George Bush: Liar, Mass Murderer, War Criminal
# My Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop has a bad habit of going to full 1600x1200 resolution when I close the lid, with a little 1024x768 screen area in the center. Since I changed it to not go into standby mode when I close the lid, it's doing this almost every time. Fortunately, I discovered by accident a little while back how to get it back to 1024x768 pixels filling the screen: hold down the "Fn" shift key (between left "Ctrl" and the windows key), and press "Font" (F7) twice. Hopefully, Google will direct others with this problem to this paragraph.
# Carl Bussjaeger at North American Samizdat - REDACTED: Verizon pressured Hunter to have this site censored! - a humorous (to those of us whose names aren't redacted) response to a Verizon demand that names of its tyrants be taken off of Mr. Bussjaeger's web page. See Carl's Verizon Boycott Graphics page for some images you can use to support the Boycott (two examples below and in the left column). [lrtdiscuss]
# Pravda - Exposing Bush the liar, the mass murderer, the war criminal - why Iraqis are going on a rampage against Americans. [grabbe]
Western TV reporters are beginning to say they cannot leave their hotels and US reporters are wearing the Canadian maple leaf - or hide behind hijabs.
Why this hatred? Because the United States of America decided to utterly and totally destroy Iraq to pave the way for reconstruction contracts to be doled out to the clique of the corporate elite which dictate the White House's policy (not the voters), some of these without tender.
Paul Bremer is selling Iraq and its people to foreign institutions controlled by Washington. Last October, a law was passed linking the economy to foreign control (Order 39, which cannot be changed by the new government) and instituted special powers for special institutions, controlled by Washington, which will supervise the new Iraqi ministries. Long after the US troops pull out (or retreat), the Project Management Office and the US Embassy in Baghdad will continue to control the reconstruction process and funding. Neither will all the troops leave, since there are plans to station over 100.000 in the country for several years at the 14 permanent military bases being set up around the country, advance bases for strikes against other countries as Washington goes for the throat of the world's richest region in mineral resources.
This is the truth, not the lies spun by Washington about freedom and democracy and evil dictators and WMD.
George Bush's freedom and democracy is translated into horrific statistics about human casualties, the people he said God had told him to save. The "great care" taken by Washington to reduce civilian casualties included the dropping of brightly-coloured, shiny cluster bombs into civilian areas for children to mistake as sweets, only for the explosive fragments to blow up, blowing away their faces, their hands, their legs, their eyes or even their lives. UNICEF estimates that at least 1.000 children - one thousand children - were mutilated for life in this way.
Independent estimates point towards a civilian death rate of between 7.500 and 9.500 and a further 20.000 wounded, including women and children, the elderly and babies, blasted through their roofs by George Bush's freedom and democracy and by the great care of his murderous forces. As for Iraqi soldiers, the estimates are between 13.500 and 45.000 dead and between 40.000 and 135.000 wounded.
Allied casualties are impossible to estimate because of Washington's lies.
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George W. Bush is a war criminal, a mass murderer and a barefaced liar. Let this document prove as testimony for any institution with the courage to take this man and his evil clique of cronies, who hijacked their country, democracy and the world, on a murderous ecstasy of assassination and destruction, just because of corporate greed, to the dock in a court of law, where they belong.
# Laura Sullivan at The Baltimore Sun - U.S. declares war on porn - the Busheviks are attempting, at the point of their government guns, to convert the country to their Puritan morality. Larry Flynt is preparing for another fight. [grabbe]
Ashcroft vs. consent
In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast."
Given the millions of dollars Americans are spending each month on adult cable television, Internet sites and magazines and videos, many may see themselves not as victims but as consumers, with an expectation of rights, choices and privacy.
Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance, and has fought unrelenting criticism that he has trod roughshod on civil liberties in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, is taking on the porn industry at a time when many experts say Americans are wary about government intrusion into their lives.
The Bush administration is eager to shore up its conservative base with this issue. Ashcroft held private meetings with conservative groups a year and a half ago to assure them that anti-porn efforts are a priority.
But administration critics and First Amendment rights attorneys warn that the initiative could smack of Big Brother, and that targeting such a broad range of readily available materials could backfire.
"They are miscalculating the pulse of the community," said attorney Paul Cambria, who has gone head to head with Taylor in cases dating to the 1970s.
"I think a lot of adults would say this is not what they had in mind, spending millions of dollars and the time of the courts and FBI agents and postal inspectors and prosecutors investigating what consenting adults are doing and watching."
