published 12 months ago (05.11.2008 21:01)
»The true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms, or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals—democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.«
published about 1 year ago (05.10.2008 11:54)
»Palin is a Jacobin. A radical fundamentalist Christian who believes that the US invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq is “God’s war” and who thinks that all young Americans should be over there fighting Islam, just as one of her sons is. She also thinks that homosexuals should be jailed (and perhaps even burned at the stake) and that “creationism” (a pseudo-science that preaches the world was created in just seven days) should be taught in all public schools. So convinced is she of the satanic properties of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” that she tried to have the book banned from the library of the small town where she was mayor, and when that didn’t work she tried to fire the librarian.«
Excerpted from John Hemingway’s blog article, President Palin, which is a worthwhile read. Although his conclusion on why Sarah Palin was chosen is drastic …
published about 1 year ago (12.09.2008 00:43)
Klingt logisch, wird von den USA auch so gehandhabt, wie im Buch Confessions of an Economic Hit Man von John Perkins nachzulesen ist. Wenn man Ihm glauben darf; der Guardian meint, ja.
Eines der Procedere ist wie folgt (verkürztes Zitat):
“What we’ve done … we’ll go to a country that has (natural) resources, and arrange a huge loan to that country (by the World Bank), but almost all of the money goes to US corporations (like Haliburton, General Motors, General Electrics, ...), not the country itself. The corporations build huge infrastructure projects in that country … The country is left with a huge debt, by intention …”
Das Buch ist November 2004 erschienen, ich konnte keine Hinweise finden, dass die Geschichten erfunden wurden. Das solche Dinge nicht in die breite Öffentlichkeit vordringen, ist leider auch eine wertvolle Information über das System in dem wir leben. Selbes gilt für den Fall des Ex-FBI Direktor Flynt Leverett.
Update: einen beeindruckenden Vortrag von John Perkins gibt es auf Google Video.