Monthly Archives: October 2003

Today, John Cleese, the actor and comedian who was born one year after Nylon was invented, best known for his part on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the most famous British comedy of the 20th century, turns 64. Happy Birthday and here’s to one last silly walk before we are truly in for something completely different.

Over the past week or so, the Bush administration has been busy defending their occupation of Iraq with the same false arguments they have always been using. Last Friday however, Vice pResident Dick Cheney introduced a new element, the “day of terror” routine, which may become very significant in his and Bush’s election campaign. In [...]

Anyone who has observed the Bush adminstration’s foreign policy as it concerns the Middle East for a while can’t have missed the fact that they get along awfully well with Israel, and not just because Israel is the bully of the Middle East. Ian Williams over at Alternet now argues that Israel’s recent bombing of [...]

If there ever was any doubt that very few corporate executives and army officials rule the world, it has been extinguished now, or at least should be. A detailed listing of all the corporations profiting immensly from the quasi annexation of Iraq, which was published yesterday, brings to light one big network of very well [...]

Yesterday, October 7, 2003, Californians elected Austrian born actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as their Governor. The bodybuilder won with a 1 million plus votes advantage over his nearest competitor, Bustamante, who will remain Lt. Governor. The Republicans have now successfully placed their second puppet in the world’s sixth largest economy, which will no doubt suffer as [...]

One editor at the BBC certainly seems to think so. According to the article, Israel’s bombing of targets in Syria could well encourage US chickenhawks to launch their PR campaign and following military campaign against Syria. While the actual execution of such plan will probably take some time (i.e., remove some troops from Iraq, lie [...]

As newly discovered documents show, the California recall election is nothing but another neo-con scam conducted to get away with a felony. Just like on the federal scale with GWB, Schwarzenegger is merely a group of neo-cons’ puppet that will obey their every command. Having him in office will allow them to keep 98% of [...]

Even though progressives have been dispelling the myths of Saddam Hussein as a danger for months and both UN and US government weapons inspectors have not found any weapons of mass destruction, pResident Bush is still under the misguided impression that somehow Saddam was a threat to the US. As this is clearly false and [...]

After being threatened with legal measures by ICANN, Verisign, the main .net and .com domain name registrar has shut down its domain wildcard service which provided a deafult page for every unregistered domain name as the service had wide ranging effects on the Internet. It is most definitely good to see that the ICANN has [...]