The Big Con

thehill.com — They got caught with their pants down by the high oil prices and their lock-step love affair with the big oil companies, making huge profits out of you when the sun shone. In the process they retarded the US's innovation and development of alternative fuels and energy for years in favour of gas guzzling SUV's.

They are fighting emission controls in environmentally aware states like California.

Now they want your tax dollars to bail them out now that the energy and financial pigeons are coming home to roost.

For the corporations its win win there is no downside, with fat cheque executive payoffs even if you run companies into the ground. What kind of capitalism is this? Its something else.

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scoop.co.nz — The July 25, 2008 House Committee on the Judiciary hearings focused on the Kucinich resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush. In his resolution, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) argues that Bush knew that the Iraqis had no weapons of mass destruction, yet claimed that they did in order to justify the March 2003 invasion. The "fraudulent misrepresentations," as they're referred to in the resolution, cost lives, compromised national security, and represented a clear abuse of constitutional power. The evidence supporting these claims is highly persuasive.

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commondreams.org — The story is good but the comments are better.

Staccato barbs of frustration and anger are a reflection of whats really going on under the political hood.

Watch out Nancy, your time MAY have come.

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independent.co.uk — The threat by the American side underlines the personal commitment of President George Bush to pushing the new pact through by 31 July. Although it is in reality a treaty between Iraq and the US, Mr Bush is describing it as an alliance so he does not have to submit it for approval to the US Senate.

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