Martial Law Training?!?

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Marines to begin martial law training in Indianapolis

Under the guise of urban warfare training the 26th Expeditionary Unit an elite group of U.S. Marines will conduct a martial law training exercise at 26 “surrendered” locations in central Indiana from June 4th thru the 17th. While state officials and media are doing their best to assure the public that this military takeover of civilian property is somehow a good thing, ignoring the Posse Comitatus Act which fundamentally prohibits these types of exercises. These two weeks of training are also a contradiction of military tradition against deployments among the civilian population dating back to the end of the Civil War. Why then are the citizens of Indianapolis and six other Indiana towns being made to take part in two weeks of patrols and ambushes?

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Fat City?

The dramatic reversal in what had been a weakening oil market began Thursday after ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet suggested the bank could raise interest rates, and the euro climbed against the dollar. When interest rates rise in Europe, or fall in the U.S., the dollar tends to weaken against the euro.

Oil is above $137 a barrel, Gas $4.00, diesel $4.75.
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The government reported the U.S. lost 49,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate rose by the largest amount since February 1986.

The Labor Department reported the fifth consecutive month of declines in nonfarm payrolls. The decline was better-than-expected however, as economists had been expecting a 60,000 job decline for last month.
It's still low and apparently not as bad as was expected. With all the banking troubles and high prices I have been expecting a lot more job cuts
And the price of fuel is starting to effect the food chain,too.
Huhuhum... No job. No gas, No groceries. We're not going to hold the title of "Fat City" for long, if this keeps up.

Over There:

Over There:
These are popping in the middle east, despite effort to defuse them. Some people over there don't want peace, want ever the cost. And I think President Bush and company know it, but they, appearance in denial, or blinded to the truth, what ever the case may be. Personally, I think they are like a blind man searching for a nonexistent light switch in a room full of rats.

As the American Israel Public Affairs Committee met in Washington, U.S. President George Bush Wednesday suspended plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
The White House released a memo to the secretary of state ordering a six-month suspension in preparations for moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv. The order also coincided with a visit to the Oval Office by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The issue of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has always been a sticking point in the Arab world and negotiations for establishing a Palestinian state have included demands the city be returned to Palestinian control.

Meanwhile, An Israeli daily says Cabinet Minister Shaul Mofaz has said Israel should attack Iran if it continues with its nuclear program.
The Yediot Ahronot newspaper quotes Mofaz as saying "If Iran will continue with its plan to develop nuclear weapons, we will attack it."

And Barac Obama has put his foot in his mouth again. Mere hours after becoming Israel's new ‘best friend’ Obama backtracks on status of Jerusalem. Apparently, his statements to the the AIPCAC conference that Jerusalem should not be divided were 'misunderstood' contradicted campaign policy.

Obama's adviser for the Middle East, former Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer, in May told the Israeli mass circulation daily, Haaretz, that his campaign considers it "impossible to make progress on serious peace talks without putting the future of Jerusalem on the table."