CATASTROPHIC
predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion
of a tipping point, a point of no return. Last Monday - on ABC
Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a
different kind in the debate on climate change.
As
Congress and the Bush administration struggle to contain the housing
and credit crises — and prevent more Wall Street firms from
collapsing as Bear Stearns did — a split is forming over
how to strengthen oversight of financial institutions after decades
of deregulation.
Alex
welcomes Larry Elliott, economics editor of the Guardian, to
talk about his article, America was conned -- who will pay?
In the article Elliott writes that it is "somewhat surprising
that there is not already rioting in the streets."
On
the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Bush's illegal war
of aggression in Iraq, the Fabricator-in-Chief made a speech
at the Pentagon, whose muzzled army chiefs had opposed his costly,
ruinous adventure from the start for strategic, tactical and
logistical reasons.
"The
Iranian threat (must be neutralized) before it arms itself with
a nuclear bomb. In addition, Iran must be prevented from building
its main bases in the region, from Gaza to Lebanon, and particularly
in Jerusalem [al-Quds]," he said.
In
June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let
Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on
illegal immigration; they turned thumbs down on the President’s
guest worker amnesty plan; and they wanted tax-paid services
to illegals stopped.
Plans
to fingerprint passengers at Heathrow's new Terminal 5 are being
probed by the data protection watchdog. The Information Commissioner's
Office warned airport operator BAA it may be in breach of the
Data Protection Act.
The
French blogosphere is abuzz with outrage and derision over a
24-year-old appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy to keep an eye on what
is being said about the president on the World Wide Web.
George W. Bush graphically demonstrates
his personal effort for combating the War in Iraq, which
includes a technique perfected while dodging service in
Vietnam.
