Trouvé ici, tout sur les dessous de l'invasion de l'Irak et de l'Afghanistan…
Selon Reuters, l'ex-président George Bush, invité à participer à un gala en Suisse, a dû annuler son voyage du fait de la possibilité non négligeable d'être arrêté par les autorités helvétiques afin de répondre de sa responsabilité dans d'innombrables plaintes pour torture.
Le Nigéria semble accepter de renoncer à ses poursuites pour corruption à l'encontre de Dick Cheney en échange de 250 millions de dollars de dessous de table émanant de sa compagnie, Halliburton.
Gasland est un documentaire tourné par une personne qui a préféré décliner l'offre de leasing de son terrain par une société spécialisée dans l'extraction de gaz naturel.
À la place, Josh Fox s'est armé d'une caméra et a parcouru les Tazunis en quête d'information sur cette dangereuse et polluante pratique qu'est le Gas Fracking… Imaginez l'eau du robinet devenue inflammable. C'est ce qui arrive en vrai.
Cette personne s'appelle Laurie Milryoe, bien qu'elle ait commis l'impair d'associer Saddam Hussein à toutes les attaques "teroristes" qu'ont connu les Tazunis depuis la fin de la Guerre Froide, l'équipe de Bush n'a pas hésité à la placer dans un poste à responsabilités au Pentagone en 2004.
Voilà qui en dit long sur l'incompétence de la Central Intelligence Agency.
Les 22 millions de mails que la Maison Blanche affirmait avoir perdus ont été retrouvés, selon Canoe.ca.
Ne pavoisons pas trop vite : il faudra du temps pour les analyser, et un certain délai de prescription doit êter respecté avant que leur publication soit autorisée.
Lu sur Slashdot…
Bush and collegues came into office promising to implement Grover Norquists ideas for contracting govenrment. The graphic phrase most often used was they would have to "strangle it in the bathtub" which was Norquist's shorthand for meaning that to reduce spending they had to basically remove govenement agencies and kill off revenue.
Fast forward we have years of the biggest govenement expansion ever. Some bandy the word "socialist" over the bailout. But actually that misses the big picture.
Suppose your goal was to move the governement more towards a corporatist outlook and to really strangle spending how could you do this.
You do it with debt. This 700 billion will be paralytic both in crippling elective goverment spending as well as it's ability to raise future debt. Oddly It does not actually go on the books as debt even but it is a liability.
And even if some day the loans and options they are buying pay off, it's accomplished the tow key goals.
1) strangling it in the bathtub. There cannot be any socialist expansion during Obama because there simply is no way to finance it either with direct revenue or borrowing.
2) a movement towards corporatism. The Government will rise and fall with the value of the companies it holds options in. What's good for the US really is what's good for AIG and JPmorgan, and the rest. Even the people admisistering the hen house in both the SEC and Treasury came from Goldmann Sachs.
The 1930's was when Corporatism was invented and the country practicing it, italy, was consider a miracle. the rest of the world was reeling in the depression. Senators and congressmen hailed the Moussilini miracle and went on fact finding missions to figure out how to import this here. Adolf Hitler was swept into power in part by nationalism that awoke in the aftermath of WWI but also because he too offered the fascist miracle for germany.
THe trains did run on time. THe auobahns emerged. It was spring time for hitler and germany too.
SO we now have an odd time in the US. We are backing our way into fascism. We have all the ingredient. Cheney and his patriot acts have created police powers that are unprecendented in our history of civil liberties. Even our allies like britain have gone to a surveliance society and now ponder 2 days detenciton with charges.
THe second fork of facism is corporatism where the state manages for the good of the corporations and vica versa. (the reason corproatism was such a miracle was precisely because of the vica versa. The people were really better off in the rising economy of italy).
So while hitler managed to once and for all kill the term "facism" at one time, it's potential for being an ecomomic engine was admired.
I note I'm not triggering Godwins law here because I'm not comparing my oponent to Hitler. Instead I'm saying that we are indeed backing into something that is facism in everything but name only, both the good and the bad.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"
Mussolini
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