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Hurricane could turn city into toxic cesspool - "Though Hurricane Katrina didn't deliver a direct hit on New Orleans Monday, there still were fears that the storm could turn one of America’s most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city’s legendary cemeteries."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9113550/
Bush 'very optimistic' about Iraq - ""I'm very optimistic about Iraq because, first of all, I believe, deep in everybody's soul, is the desire to be free," the president said." -- Was that the reason we attacked Iraq?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050829/pl_afp/usiraqbush_050829201940
Does Anyone Know What We're Doing in Iraq? - "Does Bush think he is a dictator? The polls show that it is the American people's resolve that Bush bring his Iraq venture to an end, an orderly end if possible, but to an end. Every explanation Bush has given for his invasion of Iraq has proved to be false. Yet, Bush still speaks of "our noble cause," while taking great care to avoid Cindy Sheehan and her question, "What is the noble cause?" Perhaps Bush supplied the answer in his reference in his weekly radio address to "our efforts in . . . the broader Middle East." What are our efforts "in the broader Middle East"? ... The neocons' belief that Israel is made more secure by US military aggression in the Middle East is delusional. How is Israel made secure by an invasion that turns the Muslim world against America as all polls show and Iraq into a training ground for al Qaeda, as the CIA says has happened?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08292005.html
Nuremberg Lesson for Iraq War: It’s Murder - "This month marks the 60th anniversary of the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the basic legal document for the trial of the major Nazi war criminals that commenced in November 1945. One of the great innovations of that charter was the charge of "Crimes Against Peace," defined as the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances." In a famous passage from their judgment of the following year, the four judges of the tribunal (American, British, French and Russian) declared the crime of aggressive war to be "the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." ... The crime of aggression is nowhere to be seen in modern international criminal codes, and leading the charge against including it has been the United States itself. It's easy to see why. The war in Iraq, for one example, constitutes the quintessential war of aggression, falling very far short, rhetoric apart, of any justification in self-defense or authorization by the Security Council of the United Nations, the only two accepted legal grounds for war in international law."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0830-33.htm
Why supporting the troops means you have to oppose the War in Iraq - "Extremist broadcasters such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, the mouthpieces of the Bush Junta, have embarked upon a smear campaign that revolves around one simple argument, namely that you cannot support the troops and be anti-war at the same time. The notion that all anti-war supporters are also by association of belief, anti-military, is at first, a logical argument, however, upon closer examination, like most propoganda built on lies, it tends to fall apart very quickly."
http://www.djpauledge.com/blog.php?id=108
Here's the Funny Part - "Here we have Pat Robertson, ostensibly a Christian, judging by the number of crosses he surrounds himself with, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Parsing the gibberish that pours forth from this fraud of a holy man has been a parlor game in my home for a while now. My favorite remains the statement made by Robertson in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when he said the attack was God's judgment on America for our tolerance of gays, feminists and the ACLU. After you get past the immediate disgust that comes whenever you hear something so vile, you are left with the Robertson pretzel-logic. Think about it: If the attacks of 9/11 were the righteous judgment of the Lord, as the false priest told us, then the terrorists were acting on behalf of and to the purposes of God. In other words, they were doing holy and important work, and are therefore above reproach. Call off the War on Terra, folks, and let's bring the troops home. We're waging war on a bunch of dudes who were only seeking to follow Jesus' direct orders. ... George W. Bush coughed up his latest rationale for continuing the Iraq war - I think this is the fourth or fifth one of these to this point - by saying that because so many American soldiers have been killed, we have to keep sending American soldiers to get killed as a means of honoring the American soldiers who have been killed. Big talk from a guy who spends more time on vacation than a French aristocrat."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005I.shtml
Why Pat Robertson is an idiot - "I've heard that the Vice President of Venezuela is calling Pat Robertson a terrorist for this type of talk and is calling for the US to take appropriate action. Personally, I wouldn't mind if he was treated as such. At the end of the day, we have to do what's right, don't we? We can't let those who have the charge of leading run at mouth irresponsibly without calling them out on it."
http://bigolclown.blogspot.com/2005/08/why-pat-robertson-is-idiot.html
Gonzales Faults Senate Version of Patriot Act Legislation - "Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales yesterday criticized a Senate bill that would place new restrictions on law enforcement in the USA Patriot Act, saying the legislation would hamper the government's ability to prevent terrorist attacks. Gonzales, during a meeting with editors and reporters at The Washington Post, said he favors a competing House version of the antiterrorism law that includes fewer restrictions on the government."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901434_pf.html
Looters turn New Orleansinto 'downtown Baghdad' - "Defender: 'It's an opportunity to get back at society' for those who've been oppressed."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46056
Dumping of US dollar could trigger 'economic September 11' - " There is a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of the global economy: the strong possibility of financial meltdown following a collapse of confidence in the greenback. The nightmare scenario that haunts global strategist Clyde Prestowitz is an economic September 11 -- a worldwide financial panic triggered by a sudden massive sell-off of US dollars that would lead inexorably to the collapse of economies around the world.If that happens, Prestowitz predicts: "It would make the Great Depression of the 1930s look like a walk in the park.""
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16416680^28737,00.html
New law could mean death penalty for doctors - "Texas doctors who perform abortions without parental approval or after the third trimester could face capital murder charges because of a new law that takes effect this week, a prosecutors group says. ... "I think it's a little bit of a stretch," said Elizabeth Graham, director of Texas Right To Life. "The legislative intent clearly was not to incarcerate doctors or execute doctors who are performing abortions, illegal or otherwise." The chances are "very slim" that a district attorney would try such prosecution, she said." -- Ah, but "slim" is not zero.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3330600
From foetus to full term - without a mother's touch - "Artificial wombs, to bring a foetus of a human being to full term outside a woman’s body, could become a reality within 20 years, scientists have predicted."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1755908,00.html
U.S. Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent - "The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CA6ME80.html
Wholesale gasoline hits $3 on Gulf Coast - ""This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing," said Geoff Sundstrom, spokesman for the AAA motorist group. "Production, distribution, and refining has slowed to a crawl through the whole area and that will mean higher gasoline prices throughout the entire United States.""
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_gasoline_prices_dc
The Internet again in the political crosshairs - " Social conservatives helped to re-elect President Bush last year. Now his administration is returning the favor with a crackdown on sexually explicit material. ... Now Martin has hired Penny Nance, an antiporn religious activist, to be his adviser. Until a few weeks ago, Nance was a board member of Concerned Women for America, which has a mission statement of bringing "Biblical principles into all levels of public policy." ... Calling for a crackdown on sex sites through new taxes, regulations or prosecutions might make headlines--but it's just political posturing. Sexually explicit material isn't limited to the United States, and persuading the Dutch to pull the plug on sites based in Amsterdam is as likely as persuading France to endorse the invasion of Iraq. ... The second problem is that antiporn laws are touted as targeting smut, but they end up being used to suppress unpopular ideas." -- Maybe that's the point.
http://news.com.com/The+Internet+again+in+the+political+crosshairs/2010-1071_3-5843843.html?tag=pulse.tb
Saturn moon delights and baffles - "Using the instrument-packed Cassini probe, they have confirmed that the 500km-wide world has an atmosphere."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4197686.stm
Comic of the Day
http://www.comics.com/editoons/wolverton/archive/wolverton-20050821.html
Quote of the Day
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American President would have been hanged."
~ Noam Chomsky
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