Rumsfeld and Cheney? Geniuses?Year of the COUP!

Staying the courseBy James Carroll December 26, 2005Where is the shame in Washington today? How does Donald Rumsfeld not blush in the presence of the soldiers he so routinely betrays? How does Dick Cheney maintain that straight face, treating core values as a joke? The recasting of the nation's moral meaning -- a blatant embrace of ends-justify-the-means -- is happening in plain daylight. No shadows here.Every time the Bush administration is caught in one of its repugnant purposes (Thank God, again this year, for Seymour Hersh), the White House declares its intention to stay the course. Torture? Wiretapping? Kidnapping? Deceit? The president's eyes widen: Trust me, he says with a twisted smile. Then he leans closer to display a snarling defiance. The combination reduces his critics to sputters.Perhaps Bush's savviest achievement has been to make the public think that Rumsfeld and Cheney are the dark geniuses behind the administration's malevolence. If Bush is taken as too shallow to have a fascist ideology; as too weak to stick with hard policies that undermine democracy; as a religious nutcase whose apocalyptic fantasies don't matter; as a man, in sum, the average citizen can regard as slightly less than average -- then what he is pulling off will not be called by its proper name until it is too late. 2005? Oh yes, that was the year of the coup.http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped...

ANd U Thought the U.S. Patrioct act was bad?

This might sound crazy but it's true?

1984 25 yrs late.......pretty soon trackers will be in all newborn humans I suppose?:(

Honestly! is this what George Orwell saw in his dreams?:(.....
Windrydr
Check this article by Steve Connor:

Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey From 2006 Britain will be the first country where every journey by every car will be monitored
By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 22 December 2005

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years. Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts.By next March a central database installed alongside the Police National Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35 million number-plate "reads" per day. These will include time, date and precise location, with camera sites monitored by global positioning satellites.

see article here> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece

KBR is the US military's biggest contractor ?

The creeping privatisation of war has created a situation where some are more equal than others. See here the fall-out from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. When photos of cowering Iraqi prisoners appeared on Australian TV screens and newspapers, the public response was one of almost universal outrage. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0412-20.htm

At Least Osha Don't Hve Problems Like This!

Chinese chemical spill kills 13,Thirty-seven people died in a coal mine explosion in the north-east province of Jilin on Thursday and 115 people were killed last month in a single gas blast in Heilongjiang province.
READ MORE HERE>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2115860.stm

It's not your father's America any more

By HUBERT G. LOCKESPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER
This country is becoming more unrecognizable with each passing day. The government, we've learned recently, now packages the news. It provides television stations with hundreds of video news releases made up to resemble actual news reports that give us predigested, Orwellian information designed to convince the public that everything in the nation is being well-managed.
And A Homeland Security DoomsDay Scenario?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/217447_locke25.html

$69 billion in tax cuts ? for the Rich?Some Of Americas Richest Say no?

BOSTON—A group of wealthy Americans today announced that they would turn down their share of the BOSTON—A group of wealthy Americans today announced that they would turn down their share of the $69 billion in tax cuts that went to the wealthy in 2004,that went to the wealthy in 2004, http://www.responsiblewealth.org/
So as a result of that> Some of America's Richest Say 'No, Thanks' to Bush Tax Cuts
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0408-06.htm

President sees himself as carrying out the will of his God

"A majority of people in the US think Iraq aided al-Qaida before the war and had weapons of mass destruction."? how insidiously insane?

Just agreeing with a post By weed: such ignorance and stupidity in a country whose President sees himself as carrying out the will of his God makes me shudder for the future of the worldthis is surely the biggest threat to Western civilisation since the emergence of the 3rd Reich*********************
# posted by Weed : 5:27 PM
Sunday, March 13, 2005
US strategy towards the coming world oil shortage is to monopolise supplies - a more sensible approach would be to reduce its dependence on oil*************************
#Post by> mr weed again:)

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The White House and torture

It's no longer a secret that the CIA - to extract information from suspected terrorists - sends them to countries that practice torture, thereby allowing the president to keep saying that this nation does not practice torture.

http://www.decaturdailydemocrat.com/articles/2005/03/23/news/opinion/editorial02.txt

The White House and torture

It's no longer a secret that the CIA - to extract information from suspected terrorists - sends them to countries that practice torture, thereby allowing the president to keep saying that this nation does not practice torture.

http://www.decaturdailydemocrat.com/articles/2005/03/23/news/opinion/editorial02.txt

Whats it all about?

Just wonderin what its all about ? that's all:)? U tell me:)?