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Rita could blow Bush out of office
So let me contemplate this. 9/11 happens, 3000 people are killed. The Bush-government proclaims it will prevent future desasters like this. It founds the Homeland Security department. Next thing we know it starts wars with Afghanistan and Iraq. Some time later, hurricane Katrina hits the coast line of Louisiana and a historical city, a cradle of culture, is wiped out. A 1000 people die, seven year old children get raped, looting and anarchy govern over the New Orleans Superdome, where people are held like animals.
All you need is to listen
If you considered supporting ONE by sending money, think again. Perhaps there is more you can do. It’s about caring for issues and being heard. About compassion and learning from each other. You can make the Third World part of…
They knew Iraq would be a mess
In its article “Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Postwar Iraq Plan”, the Washington Post published today: A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the…
Funny or frightening
Networld Fusion writes in an article: Mobile devices and the terrorism-alert culture Reminds me of my own story at the airport. “Why would you bring all your devices here?” the officer asked me. She added something like she would not…
The connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq
Here are excerpts and an analysis in english of Al Qaeda tapes used to recruit people. Watch the video clip about Iraq. It shows there was indeed a connection between Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein: They hated…
Similarities in public behaviour
After WWII, when asked why they did not do anything to stop the Nazi regime from contineous mass murder, the answer of most germans was, they thought the reports were overly exagarated and they didn’t believe the stories they heard…