Newshog 28-11-2004

For four years now, American neo-conservatives have been congratulating themselves on running the world's only superpower. Given their record, is it any wonder the rest of the world has quietly been trying to level the balance? Here is today's Newshog News Briefs. If you have an opinion - post a comment!

• Why are letter writers across America outraged that the act of mass killing makes smoking look cool?
  
• Less than 1 in 5 American evangelists would give to AIDS orphans.
  
• Pentagon exposes Bush' lie: "Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies," new report says. More here too.
  
• Take a look at the flip side of Iraq war reporting. Ask yourself, is this any less or more biased than Fox News? Any idea which is more accurate?(Thanks, Shadows)
  
• There simply is no evidence that the Republicans illegally stole the election. Sorry. Now suck up and drive.
  
• Marines admit they always have ex-members of Saddam's special forces with them on raids. Aren't these the guys we were meant to be defending the Iraqis from?
  
• The British Army says that the IRA is unlikely to return to terorrism because 9/11 eroded their American support.
  
• The election in the Ukraine has more at stake than simply democracy for that country, as the U.S. Russia and European Union all mull the geopolitical effects.
  
• Bush agrees to changing the unfair law that lead to recent WTO sanctions against the U.S.
  
• After Putin's alliance-forging trip to Brazil - next stop India, where the two countries are expected to sign accords on defence cooperation and other areas to take strategic relations to a much higher level.
  
• In case you missed it, there's a huge scandal brewing - "Tankergate" - which has already cost top people their jobs and cost the taxpayer billions.
  
• The Bush administration's privatisation of Social Security will be financed by more borrowing, increasing the budget deficit, says White House.
  
• In Britain, a new poll suggests the Conservative Party will still be unelectable for at least ten more years. Thanks Mrs Thatcher.
  
• Opposition mounts, much of it from within his own party, to Tony Blair's homegrown Patriot Acts.
  
• And lastly, have some fun making stickers for schoolbooks. (Only the first one is a genuine sticker already used by some American school boards.)
  

Quote of the Day:



Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.


Voltaire