Aircraft carrier sent to guard Dubya at G8

An aircraft carrier packed with hundreds of US marines will be anchored off the west coast of Scotland during the G8 summit.

A fleet of Galaxy C-5 planes, carrying armored limousines and the helicopters that will take Bush and his entourage to the venue, is expected to touch down at Prestwick airport. The US is also believed to be insisting on having its own command post so it can act independently of the British police and military if there is a threat to the president.

A military source said: “The Americans want to do everything themselves. They want to have their own helicopters; their own armored limousines. This happens at every summit like this, and it always causes tension between America and their hosts.

US accuses Karzai and UK of being soft on opium trade

That Dubya, he has a gift for alientaing even the closest of allies. This silly accusation comes comes right after Galloway ripped the Senate to shreds over the Iraq War. A clumsy attempt at payback, you ask me. But then any president who thinks he needs an aircraft carrier to protect him in Britain and won’t even trust the Brits to do it, is extraordinarily fearful. Has any previous president ever taken such extreme measures?

PS Dubya even appears to be uniting Arabs and Israelis, at least in their dislike for him.

Arab and Jewish hecklers target Laura Bush on visit.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will consider breaking diplomatic ties with the US if it fails to hand over a Cuban-born terror suspect.

Why would this matter? Oil, that’s why. Venezuela supplies 11% of the oil imported by the U.S.

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From Rockero420, responding in the comments to our post about the anti SOS protest in Baldwin Park.

They are planning another protest for the fourth of July. I know we all want to be ate home with our families so we can burn American flags as a family (just kidding), but maybe we should move the party to Baldwin Park?

SOS is obviously scared of us (the Hispanic menace), so the best thing to do would be to show them that there’s nothing to be afraid of: greet them with beans and rice and carne asada (and of course a vegetarian alternative — 8]–), more danza Azteca, some folklórico dancers, some hip-hop MCs, some musicians, and turn the thing into a party where everyone is invited. It seems like the tactics of the counterprotesters last time resulted only in bad feelings and more hostility….

I’d like to see a healing process begin after the rift these right-wingers have provoked, but we have to take the first step. Come on people, let’s turn the other cheek and really reach out to try to begin the process to make this a better world.

Anyone with me?

You can try, but I’m guessing this won’t end with the participants having a group hug for peace.. Things are too polarized for that. Would it be it were otherwise. But it’s not. We won’t change their POVs, rather we should focus on mobilizing and influencing public opinion. And one good way to do that is by mass actions in the streets.

Hmm, I’m as Anglo (in the L.A. sense of the term) as it gets, so I’m not sure what I could bring that’s authentically Latino, - so how about a Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem CD instead?

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Many young lieutenants and captains, key leaders in combat, are deciding against Army careers in light of the open-ended war on terrorism.

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