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Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
From the documents just released by the F.B.I. on Martin Luther King:
"On November 1, 1975, William C. Sullivan, former Assistant Director, Domestic Intelligence Division, F.B.I., testified before the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. He related that from late 1963 and continuing until the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., King was the target of an intensive campaign by the F.B.I. to neutralize him as an effective civil rights leader. Sullivan stated that in the war against King 'No holds were barred'."
2:41:05 PM 
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Dahr Jamail: "In certain areas [of Fallujah] where the military used 'special munitions' 200 square meters of soil was being removed from each blast site.
In addition, the military brought in water tanker trucks to power blast the streets."
That certainly looks like they are trying to decontaminate the area.
12:54:03 PM
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Telegraph: "America has hobbled an effort by Britain and other European countries to persuade Iran to freeze its nuclear programme.
Senior officials said privately that the US would not offer economic or political concessions to woo Teheran."
Guardian: "They are bringing a lot of the old war-horses from the Reagan and Iran-contra days into a sort of kitchen cabinet outside the government to write up policy papers on Iran."
12:47:46 PM
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AlterNet: "George Bush's 'Ownership Society' represents a new form of economic populism - a populism born in the Hobbesian belief that we all struggle alone in a world where life is nasty, brutish and short."
What a moron Bush is. Everyone an entrepreneur? Who will do the work then? And how can someone working for less than the minimum wage - earning less than $1,000 a month - be able to own a house, let alone start a business?
"The federal minimum wage for covered, nonexempt employees is $5.15 per hour."
The raise was introduced by Clinton, and the Republicans voted against it.
"Under federal law, most employers have to pay their workers a minimum wage of $5.15 per hour, a figure that hasn't been raised since 1997. But an exemption for tipped workers lets restaurants in Florida and many other states pay just $2.13 per hour, so long as the worker makes up the difference in tips."
GKLAW: "Certain employees who hold executive, administrative, professional or outside sales positions are exempt from the minimum wages and overtime pay requirements of the FLSA - collectively known as the 'white collar' exemptions."
So the workers' wages are manipulated to boost the income of the entrepreneurs. Instead of enabling every American to be an 'owner' Bush is making it more difficult for millions of wage earners.
George Bush believes we should all struggle alone in a world where life is nasty, brutish and short and that it is all about survival of the fittest. He will do anything to destroy the last remnants of social justice and equality. He is creating a new proletariat without any means to own anything, the perfect condition for a wealthy class of owners to increase their and only their own 'ownership'.
Cartoon.
12:36:53 PM
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