For once most the world's media actually focused on real news stories this week coming from Burma & China. However they still spent plenty of time talking about the Indiana Jones movie premiere and the Champions League Final. All the while other major events went virtually unreported. Here are just some of them:
The World Food Crisis
Ethiopian millions 'risk hunger'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7409623.stm
Instead of paying for the Ethiopians to invade Somalia on their behalf, why don’t the American’s instead help pay of their massive debts to 1st world countries (mainly incurred to buy arms) so that they can afford to feed their population?
SA leader orders army to deploy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7412128.stm
Though this is partly caused by the chaos in Zimbabwe it's main trigger has been the massive rises in food prices & the hunger and concern that has created turning men against his fellow man.
Food imports 'to top $1 trillion'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7412817.stm
The vast economic cost of the world food crisis, and as usual it is the poorest that will bear the brunt
Health & Science:
First-ever government review of fluoride/thyroid toxicology shows risk .
http://www.pr-inside.com/first-ever-government-review-of-fluoride-thyroid-r596428.htm
First-ever government review of fluoride/thyroid toxicology confirms risk - go figure, putting an industrial waste product into the water supply could be dangerous to health (not balance sheets)
Mobile phone danger to unborn child: Use could cause behavioural problems
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-567125/Mobile-phone-danger-unborn-child-Use-cause-behavioural-problems.html
Future generations will look back our love of radio receivers constantly blasting our heads with incredulity.
Mobile phone danger to unborn child: Use could cause behavioural problems
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-567206/Thousands-children-DOUBLE-jab-MMR-emergency-tackle-measles-epidemic.html
I think what they meant to say is it "is an emergency move to tackle falling profits". Since the MMR "scare" one child in the UK has died of measles, and they were living in squalid conditions on gypsy camp and had many other health issues. It is not a fatal illness except to those with very compromised nutrition and immune systems already. In the same period thousands of children who have had the jabs have been diagnosed as autistic.
'Asbestos warning' on nanotubes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7408705.stm
Nano technology may not be the great leap forward that it is being marketed as
Education:
16% of US science teachers are creationists
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13930-16-of-us-science-teachers-are-creationists.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Excellent. Hundred’s of years after “The Enlightenment” we are still teaching children bronze age religious dogma over scientific investigation and reason.
Environment:
The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html
As we've reported on a number of previous occasions, this is real man-made environmental destruction on a global scale that will, as the plastics break down at the molecular level and enter the food chain, effect us all. And unfortunately it is not just a problem in the pacific, but in all the worlds oceans.
Tim Flannery's radical climate change 'solution'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23724412-2,00.html
Here is Australia's most famous scientist coming up with a "solution" to a "man-made" problem that doesn't exist anyway. Funnily enough a/ he has very strong links to the government, b/ he has very strong links to the nuclear industry, c/ this is the country that destroyed a large part of its eco-system by introducing the cane toad, rabbits, foxes, etc d/ this was essentially the plot of the film Highlander 2, from 1991 and it was deemed a very stupid idea then too!
Labor's green cred thrown into doubt
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23711627-11949,00.html
Irrespective of whether "it's all CO2's fault" surely investing in genuine renewable energy sources is a good idea from a practical level (look at Iceland as a case in point). Funnily enough politicians are good at talking green, but when it comes to parting with cash (except to their friends in the nuclear industry) things become very different.
Anger over climate change loans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7407528.stm
And another case of political immorality (and showing it's true colours) when it comes to "helping the 3rd world" deal with climate change....yes make them even more in debt to us than they already were.
Persistent loss of bees having sour effect on economy
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051808.8B.BusinessBees.38986d3.html
Another major environmental disaster that is unfolding, largely unreported, before our eyes (and possibly caused by GM crops - see previous issues). No bees = No pollination = No Food
Warmer planet may mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13921-warmer-planet-may-mean-fewer-atlantic-hurricanes.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Another inconvenient truth about global climate change and the guilt trip of the “disaster that we have caused”. As it has been forever on this planet climate is always changing. Sometimes the effects are benign, sometimes they are not. Some species will thrive, some will die out.
Politics & Democracy:
EU treaty opponents eye Irish vote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/ireland.eu
The future of European democracy depends upon how Ireland votes. However as the EU bureaucrats know, the people can vote no as many times as they like. They only need vote yes once and the next phase of the project will be complete (as can be seen by the second referendum on Masstricht Treaty which the Irish originally got "wrong" and so were told to vote again to get the "right" answer. Democracy, EU style.
Balkenende to Meet Bush in Washington
http://www.nisnews.nl/public/200508_2.htm
Bilderberg Group to meet in the USA in June?
Technology:
Laser Gunship Blasts Beams, Preps for '08 Flight Test
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/laser-gunship-c.html
The military holy grail. A destructive weapon that only kills people and doesn't damage much surrounding "collateral"
Civil Liberties:
Why the police now have to ask teenage muggers: 'Do you eat chips?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=567003&in_page_id=1770
The British Big Brother state creeps ever closer
Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece
Can you hear your privacy and civil liberties just tip toeing away? All off the back on an EU directive.
In preparation for the Republican National Convention, the FBI is soliciting informants to keep tabs on local protest groups
http://articles.citypages.com/2008-05-21/news/moles-wanted/
The ten steps to a closed society. Number 5 - Infiltrate citizens groups
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1 Say goodbye to freedom of speech Britain. A 15 year old to be prosecuted for calling a cult “a cult”. These are the corrupt practices that lead to this ridiculous act How the Scientologists woo City police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/nov/22/freedomofinformation.religion
International Relations:
Mugabe regime 'gets arms', accused of murder plot
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/mugabe-regime-gets-arms-accused-of-murder-plot/2008/05/19/1211182702212.html
While the world rightly looks on with sympathy at the plight of the Chinese people this week, its government happily sells arms to Mugabe so to make the plight of the Zimbabwean people a hell of a lot worse
Finance & Economics:
Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A.
http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040467-060,00,00.html
A very interesting hypothesis detailing the manipulative influence of a few big banks over world affairs in the last 200 years, and where it is all leading too (next step Iran, ultimately one world government)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23748409-5005200,00.html
As I have said before the goal is $200+ a barrel and that is coming sooner than you think. Now top economists are saying it too. Remember this will not all be cost of production. Most of it will ever bigger profits.
Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the world
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3964957.ece
What a result for the USA.......sorry I mean the Iraqi people
The War on Terror:
Habib 'vomited in Gitmo interrogation'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23735414-2702,00.html
Just some of the lovely techniques used to interrogate at Guantanamo
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5799578.html
Even Texan's are beginning to question the use of torture by their Government
US strike 'kills Iraqi civilians'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7414155.stm
Ooops. More collateral damage
The Next War:
US 'violated Venezuela airspace'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7409244.stm
Maybe Iran isn’t next after-all and it’ll be their South American friend instead?
Israel 'would consider strike' amid fears over Iran's weapons programme
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Israel-39would-consider-strike39-amid.4118482.jp
But the smart money is on Iran being next. And possibly the Israelis doing it on the American's behalf?
Quotation of the week:
"Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don't dare to express it"
Sophie Scholl (Member of the German "White Rose" resistance group. She was executed by the Nazi's in 1943)
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Open Your Eyes News - Edition 11
The World Food Crisis
Food crisis due to too many people: Prince Philip
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ivL8VLePAWCA1JMJGeGdwofFejQw
he eugenics movement never died after WW2 it just metamorphosised into the “environmental movement" (same people, different packaging), a softer way of selling the depopulation agenda. Here is the first President of the WWF, Prince Philip, showing his “compassionate” side this week.
Fat is an environmental issue
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13912-fat-is-an-environmental-issue.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
An additional, albeit minor, reason behind the world food crisis
Health & Science:
No MMR? Then you won’t start school
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3909515.ece
Some parents not wanting to pump a load of toxins into their young children thus hitting profits? I know let's threaten to exclude their child from the education system - they'll soon come back into line. (Stalin would be so proud)
Autism Court Case
http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/A/AUTISM_COURT_CASE?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME
Here's 9,800 parents who wished they'd not bothered with the vaccinations no matter what the bullying tactics used on them to comply.
The HPV Vaccine: Preventive Care or Human Sacrifice?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/10/the-hpv-vaccine-preventive-care-or-human-sacrifice.aspx?source=nl
Adverse reactions to the latest "wonder drug" - the same one we mentioned in the last edition that MSD are keen now to give to boys as well as girls (double the profit?)
Here come the designer babies
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn13879-comment-here-come-the-designer-babies.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Are you ready for two tiers of human’s, “Normal’s” and “Enhanced”?
Environment:
Air pollution linked to dangerous blood clots
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn13882-air-pollution-linked-to-dangerous-blood-clots.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
More (real) man-made pollution
Global biodiversity slumps 27% in 35 years
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13915-global-biodiversity-slumps-27-in-35-years.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Mankind’s true impact on the earth is not a pretty one. Nothing to do with CO2, just our short-sightedness & greed. These callous actions will come back to haunt us.
Politics & Democracy:
Major Media Has Total Blackout Of Bilderberg Meeting
http://www.colfaxrecord.com/detail/83999.html
Did any media outlet you read, watch or listen to mention that the Bilderberg Group met last weekend? No of course why would they do a silly thing like that when there is a get together of the who's who of world politics, business and royalty. I mean what they discuss at forums like that are hardly going to affect you & I after all. (However - as it wasn't mainstream reported it is very, very difficult to ascertain whether it actually took place or whether it was one of the usual pre-meeting smokescreens that are usually thrown up)
USA Today 'overlooks' 25,000 deaths in Myanmar for Jenna 'I dos'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Oped_USA_Today_overlooks_25000_deaths_0512.html
Have a guess which story USA Today ran with - Jenna Bush's wedding, or tens of thousands dying in Burma. Answer's on a postcard please to "There is something wrong with this picture Competition"
Jounalist Arrested
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hr7kBnw1h4xjGbVWoCAtTcKc0VxwD90J162GG
Yet another attack on journalistic freedom
Zimbabwe attacks 'out of control'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7405671.stm
Zimbabwe - A vile giant experiment, tacitly supported/allowed by the West, to see how far a population be pushed and yet still not rise up in revolution if they are cowed enough?
Technology:
Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement and Supporting Technology
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b34f1f48d3ed2ce781f85d28f700a870&tab=core&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck=
This seems like an innocuous piece of Government outsourcing doesn't it? Wrong! This $11 million project will seek to give the US military the capability to hack into, fully control and even destroy any form of computer or network there is, in its ongoing "national cyber security initiative". Now that is Big Brother style control.
New TASER Shield Conversion Kit Announced at the Mock Prison Riots
http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=142464
The next generation of law enforcement from the people who brought you the Taser. This converts a plain old riot shield into a big electric shock device. "Back up hippy" zzzzzz "You too, disperse now!" zzzzzz ARE YOU GETTING CONCERNED YET?
Civil Liberties:
Longer terror limit 'unnecessary'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7399709.stm
Extending the pre-charge detention limit for terrorism suspects to 42 days is "wholly unnecessary", a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said - It will still eventually happen. Nothing stops the agenda
War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for 'crime' of putting two jars in wrong bin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566159&in_page_id=1770
Petty bureaucrats of the week story. And people wonder why, when given the latitude, supposedly ordinary people historically commit atrocities against their fellow man.
Council that snooped on parents now uses anti-terror laws to spy on fishermen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566165&in_page_id=1770
Another example of supposedly "anti terror" legislation being used for other purposes. And the UK government wants to have the right to lock you up for even longer without trail for the same purposes. Lucky miscarriages of justice never take place eh?
Taser stun guns for every police officer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1948162/Taser-stun-guns-for-every-police-officer.html Tasers for all cops. It only takes 1 electric shock in scientific tests to make animals very compliant. I wonder if the same is the case for humans? Be careful next time you go on a peaceful protest or you might find out
Details of airport Tasering stripped from RCMP report
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/424319
But if you are innocent and still killed by a Taser you'll be pleased to know that the system will be on the polices side.
Report: Deportees drugged against will
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23697624-5005961,00.html
The drugging of deportees. How very charming, humane and a massive breach of international human rights codes. You only have to imagine what they must be doing to those arrested under terror legislation.
Finance & Economics:
Bush set to talk oil as Saudis eye Mideast peace
http://news.smh.com.au/world/bush-set-to-talk-oil-as-saudis-eye-mideast-peace-20080516-2ey5.html
Do bear in mind that Dubya has told one or two little fibs over the years. Do you really think that when he “talks to the Saudi’s about the oil price” that he is really going be telling his family’s biggest benefactors over the last ½ century to take a pay cut? I think not.
US economy falters on home and retail sales
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3925952.ece
Though there have been positive reports on the US economy this week, the housing market is in meltdown. This will inevitably knock on into the consumer sector which drives the American economy. All it needs is a nudge (say another significant rise in oil prices) and over the precipice it could all fall.
The War on Terror:
U.S. drops charges against accused "20th hijacker"
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1347678320080513
Amazing isn't it that after 6 years interrogating (and most probably torturing) this chap in Guantanamo they can't get enough evidence to put him to trial before a military tribunal which is hardly going to be unbiased itself!
'Pet crematorium' complaint leads to Pentagon change
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/05/09/military.cremation/index.html
The respectful way that soldiers are treated if they get killed during Cheney & Blair's illegal war
Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23697581-2703,00.html
Oh you poor thing George. How thoughtful of you. Especially after your traumatic experiences in Vietnam....oh wait Daddy managed to get you out of that one didn't he?
Search continues for Osama
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jXVAUTGQcKWtItch0X9KZvx-u9NQD90MVA580 Am I the only person to notice the amazing similarity between the ongoing "Where's Osama" news reports as "he" occasionally gives a broadcast, to the character Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's 1984.
Goldstein was the always unseen (and made up?) former top member of the ruling Party who had broken away early in the movement and started an organization known as "The Brotherhood", dedicated to the fall of The Party, and who is often the subject of "the Two Minutes of Hate" whenever his image appears in news items .
Whereas Osama is the always unseen (on the odd occasions you do see him he always looks different - different actor perhaps?) black sheep of Saudi Arabia's second most powerful family that has strong links to the House of Bush, and started an organization known as "The Base" (al-Qaeda) dedicated to the fall of the system that his family & the Bush family are at the pinnacle of, and instills a major sense of hate and loathing whenever he appears on our TV news reports. What a strange co-incidence.
Rogue Western forces behind killings: UN officer
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/rogue-western-forces-behind-killings-un-officer/2008/05/16/1210765170849.html
Winning "hearts & minds" in Afghanistan, American style
The Next War:
Democrats outraged by Bush "appeasement" remark
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0839956720080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Now don’t get me wrong on this there are plenty of things wrong with the Iranian Theocrats, but to use the appeasement angle is a tad rich from the country that currently has troops stationed in over 100 countries worldwide and has recently illegally invaded another country against international wishes.
Democrats outraged by Bush "appeasement" remark
http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040467-055,00,00.html
And all the while preparations for war continue apace
Quotations of the week:
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."
Mahatma Ghandi
Food crisis due to too many people: Prince Philip
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ivL8VLePAWCA1JMJGeGdwofFejQw
he eugenics movement never died after WW2 it just metamorphosised into the “environmental movement" (same people, different packaging), a softer way of selling the depopulation agenda. Here is the first President of the WWF, Prince Philip, showing his “compassionate” side this week.
Fat is an environmental issue
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13912-fat-is-an-environmental-issue.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
An additional, albeit minor, reason behind the world food crisis
Health & Science:
No MMR? Then you won’t start school
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3909515.ece
Some parents not wanting to pump a load of toxins into their young children thus hitting profits? I know let's threaten to exclude their child from the education system - they'll soon come back into line. (Stalin would be so proud)
Autism Court Case
http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/A/AUTISM_COURT_CASE?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME
Here's 9,800 parents who wished they'd not bothered with the vaccinations no matter what the bullying tactics used on them to comply.
The HPV Vaccine: Preventive Care or Human Sacrifice?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/10/the-hpv-vaccine-preventive-care-or-human-sacrifice.aspx?source=nl
Adverse reactions to the latest "wonder drug" - the same one we mentioned in the last edition that MSD are keen now to give to boys as well as girls (double the profit?)
Here come the designer babies
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn13879-comment-here-come-the-designer-babies.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Are you ready for two tiers of human’s, “Normal’s” and “Enhanced”?
Environment:
Air pollution linked to dangerous blood clots
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn13882-air-pollution-linked-to-dangerous-blood-clots.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
More (real) man-made pollution
Global biodiversity slumps 27% in 35 years
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13915-global-biodiversity-slumps-27-in-35-years.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Mankind’s true impact on the earth is not a pretty one. Nothing to do with CO2, just our short-sightedness & greed. These callous actions will come back to haunt us.
Politics & Democracy:
Major Media Has Total Blackout Of Bilderberg Meeting
http://www.colfaxrecord.com/detail/83999.html
Did any media outlet you read, watch or listen to mention that the Bilderberg Group met last weekend? No of course why would they do a silly thing like that when there is a get together of the who's who of world politics, business and royalty. I mean what they discuss at forums like that are hardly going to affect you & I after all. (However - as it wasn't mainstream reported it is very, very difficult to ascertain whether it actually took place or whether it was one of the usual pre-meeting smokescreens that are usually thrown up)
USA Today 'overlooks' 25,000 deaths in Myanmar for Jenna 'I dos'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Oped_USA_Today_overlooks_25000_deaths_0512.html
Have a guess which story USA Today ran with - Jenna Bush's wedding, or tens of thousands dying in Burma. Answer's on a postcard please to "There is something wrong with this picture Competition"
Jounalist Arrested
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hr7kBnw1h4xjGbVWoCAtTcKc0VxwD90J162GG
Yet another attack on journalistic freedom
Zimbabwe attacks 'out of control'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7405671.stm
Zimbabwe - A vile giant experiment, tacitly supported/allowed by the West, to see how far a population be pushed and yet still not rise up in revolution if they are cowed enough?
Technology:
Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement and Supporting Technology
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b34f1f48d3ed2ce781f85d28f700a870&tab=core&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck=
This seems like an innocuous piece of Government outsourcing doesn't it? Wrong! This $11 million project will seek to give the US military the capability to hack into, fully control and even destroy any form of computer or network there is, in its ongoing "national cyber security initiative". Now that is Big Brother style control.
New TASER Shield Conversion Kit Announced at the Mock Prison Riots
http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=142464
The next generation of law enforcement from the people who brought you the Taser. This converts a plain old riot shield into a big electric shock device. "Back up hippy" zzzzzz "You too, disperse now!" zzzzzz ARE YOU GETTING CONCERNED YET?
Civil Liberties:
Longer terror limit 'unnecessary'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7399709.stm
Extending the pre-charge detention limit for terrorism suspects to 42 days is "wholly unnecessary", a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said - It will still eventually happen. Nothing stops the agenda
War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for 'crime' of putting two jars in wrong bin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566159&in_page_id=1770
Petty bureaucrats of the week story. And people wonder why, when given the latitude, supposedly ordinary people historically commit atrocities against their fellow man.
Council that snooped on parents now uses anti-terror laws to spy on fishermen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566165&in_page_id=1770
Another example of supposedly "anti terror" legislation being used for other purposes. And the UK government wants to have the right to lock you up for even longer without trail for the same purposes. Lucky miscarriages of justice never take place eh?
Taser stun guns for every police officer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1948162/Taser-stun-guns-for-every-police-officer.html Tasers for all cops. It only takes 1 electric shock in scientific tests to make animals very compliant. I wonder if the same is the case for humans? Be careful next time you go on a peaceful protest or you might find out
Details of airport Tasering stripped from RCMP report
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/424319
But if you are innocent and still killed by a Taser you'll be pleased to know that the system will be on the polices side.
Report: Deportees drugged against will
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23697624-5005961,00.html
The drugging of deportees. How very charming, humane and a massive breach of international human rights codes. You only have to imagine what they must be doing to those arrested under terror legislation.
Finance & Economics:
Bush set to talk oil as Saudis eye Mideast peace
http://news.smh.com.au/world/bush-set-to-talk-oil-as-saudis-eye-mideast-peace-20080516-2ey5.html
Do bear in mind that Dubya has told one or two little fibs over the years. Do you really think that when he “talks to the Saudi’s about the oil price” that he is really going be telling his family’s biggest benefactors over the last ½ century to take a pay cut? I think not.
US economy falters on home and retail sales
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3925952.ece
Though there have been positive reports on the US economy this week, the housing market is in meltdown. This will inevitably knock on into the consumer sector which drives the American economy. All it needs is a nudge (say another significant rise in oil prices) and over the precipice it could all fall.
The War on Terror:
U.S. drops charges against accused "20th hijacker"
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1347678320080513
Amazing isn't it that after 6 years interrogating (and most probably torturing) this chap in Guantanamo they can't get enough evidence to put him to trial before a military tribunal which is hardly going to be unbiased itself!
'Pet crematorium' complaint leads to Pentagon change
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/05/09/military.cremation/index.html
The respectful way that soldiers are treated if they get killed during Cheney & Blair's illegal war
Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23697581-2703,00.html
Oh you poor thing George. How thoughtful of you. Especially after your traumatic experiences in Vietnam....oh wait Daddy managed to get you out of that one didn't he?
Search continues for Osama
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jXVAUTGQcKWtItch0X9KZvx-u9NQD90MVA580 Am I the only person to notice the amazing similarity between the ongoing "Where's Osama" news reports as "he" occasionally gives a broadcast, to the character Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's 1984.
Goldstein was the always unseen (and made up?) former top member of the ruling Party who had broken away early in the movement and started an organization known as "The Brotherhood", dedicated to the fall of The Party, and who is often the subject of "the Two Minutes of Hate" whenever his image appears in news items .
Whereas Osama is the always unseen (on the odd occasions you do see him he always looks different - different actor perhaps?) black sheep of Saudi Arabia's second most powerful family that has strong links to the House of Bush, and started an organization known as "The Base" (al-Qaeda) dedicated to the fall of the system that his family & the Bush family are at the pinnacle of, and instills a major sense of hate and loathing whenever he appears on our TV news reports. What a strange co-incidence.
Rogue Western forces behind killings: UN officer
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/rogue-western-forces-behind-killings-un-officer/2008/05/16/1210765170849.html
Winning "hearts & minds" in Afghanistan, American style
The Next War:
Democrats outraged by Bush "appeasement" remark
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0839956720080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Now don’t get me wrong on this there are plenty of things wrong with the Iranian Theocrats, but to use the appeasement angle is a tad rich from the country that currently has troops stationed in over 100 countries worldwide and has recently illegally invaded another country against international wishes.
Democrats outraged by Bush "appeasement" remark
http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040467-055,00,00.html
And all the while preparations for war continue apace
Quotations of the week:
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."
Mahatma Ghandi
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