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Sunday, August 17, 2008 |
Politicians will do anything to harass and smear their opponents.
Boris Johnson, as a patron of the P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK), knows his Plum and went for the funny approach.
ToryTroll: "Comrade Johnson or 'Red Boris' as he's known round these parts, hit the headlines after it was revealed he had hired a Fidel Castro costume during the Mayoral campaign.
The costume was donned by a Back Boris campaign member who wore it while harassing Ken Livingstone around London."
The present hysteria against Russia in the mainstream media seems of the same but even less intellectual kind. I have heard people moaning about 'forced labour' when they saw a Russian soldier order a Georgian to sweep the street. The same people who see no evil in the US Guantanamo Gulag on Cuba, of course.
For those who still haven't seen any images of the destruction of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali, here they are.
Against all evidence, Saakashvili is still maintaining Georgia was attacked first by the Russians.
Reuters: "Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder blamed Tbilisi on Saturday for sparking hostilities with Moscow and suggested its breakaway regions could not remain part of Georgia following the violent clashes of the past week."
ImpeachBush: "Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terror suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world.
In 2002 and possibly 2003, the U.S. imprisoned and interrogated one or more terrorist suspects on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean controlled by the United Kingdom."
We have already heard McCain's ('in the 21st century nations don't invade other nations') and Rice's ('this is not 68') gaffes, now the Commander-in-Mischief George Bush has contributed his tuppence worth: "The Cold War is over. The days of satellite states and spheres of influence are behind us. Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century."
The arrogance of those in power is so blatant and indecent that they consider their audience to be complete morons.
AlterNet: "Sad but true: Intelligence is a political liability in the US. Author of The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby explains why.
'It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant.' Barack Obama finally said it.
Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right's stand against intelligence has steered them far off course, leaving them - and us - unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a society.
I say in my book that Americans are unwilling to look at how really bad our educational system is because we've all been propagandized with the idea that we're number one."
Truth, facts, reason and intelligence are dangerous for every political criminal and liar.
Fact is that the US is the main threat to peace, the greatest aggressor and killer of all nations.
ISJ: "Georgia today plays a central role in US strategic thinking. One reason for this is the $3 billion oil pipeline under construction across Georgia from neighbouring Azerbaijan, thereby avoiding both Russia and Iran on its route to Turkey. But a pro-US Georgia is also in any event a valuable obstacle to Putin's more assertive Russia.
In recent years, the US has worked hard to instrumentalise the velvet revolution, to exploit it for its own ends. With massive funds, it has used rigged elections to help trigger regime change, as in Serbia and Ukraine. It has anticipated revolt by cultivating oppositionists to lead it, as in Georgia. It has established and maintained a 'democratic' infrastructure of NGOs, media outlets and publishing houses that has spawned a host of intellectuals and activists for whom the most viable economic and political model is still the one offered by the victor of the Cold War."
The West is trying to conceal the impending collapse of its capitalist system. The dollar is a bleak image of what it once was.
GlobalResearch: "Just as central banks manipulate currencies in concert, so gold can be manipulated by massive selling of central bank reserves. Oil and any other market can be manipulated as well. But markets can be manipulated by only so much and for only so long without fixing the underlying problem. There is more bad news coming down the pike, news of such magnitude that no amount of ordinary manipulation is liable to conceal it."
The Bush regime is corrupt and bankrupt. Bush should be impeached.
Pravda: "So you have the colossal audacity, Mr. Bush, to 'warn' Russia to pull back? As the wanton, perverse war criminal under whose watch the world saw the crime known as 'shock and awe' committed, I'd say you were well out of your mind to suggest that Russia should pull back.
What's a little shock and awe among inferior people we want to rob and destroy, eh?
What do human beings need an infrastructure for?
Why do they need clean water? Why do they need electricity?
What's a little torture?
What's a little regime change? Don't recall when that was a goal of yours?
What's a few secret detention camps?
What's wrong with destroying an environment for 4 billion years and generations after generations of people? After all, they're just rag heads, aren't they Mr. Bush?
Do you hear people laughing at you Mr. Bush?"
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