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Saturday, October 15, 2005 |
CommonDreams: "It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution."
Crooks and Liars has more here, the rehearsal is here and the video-conference here.
Everything about this president is fake, his elections, his wars, his performance, his appearance in public.
12:36:55 PM 
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IRC: "Both House and Senate leaders recently rejected an administration-backed recommendation by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to allot $300 million of its food aid budget to purchase food grown by local or regional producers. Once again congressional members bowed to special interests, including agroexporters, shipping firms, and nonprofits that deliver U.S. food aid.
What's more, the U.S. government, led by the U.S. Trade Representative, is rejecting demands by the EU, Switzerland, Australia, and other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the dumping of surplus commodities in the form of food aid be judged a violation of international trade rules.
The United States provides nearly 60 percent of the world's food aid. Although it has spent over $8 billion on food aid over the past five years, the aid has done little if nothing to resolve long-term problems of hunger and food production in developing countries. In fact, the main objective of the U.S. food assistance program is to purchase surplus commodities from subsidized agribusiness."
Reuters: "The United States on Friday offered needy countries more than 330,000 packaged meals donated by Britain to feed Hurricane Katrina victims but rejected due to a U.S. ban on British beef.
An additional 33,000 MREs from Germany, Russia, Spain and France had also not been distributed to hurricane victims because of U.S. legal restrictions, Ereli said without elaborating."
Chances are that the US is going to use this food to pull strings in poor countries, maybe sell or destroy it. It is obvious their aim is to have the American taxpayer pay for all aid food that must come from American suppliers. In fact, this is just a way of supporting the American food industry.
12:26:55 PM
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