HEAVY AGENDA FOR CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION THIS TUESDAY 2/8/11
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We can't remember ever seeing a study session agenda with so many weighty issues to be discussed.
This one has an item about eliminating the CMPD helicopter, another one about eliminating two police officer positions, an item about the budget, one about outsourcing city services and layoffs and the last item is an update on the redevelopment agency.
The council can't take action or vote on any of these issues at the study session, but you can often get an idea of how the individual members may vote when these items later come up at a regular city council meeting.
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SOUND BARRIER ON THE BORDER
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THE ARAB REVOLUTION AND WESTERN DECLINE
Link to good Harretz.com column
Anyone who doesn't see America's decline just doesn't know how to connect dots. We've been caught up in false ideas of the nature of man, and they're dragging us down.
Change the recipe for a cake and you have a different cake. Change the recipe for a nation and you have a different nation.
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IRAN: RIOTS SIGN OF ISLAMIC AWAKENING
Link to good article on the Middle East situation
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WILL HE STAY OR WILL HE GO?
Final push to oust Mubarak begins in Egypt LINK
The usual know nothings in the U.S. (George Bush clones) are saying that the people of Egypt are demanding democracy (as seen in the U.S.). They're wrong. What the people are demanding is self-determination and the end of a puppet government that is bought and paid for by the U.S. and Israel.
If this revolution follows many other historic revolutions we can probably expect to see a weak interim government take over if Mubarak leaves, and that will be followed by a stronger government that will--because this is the Middle East--be more Islamic in nature.
Our guess is that the present government of Iran will be the model for Egypt, but perhaps with some minor variations. And, yes, we expect to see the Muslim Brotherhood become a strong force in any new government.
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