I'm get more amazed every day that Americans don't just totally lose it and start shooting politicians. Even if one doesn't want to believe they could have prevented 9/11, it's so damn obvious that everything that's going on is a TV sham… I mean, even the mainstream news is running stories about how things like “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and “Saving Private Lynch” were fabricated events (more). From the LA Times article:
Though the Bush administration's shamelessly trumped-up claims about Iraq's alleged ties to Al Qaeda and 9/11 and its weapons of mass destruction take the cake for deceitful propaganda — grand strategic lies that allow the United States' seizure of Iraq's oil to appear to be an act of liberation — the sad case of Lynch's exploitation at the hands of military spinners illustrates that the truth once again was a casualty of war.
Jessica Lynch has been locked up in a private hospital with 24/7 security that won't let her talk to any outsiders. Troops in Lynch's company have been ordered to not talk about the incident (more), one saying. “It's almost 'say a word and you'll be shot at dawn.'”
I'm sure most of you have seen this article (more) written by Warren Buffett talking about Bush's “tax cuts” (that is, transfer of money to the rich). An excerpt:
[If] Berkshire Hathaway ... decide to pay $1 billion in dividends next year, [o]wning 31 percent of Berkshire, I would receive $310 million in additional income, owe not another dime in federal tax, and see my tax rate plunge to 3 percent.
Administration officials say that the $310 million suddenly added to my wallet would stimulate the economy because I would invest it and thereby create jobs. But they conveniently forget that if Berkshire kept the money, it would invest that same amount, creating jobs as well.
Instead, [why not] give reductions to those who both need and will spend the money gained. Enact a Social Security tax "holiday" or give a flat-sum rebate to people with low incomes. Putting $1,000 in the pockets of 310,000 families with urgent needs is going to provide far more stimulus to the economy than putting the same $310 million in my pockets.
He goes on to point out that the government can't give everyone a free lunch, but that it can choose who gets that free lunch. And, he of course comes to the conclusion that having billions of dollars already, people like him really don't need a free lunch and that it's wrong for the government to make the poor and middle classes pay his way.
What blows me away is that I still constantly see people supporting this lunacy… I mean, if you're super-rich and it's going to help you, fine, then you're just evil and selfish. But if you're middle class or poorer and you support this, well, you're stupid and/or self-destructive… and that's a fact, not my opinion.
I'm sure everyone knows this, but the level of surveillance that the US government is fighting to have over its people (I say “its people” because it's clear that it believes that it owns them) is growing to be rather terrifying (more, more, more)… Americans should be warned that they are now living in a world where every word they write online can be accessed by the government without a warrant or probable cause. All it takes is a neighbor who doesn't like you making an anonymous call fingering you as a terrorist sympathizer, a Constituionalist, a tongue splitter, or whatever else the evil-word-of-the-day is.
Well, US troops are promised to the Phillipines now (more) — after all, it's a major oil reservoir and also a hotspot for al-Qaeda operations. Perfect place to send US troops if your goal is to endanger the people of the United States (more, more). Lucky for them Bush and his Cabal are not in fact Americans, but citizens of multinational corporate entities — every dollar in their pockets is paid for with the blood of the people of this world. In the past they kept most of that vampirism outside the continental USA, but that time is over…
PS. In the quorum debacle in Texas, the DPS has ordered the records be shredded (more)… Draw your own conclusions as to why they'd shred public records before anyone had a chance to see them.
