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Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
This picture is from Manual Alvarez Bravo's 'Morning Notebook'.
Watch his other work at the Getty.
More at the MOMA.
3:31:03 PM 
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Reuters: "House and Senate negotiators working on a $100 billion agriculture spending bill voted on Tuesday to allow states to privatize the food stamp program, which helps 25 million people put food on the table monthly."
The privatisation racket is the heart of the neocon ideology. Where until now the government was directly involved in welfare and health and could provide services at cost price all the while keeping in mind finances and employment, the neocon world order will provide the same services but with a guaranteed and secure income provided by the government, that is you the taxpayer, and an additional profit margin. This gives them total control of essential branches of society, without the responsibility a government had, without control of society on the services they provide. The government will be reduced to an administration at the service of the neocon corporations, to exert political and military control of the population.
In short, what neocons have in mind is the establishment of fascism as Mussolini understood it: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
To gain more economical power those corporations will want to expand globally and are the driving force for all wars present and future.
The present political neocon revolution is a shift from welfare to warfare.
3:08:03 PM
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AlterNet: "Ninety percent of Americans believe the Bush administration is guilty of illegal or unethical behavior in the CIA leak case. Where does that leave our president?"
At least this proves 90% of Americans are decent, honest people who care about justice.
Ascribe: "'The nearly 2,000 Americans killed in combat in Iraq since 2003 are more than were lost in Vietnam combat in the first four years of U.S. combat. This total is more than were lost in the last two years of combat' recounts Maurice Isserman, co-author of 'America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s'.
'Today public opinion polls show that the percentage of Americans who believe that it was a mistake for the U.S. to go to war in Iraq is roughly comparable to the number of Americans who believed it was a mistake for the U.S. to go to war in Vietnam in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive in 1968. The principal difference between the anti-war opposition of 2005, and that of 1968, is that in the Vietnam war a significant group of Democratic Party leaders - starting with Senators Morse and Gruening in 1964 and eventually including such figures as Senators Fulbright, McCarthy, Kennedy (Robert and Ted), and McGovern - joined the opposition to the war. This lent legitimacy and influence to the opposition. Today, the Democratic party, with a few brave exceptions, mostly in the House of Representatives, is supportive of or silent about the war,' observes Isserman."
AfterDowningStreet: "As the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq reaches 2,000, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) this week will introduce legislation to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to deploy United States Armed Forces to Iraq. The bill will allow funds to be used for the safe and orderly withdrawal of our troops; for transitional security provided by other countries - including international organizations like NATO and the United Nations; and for continued support for Iraqi security forces and international forces in Iraq - as well as funding for reconstruction efforts."
DailyStar: "Saddam Hussein's defense committee wants to put U.S. President George W. Bush in the dock to mirror the Baghdad trial of the toppled Iraqi leader over a Shiite massacre, a Jordanian lawyer said Tuesday."
There is more trouble ahead for the Prez:
SeattlePi: "Italy denied allegations Wednesday that it gave the United States and Britain false documents suggesting that Saddam Hussein had been seeking uranium in Africa, helping justify the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
'The facts that are narrated ... do not correspond to the truth,' the [Italian] government said in a statement in which it reiterated denials it had any 'direct or indirect involvement in the packaging and delivery of the false dossier on Niger's uranium'."
2:48:11 PM
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