3/31/2004
Ageing populations 'will create crippling debt' by Päivi Munter and Norma Cohen
Industrialised countries face crushing debt burdens - greater even than those during the second world war - unless governments make politically painful cuts in social spending in the next few years.
Stasi London: Fearmongering reaches new heights in England by Steve Watson
Some are awakening, but still no one dares to suggest that formenting on our doorstep is a Police State that is worse than Nazi germany or Soviet Russia. We have to speak out now before it's too late, because it can happen and it is happening here.
Banking on Empire by Mitch Jeserich
Iraqi ministries will now be able to borrow billions of dollars to buy much-needed equipment from overseas suppliers, but only by mortgaging the national oil revenues through a bank managed by New York-based multinational JP Morgan Chase.
Two Eds are Better than One by Edgar J. Steele
I have a friend who assures me he can hack into Diebold's mainframe, so a massive victory on election night is assured.
3/30/2004
Myths to Vote By
Already 32 states have been written off as uncompetitive by either the Bush or Kerry campaign. True, in the 18 states in play, your vote might matter. But would you put you money on the counter if all you could say is you might get a product?
Israel, Suicide Nation by M. Junaid Alam
Politics, being the art of deception, must certainly recognize Israel as its Da Vinci. Its smug self-portrait as a ‘civilized democracy’, rendered with brushes dipped deeply in the oil paint of antipathy for Arabs, has won much admiration among impressionable Americans.
3/29/2004
Made in the USA by Richard Beeston
The creation of this American ecosystem in the heart of the Arab world is due to accident and design.
Fighting the US-Thailand Free Trade Agreement by Aziz Choudry
The US-Thailand FTA is another example of neoliberalism and US military/geopolitical interests advancing hand in hand.
3/27/2004
New light on the life and death of John O'Neill
Authors Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie claimed to have been told by O'Neill that "the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it".
3/26/2004
9-11 - 80 Minutes of Unilateral Disarmament
What a relief that there's no such thing as massive political conspiracies -- otherwise we'd surely have one.
State can't fight terrorism
The only real way to prevent terrorism is to do less in the way of government policy and more in the way of private provision and trade.
The Power of Envy
In 1969, more people had written to Congress to complain about the 155 people who paid no income tax [in 1967] than had written about the Vietnam War.
Why America is losing the intelligence war
The quality of American intelligence depends on its moral authority to recruit spies who are willing to betray their own cultures because of their faith in America.
3/24/2004
Will Mass. Remove the Judges? by Thomas R. Eddlem
The best way to protect marriage in Massachusetts is not to amend a constitution that does not authorize same-sex "marriage," but to remove the judges who subvert the constitution.
3/23/2004
Liberating America From Israel by Paul Findley
09/15/2002: Nine-eleven would not have occurred if the U.S. government had refused to help Israel humiliate and destroy Palestinian society. Few express this conclusion publicly, but many believe it is the truth.
Travels in a Land Without Hope by Robert Fisk
An AP report of 15 September 1982. "Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, in a statement, tied the killing [of the Phalangist leader Gemayel] to the PLO, saying that "it symbolises the terrorist murderousness of the PLO terrorist organisations and their supporters".
The Armageddon Plan by James Mann
During the Reagan era Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were key players in a clandestine program designed to set aside the legal lines of succession and immediately install a new "President" in the event that a nuclear attack killed the country's leaders. The program helps explain the behavior of the Bush Administration on and after 9/11.
3/22/2004
Malthusian Overpopulation Concerns
The growth rate has decreased since the early 1960s, reaching 1.2 percent in 2001. If this trend continues, the world's population will likely stabilize and perhaps even begin declining before the end of this century.
3/19/2004
Mayhem in Madrid by Ivan Eland
When the principal original justification for fighting a war proves to be empty—in the Iraq case, the absence of weapons of mass destruction—deceased soldiers’ kin start to question whether their loved ones may have died in vain.
NPR vs. VDARE.COM; etc. by James Fulford
National Public Radio just did a piece on the Sierra Club flap. Some loyal readers thought it referred to VDARE.COM as a Neo-Nazi website. We think, in our tolerant way, that it depends how you parse this sentence from the radio report:
3/18/2004
The Rat in Bureaucrat
if you want to know why simple services can be so costly, or why kids don't work much these days, look no further than your government, which puts the RAT in bureaucrat.
3/17/2004
Section 1001 Gonna Get You
Stewart and Bacanovic are going to prison because they fell victim to a system that is rigged to gain convictions, rather than protect people.
3/16/2004
ELECTLINE: STATE BY STATE OPENING ODDS - KERRY VS BUSH
The system depends very little on polls, but heavily on previous results, demographics, voter registration, and miscellaneous details relevant to the candidates, issues, and the region.
John Pilger Interviewed by ABC
Well, certainly, historically, we've always depended on resistances to get rid of occupiers, to get rid of invaders.
3/14/2004
Thank God for China
"The case for China-bashing stems largely from the angst about jobless recoveries in the world's wealthy industrial nations. In particular, U.S. jobs are increasingly perceived as being exported to China - an erroneous perception that has tempted politicians to flirt with dangerous protectionist 'remedies.'"
Barry Chamish and the coming of The New World Disorder
3/12/2004
Spain now paying price for Iraq involvement: foreign policy expert
The World Today - Friday, 12 March , 2004 ABC Australia radio broadcast.
U.S. Foreign Aid Watch
United States and Israel, The Bonnie and Clyde Gang of the Middle East
What Nat King Cole Would Have Told Martha Stewart by Charles Adams
Aggressive prosecutors, police, investigators, in all walks of government have a long history of making false charges, arrests, manufacturing evidence, and even convicting the innocent, especially when they can bring down the rich and famous.
Intern(ment) Scandal - A PC “Day of Remembrance” forgets key facts by Roger D. McGrath
Japanese could leave a relocation center if they could reestablish themselves outside of the Defense Zone, and some 35,000 did so. Those who relocated on their own by the end of March 1942 did not go to the centers.
3/11/2004
'The Passion' and the Culture Wars by William L. Anderson
The ultimate foolishness of conservative Christians is not belief in Christ, as the intellectuals and political classes would have us believe. No, the ultimate foolishness is the belief by too many who should know better that voting in enough "good people" or grabbing the reins of the courts and the law is the ultimate victory, one that will enable them to "win" the "Culture War." Christ rejected all of those things, yet reigns and will come again to judge the world.
3/10/2004
Free to Worship, or Not
Wanna know how someone really feels about "protecting public religious displays?" Ask them about reading the Quran aloud at their kids' schools, or maybe having the football team cast a Wiccan circle on the field before Homecoming.
Another Defeat for Justice
Paul Craig Roberts: Insider trading is a creation of regulatory bureaucrats, not of statutory law. It is an undefined crime. Bureaucrats have refused to define the crime on the grounds that it is easier to convict people of undefined crimes.
After 'Passion,' no need for Gibson to work again by Martin A. Grove
Gibson's film could become permanently linked with how Christians observe the Easter season . . . His message, appropriately enough considering "Passion's" subject, was one of hope.
3/09/2004
The Global Debate Over Affirmative Action by Thomas Sowell
Most people who are for or against affirmative action are for or against the theory of it -- and pay little attention to the hard facts.
100 Elected Martha Stewarts
While Martha Stewart is facing jail time for her role in dumping stock just before a government action would decrease its value, U.S. senators have an uncanny knack for doing this on a regular basis – with impunity from the securities laws they write.
3/08/2004
Full Text Of Iraqi Interim Constitution
From the Iraqi Governing Council
Monday, March 8, 2004; 9:30 a.m.
Monday, March 8, 2004; 9:30 a.m.
Throw Martha's Prosecutors in Jail
If a crime is supposed to have victims, then Martha Stewart is the injured party and her prosecutors should be sent up. The verdict against Stewart isn't merely wrong, it's an outrage.
Secession in Vermont
Located in the middle of Vermont, the 1,100-resident town of Killington voted last Tuesday to become part of New Hampshire so it could lower its taxes by $10 million.
The "Live Free or Die" state, New Hampshire could become an asylum for tax-burdened towns across the country, says writer Bernadette Malone.
The "Live Free or Die" state, New Hampshire could become an asylum for tax-burdened towns across the country, says writer Bernadette Malone.
SHE LIED HER WAY TO TOP - AND BACK DOWN AGAIN by CHRISTOPHER BYRON
Another side of Martha from the author of "Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia."
3/07/2004
The worst is yet to come
Are happy days here again, economically -- or are we headed for disaster? Economist Hans Sennholz offers his view.
After the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, it rallied thereafter, just as it did after the 2002 decline. Investors were bullish in early 1930, just as they are now.
At the moment, the U.S. is being kept afloat by Asian central banks, primarily in China and Japan, that invest their inflow of dollars in U.S. Treasury securities. But how long will they be willing to trade goods for American paper?
The Great Depression of the 1930s could have been avoided by letting markets readjust. Hoover, then Roosevelt, decided to keep this from happening with a torrent of government intervention.
Most economists today don't realize this. They credit Roosevelt for saving capitalism with his New Deal.
Will Bush or Kerry force this country into a similar "deal" when financial reckoning day arrives?
You can count on it.
After the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, it rallied thereafter, just as it did after the 2002 decline. Investors were bullish in early 1930, just as they are now.
At the moment, the U.S. is being kept afloat by Asian central banks, primarily in China and Japan, that invest their inflow of dollars in U.S. Treasury securities. But how long will they be willing to trade goods for American paper?
The Great Depression of the 1930s could have been avoided by letting markets readjust. Hoover, then Roosevelt, decided to keep this from happening with a torrent of government intervention.
Most economists today don't realize this. They credit Roosevelt for saving capitalism with his New Deal.
Will Bush or Kerry force this country into a similar "deal" when financial reckoning day arrives?
You can count on it.
Bank of England ordered to release files on the BCCI case
Britain's central bank lost an appeal on Monday to keep sensitive internal documents under wraps in a lawsuit seeking almost £1 billion ($2.7 billion) over its role in the world's biggest banking fraud.
3/03/2004
John Stossel Speaks
Let’s look at it in the area of drugs, legal and illegal. Illegal first. I have two teenage kids. Intuitively, again, I am pleased that heroin, cocaine, and ecstasy are illegal; they can’t zip down to the neighborhood pharmacy and go get high. But does that really deter them? It’s not like the drug laws are keeping the stuff out of the country. We can’t even keep it out of prisons. How do we think we’re keeping it out of the country? . . . .
Almost nobody gets high on these drugs and goes out and commits crimes because they’re high. The crime happens because it’s illegal, because the gangs can’t rely on police protection for their private property, so they form gangs and arm themselves. The buyers have to choose to steal to pay the high prices. Nicotine and heroin, according to the government, are roughly equally addictive, yet no one’s knocking over 7-Elevens to get Marlboros. It’s the law that causes all this violent crime.
Almost nobody gets high on these drugs and goes out and commits crimes because they’re high. The crime happens because it’s illegal, because the gangs can’t rely on police protection for their private property, so they form gangs and arm themselves. The buyers have to choose to steal to pay the high prices. Nicotine and heroin, according to the government, are roughly equally addictive, yet no one’s knocking over 7-Elevens to get Marlboros. It’s the law that causes all this violent crime.
Dead Scientists
THE STRANGE "SUICIDE" OF DAVID KELLY:
Questions for the coroner's inquest
by Renan Talieva
Questions for the coroner's inquest
by Renan Talieva
3/02/2004
Was the war legal? Leading lawyers give their verdict
As ministers faces new challenges on the legality of the invasion of Iraq, Owen Bowcott talks to international law experts to find that most think it was illegal - and that the attorney general's advice should be published.
3/01/2004
California lawmaker introduces RFID bill by Alorie Gilbert
Senate Bill 1834 would apply to any business or state government agency using radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to track merchandize or people.
Bush's Crony Capitalism by Norman D. Livergood
Bush's crony capitalism is so deranged that the normally staid Financial Times of Britain earlier declared that "the lunatics are now in charge of the asylum."
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