Return Articles of Interest to Roger This page is to record articles which may not be easily categorized or grouped but which have caught my attention for one reason or another. A treasury of oral presentations. Listen to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and many others including: Matin Luther King: I Have A Dream, others
Clarence Darrow:: Plea for Loeb and Leopold
FDR: First Inaugural Address
: Pearl Harbor 1941
Barbara Jordan: Democratic National Convention (don't have the year)
General MacArthur: Farewell to Congress
Huey P. Long: Every Man A King
Margaret Sanger: Morality of Birth Control
Spiro Agnew: TV News Coverage
Stokely Carmichael: Black Power
Lou Gehrig: Farewell to Baseball
Joseph Welsh: Have You No Sense of Decency
Eleanor Roosevelt: Adopt Declaration of Human Rights
Could it be possible that we will have International Government - truly live in one world before too many years have passed? My thought as this economic disaster the world faces is becoming more and more real for me is that a truly wonderful adventure could come out of this mess. I will begin to collect some articles here that point in the direction of my thoughts. It looks to me like it is possible that a world wide economic governing body is possible, and of course that means that a one world political and economic government would not be far behind. If that should come about it would make this economic disaster worthwhile. 
Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Bush with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., left, and Prime Minister Taro Aso of Japan at the Group of 20 summit in Washington on Saturday. World leaders meeting in Washington, D.C., agree to a far-reaching action plan that will reshape international financial institutions and reform worldwide regulatory and accounting rules.
World Leaders Vow Joint Push to Aid Economy
WASHINGTON — Facing the gravest economic crisis in decades, the leaders of 20 countries agreed Saturday to work together to revive their economies, but they put off thornier decisions about how to overhaul financial regulations until next year, providing a serious early challenge for the Obama administration.
World Leaders Agree to Seek Major Reform Group Pledges Cooperation to Restore Growth World leaders holding an emergency meeting to combat the economic crisis agreed yesterday to a far-reaching action plan that, over the next 4 1/2 months, would begin to reshape international financial institutions and reform worldwide regulatory and accounting rules. Japan, the world's second-largest economy, is in a recession, government officials announced Monday.
In the next 77 days, lame duck President Bush has the legal right to put into place rules that were not the voice of the people who voted with the majority in the last election. An example is an example of what is a delaying and damaging activity that most likely will occur. Amy Goodman Is Posse Comitatus Dead? Amy Goodman: In a barely noticed development last week, the Army stationed an active unit inside the United States. The Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Team is back from Iraq, now training for domestic operations under the control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command
Video: The Colbert ReportFull Episode - Joe the Plumber COMMENT: Syria's oil used to be the mainstay of the government's income, providing 70 percent of the country's export earnings. Now it is drying up so fast that Syria is expected to be a net importer of crude oil in just two years." Nawara Mahfoud and Robert Worth; Syrians See an Economic Side to Peace; Daily News Egypt (Cairo); Aug 17, 2008. An Indonesian example for the US As the United States election season swings into high gear, millions of Americans are following every detail of the presidential campaign. Few, however, are paying attention to Indonesia as it prepares for elections in 2009.
Indonesia may be the world's fourth most populous country, third largest democracy and home to the world's largest community of Muslims, but it is also the most important country Americans know virtually nothing about. They should take notice. Over the past decade, Indonesia has undergone a remarkable political transformation that clearly refutes the proposition that democracy and Islam are incompatible.
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