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Wednesday, December 8, 2004 |
Scotsman: "Tony Blair must set up an independent inquiry into the number of civilians killed in Iraq since last year's war, a coalition of diplomats, lawyers, religious leaders and writers demanded today."
11:23:01 PM 
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Kentucky: "President Bush yesterday signaled his determination to overhaul Social Security, even if it means piling up huge new government debt to pay for the transition to a partially privatized system.
Underscoring his commitment to the issue, Bush invited 16 top congressional leaders - including eight Democrats - to the White House to promote his plan to let workers invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market and other investment vehicles."
And when all Americans have been forced to put their money into the privatized system, the Bush regime will make the system go bust. It is just another huge money transfer from the middle classes to the rich.
1:16:08 PM
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Guardian: "People Power is on track to score another triumph for western values in Ukraine. Over the last 15 years, the old Soviet bloc has witnessed recurrent fairy tale political upheavals. These modern morality tales always begin with a happy ending. But what happens to the people once People Power has won?
The upheaval in Ukraine is presented as a battle between the people and Soviet-era power structures. The role of western cold war-era agencies is taboo. Poke your nose into the funding of the lavish carnival in Kiev, and the shrieks of rage show that you have touched a neuralgic point of the New World Order.
All politics costs money, and the crowd scenes broadcast daily from Kiev cost big bucks. Few seem to ask what the people paying for People Power want in return for sponsoring all those rock concerts.
Nowadays, we can google the names of foundations such as America's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a myriad surrogates funding Ukraine's Pora movement or 'independent' media. But unless you know the NED's James Woolsey was also head of the CIA 10 years ago, are you any wiser?
Throughout the 1980s, in the build-up to 1989's velvet revolutions, a small army of volunteers - and, let's be frank, spies - co-operated to promote what became People Power. A network of interlocking foundations and charities mushroomed to organise the logistics of transferring millions of dollars to dissidents. The money came overwhelmingly from Nato states and covert allies such as 'neutral' Sweden.
No one dwells on the mass unemployment, rampant insider dealing, growth of organised crime, prostitution and soaring death rates in successful People Power states.
People Power is, it turns out, more about closing things than creating an open society. It shuts factories but, worse still, minds. Its advocates demand a free market in everything - except opinion. The current ideology of New World Order ideologues, many of whom are renegade communists, is Market-Leninism - that combination of a dogmatic economic model with Machiavellian methods to grasp the levers of power."
1:10:13 PM
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CBS: "An Army private seeking refugee status in Canada after refusing to serve in Iraq told immigration officials on Monday that the war is illegal and would have forced him to commit war crimes."
SignOnSanDiego: "A Navy petty officer opposed to the war in Iraq refused to board his ship Monday as sailors and Marines deployed for the Persian Gulf."
SeattlePi: "War can turn strangers into brothers. It's true if they're fighting it, and it's true if they're resisting it, as Vietnam War resisters resettled in this Canadian province know.
In an American era of 'love it or leave it', they left. Now a number have joined to help peace activists here form a new 'underground railway' for resisters to the Iraq war, providing food and shelter and transportation north."
NY Times: "A classified cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials."
CounterPunch: "A majority of us Americans think that the unprovoked invasion of Iraq was a mistake - a mistake that has cost nearly 1300 American lives so far, with no end in sight, and over 100,000 innocent Iraqi lives (right up there on a scale comparable to the butchery of Saddam Hussein himself) - yet we just re-elected the man who is responsible for this colossal crime."
12:56:11 PM
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