Gisele Bündchen oozes sexuality

The Brazilian is the face of more than

20 brands worldwide and is reported to have

a personal fortune of $150m (£72m)

She has said she wants to be paid in euros

for fear that the US currency will continue to fall

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Keywords: supermodel, dollar, sex, fashion

No one has offered anything like the stunning description and analysis of just what dreams and terrors the deadly duo of al-Qaeda and the Bush administration conjured up from the deepest reaches of American consciousness.

When al-Qaeda played the "terror" card and the Bush Regime cunningly responded with the "rescue" card, it took Americans deep into their cultural past.

Right back to the earliest seventeenth-century bestsellers (captivity narratives of young women taken by Indian raiders on the "frontier" of New England) as well as into a more recent past of cowboy rescuers, the sort who saved helpless young women in the darkened movie theaters of the "Bush generation."

Playing that rescue card was the "second hijacking" of 9/11.    more »

Just a year from US presidential elections, and 16 months before Bush’s term of office ends, there is a considerable risk that he may be tempted to rush into a military operation against Iran to cover up his setbacks in Iraq.

In 2006, after four years as Israel’s ambassador to the US, Dani Ayalon was asked if he thought a president as unpopular as Bush could make such a decision.

“Yes, I do,” he replied. “You have to know this man. I was privileged and I consider him a personal friend. People who know him know he is very determined.

"He is certain of the moral supremacy of democracies over dictatorships. The way he sees it, an ayatollah with a nuclear bomb makes an intolerable combination that threatens the existing world order, which is why he will not let this happen on his shift”   more »

The fact that half the adult population stays home on Election Day is an expression of alienation from the Tweedledee-Tweedledum politics of the Democrats and Republicans.

But this nevertheless leads to massive political passivity on a day-to-day basis.

And with employers always hell-bent on preventing workers from organizing into unions, U.S. workers have tended to have much lower rates of union membership than in many other countries, leaving them with no organized means to defend their basic rights in the workplace on a daily basis.

With no outlet for expression, the anger and bitterness accumulates and accumulates, over many long years, unnoticed and unexpressed, until it finally explodes--as it did in the 1890s, the 1910s, the strike wave of the 1930s, and again in the late 1960s.

The pattern of class struggle in the United States has always been long periods of calm that are then interrupted by huge explosions of class struggle.   more »

The US dollar is still officially the world's reserve currency, but it cannot purchase the services of Brazilian super model Gisele Bundchen. Gisele required the $30 million she earned during the first half of this year to be paid in euros.

Gisele is not alone in her forecast of the dollar's fate. The First Post (UK) reports that Jim Rogers, a former partner of billionaire George Soros, is selling his home and all possessions in order to convert all his wealth into Chinese yuan.

Meanwhile, American economists continue to preach that offshoring is good for the US economy and that Bush's war spending is keeping the economy going. The practitioners of supply and demand have yet to figure out that the dollar's supply is sinking the dollar's price and along with it American power.

The macho super patriots who support the Bush regime still haven't caught on that US superpower status rests on the dollar being the reserve currency, not on a military unable to occupy Baghdad.   more »