around here. must be a jersey thing. when i'm behind the wheel i always yield to pedestrians. add the intersection of newark and erie to the list too... hoboken has the right idea....but when i've stopped for pedestrians there...i've gotten the angry horn honk from the idiot behind me..... insane
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count me in as interested. i would love to hear about your theory pertaining to the causal relationship between tough law enforcement and declining crime rates. do you have a link to a study or something??
Posted on: 2006/9/27 15:09
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uh yes, of course. we leftists just love to see innocent people killed in minority communities. yep, i was just reading marx, i think it's in chapter 10 of das kapital " the working class revolution will only occur when more people are murdered in fast food restaurants" . that marx, he was a real profit er uh prophet! and just to throw a wrench into this incredibly presumptuous generalization: i have a very close family member who is on the left side of things politically and is also a tough as nails criminal prosecutor. hmmmmmmmm
Posted on: 2006/9/22 17:16
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....i like this lotto voting connection. here's a good way to tweak it jersey style:
mandatory licenses to play any lottery game. the license is contingent on active participation in all elections. poor and working class people would vote by the thousands then. yes, i know that lotterys are a form of regressive taxation..but encouragement to participate in the electoral process would at least partially offset the the negatives. wouldn't it?
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