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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
Election time is chameleon time. Politicians promise you a rose garden, but don't deliver. This has been of all ages, but our time is characterised by an unprecedented upsurge of lying and cheating.
George W. Bush started it all by declaring he would make an end to government spending when elected. He is now the biggest spender ever, playing ducks and drakes with the taxpayers' money.
The Tories are putting on the green and pink colours and Phony Bliar has always been a blue chameleon faking a red colour. Watch Dave the Chameleon.
Politicians promise security and safety, but can't even deliver it at home.
Guardian: "An urgent hunt for more than 900 freed prisoners who should have been deported was under way last night after Charles Clarke shouldered responsibility for a 'shocking administrative blunder' that had allowed them to stay in the country.
The Home Office said it had so far managed to track down only 107 of the 1,023 foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes who should have faced deportation over the past seven years."
Scotsman: "Tony Blair yesterday openly admitted using the honours system to reward tycoons who gave money to support his policies."
Tony is the greatest chameleon ever, making such a strained - or should I say 'laboured' - effort he is turning blue in the face.
But watch how George Dubya has turned into a televangelist. There is not one sensible word in his whole speech, but it sure spins like hell.
Big corporations either won't deliver on their promises (nevertheless their profits are huge and this way they can make them even bigger).
TomPaine: "General Motors' announcement that that it would no longer provide traditional pensions to its employees hired after 2001 was stunning because of its size. Yet GM is hardly alone in trying to pare down or eliminate conventional pensions. Every day, from healthy companies like Verizon to bankrupt firms like Delphi, there seems to be a new announcement. United Airlines, Bethlehem Steel, Motorola, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Hewlett Packard, along with many other pillars of our economy, have frozen their pension plans, insisting they cannot afford to keep their promises."
And read their lips; when they say 'health' they mean 'profits'.
Reuters: "Brand-name drug makers are striking more deals with generic rivals to restrict the introduction of cheaper generic drugs, antitrust authorities said on Monday."
It's "We the People, vs. Them the Large Insurance and Drug Companies."
Independent: "The world's largest foreign aid organisation is accused today of deception and medical malpractice that has contributed to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of children from malaria."
IPS: "Developing nations left the weekend's joint meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) with few gains, while the rich countries that dominate the boards of the two lenders managed to shape the agenda almost entirely to serve their own interests, say analysts here."
MultinationalMonitor: "2005 was a good year for bad corporations.
There were no U.S. elections to worry about, with their troubling possibility of politicians running on the popular platform of curbing corporate power.
All leaving corporations free to buy legislation, profiteer, pollute, poison and mistreat workers without restraint.
Benefiting from the spike in oil prices associated with the tragedy of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, ExxonMobil recorded the most profitable year any company has ever achieved.
The corporations will never give up power, unless forced to do so by the people."
But don't expect the CIA and NSA to protect you or guarantee your safety. On the contrary. Be very worried.
POGO: "The majority of improper or illegal acts committed by the CIA against citizens of the United States were committed by the agency's Office of Security in the name of 'facilities protection' and 'executive security'.
Apparently it is not corporate America but you, the honest citizen, who 'wants watching' (as P.G. Wodehouse would say).
FAS: "The contours of the U.S. intelligence bureaucracy are expanding to include dozens of new 'intelligence fusion centers' based around the country."
FAS: "The House version of the 2007 intelligence authorization bill would grant CIA and NSA security personnel the authority to make arrests for 'any felony' committed in their presence, no matter how remote from the foreign intelligence mission it might be, the Baltimore Sun reported today."
Big Brother is watching you and he's working for the Big Corporations. Politics is the realm of the chameleons now, of the traitor hiding behind patriotism, of the murderer hiding behind religion. This is the Age of the Chameleons.
12:07:29 PM 
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