US troops ‘crazy’ in killing of cameraman

Journalists who were with a Reuters news cameraman shot dead by US troops while filming outside a Baghdad prison yesterday accused the soldiers of behaving in a “crazy” and negligent fashion.

They claimed the Americans had spotted the Reuters crew outside the jail half an hour before Mazen Dana was killed and must have realised he was not a guerrilla carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

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A special treat for fans of fascism!

Patriotapalooza tour showcases Patriot Act, eroding civil rights.

After playing to a sold-out crowd in Philadelphia today, Patriotapalooza thunders onward to Cleveland, Detroit and Des Moines, Iowa. The self-described “festival of secret trials, incarceration, and authoritarianism” will make more than a dozen stops across the country, treating fans of fascism to an incredible line-up of anti-freedom culture and exhibitions.

This from the wonderful GWBush04.com parody site.

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Finally, some good news!

Bush Continues to Slip.

President George Bush’s job performance rating has slipped to 52 percent positive, 48 percent negative, according to a new Zogby poll. Even more striking is that 48 percent “say it’s time for someone new in the White House, compared to 45 percent who said the President deserves to be re-elected”.

Public opinion IS shifting. Let’s keep pushing and organizing.

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It’s SO hard to do satire with stories like this

“McDonald’s fast-food chain was an official sponsor of Pope John Paul II’s “pray-in” held in May at a Madrid airport. Some 500,000 attendees were given backpacks of papal goodies that included vouchers for food from McDonald’s.”

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More deep thinking from Arnold

“I’m for the children and stuff.”, Arnold Schwarzenegger, responding to questions from the media about his plans as governor of California.

From Sojourners newsletter.

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Al Qaeda claims responsibility for U.S. power blackout

“A communiqué attributed to Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the power blackout that happened in the U.S. last Thursday, saying that the brigades of Abu Fahes Al Masri had hit two main power plants supplying the East of the U.S., as well as major industrial cities in the U.S. and Canada, “its ally in the war against Islam  (New York and Toronto) and their neighbors.”

The communiqué assured that the operation “was carried out on the orders of Osama bin Laden to hit the pillars of the U.S. economy,” as “a realization of bin Laden’s promise to offer the Iraqi people a present.”

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Bush grants immunity to corporate oil looters in Iraq

“An extraordinary Presidential Executive Order, signed into law by President Bush on May 22 but kept out of the pages of the US media, further underscores the real motivations behind the illegal US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Ostensibly drawn up in order to protect Iraq’s oil wealth, Executive Order 13303, “Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Other Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest,” provides unlimited authority for US corporations to loot Iraqi oil and grants them permanent immunity from any legal actions over the consequences.”

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