Monday, May 5, 2008

MONEY IN THE BLOODY HANDS OF THE GREEDY FEW Indepenent: "Tony and Cherie Blair have bought the £4m former home of legendary actor Sir John Gielgud, it was reported last night. The Grade I listed stately home near Chequers is the Blairs' sixth property in their growing portfolio." Tony Blair is a war criminal who should be on trial. He has destroyed the democratic process and destroyed the Labour party. Blair is not a socialist, he is a full-blown capitalist, who has lied and cheated to corrupt Britain. He has promoted a neocon world in which the benefits go exclusively to the rich. Independent: "Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry. The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world's poor - who already spend about 80 per cent of their income on food - into hunger and destitution." And then there is the military industrial complex of course. Or rather it's the private military industry that is slowly taking over the military tasks of our governments and are thriving enormously on war and destruction. What you destroy must be reconstructed, so the benefit is double. The taxpayers still pay for the illegal wars, but the profits are strictly for the private 'security forces' and the multinationals who play a role in destruction and rebuilding. TheNation: "On September 10, 2001, before most Americans had heard of Al Qaeda or imagined the possibility of a 'war on terror', Donald Rumsfeld stepped to the podium at the Pentagon to deliver one of his first major addresses as Defense Secretary under President George W. Bush. Standing before the former corporate executives he had tapped as his top deputies overseeing the high-stakes business of military contracting - many of them from firms like Enron, General Dynamics and Aerospace Corporation - Rumsfeld issued a declaration of war. The often overlooked subplot of the wars of the post-9/11 period is their unprecedented scale of outsourcing and privatization. From the moment the US troop buildup began in advance of the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon made private contractors an integral part of the operations. Even as the government gave the public appearance of attempting diplomacy, Halliburton was prepping for a massive operation. When US tanks rolled into Baghdad in March 2003, they brought with them the largest army of private contractors ever deployed in modern war. By the end of Rumsfeld's tenure in late 2006, there were an estimated 100,000 private contractors on the ground in Iraq - an almost one-to-one ratio with active-duty American soldiers. To the great satisfaction of the war industry, before Rumsfeld resigned he took the extraordinary step of classifying private contractors as an official part of the US war machine." Blackwater, The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. 12:35:55 PM

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