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Of the $9 trillion in deficits projected over the coming decade, nearly $5 trillion comes as a result of failing to pay in the past for just two policies — the Bush tax cuts and the creation of the industry written Rx drug benefit. $3.5 trillion is a result of lost revenues and mandatory aid for Americans as a result of the Bush economic collapse. As a result, 90% of the projected $9 trillion in deficits is due to Bush policies and the Bush economic collapse.
I would like to say that I had moved house to here, but alas I was only visiting, with my Quest stuffed full of my picnic dinner.
Bush house was built for Archibald Trotter and Jean Moubray in 1750 on the site of an earlier farmhouse, in an estate known as the Haggs. The house was much extended in 1791, with further additions in 1895, with the result that it is much larger front to back than it is wide.
Inside Bush house are some treasures from Dryden House, which was also owned by the Trotters. In 1898 Dryden fell prey to coal mining subsidence, necessitating its complete demolition; only its folly, ice house and west lodge and approach viaduct remain. Parts of the grand staircase, the mosaic hall floor, and three fireplaces were all saved from Dryden and installed at Bush.
Originals D72_4986-4991 panorama
I had feared that this bush was dead (see flickr.com/photos/77297749@N05/48609327098/in/dateposted-ff/) but I may have spoken too soon.
The 15-story annex to the original Bush Temple of Music is set to open at 810 N. Clark St. Formerly the home of Bush & Gertes Piano Company, the 1901 landmark on the northwest corner of N. Clark Street and W. Chicago Avenue was renovated into micro-apartments of less than 500 square feet for early 2018 occupancy.
On October 5th, KERA’s Lee Cullum moderated an insightful conversation with General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA. Hayden provided a high-level master narrative of America’s intelligence wars at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change as detailed in his New York Times bestselling new book, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror. Photo by James Edward for the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
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Former President George W. Bush is swarmed by photographers before the Houston Texans Game on 25 Oct 09 at Reliant Stadium.
Former Governor Jeb Bush speaking with supporters at an event hosted by the Westside Conservative Club at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale, Iowa.
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Not a plane but a piece of history.These were the engines that took President George H Bush to his final place of rest after he passed late last year. Caught this this morning in the trainyards in Portland Oregon.
Sketching with brushes today. I stopped by Bush Park, sat on a bench, and sketched the playground equipment.
Strathmore 400 series Watercolor paper 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.6 cm), Pentel medium round waterbrush with a 20/80 mix of Platinum Carbon Black ink to water, Kuretake #8 brush pen with Platinum Carbon Black ink, Daniel Smith watercolors applied with a Pentel medium round waterbrush.
cathy19, All these photos are by Kate’s brother, John Carder Bush, they are all just so, so beautiful I wanted to share them with other Kate fans, so I do hope you like them.
The debris of various childhoods around her. The inheritance of the toys of her brothers would have been of little use to her. In the fifties the propaganda of the war was still bumping into our imaginations, by the sixties the unusual was becoming more easily obtainable and so much more creative. The wicker basket is left from the days when apples were picked from the orchards and laid out to linger into winter on wooden trays
The Christmas Bush is losing it's colour. Here are three photos that were taken in the lead-up to Christmas when it looked sensational!!!!
Bush House in London. On my way back from work. Taken with a Mamiya C330S.
The American architect Harvey Corbett designed Bush House in the early 1920s. Finance came from an Anglo-American trading organisation headed by Irving T. Bush, hence the name. Later that decade Bush House was declared the 'most expensive building in the world', having cost around $10 million.
The developers found a prime site, and for the few that don't know it, Bush House occupies a dramatic position at the bottom of Kingsway, in central London, connected to the Strand on its southern façade. The portico is impressive, flanked by two male statues symbolising Anglo-American friendship, sculpted by the American artist Malvina Hoffman.
The official opening of Bush House was a major event, and took place on July 4th 1925 - American Independence Day. The traffic on Kingsway and the Aldwych was stopped for half an hour for the ceremony, and Malvina Hoffman broke down at what was, to her, an intensely emotional event.
Recently revealed ghost signs at a construction site at the corner of Bush & Divisadero. Panorama stitched from three shots.
Nice young bush full of youthfull vigour. Lots of male catkins that provide windblown pollen to fertilise the tiny red female flowers (as in photo posted yesterday)
Covers much more than just the Bush agenda, going back to the first influence of the Neo-cons with the Carter doctrine drawn up by Paul Wolfowitz. Covers all the usual territory about PNAC (Plan for a New American Century) and how that group first expressed themselves by asking Clinton to go to war with Iraq. Much of this story I already knew; what was illuminating were the details and background on the four companies that are major war profiteers and supporters of Bush's global agenda, namely Halliburton, Chevron, Bechtel and Lockheed Martin. Except for Haliburton, the other three are based in Northern California making it a local story for me. I was particularly illuminated by the history of Bechtel and how George Schultz angled to overthrow US policies that would help his company gain business access to the whole world to build nuclear power plants, thus kicking off the global proliferation of nuclear arms.
My father worked for the defense industry (as an engineer) so reading about Lockheed Martin recalled the work he did and the eagerness with which he wanted us to go to the Persian Gulf war so he could field test the heads-up pilot's helmet for which he was able to patent some solution of his that was crucial to making it work. That I was a peace activist did amuse him so especially because he was so confident that war was inevitable.
The author lays out the history of the oil industry both in Northern California and Iraq. Know the history of oil and everything falls into place including who has power in American politics and why we support repressive regimes in the Middle East. She also gives a nice run down of the destructive policies of the World Bank and the "structural adjustment policies" of the IMF that have been the undoing of national economies world wide.
Most fascinating was the story of how the Bush agenda proceeded to erase all of Iraq's existing laws that they didn't like in order to dismantle the socialist infrastructure and force the country to favor the services of multi-national corporations. Changing a countries laws is illegal per the Geneva convention and why everything is such a mess, but no pundit is really going to discuss it in a big picture way because it means discussing how the socialistic government ran things much better for the populace while capitalism is all about looting multi-nationals. We do know bits and pieces like how the Bush agenda fired key workers who were running the country, but I don't remember anyone saying they were replaced with Haliburton and Bechtel scabs from Pakistan. They also fired the Iraqi soldiers and apparently let them go home fully armed. So here we have key people out of work supported by an armed contingent while their foreign replacements are making an expensive mess of the reconstruction, doing things the American way when all the existing fittings and hardware were from France or the Soviet Union. Who would support this nightmare?
I heard a speaker on Iraq talk about how the Iraqis have a saying about the American reconstruction. "To heal the wound you must first pull out the knife."
And despite this story being called the Bush Agenda, it is not a new one. Under Clinton, the economy of Yugoslavia was similarly invaded for the purpose of replacing nationally controlled infrastructure with private enterprise. But she doesn't mention that. I read it in To Kill A Nation. What is new is the extent to which the Bush administration has taken this strategy especially by forcing the signing of "free trade" policies that would make the WTO cream its pants, not only with Iraq but with other middle eastern countries thus forming MEFTA.
It becomes clear through the details, Antonia Juhasz gives, that this is not a war, but a military takeover by American corporations. Particularly telling were the provisions put into place to rewrite Iraqi textbooks. Gives new meaning to the phrase "history is written by the victors". Reading this book convinced me that we should not even say the words "war in Iraq" because that is essentially a euphemism implying that we are defending ourselves from aggressive violent outsiders while protecting innocents. From now on I'm going to call it the American occupation of Iraq, make that the illegal American occupation of Iraq.
This is one of the few non-fiction books I've read whose author is a woman. I'm glad to see that a woman will tackle economics as a world organizing principle. I was beginning to fear that, while women excelled in discussing psychology and social justice, they were resistant when it comes to the importance of economic health. The last woman I read who tackled this territory was Frances Moore Lappe of "Food For A Small Planet" fame. Her book Food First was my first glimpse into the continuation of colonialism through corporate globalization.
Detail from a window by Douglas Strachan in St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow.
My sermon for today, reflecting on how we're called to become like a burning bush can be read here.