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Re:Bush's Legacy
« Reply #15 on: 2009-02-19 11:49:01 » |
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Quote from: David Lucifer on 2009-01-19 10:31:01 source: The Onion
[I thought this article was hilarious when I first read it back in 2001. Now it seems eerily prescient and foreboding.]
Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'
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Without predicting the exact details, I remember this article as a weirdly accurate outline of the kinds of problems Bush would bring. In retrospect it seems comparatively kind to the war criminal we've gotten to know and despise in the meantime. They left out the details of torture, the corruption of intelligence, and the complete incompetance of the administration in crisis response (Katrina) - but when considered as details of the greater themes of ending peace and prosperity, its a fairly accurate (if intended humorous) prediction of what we were in for. I suppose if they had gotten any more accurate, it would've have seemed more disturbing and less humorous at the time.
Thanks for recycling it, Lucifer - I definitely remember it, and in retrospect its only more interesting.
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Re:Bush's Legacy
« Reply #16 on: 2009-02-19 12:16:47 » |
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From Hermit's offering:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090216_bad_news_from_americas_top_spy/?ln
Quote:<snip>Unemployment, when you add people no longer looking for jobs and part-time workers who cannot find full-time employment, is close to 14 percent. [ Hermit : The UN are optimists and using the definition they have used, the jobless rate in the US exceeds 20%].<snip>
"The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications," Blair told the Senate. "The crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided over whether and when we could hit bottom. Some even fear that the recession could further deepen and reach the level of the Great Depression. Of course, all of us recall the dramatic political consequences wrought by the economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, the instability, and high levels of violent extremism." [ Hermit : Too late. As a percentage of the market and on a per capita basis the loss of value already exceeds that of the Great Depression, as does personal indebtedness and job loss. And the bottom is nowhere in sight. Worth wondering why the unregulated US suffers first.]<snip> |
According to shadowstats, the real unemployment rate in the US is currently 18%. This is the way we used to measure it before we started cooking the unemployment stats under Bill Clinton to avoid criticism of his "welfare reform". Of course Bush now gets the benefit of that same statistical propaganda. In the middle of the great depression unemployment reached 25% by the time FDR took office, so in many ways we are definitely in a comparable situation. These stats are now over a week old, and with more recent news about more layoffs I wouldn't be surprised if we are almost there now.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data
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Re:Bush's Legacy
« Reply #17 on: 2009-03-09 00:39:10 » |
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Source: FFWeekly
Author: Jeremy Klaszus
Date: March 5, 2009
Canada should bar or prosecute Bush: lawyer
Foreign Affairs stays silent on upcoming Calgary visit
Mark Mushet
Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson says that because Bush has been 'credibly accused' of war crimes, Canada should deny him entry
As George W. Bush’s St. Patrick’s Day visit to Calgary draws near, the federal government is facing pressure from activists and human rights lawyers to bar the former U.S. president from the country or prosecute him for war crimes and crimes against humanity once he steps on Canadian soil.
Bush is scheduled to speak at the Telus Convention Centre March 17, but Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson says that because Bush has been “credibly accused” of supporting torture in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Canada has a legal obligation to deny him entry under Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The law says foreign nationals who have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity, including torture, are “inadmissible” to Canada.
”The test isn’t whether the person’s been convicted, but whether there’s reasonable grounds to think that they have been involved,” says Davidson, who’s with Lawyers Against the War (LAW). “…It’s now a matter of public record that Bush was in charge of setting up a regime of torture that spanned several parts of the globe and resulted in horrendous injuries and even death. Canada has a duty.”
In February, Davidson sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other cabinet ministers asking the Canadian government to either bar Bush from Canada, prosecute him once he arrives, or have the federal attorney general consent to a private prosecution by LAW against the Texan. She hasn’t received a response, and concedes she’s fighting “an uphill battle” with “terrific challenges.” Davidson laid torture charges against Bush during his visit to Vancouver in 2004, but a judge quashed them within days.
The federal government is keeping silent on the upcoming visit. “We have no comments to offer on the visit of Mr. George W. Bush to Calgary,” said Foreign Affairs spokesperson Alain Cacchione in an e-mail to Fast Forward. When told about Davidson’s letter, a spokesperson with the Canadian Border Services Agency said “we wouldn’t comment on something like that.”
Davidson is one of many voices around the world calling for Bush’s prosecution. Earlier this year, Manfred Nowak, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture, said the U.S. has a “clear obligation” to prosecute Bush and former secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld for authorizing torture — a violation of the UN Convention on Torture. “Obviously the highest authorities in the United States were aware of this,” Nowak told a German TV station in January.
Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director for Human Rights Watch, says that while there’s legally “all the reason in the world” to prosecute decision-makers in the Bush administration, “it’s a different story” politically. “The Obama administration certainly has not given much in the way of encouraging signals for such a prosecution,” says Mariner, who’s based in New York. “Obama has consistently said that he wants to look forward.” Mariner says that while a U.S. justice department investigation is unlikely, a congressional investigation is more probable — and “that could lead to recommendations for prosecution.”
Mariner’s not expecting a Canadian prosecution against Bush. “Obviously the Canadian government would have to be in favour of it, and that seems rather unlikely,” she says.
Calgary activists, meanwhile, are organizing a number of events for the week of Bush’s visit, culminating in a noontime rally outside the Telus Convention Centre during Bush’s speech. “We want to give him the welcome that he deserves — which is we want him to go back to the States, or we want him arrested,” says organizer Collette Lemieux. Activist Julie Hrdlicka, who visited Iraq twice during the American occupation, agrees. “We need to send a clear message to him that he’s not welcome,” she says.
Lemieux is hopeful that Bush will eventually be prosecuted. “Do I think that it’s going to happen very soon? No,” she says. “But I think that it’s very important that we keep the pressure up…. We have to make it clear that there’s accountability.”
The Plaza Theatre, meanwhile, is screening three Bush-themed documentaries for a “Bush Bash Film Fest” the night of the visit. Half the box office proceeds will go to the United Way.
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Re:Bush's Legacy
« Reply #18 on: 2009-03-14 19:52:56 » |
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Shoe-Throwing Journalist Sentenced to Three Years
Zeidi Still Enjoys Broad Popular Support in Iraq
Source: Antiwar
Authors: Jason Ditz (Compiler)
Dated: 2009-03-29
Muntadar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who went from obscurity to folk hero status in December when he threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush, was sentenced to three years in jail today for “attempting to assault a foreign leader.” Zeidi said his behavior was “a natural reaction for the crimes committed against the Iraqi people.”
[/i]ABC News[/i] is revealing today polling data that shows Zeidi still enjoys broad support among the Iraqi populace, with 62 percent calling him a hero. His popularity was particularly broad among Sunni Arabs, with 84 percent of them saying the journalist was a hero.
Zeidi’s trial faced numerous delays, and the journalist was held totally incommunicado for nearly a month. His family has been concerned for his safety, amid reports of his mistreatment in detention. His brother organized a protest rally on his behalf in central Baghdad on Tuesday, but it was broken up by the army. [ Hermit : Just as if it had happened in that other great freedom loving country ]
A spokesman for the Supreme Council of the Iraqi Magistrature defended the verdict, saying Zeidi had received a fair trial. [ Hermit : One wonders under what circumstances a prosecuter who stage manages a trial of a tortured defendant sentenced on a blatantly overzealous charge might say that the defendent did not receive a fair trial? ] There was concern that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was exerting undue pressure on the judges in his public condemnations of Zeidi, including calling the incident “a barbaric act.”
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Re:Bush's Legacy
« Reply #19 on: 2009-03-14 20:12:40 » |
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Quote:| [Hermit] : Just as if it had happened in that other great freedom loving country |
Quote:[Fritz]Canada should bar or prosecute Bush: lawyer
Foreign Affairs stays silent on upcoming Calgary visit |
Maybe we could get them Calgary folk to ship Bush to Iraq for a fair trial as well, that might be justice.
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