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"SIGN OF THE TIMES While covering the war in iraq in 2003, NBC News correspondent David Bloom, 39, died from a pulmonary embolism caused by a clot that formed in his leg (DVT), then broke off and entered his lungs. Bloom had complained of leg cramps while riding for long hours in the narrow confines of a converted army tank. Also at high risk for developing these clots are people with broken legs, those undergoing surgery (especially orthopedic, pelvic, or abdominal operations), and cancer patients. And if you've had one episode of DVT, you're at increased risk of having another." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"The cataclysm produced by hurricane Katrina made people "find their feet" and march on Washington to protest the administration's policy of focusing on the oil war in iraq to the neglect of preparedness for natural disasters and the plight of poor people at home. Will humanity wait for a natural or man-made catastrophe that kills hundreds of thousands or millions to come up with the will to change? It may then be too late. We must, and still can, head toward a timely shift in values, vision, and behaviors." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"I was about to go on to say I wouldn't have spent billions on the war in iraq etc., but my host interrupted, laughing, and said, 'Oh no, "I wouldn't start from here." A very good argument.' His expression stuck with me; it was the reply of a pragmatist to an idealist, and it brought me hard up against political realities, which I often refuse to consider." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"In the financial markets, monetary policy changes in Japan, Europe, and China often had a more pronounced effect than did the activities of the Federal Reserve. The war in iraq and other military operations, which involved spending more than $500 billion per year, will become untenable burdens. They will also foment widespread anti-Americanism and growing calls to send U.S. troops home and leave the responsibility to others." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "Barring major spending cuts or tax hikes, the combination of higher interest rates, the costly war in iraq, and various other forms of public sector profligacy could help boost the national debt by another $3 trillion by 2010, according to experts cited by USA Today in November 2005 And that figure does not even take into account other obligations, such as Social Security and Medicare. Like individuals and companies, governments have often relied on debt to make up for shortfalls when current income is lacking." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"The climate change campaigner and ex-geologist Jeremy Leggett warns that a failure to face up to peak oil could cause a global economic crash, combined with an upsurge in military conflict in the Middle East over the remaining oil reserves - conflict of which the US war in iraq could be a foretaste. The American energy analyst Richard Heinberg calls for a strategy he calls 'powerdown', where the world undertakes a conscious shift away from the high-energy society in order to avoid collapse on the day the oil wells begin to run dry." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"When I see you exposing the pharmaceutical corporations for the crimes they commit; when I see you demand accountability for lives lost and corruption spread; when I hear you chastising legislators and regulatory directors for allowing themselves to be bought; then I will know that you are speaking out for the little guy, the common man, American democracy Summing It Up Bill Clinton's presidential escapades, the war in iraq, the ACLU's attack on Christian symbols, the scandal in the priesthood..." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"One unintended consequence of the war in iraq," said Director Caspersen when we return to the West Trenton headquarters of the Office of Counter-Terrorism on the sixteenth floor of 240 West State Street, "is that foreign terrorists are receiving battlefield experience." Caspersen himself served in the U.S. military as an explosives expert. "It's one thing to set a booby trap in a training exercise and quite another to do so in the heat of actual battle. Our enemies are receiving battle training and becoming more experienced and 'battle hardened,'" he said. " - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "No one but a comparatively few brave, caring souls seems to care about the Earth anymore, and the fact that our spendthrift, wasteful ways were the distant but nonetheless root cause of the war in iraq. Most of us are experiencing psychic pain, but we are so totally disconnected from die Earth as we roll around in our cagelike dino cars, we don't even notice that the disconnect has become more real than the connection. I'm just another angry L.A. driver. I'm pissed at everybody. Sometimes I don't even know why. I look at the long line of cars." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"As I write this, the United States is mired in what has become a lengthy war in iraq, and (as previously mentioned) the head of the National Institute of Mental Health recendy told Newsweek that newer research shows that depressed people are not necessarily underproducing serotonin or other neurotransmitters." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"The New Henry Stimson At the time America went to war in iraq, it appeared that Donald Rumsfield took his marching orders from the "Prince of Darkness," Richard Perle. Perle was chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon advisory group, and a former assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan. Perle has top-level contacts with Israeli intelligence and has worked closely with the Lukid Party in Israel. He also has many financial connections to the Middle East, oil money, and the defense industry." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"In the case of the United States, foreigners were already becoming less accommodating by 2006, a perspective no doubt exacerbated by the nearly $1 trillion cost of the war in iraq. Polls also confirmed that there had been widespread acceptance outside the United States of a shifting world order. That vulnerability extended to discussions about America's creditworthiness, which was once viewed as an unrivaled standard of excellence." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"They promote aggressive preemptive military action and are responsible for forcing the war in iraq. The neo-cons pretend to be Republicans, but they increase taxation through excessive government spending. The neo-cons currently run our country. They do not, in actuality, want strong borders, as they view immigrants as a source of cheap labor. They want to undermine the individual rights of the U.S. Constitution and replace them with a police state (Homeland Security). They want to control the U.S." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"All the facts and all the lies lined up clearly for Barry, and his purposeful delusion was dispelled. The war in iraq was a horrendous mistake. Fooled Again Millions of Americans have awakened to the deceptions of war as packaged by our leaders. Unfortunately, our most current war was sold to us in a fashion similar to all previous wars. Wrapped in the Anyone who has flag, amidst promises of democracy and freedom, we ever looked into are manipulated into thinking that we are right, our the glazed eyes of cause is just." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"I read the newspapers continuously, from Madrid to Cartagena, until my head was full of the war in iraq, the murder of thousands of civilians and the developing terror-reasoning of British and US politi- 1 Bingham J. A Fragment of Fear. London: Panther; 1967. cians. I began to think how the 'war on terror' makes us all feel insignificant. I wondered for a moment what I was doing, travelling to interview a woman about her adverse reactions to HRT, when the world was in turmoil, with huge matters of the post-modern era being enacted." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"This is a Public Spectacle, after all. The war in iraq is a team sport; the hometown crowd will stand and do the wave right to the bitter end. There is no place for ambiguity, subtlety, or irony. Or arriere-pensees. On his own, you see, a man might be haunted by killing. He might see a murderer each time he looked into the mirror. He might feel guilt and the need to punish himself. Maybe he would begin to stutter, stand barefoot in the snow, or step in front of a bus. On his own he might do all these things, but not in a mass. In a mass, men feel no guilt, no shame." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "FULL SPECTRUM DUMBBELLS That is why every public spectacle makes the headlines at least twice: first, in pleasant expectation; later, in miserable regret. The war in iraq is no exception. The Independent ran a photograph of George W. Bush and Tony Blair on its cover in 2006. "Are these the only two men in the world who think the Iraq War is a success?" asked the headline. In the public spectacle, blame, responsibility, truth, and consequences are usually extremely remote; the spectacle proceeds by separating cause from effect, reward from punishment, and truth from consequences." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "Researchers recently tried to guess how much of a debacle the war in iraq really is. They focused on the number of people who had died since the government of Saddam Hussein was run out of Baghdad. Various estimates came in, from a low of 300,000 or so to nearly a million. Estimates of the costs are similarly wide—from a couple of hundred billion dollars to more than $1 trillion—and projected into the future, as high as $2 trillion. Where does a nation already $65 trillion short get that kind of money? And how could the damage to its diplomatic prestige ever be repaired—at any cost?" - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "But losing a job hardly seems a suitable chastisement for an epic blunder like the war in iraq. Saddam Hussein was hanged for killing only 148 people during his career as dictator of the country. By the close of 2006, that many people were being killed in Iraq every day. Roman bridge builders used to stand under their arches as the scaffolding was removed. If they made a mistake, the whole thing would come down on their heads. At Iwo Jima, the Japanese commander committed ritual seppuku, opening up his own belly to remove his intestines and dying in agony. Donald Rumsfeld got off easy." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"A perfect example is the war in iraq. If the U.S. administration had expended the huge dollars on poverty, health or alternative fuels in this country instead of blaming Saddam Hussein for 9/11, think of what we might have accomplished? Many nations would rather blame others than accept responsibility for how the world is today. And certainly they are far more willing to engage in finding fault than they are in solution finding. It's time for them to let go of these old habits. Then we can all jump on the Universal superhighway to world improvement." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"In practice, the government spent far more than the credits that had been voted, using special accounts that we might call "off budget" accounts similar to those used by the Bush administration to pay for the war in iraq. In 1920, 30,000 million francs—an amount nearly equal to the nation's entire prewar debt—passed through the special accounts (see Figure 5.1). When America entered the war, its expenditures outdid the other combatants, averaging $42.8 million per day from July 1917 until June 1919. Total federal expenditure rose 2,454 percent in the three years 1916 to 1919." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "But the dollar has gone along with every bit of political gimcrackery that has come along—the war in Europe, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the war on poverty, the war on illiteracy, the New Frontier, the Great Society, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the war in iraq, the war on terror. As a result, guess how much a dollar is worth today in comparison to one in 1913? Five cents. The Federal Reserve system was set up to provide the nation's empire builders with a convenient, expandable, and compliant money." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"This sharp acceleration in the long-term trend, it seemed, was a result of the rise in fuel costs resulting from the war in iraq. Higher fuel costs meant higher feed costs, and that was just enough to put even more dairy farms out of business. And the Austrian maker of genetically modified cow growth hormone was indeed having production problems, but supply and demand for that hormone were soon expected to return to balance. Could you have guessed that the price of milk at the grocery store would be so sensitive to so many national and international developments?" - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The war in iraq is not an isolated incident, or a conflict that could not be avoided. We've been down this bombed-out road before. Let's take a quick peek at U.S. military interventions and covert actions since 1945." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Anyway, life in the United States was so frantic—between the grinding job insecurity, and the war in iraq, and the horrendous traffic, and orange terror alerts, and child abductions, and the maxed-out credit cards, and the hurricane of the week, and the lack of medical insurance— there was already too much in the here-and-now to worry about. My role as an author is to think about things that the public is indisposed to dwell on, and to present a framework for understanding a particular set of challenges. What follows, then, is admittedly a personal vision." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Iraq and Iran What was the war in iraq about? It was strategically about setting up a police station in the middle of a very large bad neighborhood. It was also about dividing the Islamic world physically in half to create a buffer between the aggressive gangs on the east side of the police station (Iraq, Iran, Pakistan) and the politically touchy gangs on the other side (Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and, of course, the anomaly, Israel)." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"The Unspoken Nuclear War The United States is currently conducting a nuclear war in iraq, but most of America is oblivious to the fact. The use of depleted uranium in the bombs being used in Iraq is criminal. A number of soldiers were found to have uranium in their urine, but when I was scheduled to go on national TV to discuss this, the show was cancelled. The American media is actively denying information to the American people who are —by paying their taxes —actually actively causing a huge epidemic of childhood cancer in Basra and Iraq." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

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