The American Dream is alive and well, its just not in America:
That American CEOs last year earned 262 times the average pay of their own workers is no big deal. It’s always possible that some of them actually earned all that money, or at least some of it.
What is, surely, something of a big deal [...]
My pointing finger is starting to twitch…
American cars and pickup trucks are responsible for nearly half of the greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles globally, even though the nation’s vehicles make up just 30% of the nearly 700 million cars in use, according to a new report by Environmental Defense.
Cars in the U.S. are driven more [...]
I think the UK may actually have lost more freedoms than even the US. Maybe it’s ex-pat romanticism of the old homeland, but I’ve never seen the British as a shit-taking nation - remember the poll tax riots? I sincerely hope that enough will soon be declared enough.
From the ‘That’s so wrong’ category…
In one of the most remarkable signs yet of the advance of global warming, Britain’s first olive grove has been planted in Devon.
Temperatures have risen so far in recent years that it is now considered possible to grow the iconic fruit of the Mediterranean countries commercially in southern England.
A [...]
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Bob Kincaid may have scored one of the only interviews with this young man. Just two days ago.
Thuth Out says,
First Lieutenant Ehren Watada became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to deploy to the Iraq war at 2:30 Thursday morning. Hours before his refusal, Lieutenant Watada confirmed his steadfast opposition to the [...]
Tim at Road to Surfdom has composed a little tale.
It was August 2001 and the President Bush was on holidays at his ranch in Texas. He was showing some visitors around. “And that there’s the sky,” he said. “The blue bits.”
Read “Chronicle of a war foretold“
With this story following so soon after the news that women troops had been attacked and raped by their colleagues at Abu Gharib, its looking like the US Army has another ugly endemic problem on their hands. You really have to wonder what kind of a sick culture has developed amongst the ranks [...]
Larry Beinhart has an excellent piece at Common Dreams in which he explains Busheconomic theory in the clearest possible terms - sort of a Bushenomics for dummies - or economics by dummies - here’s an extract:
…The so-called recovery has been treated as very mysterious. First, because it did not produce jobs. Now, because it is [...]
His friends seem to know him very well:
A braided leather whip, a sniper rifle, six jars of fertiliser and a copy of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook were among the presents foreign leaders have given George Bush. They are clearly trying to tell him something.
The inventory of official gifts from 2004, published this week by [...]
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