Bush's Third Term? You're Living It
By David Swanson There's Dubya now, still rewriting laws via signing statements. Still creating and destroying laws with executive orders. And still violating laws at his whim. Imagine Bush continuing his policy of extraordinary rendition, sending prisoners off to other countries with grim interrogation reputations to be held and tortured. I can even picture him formalizing his policy of preventive detention, sprucing it up with some "due process" even as he permanently removes habeas corpus from our culture. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23411.htm --- On Wed, 9/2/09, Information Clearing House: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN September 02, 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.": Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1929-1968 = "The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence" Samuel Johnson (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784) = "The mother of revolution and crime is poverty" - Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC) = "The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." : John Berger = "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." : Charles Darwin = Afghanistan for Dummies By Ray McGovern I'm going to ask for my money back. I've seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23410.htm === A New Japan Confronts its American Problem By William Pfaff The leader of the victorious Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, has spoken about two aspects of the American relationship to Japan today. The first is economic. He said his government's economic policy will no longer be that of American-led "unrestrained market fundamentalism and financial capitalism," in which "people are treated not as an end but as a means [and] human dignity is lost." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23414.htm === Noam Chomsky Meets with Chavez in Venezuela By James Suggett "I write about peace and criticize the barriers to peace; that's easy. What's harder is to create a better world... and what's so exciting about at last visiting Venezuela is that I can see how a better world is being created." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23415.htm === U.S. Fares Poorly in Child Welfare Survey By Greg Keller America has some of the industrial world's worst rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though it spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands, a new survey indicates. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23412.htm === "Mercy More Than Life" Why is Universal Health Care "Un-American"? By Rev. Jim Rigby If an infant is born to poor parents, would we be more ethical to give medicine to that child so he or she does not die prematurely of preventable diseases, or would we be more ethical if we let the child die screaming in his or her parent's arms so we can keep more of our money? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23413.htm === CIA refuses to release torture documents: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/01/cia-refuses-to-release-torture-documents/ === Obama White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites : The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others - any space where the White House "maintains a presence." http://snipurl.com/rjueo === Obama formalizes Bush policy on digital searches and seizures: The Obama administration disclosed on August 27 that it will carry on Bush administration policies that allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to seize and search international travelers' laptop computers, cellular phones, cameras, and other electronic devices, even in the absence of suspicion of criminal activity. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/digi-s01.shtml === Phrase 'War on Terror' Returns to White House Lexicon: Asked Tuesday whether the use of the phrase was intentionally, Gibbs answered, "We're focused on getting the strategy right." http://snipurl.com/rjuf2 === TrimTabs Estimates U.S. Lost 335,000 Jobs in August and 5.9 Million Jobs in Past Year: . In the past twelve months, the U.S. economy has lost 5.9 million jobs, the largest annual job loss in records dating back to 1970. http://snipurl.com/rjug9 === Jim Hightower: Holding Wall Street Bankers Accountable: Who's this guy, this guy in New York who has dared to confront some of the biggest Wall Street elites and demand answers? You've probably never heard of Jed Rakoff, but he's a federal district judge whose Manhattan court gets many of the cases involving the financial powers. http://snipurl.com/rjugk === --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/shadowgovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
