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Wednesday, November 9, 2005 |
NYTimes: "After President Bush's disastrous visit to Latin America, it's unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run. An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front. But the rest of the world simply can't afford an American government this bad for that long."
The mainstream media are responsible for keeping this failed presidency afloat.
Guardian: "We can expect the US and UK governments to seek to minimize the extent of their war crimes. But it's time the media stopped collaborating."
11:13:33 AM 
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George W. Bush: "One of those values is that free societies are important to the progress of men and women; but free societies also require institutions that are solid and sound, institutions such as the right to worship freely, the right to write, say what you want in the press freely, the right to campaign and express your opinions freely. It's very important that there be solid rule of law and independent judiciary."
The above is the bullshit, this is the reality in Dubya's own Murka:
LATimes: "The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election."
FAS: "Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) said today that newly declassified information indicates the Bush Administration's use of pre-war intelligence was misleading.
Specifically, newly declassified information from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from February 2002 shows that, at the same time the Administration was making its case for attacking Iraq, the DIA did not trust or believe the source of the Administration's repeated assertions that Iraq had provided al-Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. Additional newly declassified information from the DIA also undermines the Administration's broader claim that there were strong links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda."
TalkLeft: "The Washington Post reports that the FBI has been obtaining and reviewing records of ordinary Americans in the name of the war on terror through the use of national security letters that gag the recipients."
Deseret: "At an intelligence conference in San Antonio last week, Mary Margaret Graham, a 27-year veteran of the CIA and now the deputy director of national intelligence for collection, said the annual intelligence budget was $44 billion."
10:57:36 AM
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A new book was published: The Fox in the Henhouse, How Privatization Threatens Democracy.
DemocracyNow: "Don't think about privatization in terms of the usual arguments that the government gives or that are given by the corporations, which say, 'Oh, this is about saving money for the taxpayers, this is about efficiency'. What we are doing is the largest transfer of public wealth to private pockets in the history of this country. We're seeing this in Iraq, where the goal of this administration is to see how much of the money that should be going to all sorts of other issues and other causes can be put into private pockets. Think Halliburton. Think Lockheed Martin.
This is what is going on, and it is the undermining of public space, of the public good, of public welfare, is a deliberate strategy to undermine the ground that belongs to all of us: the common wealth, the commons, those things that create public good, that create a humane society."
10:41:06 AM
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