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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
WorkingForChange: "According to the Bushies, if the United States is holding a prisoner on foreign soil, our soldiers can still subject him or her to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment - the very forms of torture used by the soldiers who were later prosecuted for their conduct at Abu Ghraib. Does this make any sense, moral or common?
So deeply does President Bush feel our country, despite all its treaty commitments, has a right to torture that he has threatened to veto the bill if it passes. This would the first time in five years he has ever vetoed anything. Think about it: Five years of stupefying pork, ideological nonsense, dumb administrative ideas, fiscal idiocy, misbegotten energy programs - and the first thing the man vetoes is a bill to pay our soldiers because it carries an amendment saying, once again, that this country does not torture prisoners.
Remember, we invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein was such a horrible brute that he tortured people. This is beyond disgusting."
BBC: "After two years of preparation, a group of 24 citizens have brought a suit against the Danish prime minister over Denmark's role in the Iraq war."
LewRockwell: "Every U.S. soldier takes an express and solemn oath to 'support and defend the Constitution'. That oath, however, is a sham because the troops do not support or defend the Constitution. Instead, when it comes to war the troops follow another oath they take - to obey the orders of the president, and they do this without regard to whether such orders violate the Constitution."
ICH: "We operate under the assumption that the laws of the land are in place to protect our human welfare and to safe guard property from being unjustly taken from us. It may be argued that that is the intent of the law; but it is often not how the law is applied. It is the application of law that determines outcomes, not the intent of law. History is replete with examples.
America is a class society. There are the haves and the have-nots. Viewed in this way, one can see the law, or shall we say - authority - as existing to protect the haves from the have-nots. Thus it can be seen that both law and authority, mean different things to the different classes. So the government does not consider all people, both citizens and non citizens alike, as equal under the law. As it is applied to real life situations, the laws of the land are quite often unjust."
Since the coming to power of Bush, governments have acted against their Constitutions and breached national and international laws. Those responsible must face trials for war crimes, acts of treason and criminal activities.
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ChinaDaily: "I think it is time that we should take a serious look at the possibility that the US is going to take us down towards a worldwide recession in one or two year's time.
It is well known that the US is the world's biggest economy, taking up about 30 per cent of global GDP, but it is now also the world's biggest debtor country. According to the most authoritative person on this subject, the US Comptroller General David Walker, who audits the federal government's books, the tab for the long-term promises the US Government has made to creditors, retirees, veterans and the poor amounts to US$43,000 billion, US$145,000 per US citizen, or US$350,000 for every full-time worker.
The US Government indebtedness is financed this way: The US now runs a trade deficit roughly 6.5 per cent of its GDP and the gap is widened every day. Its citizens are spending ever more on foreign goods, and with the US dollar as the international currency, the US Government just prints money to finance the deficit. And with this money, central banks in the surplus countries purchase most of the US Treasury bonds as currency reserve.
Put it simply, the Americans have been living way beyond their means for much too long. On top of this, the Bush Administration is cutting tax at least three times while fighting an expensive war in Iraq, which has already cost the country US$700 billion, and currently progressing at US$5.6 billion per month. Now the US economy is dependent on the central banks of Japan, China and other nations to invest in US Treasuries and keep American interest rates down. The low rates keep American consumers snapping up imported goods.
The US is now clearly in huge trouble, economically, socially, politically, and internationally. The Bush Administration bungled big in cyclone Katrina's aftermath in New Orleans, and then a minor rerun from Rita in Houston, and this will trigger the general outburst of people's dissatisfaction with the government, leading to great internal turmoil lasting for many years. In all likelihood, long-term interest rates are going to rise, and the greatest property bubble the world has witnessed is going to burst in the next one to two years.
One thing is for sure, some time in the not too distant future, every central bank and institutional investor is going to dump US dollar and US Treasury bonds."
There is a lot of truth in this article. The bubble will burst some time in the future. Most governments are already forseeing internal trouble when people won't take it any longer, when poverty, corruption and the new class society are stretched to the limit. That is why governments are now taking control measures, that is why the Bushes want to control the population by military means (a recent example being the Katrina 'relief' effort which was more an exercise in mass control than help), with so-called anti-terror laws, which are only meant to ensure government control over people.
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