Insider says Gonzales tried to
take advantage of critically ill
Ashcroft to OK spying on Americans| |
Excerpt: James Comey, the former deputy attorney general, told a riveting story at today's Senate Judiciary hearing of a March 2004 hospital-room encounter at which, in Comey's words, then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales tried to "take advantage" of a critically ill John Ashcroft to get him to certify a national security program about whose legality the Justice Department had profound doubts.
Comment: This is really a remarkable story. What Comey did could well be remembered as this administration's "John Dean" moment -- when someone suddenly had to choose between right and wrong under tremendous pressure -- and chose 'right'. Thank you, Mr Comey.
Testimony: White House called
to arrange hospital visit
Excerpt: During his testimony yesterday, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey noted that John Ashcroft's wife "had banned all visitors and all phone calls" to the hospital due to Ashcroft's poor condition. So how were Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card able to make it into Ashcroft's room to pressure him to overrule Comey and reauthorize the warrantless spying program?
Bush won't answer questions about
his role in Ashcroft hospital visit
Reporter's question: "Sir, did you send your then chief of staff and White House counsel to the bedside of John Ashcroft while he was ill to get him to approve that program, and do you believe that kind of conduct from White House officials is appropriate?"
Bush's answer: "Kelly, there's a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn't happen. I'm not going to talk about it. It's a very sensitive program." |
Republicans play politics
with American justice
DOJ considered purging over one-fourth of all U.S. attorneys; Gonzales lied to Congress| |
Excerpt: The Justice Department considered dismissing many more U.S. attorneys than officials have previously acknowledged, with at least 26 prosecutors suggested for termination between February 2005 and December 2006, according to sources familiar with documents withheld from the public. [Note: This number was up to 30 by the end of the week.]
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales testified last week that the effort was limited to eight U.S. attorneys fired since last June, and other administration officials have said that only a few others were suggested for removal. |
Democrats push for
no-confidence vote on Gonzales| |
Excerpt: Hoping to pounce on Gonzales' sagging support among Senate Republicans, Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said they would offer the no-confidence resolution on the Senate floor as early as next week.
The resolution would have no force of law, but Democrats hope it would raise the political stakes for Gonzales and Republicans who vote to support him. |
Gonzales' deputy McNulty resigns ...
but not because he lied to Congress| |
Excerpt: U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, second-in-command to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and caught in the firestorm over the firing of federal prosecutors, resigned on Monday citing family financial reasons.
McNulty told The Washington Post that the political tumult over the prosecutor dismissals, including his role in giving inaccurate information to Congress, did not play a part in his decision to resign after 18 months on the job. |
Gov't worker railroaded in Wisconsin
was offered leniency if she would
finger Democratic Governor| |
Excerpt: According to [Georgia Thompson's attorney] Stephen Hurley and co-counsel Marcus Berghahn, U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic and others in his office made offers of leniency prior to filing charges against Thompson and again before the start of her trial.
"I began to get the impression that the indictment was being used to squeeze her," says Hurley, noting that these overtures continued even after Thompson's sentencing.
"It was the only time in my career that, after the person was sentenced, the prosecutor has called to renew the discussion," says Hurley, who's been a criminal defense attorney for more than three decades. "I've never had that happen before." |
Activists publish White House emails| |
Excerpt: GeorgeWBush.org initially posted a select few highlights of the e-mails from its catch-all mailbox. But in response to overwhelming interest in this material, we have since dug back into the pile. You'll find today's newly posted e-mails in the YELLOW shaded boxes below. |
An illegal White House-coordinated effort
to swing elections to Republicans| |
Excerpt: It is time to stop referring to the "fired U.S. attorneys scandal" by that misnomer, and call it what it is: a White House-coordinated effort to use the vast powers of the Justice Department to swing elections to Republicans.
This is no botched personnel switch. It is not even a political spat between the fired U.S. attorneys and Bush administration officials who deemed some of them insufficiently zealous in promoting the department's law enforcement priorities. Connect the dots and you see an insidious effort to corrupt the American electoral system. It's Watergate without the break-in or the bagmen. |
Gonzales' Harvard classmates blast him
in "open letter" to New York Times | |
Excerpt: "Now more than ever, our country needs a President, and an Attorney General, who remember the apt observation attributed to Benjamin Franklin: 'Those who give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.'" |
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Iraq police enforce new ban on
journalism at the point of a gun| |
Excerpt: Iraqi police removed photographers from the site of bomb blasts that killed at least seven people in central Baghdad yesterday in the first use of a controversial new policy restricting media access.
Police in Tayaran Square fired shots into the air to force a group of Iraqi journalists to leave the grimly familiar scene.
Brigadier General Abdel-Karim Khalaf insisted that the new regulation was not aimed at curtailing press freedoms and that other countries around the world operated similar restrictions. But Reporters Without Borders, the media watchdog, warned of a total news blackout. |
U.S. soldiers lose access to MySpace,
YouTube as part of information blackout| |
Excerpt: The Defense Department began blocking access on its computers to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other Web sites yesterday, severing some of the most popular ties linking U.S. troops in combat areas to their far-flung relatives and friends, and depriving soldiers of a favorite diversion from the boredom of overseas duty.
Comment: The military's claim that soldiers are being kept off these websites merely because of bandwidth concerns would be a lot more believable if they hadn't recently banned rank-and-file soldiers from testifying before Congress, and forced all blog posts from Iraq to be cleared by soldiers' superior officers. In addition, the military is refusing to report on the progress of the "surge" until September. And this week, Iraqi police started enforcing their ban on journalism by firing over the heads of reporters trying to cover bombing casualties. Obviously, this ban on websites that troops use to inform Americans about what's really going on in Iraq is just one part of a larger information blackout.
YouTube execs question military ban
Excerpt: Company officials said they were especially puzzled by the block because it came just days after the military launched its own channel on YouTube offering what it calls a "boots-on-the-ground" perspective of scenes of combat.
A new Iraqi government policy implemented this month bans news photographers and camera operators from filming bombing scenes, meaning video taken by citizens and uploaded to YouTube could become the only imagery the public sees of such devastation. |
Army threatens critic over blog policy| |
Excerpt: When Wired News published the unclassified policy document on its Web site, [open government activist Steven] Aftergood downloaded it and posted it on his own [excellent] site [Secrecy News], along with dozens of other reports, studies and statements from Pentagon offices and other government agencies.
Two days later, Aftergood received an e-mail that appears to be from the U.S. Army. "You have Army Publications hosted on your website illegally," stated the e-mail ... "Please remove this publication immediately or further action will be taken," the e-mail concluded.
Comment: Note that the blogger, not Wired, gets threatened by the US. |
White House opposes 3.5 percent pay raise for troops| |
Excerpt: Troops don't need bigger pay raises, White House budget officials said Wednesday in a statement of administration policy laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill.
Comment: We're talking about a piddly amount here, a few extra bucks for soldiers, and for their widows and children. But any increase, no matter how tiny, is too much for the war profiteers in the White House. If they could get away with it (and they've tried) they'd frickin' cut military pay, and still brag about "supporting the troops"... |
White House whitewashed
'Privacy Board' recommendations| |
Excerpt: The Bush administration made more than 200 revisions to the first report of a civilian board that oversees government protection of personal privacy, including the deletion of a passage on anti-terrorism programs that intelligence officials deemed "potentially problematic" intrusions on civil liberties, according to a draft of the report obtained by The Washington Post.
One of the panel's five members, Democrat Lanny J. Davis, resigned in protest Monday over deletions ordered by White House lawyers and aides. The changes came after the congressionally created Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board had unanimously approved the final draft of its first report to lawmakers, renewing an internal debate over the board's independence and investigative power.
Comment: This White House-appointed 'Privacy Board' was a sham from the start -- staffed mostly with White House aides, chosen by the White House -- so it's odd (but still good) that someone once willing to go along with what's always been an obvious candy-coating came to eventually object. Davis presumably got the appointment because he was a buddy of Bush's from college days, but still -- half a tip of the hat to Lanny Davis. |
Contaminated pet & people food
Another chemical emerges in pet food case| |
Excerpt: Chemical producers said that it was common knowledge that for years cyanuric acid was used in animal and fish feed in China. In the United States, cyanuric acid is often used as a disinfectant in swimming pools. |
Pork held in melamine scare will go to market| |
Excerpt: The human health risk assessment found that a person who ate a diet made up entirely of tainted food would be exposed to an amount of melamine 250-times lower than the amount that would cause harm, according to David Acheson, the Food and Drug Administration's assistant commissioner for food protection. |
Hamstrung FDA may be unable
to prevent a contamination crisis| |
Excerpt: These known cases make up a tiny fraction of the overall problem--an estimated 76 million illnesses and 5,000 deaths in the U.S. from food poisoning each year. Meanwhile, imports of food, some from countries without strict controls, soared to more than 9 million shipments last year, doubling since 2002. The cash-strapped FDA is able to inspect less than 1% of imports. It's a recipe for disaster. "Our food-safety system in this country is broken," warned former FDA Commissioner Dr. David A. Kessler at a recent congressional hearing.
Tainted food from China utterly common
Excerpt: For years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught -- many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry.
Comment: Ah, but not to worry -- read the next article for "good news" from the completely corporate-controlled Food & Drug Administration. Believe it at your own peril ...
Bon appétit, America: FDA says melamine-
tainted poultry, fish safe for humans
Excerpt: Approximately 80,000 chickens exposed to feed tainted with the industrial chemical melamine have been declared safe for human consumption, federal health officials said Friday. ...
And on Thursday, Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's assistant commissioner for food protection, told reporters that fish at two U.S. commercial hatcheries were also safe for consumption after testing negative for melamine, despite exposure to melamine-tainted feed imported from Canada. ...
Acheson also said fish from 196 non-commercial fish farms at undisclosed locations were of "no risk to humans."
On Tuesday, the FDA announced that 56,000 swine fed pet-food scraps containing melamine had been released for slaughter and eventual human consumption. ... |
Menu Foods drops Chinese ingredients| |
Excerpt: Menu Foods, North America's biggest maker of wet pet foods and the company that launched the pet food recall, is phasing out ingredients from China.
It won't resume using them until Menu and the "world community" are assured that they are safe, says Menu's outside counsel, David Lillehaug of Fredrikson & Byron.
Comment: It only took the soul-less monsters at Menu Foods two months to reach this decision, with the aid of outside legal counsel. And of course, that doesn't count the time -- weeks? months? -- they knew about the contamination before finally going public with the information. And of course, Menu Foods will reverse this decision as soon as the hubbub is over.
'Cuz that's just how much Menu Foods cares. Zip. Zilch. Nada. |
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Labor Dept tells whistleblowers to shut up| |
Excerpt: The sentence was buried deep within a recent Labor Department ruling, but the message was clear: Whistleblowers, beware. More specifically: Whistleblowers relying on the protections against official retaliation contained in several major environmental laws, proceed with caution.
The sentence was in a footnote at the end of a ruling against a federal whistleblower. It said the Labor Department recognized only the protections written into the clean air and solid waste-disposal acts, not laws governing clean water, drinking water, toxic substances and hazardous waste.
"This is the latest attack in a systematic war to gut the environmental whistleblowers' statutes," charged Tom Devine, the legal director of the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit watchdog group. "They are a lifeline so government workers can challenge illegality without engaging in professional suicide." |
Visit lovely Guantanamo,
land where no law applies
Guantanamo lawyer gets six months
in prison for revealing prisoners' names| |
Excerpt: A US Navy lawyer faces six months in prison and dismissal from service for sending a human rights lawyer the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Lt Cdr Matthew Diaz, 41, posted a list of the names in an unmarked Valentine's Day card during the final days of his service at Guantanamo Bay in 2005.
He apologized during his sentencing for having acted "irrationally". |
House votes to close Guantanamo| |
Excerpt: Shrugging off a possible veto from President George W. Bush, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday demanded the administration develop a plan to transfer detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The proposal by Rep. James Moran that cleared the House requires the administration to report on plans to place captives on trial, transfer them to other facilities, or release them.
Pentagon officials say they plan to try about 80 of the 385 Guantanamo detainees under a military commissions structure set up by Congress last year. Those trials are scheduled to begin this summer. The Pentagon also has about 80 detainees it wants to transfer to other countries. The rest are in legal limbo. |
Romney wants to "double" Guantanamo| |
Excerpt: I am glad [detainees] are at Guantanamo. I don't want them on our soil. I want them on Guantanamo, where they don't get the access to lawyers they get when they're on our soil. I don't want them in our prisons, I want them there. Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo. |
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Iraq's hidden casualties:
13,000 U.S. contractors| |
Excerpt: The Labor Department records show that in addition to the 146 dead in the first three months this year, another 3,430 contractors filed claims for wounds or injuries suffered in Iraq, also a quarterly record. The number of casualties, though, may be much higher because the government's statistical database is not complete.
Comment: Don't ask. Don't tell? |
Ex-EPA Chief agrees to testify
about Ground Zero safety lies| |
Excerpt: Christie Whitman, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, agreed to testify before Congress about the government's handling of air quality and health issues following the Sept. 11 attacks.
Whitman's attorney told Rep. Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday that she could not testify [because she is being sued by Ground Zero rescue workers]. But ''if you insist that I appear before the subcommittee while that litigation is still pending, I am prepared to honor your request,'' Whitman told Nadler in a letter dated Thursday.
A federal lawsuit by lower Manhattan residents accuses Whitman of jeopardizing their health by declaring that ''the air is safe to breathe'' at a time when, according to the EPA inspector general, a quarter of dust samples were recording unhealthy asbestos levels. |
Senate defeats bill to end war; 19 Dems vote
to continue pointless bloodbath forever| |
Excerpt: The Senate handily defeated a measure to effectively end most U.S. combat operations in Iraq by April, but the 29 senators who voted for the amendment Wednesday represented the highest number yet who have united behind a proposal to force President Bush to bring home U.S. troops. Among the measure's supporters were all four Democratic leaders in the Senate, as well as the four Democratic senators running for president: Delaware's Joseph Biden, New York's Hillary Rodham Clinton, Connecticut's Christopher Dodd and Illinois' Barack Obama. Sixty-seven senators -- 47 Republicans, 19 Democrats and one independent -- opposed it. |
Reid plans to block Bush's
habitual recess appointments| |
Excerpt: Over the long August vacation, when those types of summer hires are made, Reid will call the Senate into session just long enough to force the prez to send his nominees who need confirmation to the chamber. The talk is he will hold a quickie "pro forma" session every 10 days, tapping a local senator to run the hall. Senate workers and Republicans are miffed, but Reid is proving that he's the new sheriff in town. |
U.N. official barred from
visiting immigration prisons| |
Excerpt: A United Nations human rights expert who is touring the U.S. to prepare a report on the treatment of immigrants has filed a complaint with U.N. and U.S. government officials claiming he was denied access to the Monmouth County jail [and a detention center in Texas].
Jorge Bustamante, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, has been gathering testimony from immigrant workers, legal experts, advocacy groups and former immigrant detainees to be included in the first-ever U.N. report on the subject.
In a letter to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Zalmay Khalilzad, Bustamante complained that planned visits to the T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center in Texas, and the Monmouth County Correctional Institution had been canceled without explanation and in violation of U.N. protocol. |
Iraq and Afghanistan prepare flowers and chocolates for new U.S. War Czar Douglas Lute| |
Excerpt: President Bush has chosen Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the Pentagon's director of operations, to oversee the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a "war czar" after a long search for new leadership, administration officials said Tuesday.
Comment: General Lute takes over, presumably after General Pillage and General Mayhem declined the job... |
Republicans close phony group
dedicated to phony "vote fraud" problem| |
Excerpt: ... the group was founded just days before its representatives testified before a congressional committee hearing on election-administration issues chaired by then-Rep. (and now federal inmate) Bob Ney. The group was headed by Hearne, national election counsel to Bush-Cheney '04, and staffed with other Republican operatives, including Jim Dyke, a former RNC communications director. |
Somalia refugee situation
worse than Darfur, says U.N.| |
Excerpt: As a result of the U.S.-backed invasion of Somalia by Ethiopian forces, which has escalated in recent weeks, the United Nations has declared Somalia the country with the worst refugee crisis in the world.
"The international community is paying very little attention to the Somali invasion," said Omar Yassin Omar, a spokesperson for the [Somali Canadian Diaspora Alliance].
"The U.S. is involved because they believe Somalia is housing terrorists and they are now fighting a proxy war through Somalia's old enemy, Ethiopia."
U.S. urges Ethiopian troops
to keep killing Somalis
Entire article: The Bush administration is urging Ethiopia not to withdraw its forces from Somalia, nearly six months after U.S.-backed troops invaded Somalia and toppled the Union of Islamic Court. Over 1,400 Somalis have died in the country's worst fighting since the early 1990s. The fighting has also displaced up to 400,000 Somalis. The UN estimates that more than 60 percent of the displaced peoples are not receiving any help. Meanwhile, the United Nations has announced it will investigate human rights violations during the recent fighting in Mogadishu.
Comment: May I quietly ask, what the holy hell will it take to make Americans realize that things are not right with these despicable criminals in the White House? |
Tenet agrees to testify about Niger-
uranium lies; Rice still stonewalling| |
Excerpt: Former CIA Director George Tenet has agreed to cooperate with a House investigation into the White House's fraudulent pre-war claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapon. That assertion -- the infamous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address -- was a critical part of administration's case for war. In a new statement, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced that Tenet will provide a deposition on the issue and testify before the committee on June 19:
Tenet has been far more willing to discuss the Niger claims than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Waxman has been forced to subpoena Rice to appear at the hearing along with Tenet, and thus far Rice maintains she will not comply, claiming she has already answered Waxman's questions "in full." Also, last month, the State Department refused to allow intelligence analyst Simon Dodge to be interviewed by House investigators; weeks before the '03 State of the Union, Simon examined the documents supposedly from Niger and determined they were "probably a hoax" and "clearly a forgery." |
Confessions of a whistleblower| |
Excerpt: Five years ago Dr. Peter Rost was at the top of his game. As a vice-president of marketing at the world's largest drug company, the fast-rising executive was pulling a six-figure salary. He and his family had a comfortable life. Unfortunately for him, Dr. Rost also had a conscience.
While an executive at Pharmacia -- which would soon be taken over by pharma giant Pfizer -- Dr. Rost filed a false claims suit, alleging that the company was defrauding Medicare by illegally marketing its profitable growth hormone as an anti-aging drug. Rost asserted that employees who didn't play along were terminated and that distributors and doctors had received tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks.
When the case was unsealed in 2005, Rost was fired. |
New search engine is cookie-free| |
Excerpt: "Our technology doesn't require user tracking at all," he said. "We don't need to know who you are in any way or any capacity, compared to some other search engines."
Hakia has won at least one important fan. He's Peter Eckersley, staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a consumer watchdog group.
"(Hakia's) system is really much better than the major search engines," Eckersley said.
Comment: I've been 'test-driving' Hakia for several days, and found it better than Google for general searches. It doesn't seem to be capable of site-specific searches yet, but beyond that quibble it's as effective as the competition, and better for the conscience. |
Conservatives block cancer vaccine for young girls| |
Excerpt: Plans to vaccinate young girls against the sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer have been blocked in several US states by conservative groups, who say that doing so would encourage promiscuity. |
Iran -- Run-up to the next war:
IAEA: Iran far from weapons grade uranium| |
Excerpt: Iran is making ''slow but steady'' progress in its efforts to enrich uranium, but probably still wouldn't have enough fuel for a single nuclear warhead until 2009 at the earliest, a former U.N. inspector said Tuesday. David Albright, who now heads the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, said Iran still must overcome some tricky obstacles if it intends to enrich uranium to weapons grade.
Comment: The big headline in the mainstream American press is that Iran is getting better at enriching uranium. No one is pointing out that they are still completely incapable of producing weapons-grade anything.
I would also point out -- again -- that no one who is serious about finding a diplomatic solution would say that they won't come to the bargaining table unless the other side has capitulated completely ahead of time. This is exactly what we're demanding from Iran, yet we act as if THEY are acting irrationally for refusing to go along. |
Former ambassador famed for screaming
calls for international war on Iran| |
Excerpt: Iran has "clearly mastered the enrichment technology now ... they're not stopping, they're making progress and our time is limited", [John Bolton]] said. Economic sanctions "with pain" had to be the next step, followed by attempting to overthrow the theocratic regime and, ultimately, military action to destroy nuclear sites. |
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U.S. pays Pakistan to fight terror, but patrols are slashed| |
Excerpt: The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country's military for conducting counterterrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan's president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are most active. |
Padilla trial begins in Miami| |
Entire article: Five years after his high-profile arrest, Jose Padilla appeared in court Monday for the start of his criminal trial. Padilla was initially accused of plotting a dirty bomb attack and labeled an enemy combatant. He was later indicted on lesser offenses and now stands accused of aiding al-Qaeda. The presiding judge has called the case "light on facts." Padilla was held in extreme isolation without almost any human contact for thirteen-hundred days and denied an attorney for nearly two years. His attorneys say he was tortured to the point where is now incapable of assisting in his own defense. |
Iraq is on the verge of
collapse, says British think tank| |
Excerpt: Iraq's government has lost control of vast areas to powerful local factions and the country is on the verge of collapse and fragmentation, a leading British think-tank said on Thursday.
Chatham House also said there was not one civil war in Iraq, but "several civil wars" between rival communities, and accused Iraq's main neighbors -- Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- of having reasons "for seeing the instability there continue."
"It can be argued that Iraq is on the verge of being a failed state which faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation," it said in a report.
Comment: Note that it's possible Bush/Cheney might decide to throw everything at Iran (including ground troops) all of a sudden, if it appears they must retreat in haste from Iraq anyway, like we had to in Vietnam. If the troops must move out, just have them make a detour through Tehran along the way, before bugging out of there too days or weeks later.
Iran might inadvertently encourage this plan by helping Iraqis make a preferred retreat through Saudi Arabia or Kuwait difficult for American troops.
Bush/Cheney might even consider this option "brilliant" on their own part. The Saudis might like it too. And Israel would love it.
Bush/Cheney could also tell Americans 'yes, we're pulling the troops out of Iraq, with a brief pass through Iran to remove their weapons of mass destruction, thereby completing a primary objective of our original invasion of Iraq' (or something to that effect). |
MoveOn.org runs ads
targeting pro-war Democrats| |
Excerpt: A liberal grassroots group, MoveOn.org, is running advertisements that target House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), citing the lawmakers' votes against measures to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq as evidence of a "failure in leadership." |
Trashing (or saving?) the planet
ExxonMobil lied, continues to lavishly fund prominent global warming deniers| |
Excerpt: In January, oil giant ExxonMobil tried to "soften" its stance on climate change, asserting that it was "misunderstood" and now acknowledges the contribution of humans to global warming. Subsequently, the company promised that it would "not be providing any further funding" to groups that distort global warming science, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute. |
Conservation underwriter assassinated| |
Excerpt: A Toronto man who donated millions of dollars to wildlife conservation and environmental causes was likely targeted by the assailant who shot him to death, police said Sunday.
Glen Davis, 66, was shot in the torso on Friday afternoon. He was found near his car in the underground garage of a building housing World Wildlife Fund Canada offices in Toronto's north end. |
White House wants to weaken
G8 declaration on global warming| |
Excerpt: The United States is trying to dilute a declaration on global warming to be made at next month's G8 summit, sources close to the talks said on Friday, putting it on a collision course with hosts Germany.
The Kyoto Protocol is the only global agreement on curbing carbon emissions, but it was rejected by the United States in 2001, is not binding on China and India and effectively expires in 2012. Negotiations to expand and extend Kyoto beyond 2012 are barely moving, and diplomats are hoping that the G8 summit will agree a declaration strong enough to revitalize the talks. Failure in Germany could delay the process even further and risk leaving a post-2012 vacuum. |
In snub to Bush, US mayors
sign environment accord| |
Excerpt: Some 500 US mayors pledged on Tuesday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol, signaling their objections to the environmental policies of President George W. Bush.
Mayors took action because we have to, because the federal government was silent," said Douglas Palmer, head of the United States conference of Mayors. |
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US government trying to seize new
Michael Moore film, says producer| |
Excerpt: The film, Sicko, has already caused Moore -- who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2004 with Fahrenheit 911 -- to clash with the American authorities. Now, according to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Company is behind the film, the US government is attempting to impound the negative. |
Iraq a "big moneymaker"
for al-Qaida, says CIA| |
Excerpt: This war is helping Al Qaeda. George Bush is helping Al Qaeda. And every member of Congress, Republican and Democrat, who continues to support this war is helping Al Qaeda. We already knew this -- the CIA determined a long time ago that Iraq had become the newest and best training ground for Al Qaeda in the world, but now we discover that the Iraq war has also replenished Al Qaeda's faltering finances. |
Mexican trucks and truckers to be
allowed into all areas of the U.S.| |
"The United States supports the implementation of the NAFTA trucking provisions and is working to address recent congressional concerns," [Franklin] Lavin [undersecretary of commerce for international trade] told business leaders...
Comment: Notice how the United States and Congress are referred to as two separate entities! |
Department Of Defense promotes
"Christian" propaganda in public schools| |
Excerpt: A passage paraphrased from the writing of David Barton, the leading historical revisionist claiming that the United States was founded as a "Christian Nation", has been embedded within a national educational curriculum produced by the Department of Defense and taught, across the nation, to American public high schools students enrolled in Junior ROTC. |
News from America's
very bestest ally, Israel:
Israeli Defense Force subjected troops
to anthrax experiments; many seriously ill| |
Excerpt: The experiment, sponsored since 1999 by the Defense Ministry, included 800 test subjects, the report said. Soldiers participating in the experiment were prohibited from disclosing information about it, even to their families and even after some began developing illnesses. |
Israeli planes pound Hamas, killing 11| |
Excerpt: Israeli planes pounded Hamas targets early Friday, bringing the toll to 11 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours of raids, as Israel stepped deeper into fighting between the Islamic militants and rival Fatah fighters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. |
West's actions punish only the occupied| |
Excerpt: Dozens of international researchers and economic attaches are busy researching the Palestinians' economic deterioration, and many more similar reports will yet be written, as long as the countries that finance them settle for words and do not take steps to halt the policy of social and economic destruction that Israel is imposing on the Palestinians. |
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From the 'duh' department
Depleted uranium weapons linked to lung cancer| |
Excerpt: Governments deny it, but many people have long suspected that depleted uranium weapons may cause cancer. It looks as if the suspicions were right. ...
Toxicologist John Wise and colleagues at the University of Southern Maine in Portland exposed cultures of human bronchial fibroblasts to particles of uranium oxide typically found in DU dust. Chromosomes in the cells mutated and the cells died, genotoxic effects that increased with the particle concentration. This may increase a person's risk of lung cancer, the team conclude. |
400 million people live in minefields| |
Excerpt: The report, from the campaign group Handicap International, said over 13,000 civilians are known to have been killed or injured in recent years by the bombs, but that the real figure was probably many times higher.
In the wake of armed conflicts "unexploded cluster submunitions turn homes, livelihoods and social areas of 400 million people living in affected countries into de facto minefields," the report said.
Comment: And Hillary Clinton voted for their continued sale and use! |
GAO says Homeland Security
is breaking privacy laws| |
Excerpt: The Homeland Security Department is breaking the law by not telling the public exactly how personal information is used to screen international travelers, including Americans, congressional investigators said Wednesday. |
Peruvians sue Occidental Petroleum| |
Excerpt: The complaint, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, was brought by 25 Achuar Indians who claim they suffered health problems from cancer to lead poisoning due to exposure to contaminants from Occidental's oil production operation. The group also blames the death of one of the plaintiffs' children on the company's actions. |
Bloomberg is ready to spend a billion bucks
on independent run for Presidency| |
Excerpt: The mayor has told close associates he will make a third-party run if he thinks he can influence the national debate and has said he will spend up to $1 billion. Earlier, he told friends he would make a run only if he thought he could win a plurality in a three-way race and would spend $500 million -- or less than 10 percent of his personal fortune. |
War on terror superseded by
Bush-Cheney "war on embarrassment"| |
Excerpt: A man accused of blowing up an airliner and killing 73 people, who has already admitted to bombing hotels with fatal consequences and who has a conviction for a failed assassination attempt on a head of state, was freed on a technicality in a Texas court this week, and can look forward to a quiet retirement in Florida.
In London a man accused of hacking into the computer system of the Pentagon and NASA is waiting to see if the House of Lords will hear his appeal against extradition to the US to face a trial in which one prosecutor has already indicated he should "fry". Blowing up an airliner is clearly regarded as less serious than causing major embarrassment to the defense establishment. |
Teacher fired for answering student's question| |
Excerpt: When one of Deborah Mayer's elementary school students asked her on the eve of the Iraq war whether she would ever take part in a peace march, the veteran teacher recalls answering, "I honk for peace."
Soon afterward, Mayer lost her job and her home in Indiana. She was out of work for nearly three years. And when she complained to federal courts that her free-speech rights had been violated, the courts replied, essentially, that as a public school teacher she didn't have any. |
Former South Dakota legislator
arrested on sex charges| |
A former South Dakota lawmaker is accused of molesting his own foster children and legislative pages.
Ted Klaudt, 49, a Republican rancher from Walker, faces a long list of charges: eight counts of rape, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of witness tampering, sexual contact with a person under 16, and stalking. ... |
Military spokesman says website credited to
"Dr Laura"'s soldier son may be al Qaeda fake| |
Excerpt: The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned "My Sweet Little Habib"; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets.
The site is credited to and includes many photographs of Deryk Schlessinger, the 21-year-old son of the talk radio personality known simply as "Dr. Laura". ... The former family counselor spends three hours daily taking calls and offering advice on morals, ethics and values. ...
[Laura Schlessinger's spokesman] suggested that the page could be a fake. That was a contention echoed by Army spokesman Robert Tallman, who said "it may be possible that our enemies are actually behind this.
"Our enemies are adaptive, technologically sophisticated, and truly understand the importance of the information battlespace," Tallman continued. "Sadly, they will use that space to promulgate and disseminate untrue propaganda."
Comment: Is the American military being led by people who are out of their friggin' minds? The spokesman for the U.S. Army want you to believe that al Qaeda is impersonating an American soldier on-line to ... to accomplish what, exactly? |
American military promotes mediocrity| |
Excerpt: "America's generals," Lt. Col. Paul Yingling goes on, "have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq. First, throughout the 1990s, our generals failed to envision the conditions of future combat and prepare their forces accordingly. Second, America's generals failed to estimate correctly both the means and the ways necessary to achieve the aims of policy prior to beginning the war in Iraq." Finally, "the military never explained to the president the magnitude of the challenges inherent in stabilizing postwar Iraq."
He finds it "almost surreal" that "professional military men blame their recent lack of candor on the intimidating management style of their civilian masters." The real problem, he writes, is a shortfall of moral courage -- reinforced by institutional incentives. |
An amusing audio hour| |
Comment: Here's about thirty-three minutes of tedious blather as Newt Gingrich promotes his book and lies with a bland NPR host, followed by about twenty minutes of enjoyable listener call-in after Gingrich inexplicably walks out of the interview. |
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Lightning round news
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Clarence Thomas has literally nothing to say
Evolution opponent running unopposed
for national school board association
Global net censorship 'growing'
Venezuela's Chavez calls the Pope
on that whole genocide thing
"Web site" baffles Internet terrorism trial judge
Mars candies go vegetarian again
U.S. internet connections much slower,
more expensive than in other countries
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Why I cry
by Ann in the UK, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Our mothers are just as ignorant about the effects of formula on their children -- or the effects of not breastfeeding on their children and themselves -- as mothers in the Third World. I'm not joking. Ask them. Ask any mother you know, whether breastmilk and formula are virtually the same substance. Ask whether, thanks to modern technologies and advancements, formula is 'close' to breastmilk. Ask whether formula does the same job as breastmilk -- whether, for example, it protects mothers and their children against a variety of often life threatening and/or debilitating conditions. I'll bet you a fortune neither of us have, the majority of mothers even in Western nations say 'yes' to each question when the answer, of course, is no. |
Charmed, I am sure, by the Charm City totalitarian
by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: They harass ANYONE who doesn't look white, "normal," straight enough, businesslike, or yuppie enough on the street as soon as the sun begins going down. They hurry you up if you look different or your skin is a bit darker than condensed milk and you aren't walking fast enough or you look like you might be thinking of socializing. |
It's just you -- the economy is doing great!
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It's just you experiencing inflation. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Indexes, using "Old Series" pre-1998 weight and item structure excluding food, clothing, shelter and energy, announced inflation is at all time record lows. |
Hakia: A search engine that's not searching you
by Zebra, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Personally speaking, Google is "OK" but I don't advise joining their cult. One reason is that they accumulate information about their users and "all your Gmail are belong to us!" ...
I just spent an hour test-driving Hakia, and I'm impressed. It includes breaking news headlines in normal search results, in a way that makes sense and will make my work more efficient. ... |
Is Wayne Madsen a reliable source? No.
by CatAngelo and Helen & Harry, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The only evidence that Cheney was a hooker's customer is Wayne Madsen's say-so. But based on Madsen's track record, we don't believe he's a credible source.
It's just a rumor -- and our website rarely traffic in rumors. |
The end of the American Empire
by Zebra, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The end game for America/China will be delayed as long as possible by China, and by the feeble minds in the US Congress. But at the rate of $200 billion more a year in trade deficits with China, it won't take too many years for America to be literally owned, lock, stock and barrel by Communist China! That's right. And guess who calls the shots, the owner or the renters? |
Shake and rule:
President Sarkozy is on a roll
by Nadine Sellers, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Promises, the tools of illusion. Sarko seems certain he single-handedly (with the help of ambitious reformers) will turn the double digit unemployment numbers down to full employ, within five years. The din of doubt grows by the hour, despite much to rejoice. |
The American Empire is failing
-- a good thing for America and the world
Kevin Zeese interviews Terry Paupp, The People's Voice
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Question: You also claim that the American empire is falling. What evidence do you have of that?
Answer: I do claim that the American Empire is falling. To begin with, the U.S. Governments borrows $2-billion dollars a day from China just to keep the American economy going. China is basically borrowing worthless U.S. Treasury Bonds that are backed up by nothing more than the promise of the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. Government. Ever since the U.S. went off the gold standard during the Nixon presidency, the dollar is not backed by anything---except the military strength of the nation and its worldwide domination over most foreign currencies. However, those days might well be ending as the Euro takes its place as the dominant currency of the European Union and Europe begins to follow different policy choices and paths from the architects of the American Empire. |
Two-step arguments
by Ish, The Seminal
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Excerpt: ...until we can find a way to restore complexity of thought to American politics -- which will mean celebrating dissent instead of vilifying it -- we will be stuck in the cage of simplified arguments where not trusting your government is equivalent to being a fringe loonie, and where supporting the troops means using your freedom to shut up. |
Let's not blame President Bush
by Paul Krugman, New York Times
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Excerpt: What we need to realize is that the infamous "Bush bubble," the administration's no-reality zone, extends a long way beyond the White House. Millions of Americans believe that patriotic torturers are keeping us safe, that there's a vast Islamic axis of evil, that victory in Iraq is just around the corner, that Bush appointees are doing a heckuva job -- and that news reports contradicting these beliefs reflect liberal media bias.
The GOP nomination will go either to someone who shares these beliefs, and would therefore run the country the same way Bush has, or to a very, very good liar.
... rank-and-file Republicans continue to approve strongly of Bush's
policies -- and the more un-American the policy, the more they support it. |
Tension mounts as antiwar movement challenges Dems' commitment to stop the war
by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
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Excerpt: There is a growing number of people out there who believe the Reid-Pelosi Iraq war supplemental is a gigantic crock of shit, and who think the Democratic Party leadership should now officially be labeled conspirators in the war effort. I've even seen it suggested that Reid and Pelosi should now be sent official "certificates of war ownership," to formally put them in a club with Bush, Cheney, Richard Perle and the rest of the actual war authors. |
Out of the crisis come new leaders
by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar
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Excerpt: The U.S. Senate just voted against withdrawing the troops from Iraq, in defiance of the overwhelming majority of Americans at this point, and the strain on our increasingly brittle political system is such that something's got to snap, and soon. My guess is that the first casualty of the oncoming turmoil will be the two-party system. ...
These interests have naturally gravitated to the two major parties, ensconced themselves in the leadership, and established networks of influence in state and local organizations, carefully and craftily leveraging their power to keep the antiwar faction down and satisfied with purely symbolic gestures. The Democratic leadership has been performing a delicate balancing act, paying lip service to the demands of their antiwar constituency while fighting to maintain funding, albeit attached to mostly imaginary (i.e. non-binding) benchmarks. As far as doing anything concrete to bring the war to an end -- forget it.
Although the invasion was launched by a Republican president, the Democrats bought into it from the beginning -- and, in spite of their ostensible position in favor of ending the war as soon as possible, they are increasingly playing a key role in waging it. In any case, the recent Senate vote speaks volumes about the sincerity of their "antiwar" rhetoric.
When it comes to foreign policy, the differences between the two parties have rarely given the voters much of a choice. In the "debate" over this vital issue, our options are limited to the varieties of interventionism -- the unilateralist, macho-style preemptive imperialism of the Republicans, or the touchy-feely "humanitarian"-yet-just-as-deadly interventionism of the Democrats, with Iraq and Kosovo being the operative examples, respectively. |
Wolfowitz: A view from
the other side of the Atlantic
by Michael Goldfarb, The Huffington Post| |
Excerpt: You can't preach anti-corruption and be seen not to practice what you preach. You can't look at African leaders with wives, children, cousins and their children, and families of key cronies all on the payroll and be making special arrangements for your domestic partner and hiring political hacks whose sole qualification for the work seems to be loyalty to President Bush. It's called hypocrisy, and while "hypocrisy" isn't an indictable crime, it makes reforming an institution like the World Bank and insisting on better governance to the recipients of its loans virtually impossible. |
Words are necessary, but actions even more so
by Sherri B., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Yes, the drama is here. But you know what? Your ancestors survived (by fair means or foul) and you will too. Get ready... the madness is here. |
I have nothing to add
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: After faulting the Palestinians for using Mickey Mouse to recruit terrorists the Bush administration and FOX news announces the latest new action figure doll, Sgt. Tommy Rieman complete with his own G.I. Joe type action figure and video game in a field of
poppies. |
A case of Sarkosis:
How soon France forgot
by Nadine Sellers, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: With the election of Sarkozy, France will be sold out piecemeal to corporate Bush-buddies. 'Tis the end of France as you've loved it! (or not) |
BROADSPECTRUM MEDIA ANALYSIS --
!SYSTEM ALERT!
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: We're talking about a full blown military base vs. a few pizza-delivering immigrants who WANTED to get some guns and HOPED that if they managed to acquire them they would THEN be able to create a devastating effect on A MILITARY BASE. Not exactly a bomb in the center of a shopping mall. |
Rich beyond all limits
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is our birthright, all of us, to be rich beyond all limits. The pioneering adventure of making this a reality is the only thing that can fill the thirsting of our 21st Century souls. It is our destiny and it is being denied by the pettiness of tiny, evil minds. |
Sex in the Capital City
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Contrary to popular lore the oldest profession is not prostitution, it's government. |
Different kinds of American "citizens"
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The question of wealth is very interesting in the context of the
corruption in D.C. -- in both parties. There are many things happening, legally and economically, and illegally and uneconomically, including new classes of "citizens" ... |
The ethics of whistleblowing
by Coleen Rowley, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Hundreds, if not thousands of government and military whistleblowers have been fired, lost everything, including their families and even their mental balance. The gross politicization has resulted in larger numbers of whistleblowers than ever. You just aren't hearing about it because they're being mostly squashed. |
Who has gained from the failed US policy?
by The Canadian, Unknown News
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Excerpt: Eventually the US will experience more terror on its soil, but I think Al Qaeda's immediate goal is to remove US influence from the Middle East, thereby allowing Al Qaeda to focus its efforts on destabilizing moderate Arab States and attacking Israel via Palestine, Hez b'Allah and Hamas. Thereafter, assuming their efforts are successful, the US will become Target #1. |
Top 10 things you don't know
about the Iraq spending bill
by Madeline Zane, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The top 10 things you may not know about the Iraq spending bill, as reported through the haze of the mainstream media's insistence that the Democrats are stubborn idiots, who can't override a veto, and who are simultaneously hurting the troops and risking serious damage to their public image by trying to end a pointless unpopular war... |
Those who ignore history ...
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Bush's claim that any withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would bring terrorism to America is as absurd as the Vietnam-era 'Domino Theory', that if America allowed South Vietnam to fall to the communists, all of Southeast Asia would follow. |
Thinking inside the box
by Robert j., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I have recently converted a 48 foot insulated shipping container into a self-contained (just need water) dwelling. I am now looking for a suitable location to set it. I would prefer to put it on an existing, or being readied piece of private property. ... I am looking to lease, rent, buy or ________(?) from a sane, non-militant family, small group or individual living away from the things of man. I am more than willing to help out. |
What is, is (regardless of what we're told)
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: We've heard dozens of similar sorts of "myths" (lies) from the Bush Regime about the "War on Terror", the Iraq War, and virtually every other major policy initiative of the last six years. Not only do the Bushies attempt to distill every complex problem down to a simple-minded slogan ("We're fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here"), but whenever facts or the law get in the way, the Bush Regime redefines the meaning of the language or changes the symbols. |
Trading places
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It would be nice to have just a little equality -- nothing major, nothing way out and extreme -- if only for a short time! Maybe it would make us care a bit more. Might wake a few more people up. |
Can I take a Mulligan on the 21st Century?
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Democrats are a little slow when it comes to learning contemporary INFOBABBLE! The amendment to the bill should be called a 'Victory timetable'. How could Bush veto victory? |
Street gangs and governments
by Robert j., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The military and the police are morphing into one fun-loving organization, sporting the same kinds of uniforms, carrying themselves the same way, with the same tactical mindset, even the same equipment.
If the education system had actually taught history in school, we would notice the obvious signs that inevitably lead to you and I getting our asses kicked. |
A single act of violent crime
is not news. Ever. Period.
by Madeline Zane, Unknown News
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Excerpt: I can see giving the Virginia Tech story about 60 seconds, because it was the deadliest something-something in American history. And I'll give you another two minutes to mention that our nations' policies on gun control and mental health lead to a more dysfunctional and violent society. Anything more than that is exploitation, pure and simple. |
INFOBABBLE! works in mysterious ways
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The phrase in question was 16-words long: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." (and if anybody says they ain't I got friends who can wreck your career) |
Stocks show surprising strength -- but why?
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Stocks are climbing as the dollar is falling, partly because prices are relative to value, partly because people may be seeing stocks as having more long-term value than Ameribucks, and partly because foreign earnings of mega-cap corporados are increasingly valuable. |
How would it make you feel?
by JS Magruder, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is fascinating to read comments where the first cry is always "It's the law! They broke the law!" Then, almost invariably, the subsequent cry is for some sort of violent, vigilante justice such as castration, or some equally appalling reaction to the crime. Should anyone (and it happens) leave a comment that burying people up to their necks in excrement in the public common is perhaps not the best way to reform offenders, the comment will be met with a chorus of posts crying; "Think about how you would feel if it were your ___________ (fill in the blank)." |
Condolences and questions
by The Canadian, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: You know, part of me wishes that if the average American can feel so much empathy for the murdered students, why can't they feel the same thing for the countless murdered Iraqi civilians? Even if it is just for the 10s of 1000s of dead Iraqi children who are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I wonder what societal monsters this war is creating for their future today? Do you remember that young man who went on a shooting rampage in the US mall not too long ago? Did you know he was a child survivor of the massacre of Srebrenica?
... tick tick tick tick goes the clock in their brain, then... the alarm just goes off. |
These things do not happen without
complicity and within a vacuum
by Robert j., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: When my father was 15 years old he could walk into K-Mart and buy a shotgun and as much ammo as he could carry, walk right out of the door with it. The difference between then and now is not the quantity of guns available or the ease of purchasing them. It is the mentality of the humans in possession of the guns, knifes, bats, pipes, and whatever else you can kill with, that has changed.
We do not want to talk about that, though. If we opened up that can of worms we would all have to take a good long look at ourselves, and the choices we have made as a society. |
Why is it easier for many to find
things to die for than to live for?
by JR Mooneyham, Walk Like a Kryptonian
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Excerpt: Suicide, murder, terrorism, war, and violence of many other sorts, both physical and mental, done to oneself and/or to others. It's remarkably easy for the average human being today to find something they consider to be 'worth dying for'. Usually, perhaps normally, such justifications for death are related to one's family, and sometimes friends and lovers. But governments often ask (or demand) that we (or typically men, anyway) see more distant or abstract ideas as sufficient to die for, such as nationalism/patriotism, etc. The most extreme of cult or religious leaders sometimes desire something similar from both sexes.
If you look around, you find almost everyone is constantly trying to persuade you that their particular agenda or idol or idea is worth dying for -- even if it only means a drawn out death, reached via one pinprick at a time. For as your free time is the most valuable asset of anyone alive, and most of us must give up great gobs of that time to earn money, then every time we pay money for something we're trading a bit of our life for it -- and so dying a little. |
This is our future, like it or not
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Thanks to your silence, your willingness to sit back and do nothing, this is our future. Not even the slightest bit of dissent or public display of dissatisfaction, or any form of protest about anything will be tolerated. |
18 megabyte gap in e-mail tape backup
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: White House officials are scrambling to explain
the disappearance of email documents related to the controversy surrounding the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. An undeleted Justice Department e-mail message shows that the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales proposed replacement candidates for U.S. attorneys nearly a year before they were fired. You got alotta esplainen to do, Alberto. |
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