What the world thinks of America...

[Galmin]

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Dr David Kelly, Where are you now???

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Dr David Kelly, distinguished gentleman extraordinaire with loads of civil courage, is dead as a doornail. Suicide? I highly doubt that. In fact the Hutton inquiry (when you disregard Hutton's conclusion and merely list the discrepancies) suggest otherwise.

[RonOnGuitar]

Re: BIASED BROADCASTING CORP



Indeed the BBC has proven itself biased and dishonest. There's even a website that monitors the biased BBC:

BIASED BBC

BBC news completely lost any credibility it may have had left after it confessed to fabricating "sexed-up news".



Brits are debating if the BBC charter should be renewed in the future or if it should be consigned to the trashbin of history. Obviously, it cannot - in itself - be taken seriously as a source of actual and factual news.



The BBC does fine in the area of the arts - theatre, sitcoms, etc. It should be allowed to produce things of that nature. However, it should not be permitted to produce "news". That is a job best left to outlets capable of objective reporting.

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Now - as for "What the world thinks of America". If I were to calculate how many minutes of sleep I've lost pondering that question, it would equal exactly 0. On the contrary, thinking about it would be a sure way to put me to sleep.



But by way of contributing to the line of thought:



There was a Canadian radio broadcast by Gordon Sinclair back in 1973 that says everything that needs to be said - then and now. You can download the original, compelling broadcast of it at this page as an MP3 (I won't deeplink to it and steal their bandwidth):

Gordon Sinclair - "The Americans"

Here's the text of the broadcast, but I think listening to the MP3 of the actual broadcast is even better -



"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the earth.



As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.



They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.



When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there -- I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it is the United States that hurries into help, Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.



So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.



The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.



Now, I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.



Come on now, you, let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a women on the moon?



You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They're right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they're breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.



When the Americans get out of this bind -- as they will -- who could blame them if they said "the hell with the rest of the world." Let somebody else buy the Israel bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes." When the railways of France, and Germany, and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of 'em are still broke.



I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.



Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They'll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they're entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians.



And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.



This year's disasters -- with the year less than half-over -- has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped."

[Galmin]

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BBC news completely lost any credibility it may have had left after it confessed to fabricating "sexed-up news".

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Oh dear. Please Ron, now in retrospect, don't you think it is obvious that the security report was in fact sexed-up?



Blair said he would leave office, should he have lied about Saddams WMD capacity. The dude is still there. He is claiming that he acted in good faith (mea culpa isn't in his mental capacity. A decent politician would have taken the concequences). The strange thing is that the report, once ready, was sent back, edited (adding information the late Dr Kelly never approved of. He even disapproved of them) and filed, hard upon it were to be used. Now suddenly, an Iraqian capacity to launch a WMD strike within 45 minutes appeared in the report, the nuclear capacity estimated had shrunk from "12 years if any" to "months". Mr Blair used this as main argument, to the extent that it sounded like the British Island could be struck with a WMD device launched within 45 minutes. On top of that, Blair made 28 statements about Iraq's weapons that were unsupported by the intelligence assessments available to him. What dishonest creep wouldn't? Time after time in the run-up to war, Blair asserted Saddam's imminent threat through WMD. In March 2003(!) Tony Blair promised the immediate release of a dossier that would prove Iraq had gone beyond the stage of nuclear blueprints. No such dossier has been presented. TO THIS DAY!



He has failed to withdraw material later found to be false.



The leaking of Dr Kellys identity is another highlight, quite in the league of the Valery Plame game.



Speaking of wich, where is Alastair Campbell these days?



Do not come dragging with any lost credibility here.

Edited by: Galmin  at: 3/16/05 17:50

[Rev9Volts]

who gives a sh!t... i don't... the world wants a week america...

[Galmin]

No, the world wants an Amerika just as it is, minus a leader who starts wars because his advisers, who all come from the oil industry (but has no connection to their former employers whatsoever, hahaha), tells him it's the right thing to do.

Edited by: Galmin  at: 3/24/05 9:17