It feels strange to have nostalgia for the times of GW Bush, but Trump has make President GW Bush into a soft of folksy hero, and a re-evaluation of his time in the White House and his own sense of self-effacing humour contrasts sharply with the humourless, narcissistic approach we have become used to. Take …
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Syria and Iraq
In the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middleeast/chemical-weapons-wont-be-used-in-rebellion-syria-says.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120724 - it is evident that Syria has a large cachet of WMD. Why? Well Saddam's stock must have gone somewhere when sabrés were rattled. Syria is all that is left of the common Ba-athist political party that fell with Saddam in Iraq. What is Ba'athism? It is an Islamic form of Socialism. …
Political Evolution
Politics needs evolution too. The US were way ahead of the game before GW Bush made the biblical error of declaring war on Iraq despite the evidence and spent the American economy into extraordinary debt compounded by fraud and banking fantasy-land mathematics. It was a stampede into insolvency that left the economy etherised on the …
How to solve the financial crisis
Economic RegressionThe path that GW Bush has set the United States upon is inverse socialism. It is regression. It has produced an incipient depression in the world economy by creating a inverse bubble. A huge cash vacuum has removed 2 trillion from the American federal reserve.To reduce the treasury into a funding agency for the …
Red Alert
Ever wonder how the ingenious Dept of Homeland Security Alert System of colour coded warnings was derived? Take a look at the linked movie. Click the title. It explains the design team's philosophy and perhaps explains why the Dept of HS is so effective at stopping terrorists (except white ones) from being able to harm …
The Agenda Setting Edge
On a MB (Message Board) on The Agonist - one of the best blogs in the business:"I meant Trade Center Bombing 1993, first year of Clinton in office same as 2001 for Bush. I think Al Qaeda likes first term Presidents, a point of weakness before they get their bearings."Perhaps that is the pattern and …
The Web of Deception
Robert Fisk: Caught in the deadly web of the internet - Independent Online Edition > Robert FiskCharacter assasination has taken on a whole new meaning as the "war on terror" progresses. The Dept of Homeland Security has a massive budget for spying upon the activities of potential terrorist threats. That is a reaction to the …
Return to Democracy?
House overturns Bush order on papers secrecy | ReutersAt last, America is undoing legislation that GW Bush introduced back in 2001 to protect himself and past presidents from exposure by allowing them to keep their papers secret for ever. It was a scar on the landscape of freedom. It was a blot on democratic leadership …
House rebukes the president on Iraq
A good telling off should put Mr Bush back into line with the rest of the world. He has had too much nodding and the deadly smiles of the likes of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney's rippling grimness. His cabal of approval has been broken. How he has to contend with a Democrat Congress.Mr Bush …
Condi Rice Can
SatireOn the lighter side...