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Wednesday, February 9, 2005 |
The general public expresses its views during Carnaval (see picture). The time of the year when censorship is non-existent.
Even The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election - because it could have changed the election. If it had been about Kerry they probably would not have killed the story. That is how America works nowadays: unfair.
About everything in Bush's State of the Union is a lie or a distortion.
LA Times: "Even as President Bush proposes deep cuts in healthcare, farm subsidies and other domestic programs, his new budget makes one thing clear about the legacy of his first term in the White House: The era of big government is back."
NY Times: "President Bush isn't trying to reform Social Security. He isn't even trying to 'partially privatize' it. His plan is, in essence, to dismantle the program, replacing it with a system that may be social but doesn't provide security. And the goal, as with his tax cuts, is to undermine the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt."
Independent: "As it accuses Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, America is preparing to upgrade and renew parts of its own ageing nuclear arsenal. Critics believe the upgrades could lead the US to breach the treaty banning the testing of nuclear weapons."
Cable companies with a lucrative porn branch are sponsoring Bush. "According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Cable has given millions in political donations since 1998. The national Republican Party committees are its biggest organizational recipient, with donations totaling $851,000. President Bush is its biggest individual recipient with $109,000 in donations."
Republicans are trying to attack the United Nations on so-called corruption within the oil-for-food programme. However: "The government of the US ... though it had been informed about a smuggling operation which brought Saddam Hussein's regime some $4.6bn, decided to let it continue. It did so because it deemed the smuggling to be in its national interest, as it helped friendly countries (Turkey and Jordan) evade the sanctions on Iraq. The biggest source of illegal funds to Saddam Hussein was approved not by officials of the UN but by officials in the US. Strange to relate, neither Mr Hyde nor Mr Coleman have yet been bellyaching about it. But this isn't the half of it.
The US inspector general for Iraq reconstruction published a report about the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) - the US agency which governed Iraq between April 2003 and June 2004. The inspector general's job is to make sure that the money the authority spent was properly accounted for. It wasn't. In just 14 months, $8.8bn went absent without leave."
So the US is blaming the UN for something they allowed to happen and at the same time contributed to a much larger fraud.
America has made a terrible mess in Iraq. In the meantime, "Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are now showing up in the nation's homeless shelters."
CommonDreams: "Thousands of U.S. taxpayers opposed to the war in Iraq are expected to use a new "Peace Tax Return" as a means to protest-or even resist-the spending of their federal tax dollars for the war."
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