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 [Adam Ash] Some last thoughts about Katrina for the time being: But as culpable, criminal and loathsome as the Bush Administration is, it is only the apotheosis of an overarching trend in American society that has been gathering force for decades: the destruction of the idea of a common good, a public sector whose benefits and responsibilities are shared by all, and directed by the consent of the governed. For more than 30 years, the corporate Right has waged a relentless and highly focused campaign against the common good, seeking to atomize individuals into isolated "consumer units" whose political energies -- kept deliberately under-informed by the ubiquitous corporate media -- can be diverted into emotionalized "hot button" issues (gay marriage, school prayer, intelligent design, flag burning, welfare queens, drugs, porn, abortion, teen sex, commie subversion, terrorist threats, etc., etc.) that never threaten Big Money's bottom line.

 [The Commons] Tentacles of Rage: The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history LEWIS H LAPHAM / Harpers Magazine v.309, n.1852, September 2: prices improved for ideological piecework (as much as $I00,000 a year for some of the brand-name scholars at Heritage and AEI), and eager converts to the various sects of the conservative faith were as thick upon the ground as maple leaves in autumn. By the end of Reagan's second term the propaganda mills were spending $I00 million a year on the manufacture and sale of their product, invigorated by the sense that once again it was morning in America and redoubling their efforts to transform their large store of irritable mental gestures into brightly packaged policy objectives””tort reform, school vouchers, less government, lower taxes, elimination of the labor unions, bigger military budgets, higher interest rates, reduced environmental regulation, privatization of social security, down-sized Medicaid and Medicare, more prisons, better surveillance, stricter law enforcement.

 [ValleyofDeath] PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE = CAIR: (here we see the signs of what we describe today as "Terrorism" and these verses have become the basis for the twisted ideologies of "Scholars" like Khomeini, Taymiyya, Wahhab, Muhammed Iqbal, Abu al-Mawdudi, al-Ala, Abu al-Hasan, Sayyid Qutb and Malik Bennabi, to name but a few.

[Leiterreports.typepad.com] Leiter Reports: Second, while we might agree that National Guardsmen and doctors in New Orleans shouldn't be spending time blogging and writing op-eds about who is to blame, it is ludicrous to suggest that those of us who can make no concrete contribution to relief efforts--which includes just about every law and philosophy professor in the United States--shouldn't do what we can do, which is collect information, analyze, and evaluate. Third, the proper assignment of blame and responsibility is both vital for future planning and for justice: 

[Iris.org.il] Wednesday, September 14. 2005: The Palestinian police - who vanish whenever a foreign citizen is kidnapped in broad daylight in the streets of Gaza and disappear whenever a gang of armed and masked members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade take over a Palestinian Authority building - were out in full (and aggressive) force against several hundred workers and unemployed who staged the protest. Abd-as-Samih an-Najjar, the elected head of the group, said, "We shouted at them [the police], 'In Neve Dekalim, the Israeli army stood in front of the settlers for days on end and did not harm them, while you, our national police force, throws tear gas at us within five minutes.'"

 [Blogsforbush.com] Blogs for Bush: What President Bush is trying to do is cut through the morass of bureaucratic hurdles which would slow down the recovery from Katrina, and generally cut off the people worst affected from the benefits of rebuilding. What the left is trying to do - other than convince everyone that President Bush has a weather machine which deliberately created the hurricane - is ensure that the corrupt power structure remains as is...and if poor black people in New Orleans have to suffer for it, then that is just too, damned bad.

 [Newcriterion.com] ARMAVIRUMQUE: THE NEW CRITERION'S WEBLOG: I might sound naive but I would like to ask where the “freedom fighters”, “the resistance”, “the strugglers for the freedom of Iraq” were when that man ran amok. Having delivered Saddam, the Americans will have to deliver Iraq.

 [Chrenkoff.blogspot.com] Chrenkoff: Consequently, moving forward is not just an option, it is a necessity, which WHO illustrates in its current support to the Iraq MOH through number of crucial tasks: the extension of the national blood transfusion centre is at 90%; 33 projects to rehabilitate over 50 PHC centers in different governorates are currently under implementation (a number have just recently been completed), with the rehabilitation of more than 15 PHC centers still under bidding and WHO is working to construct 19 training halls around Iraq, one for each governorate (18 are currently under implementation)...

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