Thanks for the article url, and, yes, I've been following this closely, though
without much faith that much will come of it or that it will be rectified. But those
correlation ratios are very disturbing, and I'm not convinced that Bush was even
elected this time which makes the resulting democratic party and media
commentators turning themselves inside out somewhat beside the point.
However, I don't get this about Australia? I would guess that it's the 'yes' that
occurs among the like thinking who are able to continue in their own thoughts
while conveniently reaping the economic benefits of so doing? I'm not sure I
agree that Australia is a group of 'yes men' , i.e., merely complicit in the 'active
evil' of the US; isn't that how Howard and company actually think? You suggest
that they're being bought out by the dollar, that plunging millstone, but I think
there's a genuine agreement between the 'values' of the Howard government
and the Bush administration, which is more perplexing, admittedly. Ah, well,
this is beginning to remind me of the sixties when those who were thought to
be too 'paranoid' turned out to be right, historically speaking,
Best,
Rebecca
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Hi Tim and all
I'm lving in a country that's voted for a PM who is basically belly up and
whimpering to Bush; there's not even the bad excuse that Blair has that he
is trying to put brakes on the bull. Our government is just being a
collection of yes men, apparently in the interest of a free trade deal,
which will tie us to the US economy for years to come. Though given how the
US dollar is plunging through the floor, I suspect it's like tying ourselves
to a millstone and jumping into the middle of the Pacific. This moral
swampishness depresses me more than I can say.
Anyway, I don't know how many people have been following the persistent
unease about the US election results that have been surfacing on the
internet since Bush won. It started with those exit polls. There's a
summary below of some of the concerns that maybe it was another heist.
Best
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