Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Greg Palast debates Salon.com on vote fraud
"It was the Germans who began bombing civilian populations rather than military targets... Hitler describes the tactic as "Schrecklichkeit" (frightfulness), the use of terror to break a country's will to resist"
"Our strength is in our quickness and our brutality. Ghengis Khan had millions of women and children killed by his own will and with a gay heart. History sees only in him a great state builder. What weak Western European civilization thinks about me does not matter … Thus for the time being I have sent to the East only my “Death's Head Units” with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?"

On the Moral Implications of Torture and Exemplary Assassination

On filibusters and spineless Democrats
ACLU speaks out against national ID card
The Bush administration has more CEOs working in it than any administration in history... So where does that get us?

If the US can increase the fuel efficiency of its automobiles by one mile per gallon, it would conserve as much oil as there is in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge that Bush has been pushing to drill in. Increasing the fuel efficiency to 7.6 miles per gallon would conserve as much oil as we use from the entire Gulf region...

Instead, the Bush administration has eliminated tax breaks to buyers of the most fuel-efficient hybrids, and increased tax breaks to purchasers of the biggest gas guzzlers... so much so that for some people it's cheaper to buy a Hummer than to buy a $22k fuel-efficient hybrid. It's not so surprising then to hear that when he was a Senator, Bush's Energy Secretary got more money from the automobile industry than any Senator in history...

The head of the Forest Service is a timber industry lobbyist... The head of the Public Lands is a mining industry lobbyist who believes that public lands are unconstitutional... The head of the Air Division at the EPA is a utility lobbyist who has represented nothing but the worst air poluters in America... The head of Superfund (hazardous waste cleanup program) is a woman who's last job was teaching companies how to evade Superfund...

On Condi Rice and other members of the Bush administration

Mass Media in 'Lock Down' Not To Cover Vote Fraud