Newshog 06-02-2005

George Bush Snr. is "Deep Throat"? That and more in the 22nd Newshog news briefs.

• The biographer of Woodward and Bernstein has written to Poynter.org with a shocking conclusion - Bush Snr. was Deep Throat. Thanks Shadows!
  
  
• Deep Throat Jnr's $2.5 trillion budget is shaping up as his most austere, trying to restrain spending across a wide swath of government from popular farm subsidies to poor people's health programs.
  
  
• Robin Angus, director of the £150 million ($270m) Personal Assets Trust has described the Federal Reserve as a "bigger threat to the US economy than Osama bin Laden".
  
  
• The India Times reports that "India and China will collaborate and share world’s energy sources."
  
  
• Meanwhile, Russia and China have formally joined hands to stop expanding American and European military as well as economic global influences. "India and Brazil will be invited to join the alliance."
  
  
• More and more, GOP members are expressing doubts on Bush's social security privatisation plans.
  
  
• With more would-be immigrants dying in the process of migrating from Mexico to the US, their opponents and advocates north of the border argue not just over the solution to "the problem," but also its definition.
  
  
• A white supremacist vigilante group plans a month long anti-immigrant patrol along the Mexican border.
  
  
• The United States dealt a damaging blow to the UK Chancellor, Gordon Brown. yesterday by rejecting one of his key proposals to tackle African poverty.
  
  
• Nelson Mandela says it’s the modern slavery. Thousands have demonstrated against it. Gordon Brown has a plan to eradicate it. So why won’t the US sign up?
  
  
• As the usual senatorial suspects return to the frontlines for another fight over tapping the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, Republican lawmakers may slip language into other bill to dodge a filibuster.
  
  
• Neocons and liberals together again - hawkish liberal groups ally with the Project for the New American Century.
  
  
• The State of the Media Address (Disclosure: MediaChannel.org obtained this document from usually unimpeachable sources. We cannot verify it.)
  

Quote of the Day:

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
John F. Kennedy.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.