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Thursday, February 2, 2006 |
CNet: "AT&T has been named a defendant in a class action lawsuit that claims the telecommunications company illegally cooperated with the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping program."
ACLU: "'The state of our Union cannot be strong if the president continues to violate the law,' says Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU."
Chronicle: "An e-mail threat that prompted the evacuation of more than a dozen Brandeis University buildings on January 18 led to an unusual standoff in a public library in Newton, Mass., a few miles from the Brandeis campus.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents tried to seize 30 of the library's computers without a warrant, saying someone had used the library's Internet connection to send the threat to Brandeis. But the library director, Kathy Glick-Weil, told the agents they could not take the machines unless they got a warrant first. Newton's mayor, David Cohen, backed Ms. Glick-Weil up."
11:45:24 AM 
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Reuters: "The U.S. military in Baghdad fired shots at the Canadian ambassador's car on Tuesday but there were no injuries, a U.S. State Department official said."
The US way to treat their friends.
11:37:43 AM
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Guardian: "Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change.
Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet. And yet this ideological model remains the central organising principle of our lives, and as long as it continues to be so it will automatically undo (with its invisible hand) every single green initiative anybody cares to come up with."
It's high time we started looking for alternatives, like sky windpower.
BBC: "The Anglo-Dutch energy giant generated profits of $22.94bn (£13.12bn) - up nearly a third on last year when it set a UK record with profits of $17.59bn."
All big oil companies have made huge profits. But as governments only consider the wealth of corporations to gauge the wealth of their nation, the welfare of the people is going down rapidly. It's not people that matter, but money.
Guardian: "A couple yesterday told of their heartbreak at being separated for the first time in 65 years because social services refuse to put them in the same care home."
11:31:28 AM
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I have counted 36 instances of the words 'terror' or 'terrorists' in the State of the Union. The speech is full of negative, belligerent words. Bring in the body bags. AlterNet commented it as 'Dead Man Talking'. Politics in the Zeros talks about 'comatose attendees'.
AlterNet has made a guide to the truth behind the lies and fabrications in George Bush's State of the Union speech to Congress.
The arrest of Cindy Sheehan is symptomatic of a regime in its death throes. What keeps it going is threats, intimidation, illegality and brutal force, in short: the mob rules.
And forget about the environmental stuff, it is just the necessary stuffing of a gloomy speech. Here's Flamey McGassy, your guide to global warming.
Update: "T-shirts, it turns out, aren't the only things that get you in trouble with the Capitol Police at the State of the Union address."
11:15:13 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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