Bob Morris @ Jun 6th 2003 14:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
Gray Davis’ pit bull now working for Lieberman
“Garry South, the pugnacious political strategist who masterminded Gray Davis’ last three election victories, is signing on as a senior campaign advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph I. Lieberman.”
Bob Morris @ Jun 6th 2003 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Return of Class War
From Slate
Bush and the new tyranny of the rich.
“The recently enacted tax bill is such a shocking and brazen gift for the wealthy that it is hard to describe in anything short of these cartoon-Marxist terms.”
Strong words, especially from a mainstreamish site like Slate. But yes, Marx made it clear the ruling class lives off of and exploits the working class. And given the extremism of the current ruling clique in D.C., what other analysis works?
Bob Morris @ Jun 6th 2003 00:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Burma
Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, is still missing, kidnapped by Burma government thugs a week ago.
Burma is headed by a nasty dictatorship, known to use slave labor, torture and kill opponents. Plus, they produce half the heroin on the planet - why you’d think the neocons would be howling about how Burma needs some good ole U.S.A. style Democracy and Freedom.
But a google news search show no statements from the White House about the kidnapping. Not a peep.
Burma does business with oil companies like Unocal. Could this have some bearing on the White House silence about a Nobel Peace Prize winner being absconded by government goons?
Background:
“A group of Burmese refugees won a landmark victory Tuesday when a Los Angeles judge ruled that Unocal Corp. could be tried for human rights violations, including forced labor, that allegedly occurred during construction of a $1.2-billion natural gas pipeline in Myanmar.”
From the Free Burma coalition
“The military regime in Burma is the world’s worst abuser of forced labor, which is used most commonly for both infrastructure development and to support military operations. Allegations that forced labor has been used to build support facilities for the Yadana natural gas pipeline, a project of US based UNOCAL oil corporation and France based Total, include both forms of forced labor. Amnesty International has states that during the last seven years the scale of forced labor has increased dramatically in Burma, involving hundreds of thousands of civilians, including political prisoners.”
And, as always Amnesty International
More -
U.S. business coalition opposes Burma sanctions
“New sanctions against Myanmar, where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained for a week, would do nothing to force the government to relinquish power, a U.S. business coalition said Friday.
“The proposed new sanctions will bring … neither freedom nor democracy to the Burmese people,” said Bill Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council.
“Existing U.S. sanctions have accomplished exactly nothing — other than to hurt a population that is in desperate need of economic aid,” Reinsch said in a statement.
Noble indeed - except then why didn’t they oppose sanctions in Iraq? Maybe because they had no business interests there, like they do in Burma?
Bob Morris @ Jun 6th 2003 00:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Blix criticises allies over Iraq weapons
“The United Nations chief weapons inspector has criticised the quality of the intelligence given to him by the United States and Britain about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.
<Blix> said UN inspectors had been promised the best information available.
“I thought - my God, if this is the best intelligence they have and we find nothing, what about the rest?”
Bob Morris @ Jun 6th 2003 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
I’m really suspicious of Martha Stewart
Consider:
1. She has never admitted that she has Weapons of Mass Destruction.
2. During the weapons inspections in Iraq, a truck was seen leaving Martha Stewart’s house.
3. Al Qaeda members are known to have been in her country.
4. She possesses aluminum tubing (she claims it’s part of a lawn chair). Aluminum tubing is used in uranium
separation plants.
These were all reasons given for attacking Saddam Hussein, so Martha Stewart can expect a bunker buster soon.
If we wait until the smoking gun is a mushroom cloud, we will never get the fallout out of the carpet. Remember — if the carpet doesn’t complement the drapes, the terrorists have won.
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