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Scale Back AIDS funding, but Keep Christian Teen Abstinence Funding
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/polit The blurb from Daily Rotten: "President Bush plans to scale back requests for money to fight AIDS |
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No 10’s sticky note plan to avoid awkward e-mails
No 10’s sticky note plan to avoid awkward e-mails DEBORAH SUMMERS, Political Correspondent January 26 2004 DOWNING Street has come up with a strategy to curb embarrassing internal e-mails by replacing electronic messages with sticky notes. The method has already been adopted by the White House. Staff at No 10 are to be encouraged to leave messages for each other on Post-it style notes that can be torn up and destroyed without a trace. The move follows a barrage of highly embarrassing electronic mails, written by some of Tony Blair's closest aides, that came back to haunt the government after they were submitted to the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly.( Read more... ) |
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Imminent threat: now & then
Thanks to Kos & the Center for American Progress. See the CAP Progress Report: "I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent.' Those were not words we used." - White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 1/27/04 "There's no question that Iraq was a threat to the people of the United States." - White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan, 8/26/03 "We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." - President Bush, 7/17/03 Iraq was "the most dangerous threat of our time." - White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 7/17/03( Read more... ) </font> |
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'American Dynasty': Kevin Phillips (Rolling Stone)
The House of Bush Rep. strategist Kevin Phillips on the Bush family's hunger for power By Eric Bates Listening to Kevin Phillips talk about politics, it's easy to mistake him for a populist firebrand from the 1890s. He rails against the growing inequality of wealth in America. He bemoans the unprecedented influence that private corporations hold over public institutions. He attacks the "smug conservatism" of George W. Bush and accuses the president of attempting to establish a family dynasty better suited to royalist England than to democratic America. But Phillips is no left-wing demagogue. He's not only a lifelong Republican, he's also the guy who literally wrote the book that became the blueprint for the party's dominance of presidential politics. Phillips served as the chief political strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and, in The Emerging Republican Majority, he formulated the "Southern Strategy" that helped hand the White House to the GOP for a generation. In his new book American Dynasty, Phillips lays out his almost visceral distaste for what he calls "the politics of deceit in the House of Bush," accusing the administration of dishonesty and secrecy that would make Tricky Dick blush. He traces the course of Bush's family over the past 100 years, detailing how they sought influence "in the back corridors" of the oil and defense industries, investment banking and the intelligence establishment. Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. "I'm not talking about ordinary lack of business ethics or financial corruption," says Phillips, who recently registered as an Independent for the first time. "Four generations of building toward dynasty have infused the Bush family's hunger for power and practices of crony capitalism with a moral arrogance and backstage disregard of the democratic and republican traditions of the U.S. government." As a result, he says, "deceit and disinformation have become Bush political hallmarks."( Read more... ) </font> |
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ABC News: The version of reality that we didn't see on TV
ABC News: The version of reality that we didn't see on TV Last night Diane Sawyer of ABC News took a new look at Governor's Dean's Iowa speech, and determined in a "mea culpa" that what the networks had shown over and over wasn't quite the same as what happened on the ground. Turns out that famous video snippet failed to capture the crowd--or the sound of its cheers. Sawyer says: 'After my interview with Dean and his wife in which I played the tape again -- in fact played it to them -- I noticed that on that tape he's holding a hand-held microphone. One designed to filter out the background noise [...] So, we collected some other tapes from Dean's speech including one from a documentary filmmaker, tapes that do carry the sound of the crowd, not just the microphone he held on stage[...]'( Read more... ) </font> |
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Kalpesh Lathigra Photography
from widows: "There are over 3000 widows in Vrindavan, some have been thrown out by their families, others just dumped in the town and some who came as child widows to pray and hope for Moksha (salvation after death, a break from the cycle of reincarnation) in this holy town of Vrindavan. They spend their days chanting in the ashrams for their daily portion of rice and 2 ruppees." http://www.kalpeshlathigra.com/folio_ma http://www.kalpeshlathigra.com/folio_wi |
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