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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (7016)	5/17/2006 2:36:22 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

US makes world safer: Howard Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ \| 17 May 2006 \| Kim Landers and wires Prime Minister John Howard is wrapping up a visit to Washington by urging the United States to remain involved and committed in world affairs. The Prime Minister has been honoured with a state dinner hosted by President George W Bush at the White House. During the dinner, both men toasted each other's friendship and leadership. Mr Howard has also used the occasion to argue for America to continue to take the lead in international affairs. "A world without a dedicated involved America will be a lesser world, a less safe world, a more precarious world," he said. "If I have a single message for the people of your great country ... [it] is, that the world continues to need America and the world would be a better place for the involvement and the commitment of the people of the United States of America in the years that lie ahead." Mr Bush says the relationship between Australia and the US is broad and deep. "In the global war on terror we have no better ally than Australia and John Howard," he said. Indonesia's role The two men have also emphasised the role of Indonesia in the fight against terrorism. "We did have an opportunity to talk extensively about some of the challenges in our immediate region," Mr Howard said. He says he highlighted the importance of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, in counter-terrorism. "I spoke about the ... importance of the role of Indonesia, the symbolism and also the tactical consequence of Indonesia being the largest Islamic country in the world," Mr Howard said. He says "the success and prosperity" of democratically-elected Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's "moderate Islamic leadership" is itself "a very important factor in the long term success of the fight against terrorism". "Because the fight against terrorism is not only a military and physical one; it is also an intellectual one," Mr Howard said. "It's a question of providing within the Islamic world a successful democratic model as an alternative to the fanaticism of those who would obscenely invoke the sanction of Islam to justify what they seek to do." Mr Howard flies to Chicago tomorrow.

To: PartyTime who wrote (7016)	6/25/2006 3:30:10 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 9838

"You should presume that phone numbers are being collated with Internet records, credit-card records, everything." That's why they call it totalitarianism – because they want access to everything. The totality of your life must be available at the touch of a button. Remember "Total Information Awareness," the scheme cooked up by John Poindexter and Donald Rumsfeld that Congress ordered dismantled? Well, this "data-mining" business is it: Rummy, it appears, just embedded the program in a different bureaucratic rat-hole, and they've been pursuing their quest for omniscience ever since, without the knowledge or oversight of Congress. This usurpation has so riled Sen. Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, and 50 other members of congress, that there will be a congressional investigation into the matter.<< Yup. 1984 is becoming a reality in this life time. The right is so ignorant they don't realize that they are selling the American democracy down the river. Its very sad.