THE (almost) DAILY BUZZSAW_- LINKS - Wednesday September 11, 2002
9/11 TIMELINE - "The Most Comprehensive Minute by Minute Timeline On 911" By Mark Elsis
911timeline.net
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9/11 Unanswered Questions - Online Journal: "Questions from the Abyss"
onlinejournal.com
.pdf file, prints in 10 pages: onlinejournal.com
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BBC: "U.S. Threatens World Peace" - Nelson Mandela
news.bbc.co.uk
Mandela on U.S. foreign interventions: "If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace."
Mandela recalled that Mr. Cheney had been opposed to his release from prison.
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BIDNESS: Cheney's Swindle Prone Management. While Oil Slick Dick retires rich, Halliburton demands refund from lesser retirees, unilaterally re-writes pension provisions. Employee lawsuits pending. This is amazing stuff, if you find shell games with disappearing 401(k)s (101ks?) to be your cup of tea:
nytimes.com
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BIDNESS: CEO Pay Pilloried --FRB's Wm.McDonough tries moral suasion to curtail CEO abuses
chicagobusiness.com
Quote: ``Beginning with the strongest companies, CEOs and their boards should simply reach the conclusion that executive pay is excessive and adjust it to more reasonable and justifiable levels,'' said McDonough. ``Should there not be both economic and moral limitations on the gaps created by the market-driven reward system?''
``We must recognize that the leadership of the American economy has made a large number of American citizens, and countless more around the world, question our judgment and/or our ethics,''
With the benefit of hindsight, the policy of vastly increasing executive compensation was also ``terribly bad social policy and perhaps even bad morals,'' the central banker said.
Treasury Secy.O'Neil may come to regret these words if applied to the world's most powerful CEO, as the world wakes up to GWB's malfea'ance and moral turpitude: ``I think people who abuse our trust, we oughta hang them from the very highest branch.''
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BIDNESS: NATURAL GAS drilling falls off in Canada. "Inexplicable", according to large driller.
Message 17980291
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BIDNESS: Sensible market advice: Get out
truthout.org
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BIDNESS: WORLDCON: Ebbers may lose his bennies -
msnbc.com
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BUSH: Senate Defies the Thief-In-Chief on $6 Billion Drought Relief:
washingtonpost.com
Quote from a compassionate conservative: ""Unfortunately, the vote . . . was just a political statement," said Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who voted against the measure.
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BUSH: Ted Rall cartoon........ "GWB Prays to his Godä"
ucomics.com
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BUSH: Propaganda Machine in Full Cynical Blossom:
Message 17980250
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CHENEY: ENERGY SCAM - Liar Liar Pants Afire -- In 2001, Cheney was hysterically demanding massive new power generating infrastructure. Now his cronies are shutting down the surplus plants.
biz.yahoo.com
Cheney & Cie. schemers Documents Held Hostage: Day 489
dailyenron.com
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CHINA Just Says No to Internet Free Speech. Best "control" system yet....."The Great Fire Wall".
salon.com
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DEMOCRATS GET A LITTLE SPINE: Cheney criticized for scheduling interview with Limbaught today. Height of bad taste and poor judgement by Oil Slick Dick: (OK, maybe not quite as vile as his call on Mandela...)
newsmax.com
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FLORIDA: Queen Kate Harris dressed down by hometown newspaper:
dailyenron.com
Quote: ""Four times the Herald-Tribune has recommended Katherine Harris in an election for public office," the Sarasota paper began in an editorial published yesterday. "The recommendations were made with reservations, sometimes with trepidation, but always in the hope that experience would help Harris harness her extraordinary energy, bring clarity to her views and teach her to avoid those embarrassing blunders."
"That hope has vanished."
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FLORIDA ELECTIONS: "Florida Flubs at Voting Again: Astonishing incompetence, or design(?).....
heraldtribune.com
[[RGD: Time to ditch the 21st Century and go back to verifiable paper ballots? "Touch Screen" voting machines are only as honest as the Republicans who program them........ ]]
siliconinvestor.com
Quote: "We have some precincts giving out Republican ballots [to Democrats] in the heart of the black community. . . . It makes me feel like this is intentional," said Rep. Corinne Brown (D) as she toured precincts in her Jacksonville district. "I'm enraged."
.......But a whole new vocabulary for election fiascos replaced the chads. Today, people talked of the missing PEBs, the square, hand-sized devices used to turn on the new voting machines, known as the iVotronic.
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HUMOR BREAK: Is Orange Your Color? Preparing the bend over and kiss your..... goodbye.
Message 17974303
"Satire, kids, is your sacred duty as Americans. Be funny. Poke them cows and make them moo."
-Garrison Keillor
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IRAQ: Huge Arsenals bristling across entire Middle East - Japan Today reports on the "Order of Battle":
japantoday.com
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IRAQ: Online Journal: "The enemy of my enemy is my customer: Iraq and the Bush Adminstrations. The GHP (Grand Hypocrisy Party) writ large:
onlinejournal.com
Quote: "Saddam Hussein received tremendous help from Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and from US corporations, and continues to receive passive economic assistance from the current Bush administration..........."
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IRAQ WAR PREPARATIONS Village Voice - Ridgeway, James "I Hear Ameica Sinking: Bush Pulls a Grieving Nation Into War"
villagevoice.com
Quotes: "Military: September 11 represents a huge military and intelligence failure, symbolized by news that air traffic controllers knew a second plane had been hijacked and was potentially heading for the World Trade Center well before it crashed into the south tower. But our air defenses were nowhere. The BBC just last week aired an interview with the Northeast Defense Sector air commander saying that there were only four armed fighters patrolling the Atlantic coast of the U.S. that day."
[[RGD: And for this we pay how much? $396 Billion proposed for FY2003. ]]
"The problem for America is that evil and wicked are exactly what the world thinks of us."
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IRAQ: Blair set to recall Parliament for non-binding debate week of Sept. 23:
ananova.com
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--Theodore Roosevelt |
