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What's going on in the House of Representatives? It turns out that "not over my dead body" "so help me god" "read my lips" Bush is raising taxes, this time on students. McCain is helping in the fight against corporate welfare. (This guy is a better fighter than most democrats).
What's going on in the House of Representatives? It turns out that "not over my dead body" "so help me god" "read my lips" Bush is raising taxes, this time on students. McCain is helping in the fight against corporate welfare. (This guy is a better fighter than most democrats).
I've just been looking at how Nobel Peace Prize winners'statements on Sept 11th.
Here is Gorby's:
In the past month, the world has witnessed something previously unknown: a common stand taken by America, Russia, Europe, India, China, Cuba, most of the Islamic world and numerous other regions and countries. Despite many serious differences between them, they united to save civilization.
It is now the responsibility of the world community to transform the coalition against terror into a coalition for a new, peaceful and just world order. Let us not, as happened during the 1990's, miss the chance to build such an order.
Concepts like solidarity and helping third world countries to fight poverty and backwardness have disappeared from the political vocabulary. But if these concepts are not revived politically, the worst scenarios of a clash of civilizations could become reality.
I believe the United Nations Security Council should take the lead in fighting terrorism and in dealing with other global problems. All the main issues considered by the United Nations affect mankind's security. It is time to stop reviling the United Nations and get on with the work of adapting it to new tasks.
Concrete steps should include accelerated nuclear and chemical disarmament and control over the remaining stocks of dangerous substances, including chemical and biological agents. No amount of money is too much for that. I hope the United States will support the verification protocol of the convention banning biological weapons and ratify the treaty to prohibit all nuclear tests. Both steps would reverse the Bush administration's current positions.
We should also heed those who have pointed out the negative consequences of globalization for hundreds of millions of people. Globalization cannot be stopped, but it can be made more humane and more balanced for those it affects.
If the battle against terrorism is limited to military operations, the world could be the loser. But if it becomes an integral part of common efforts to build a more just world order, everyone would win - including those who now do not support American actions or the antiterrorism coalition. Those people, and they are many, should not all be branded as enemies.
Russia has shown its solidarity with America. President Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call President Bush on Sept. 11. Russia has been sharing information, coordinating positions with the West and with its neighbors, opening its airspace, and providing humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and weapons to the Northern Alliance. This has been good policy. But we should bear in mind that, both in the Russian establishment and among the people, reaction to it has been mixed.
Some people are still prone to old ways of understanding the world and Russia's place in it. Others sincerely wonder whether the world's most powerful country should be bombing impoverished Afghanistan. Still others ask: We have supported America in its hour of need, but will it meet us halfway on issues important to us?
I am sure Russia will be a serious partner in fighting international terrorism. But equally, it is important that its voice be heard in building a new international order. If not, Russians could conclude that they have merely been used. Irritants in US-Russian relations - issues like missile defense and the admission of new members to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - will be addressed in due course. But they will be easier to solve once we have moved toward a new world agenda and a deeper partnership.
Finally, it would be wrong to use the battle against terrorism in order to establish control over countries or regions. This would discredit the coalition and close off the prospect of transforming it into a mechanism for building a peaceful world. Turning the coalition against terror into an alliance that works to achieve a peaceful and just world order would be a lasting memorial to the thousands of victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy.
Mikhail Gorbachev,
October 19, 2001
Here is Gorby's:
In the past month, the world has witnessed something previously unknown: a common stand taken by America, Russia, Europe, India, China, Cuba, most of the Islamic world and numerous other regions and countries. Despite many serious differences between them, they united to save civilization.
It is now the responsibility of the world community to transform the coalition against terror into a coalition for a new, peaceful and just world order. Let us not, as happened during the 1990's, miss the chance to build such an order.
Concepts like solidarity and helping third world countries to fight poverty and backwardness have disappeared from the political vocabulary. But if these concepts are not revived politically, the worst scenarios of a clash of civilizations could become reality.
I believe the United Nations Security Council should take the lead in fighting terrorism and in dealing with other global problems. All the main issues considered by the United Nations affect mankind's security. It is time to stop reviling the United Nations and get on with the work of adapting it to new tasks.
Concrete steps should include accelerated nuclear and chemical disarmament and control over the remaining stocks of dangerous substances, including chemical and biological agents. No amount of money is too much for that. I hope the United States will support the verification protocol of the convention banning biological weapons and ratify the treaty to prohibit all nuclear tests. Both steps would reverse the Bush administration's current positions.
We should also heed those who have pointed out the negative consequences of globalization for hundreds of millions of people. Globalization cannot be stopped, but it can be made more humane and more balanced for those it affects.
If the battle against terrorism is limited to military operations, the world could be the loser. But if it becomes an integral part of common efforts to build a more just world order, everyone would win - including those who now do not support American actions or the antiterrorism coalition. Those people, and they are many, should not all be branded as enemies.
Russia has shown its solidarity with America. President Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call President Bush on Sept. 11. Russia has been sharing information, coordinating positions with the West and with its neighbors, opening its airspace, and providing humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and weapons to the Northern Alliance. This has been good policy. But we should bear in mind that, both in the Russian establishment and among the people, reaction to it has been mixed.
Some people are still prone to old ways of understanding the world and Russia's place in it. Others sincerely wonder whether the world's most powerful country should be bombing impoverished Afghanistan. Still others ask: We have supported America in its hour of need, but will it meet us halfway on issues important to us?
I am sure Russia will be a serious partner in fighting international terrorism. But equally, it is important that its voice be heard in building a new international order. If not, Russians could conclude that they have merely been used. Irritants in US-Russian relations - issues like missile defense and the admission of new members to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - will be addressed in due course. But they will be easier to solve once we have moved toward a new world agenda and a deeper partnership.
Finally, it would be wrong to use the battle against terrorism in order to establish control over countries or regions. This would discredit the coalition and close off the prospect of transforming it into a mechanism for building a peaceful world. Turning the coalition against terror into an alliance that works to achieve a peaceful and just world order would be a lasting memorial to the thousands of victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy.
Mikhail Gorbachev,
October 19, 2001
Here's some more on the Venzuela coup: three days that shook the media.
From Bartcop's Political Humor
A Work of Art
Remember when the Bush Family Evil Empire was CAUGHT doing the unthinkable?
They got CAUGHT selling arms to terrorists, (the sons of bitches), remember?
Then they sent that senile old fool Reagan out to deny it in front of the live TV cameras?
(Wasn't that a terrible trick to play on that old man?
That's like rearranging Helen Keller's furniture.)
Then, instead of showing remorse, Bush pardoned the gang of felons to bury the truth
and then Ollie North stood up and defended what he did, calling it "a work of art."
Let me see...
Stealing Stinger missles from the Defense department is a crime, it's a felony,
it traitorous action and it's against everything they CLAIMED they stood for.
They rewarded the thugs who kidnapped our diplomats and murdered our Marines.
Lebanon - 241 dead marines - was this attack financed with Bush Family Evil Empire Money?
Then they went on to lie, stonewall and finally commit serial perjury until
Poppy pardoned everybody to bury the evidence of their crimes forever.
So they took their illegal proceeds, that terrorist money, and they went to Nicaragua
and bought cocaine with it and smuggled it into Oakland. Then they made secret deals
with the Cripps and the Bloods to distribute mass quantities of cocaine.
Then they took those illegal millions and bought guns, no doubt from Bush's arms-dealing partner
Adnan Kashoggi and armed the right-wing death squads that terrorized Central America for so long.
Murder, treason, cocaine, gang wars, treachery, pardons - that's a work of art?
A Work of Art
Remember when the Bush Family Evil Empire was CAUGHT doing the unthinkable?
They got CAUGHT selling arms to terrorists, (the sons of bitches), remember?
Then they sent that senile old fool Reagan out to deny it in front of the live TV cameras?
(Wasn't that a terrible trick to play on that old man?
That's like rearranging Helen Keller's furniture.)
Then, instead of showing remorse, Bush pardoned the gang of felons to bury the truth
and then Ollie North stood up and defended what he did, calling it "a work of art."
Let me see...
Stealing Stinger missles from the Defense department is a crime, it's a felony,
it traitorous action and it's against everything they CLAIMED they stood for.
They rewarded the thugs who kidnapped our diplomats and murdered our Marines.
Lebanon - 241 dead marines - was this attack financed with Bush Family Evil Empire Money?
Then they went on to lie, stonewall and finally commit serial perjury until
Poppy pardoned everybody to bury the evidence of their crimes forever.
So they took their illegal proceeds, that terrorist money, and they went to Nicaragua
and bought cocaine with it and smuggled it into Oakland. Then they made secret deals
with the Cripps and the Bloods to distribute mass quantities of cocaine.
Then they took those illegal millions and bought guns, no doubt from Bush's arms-dealing partner
Adnan Kashoggi and armed the right-wing death squads that terrorized Central America for so long.
Murder, treason, cocaine, gang wars, treachery, pardons - that's a work of art?
Here's a rhetorical question for the day:
Did Bush keep his election promises?
The above link gives the top 9 biggest Bush lies. Well, the top 9 most boring and wonkish Bush lies. What about "I didn't collaborate with Bin Laden"...Except, of course, he's never made that statement.
I've notice that no blog is complete without endless stream-on-conciousness babbling. I'll try to do my part...
Does anybody believe this BS about FARC suddenly becoming terrorists? During the Clinton years they settled for blowing up pipelines (very bad from an enviromental perspective, but it's still just sabotage). Only after Bush Co. has had enough time to put the CIA to work does the terrorism start. Notice the bombings are starting around the same time the CIA coup in Venezuela took place. That's how long the "we didn't see nuthin' on 911" CIA takes to set up shop.
Funny, I still have yet to meet a conservative who is not proudly and aggressively racist. I thought I knew a moderate conservative, but it turns out he's actually a social democrat. I've seen time and time again these racist bullies spout their BS right in minorities faces, while they pretend not to hear anything. Then the moment someone speaks up they whine about being oppressed by political correctness, and how nobody can take their "joke". (Note: if a conservative laughs while raping someone, it's not rape, it's just a joke.) Being a pacifist sucks, a few joking punches in the face would probably solve a lot of the world's problems.
Sorry, that's all of the mendering, creepy rants I can come up with for today. I'm sorry if I've failed up to my standard as a blogger.
Did Bush keep his election promises?
The above link gives the top 9 biggest Bush lies. Well, the top 9 most boring and wonkish Bush lies. What about "I didn't collaborate with Bin Laden"...Except, of course, he's never made that statement.
I've notice that no blog is complete without endless stream-on-conciousness babbling. I'll try to do my part...
Does anybody believe this BS about FARC suddenly becoming terrorists? During the Clinton years they settled for blowing up pipelines (very bad from an enviromental perspective, but it's still just sabotage). Only after Bush Co. has had enough time to put the CIA to work does the terrorism start. Notice the bombings are starting around the same time the CIA coup in Venezuela took place. That's how long the "we didn't see nuthin' on 911" CIA takes to set up shop.
Funny, I still have yet to meet a conservative who is not proudly and aggressively racist. I thought I knew a moderate conservative, but it turns out he's actually a social democrat. I've seen time and time again these racist bullies spout their BS right in minorities faces, while they pretend not to hear anything. Then the moment someone speaks up they whine about being oppressed by political correctness, and how nobody can take their "joke". (Note: if a conservative laughs while raping someone, it's not rape, it's just a joke.) Being a pacifist sucks, a few joking punches in the face would probably solve a lot of the world's problems.
Sorry, that's all of the mendering, creepy rants I can come up with for today. I'm sorry if I've failed up to my standard as a blogger.
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