The following is more evidence that your privacy and the world of privacy is over. We have officially entered the Orwellian world that George Orwell warned us of in 1948 in his book 1984. A world of constant surveillance, a world of government over individual, a world of corporation over individual. We are entering a Brave New World of comfort over freedom, and security over expression.
Powerful X-ray machine debuts in Phoenix
‘Backscatter’ visually strips off clothing
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17296248/
While some may laugh this off, this invasion is only a step in a series of invasions of our privacy. Security is the excuse. 9/11 is the excuse, even though we know the only reason 9/11 even happened in the first place was government failures at the top. This will have ugly results, mark my words.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Rudy Runs Again, just like he did on September 11th
Giuliani confirms he’s running in 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17158406/
While Bush was busy exploiting 9/11 to get what would become the biggest gain in rating polls for a sitting president, the Mayor of New York City was doing the same. Rudolph Giuliani who broke every promise he ever made while in office and whose own ratings were in the danger zone, used 9/11 as a springboard for million-dollar book deals and lectures. His popularity soared and he wore the name “hero” as if it were really true. Here was a politician running away from the scene of terrorist attacks yelling “let’s head uptown,” and yet he’s called a hero? For what? Rallying the people of New York after a terrorist attack? That’s not enough to be called a hero. The real heroes were the ones heading in the opposite direction as the mayor. The real heroes were the ones who climbed those steps and tried to rescue people from the burning towers. The brave New York City fire fighters and police officers, they were the heroes. I would like to see someone try and justify Rudolph Giuliani’s exploitation of 9/11. I would. I really am curious.
Rudy Giuliani & The Bush Administration Destroyed the WTC Demolition Evidence: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2778503
Rudy Giuliani Is Not a Hero. Repeat After Me.
When you place the command and control center so close to the World Trade Center that the new $50 million facility was destroyed in the attacks, and you are the one responsible for the FDNY having inoperable Motorola radios (how many people would have been saved if the firefighters could have actually heard the orders to evacuate?) and then, despite the fact that almost 3,000 of your constituents died, you fought against the formation of the 9/11 Commission, just as President Bush did, you are not a hero. You are a hypocrite.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-boyce/rudy-giuliani-is-not-a-he_b_40235.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17158406/
While Bush was busy exploiting 9/11 to get what would become the biggest gain in rating polls for a sitting president, the Mayor of New York City was doing the same. Rudolph Giuliani who broke every promise he ever made while in office and whose own ratings were in the danger zone, used 9/11 as a springboard for million-dollar book deals and lectures. His popularity soared and he wore the name “hero” as if it were really true. Here was a politician running away from the scene of terrorist attacks yelling “let’s head uptown,” and yet he’s called a hero? For what? Rallying the people of New York after a terrorist attack? That’s not enough to be called a hero. The real heroes were the ones heading in the opposite direction as the mayor. The real heroes were the ones who climbed those steps and tried to rescue people from the burning towers. The brave New York City fire fighters and police officers, they were the heroes. I would like to see someone try and justify Rudolph Giuliani’s exploitation of 9/11. I would. I really am curious.
Rudy Giuliani & The Bush Administration Destroyed the WTC Demolition Evidence: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2778503
Rudy Giuliani Is Not a Hero. Repeat After Me.
When you place the command and control center so close to the World Trade Center that the new $50 million facility was destroyed in the attacks, and you are the one responsible for the FDNY having inoperable Motorola radios (how many people would have been saved if the firefighters could have actually heard the orders to evacuate?) and then, despite the fact that almost 3,000 of your constituents died, you fought against the formation of the 9/11 Commission, just as President Bush did, you are not a hero. You are a hypocrite.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-boyce/rudy-giuliani-is-not-a-he_b_40235.html
Thursday, February 01, 2007
IS THE ECONOMY REALLY "FIRED UP"?
IS THE ECONOMY REALLY FIRED UP?
Compiled by Annabelle Gurwitch
Whose economy is it anyway? Jobless rate in America is the lowest since 2001; but since 2001, 95% of working people in America’s wages have been flat or falling. Only the top 5% have shared in the economic growth. Real wages and salaries makeup the lowest share of the GDP since 1947, corporate profits are the highest they’ve been since the 1960’s.
Where’s my gold watch? You won’t be receiving a gold watch if you were working for any of these companies:
Actress and humorist ANNABELLE GURWITCH, best known to television audiences for her many years as the co-host of the cult favorite “Dinner and a Movie” on TBS.
She is currently a contributing writer and commentator on “Day to Day” on NPR.
Her film FIRED is currently playing in select theaters: http://www.firedthemovie.com/
http://www.internationalfilmcircuit.com/fired/playdate.html
Compiled by Annabelle Gurwitch
Whose economy is it anyway? Jobless rate in America is the lowest since 2001; but since 2001, 95% of working people in America’s wages have been flat or falling. Only the top 5% have shared in the economic growth. Real wages and salaries makeup the lowest share of the GDP since 1947, corporate profits are the highest they’ve been since the 1960’s.
Where’s my gold watch? You won’t be receiving a gold watch if you were working for any of these companies:
- AOL said so long to 5,000. Employees in Aug 06.
- Intel cut its ties to 10,000 employees in Sept 06.
- Ford offered 75,000 workers buyout packages in October, and announced that 14 plants will close by 2012 eliminating 30,000 jobs.
- GM also offered buyouts to 100,000 workers if they said goodbye to their jobs.
- Dupont declared in the week before Labor Day that new workers will no longer receive defined benefit pension plans and more tenured employees’ pensions will be reduced. And uh, we’re not offering health care either - Happy Labor Day!
Ratio of average CEO salary to the average American worker is now 435 to 1
People who are unemployed stay unemployed fifty percent longer than they did in the seventies, and only about half as many receive unemployment insurance as did so in 1947.
Actress and humorist ANNABELLE GURWITCH, best known to television audiences for her many years as the co-host of the cult favorite “Dinner and a Movie” on TBS.
She is currently a contributing writer and commentator on “Day to Day” on NPR.
Her film FIRED is currently playing in select theaters: http://www.firedthemovie.com/
http://www.internationalfilmcircuit.com/fired/playdate.html
Global Warming is Certain
Officials from 113 countries agreed that a much-awaited report will say that recent global warming was “very likely” caused by human activity...
The officials also approved language that said an increase in hurricane and tropical cyclone strength since 1970 “more likely than not” can be attributed to man-made warming, according to delegates Leonard Fields of Barbados and Cedric Nelom of Surinam.
In its last report in 2001, the same panel had said there was not enough evidence to make such a conclusion. The last U.N. report, in 2001, said global warming was “likely” caused by human activity. There had been speculation that the participants might try to change the wording this time to “virtually certain,” which means a 99 percent chance.
The new report is expected to predict that global temperatures could between 2.5 to 10.4 degrees by the year 2100 unless stronger efforts are made to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industry. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16922234/
Meanwhile...
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company — $39.5 billion — even as earnings for the last quarter of 2006 declined 4 percent. The 2006 profit topped the previous record of $36.13 billion which Exxon set in 2005.
Revenue at the world’s largest publicly traded oil company rose to $377.64 billion for the year, surpassing the record $370.68 billion that Exxon posted in 2005.
Exxon Mobil’s record annual earnings followed a year of extraordinarily high energy prices as crude oil topped $78 a barrel in the summer — driving up average gasoline prices in the United States to more than $3 a gallon. Prices retreated later in the year.
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