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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
CommonDreams: "Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr Helen Caldicott fears US President George Bush's re-election will lead to Armageddon and she isn't sure if mankind would survive another four years.
'I don't know if we'll survive the next four years ... I don't think the Americans have, on the whole, the faintest idea - and I have to say also I don't think most Australians do either. But it's not just the threat from nuclear war. It's the threat of what's happening to the environment, the global warming which is occurring rapidly now, to ozone depletion, to species extinction, to deforestation - it's the whole thing.'"
12:22:57 PM 
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Japan Times: "After U.S. President George W. Bush's re-election was confirmed, markets everywhere were almost dancing with joy, seemingly oblivious to $50-a-barrel oil prices, the bloody mess in Iraq, the threats from al-Qaeda, America's jobless recovery and its yawning deficits.
TV's talking heads were jubilant, declaring that a victory for tax cuts that would boost economic growth and send Wall Street and other markets soaring. Perhaps it was the hallucinatory effect of the election slogans that had many voters believing that God and American guns could keep gays and terrorists at bay while restoring peace, harmony and prosperity to the world.
The reality is that Bush will be forced to make hard choices, and the American people will have to face pain for their profligacy. For the rest of the world, U.S. difficulties will bring hardships.
But while the rest of the world has the potential to recover, this is the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony. It will be a tougher new world that emerges, but as with the British Empire or Ancient Rome, there is nothing God-given or eternal that says Washington must rule the world forever."
12:18:11 PM
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Guardian: "Troops who have fallen ill since the first Gulf war may have fallen victim to a ticking toxic timebomb, advisers to the US government said last night.
Psychiatric illness, combat experience or other stresses from deployment did not explain ill health in the 'vast majority' of 100,000 sick US veterans, according to the advisers' report. On the contrary, evidence supported a 'probable link' between the toxins and veterans' illness."
Vanity Fair: "Today, some scientists believe that all these problems, together with others found in war-zone civilians, can be traced to the widespread use of a uniquely deadly form of ammunition.
In the ongoing Iraq conflict, just as in the Gulf War of 1991 and in the Balkans, American and British forces have fired tens of thousands of shells and cannon rounds made of a toxic and radioactive material called depleted uranium, or D.U."
The effect of this toxic timebomb will increase when more soldiers have come home and the Bush administration does not provide enough medical help and financial support. And one thing that is for sure is that Bush will not spend money on additional health care.Veterans can drop dead as far as he is concerned.
12:13:24 PM
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StarTribune: "Issuing a blunt warning to Democrats, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said Thursday that the newly strengthened Republican majority would not allow filibusters to block action on judicial nominees in President Bush's second term.
With the possibility of multiple vacancies on the Supreme Court in coming months, the comments suggest that Republicans intend to take a harder line with Democrats than they did when the Senate was more narrowly divided in insisting on floor votes for Bush's judicial choices."
The Democratic party is dead. Don't count on fair elections from now on. Hillary can forget it. The GOP rules and they consider themselves to be good, right, reasonable and honorable, in short everything they lack. It is just a matter of Newspeak.
12:04:49 PM
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ArizonaDaily Star: "The Supreme Court overturned a Texas death sentence Monday while delivering its latest rebuke to the way the death penalty is being handled by judges in the state that has executed far more people than any other in the modern era of capital punishment."
ArizonaDailyStar: "The U.S. Army has encountered resistance from more than 2,000 former soldiers whom it has ordered back to military work, complicating its efforts to fill gaps in the regular troops.
In the last few months, the Army has sent notices to more than 4,000 former soldiers informing them that they must return to active duty, but more than 1,800 of them have already requested exemptions or delays, many of which are still being considered."
11:52:03 AM
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