Warmonger report #2 · Thursday October 4, 2007 by colin newell
U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday vetoed a measure to expand a popular children’s health care program, launching the first in a series of major battles with Democrats over domestic spending.
Picture at left – An afghan boy stands among unexploded cluster bombs in Afghani schoolyard.
Bush was noted saying: “The policies of the government ought to be to help people find private insurance, not federal coverage,” Bush said.”
George. They are poor people. Poor children. They cannot afford any insurance. Hello!
Representative Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat quipped – “Today the president showed the nation his true priorities: $700 billion for a war in Iraq, but no health care for low-income kids,”. “Millions of American children and their families won’t forget that they are on the bottom of the president’s priority list.”
The veto came as a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed more than seven in 10 Americans supported the $35 billion increase proposed under the bill. By contrast, the same poll showed many wanted to see a reduction in Bush’s spending proposal for the Iraq war.
This president is obviously out of control.
In other news, the Korea’s are in the process of mending fences… and this fact alone must set off alarm bells in the Bush-Cheny war camp.
One less country to attack.
Russia deploys the Father of Bombs · Wednesday September 12, 2007 by colin newell
Moscow, Sept. 12 : Russia has tested the world’s most powerful non-nuclear vacuum bomb, the military said, dubbing it the “father of all bombs”.
Russia’s ORT First Channel TV yesterday showed a strategic bomber dropping the vacuum bomb over a testing ground, which exploded in a massive fireball. Pictures of crumpled multi-story apartment blocks were also broadcast.
“Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon,” Russian Deputy Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Alexander Rushkin told the channel.
According to General Rushkin, the new bomb is smaller than the United States “mother of all bombs” but much deadlier because, due to nanotechnology, the temperature at the epicentre of the blast is twice as high.
“You will see it in action, the bomb which has no match in the world… Despite its destructive qualities, the vacuum bomb is environmentally friendly,” he claimed. The same report was later shown on state sponsored ‘Vesti’ channel.
Wow. The father of bombs. And environmentally friendly too! No carbon credits to buy. Win win if you ask me.
Question: Do the people that get blown up by this bomb not create an environmental impact where their body parts are scattered?
Just asking.
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Eye pollution in Toronto · Thursday August 30, 2007 by colin newell
There is nothing sweeter than the little guys victory over the big guys – people that profit from bending or breaking the law and generally polluting the skies around us.
IllegalSigns.ca is a team of volunteers who fight illegal billboards and that is their blog. Half the billboards in Toronto are illegal – help them bring the vast, unlawful privatization of our public visual environment to an end.
A bridge over many troubled waters. · Friday August 3, 2007 by colin newell
A bridge has fallen in Minnesota.
Is it a domino in a much bigger picture of infrastructure decay in America?
The society of civil engineers in the U.S.A. think so.
In their shocking report they reveal that one fallen bridge may be the tip of the ice-berg.
The writers at the Coffee.bc.ca blog place the blame squarely where it belongs: At the feet of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
-for robbing the taxpayers of America in their largely imagined war on terror
-for diverting billions of dollars from crumbling American infrastructure to greedy-gut friends in the military industrial complex
George. Dick.
The blood and dust and heartbreak of lives lost is at your feet.
Shame. Shame.
