New York Times and Washington Post Today

My thoughts on some things I read:

The New York Times--
(on noticing slant)
1. Russia is written about as if the government's taking over private resource industries is a negative thing. What I find ironic, is that this is exactly what the U.S. has done with the banks. And you know, really, if the U.S. is going to give big bail outs to corporations, doesn't that mean the government is directly tied to and invested in these companies which puts them in a conflict of interest position when it comes to investigating fraud or allowing bad companies and bad management to fail? The government is doing favors for the elite. Again. But we're not just taking them over--we're becoming business partners. So much for separation of state and private interests. This is the WORST form of socialism. I mean, give a little to the PEOPLE, but no, we watch as Democrats and Republicans reinforce a plutocracy, with welfare for the rich. Ummmm...Hmmmm...I wonder if the FBI will be getting any funding to go after corporate crime? After the government just threw money at the corporate criminals and mismanagers? I wonder how many people who work in the FBI's corporate crime unit, are absolutely DISGUSTED with what's going on. I think it's actually better to just totally take over a company, than to become formal business partners with it.

GET A GRIP U.S. Think about it--Russia's natural resources are vastly different from ours. They are not unwise to build roads when they can well afford oil and gas forever. We have to identify OUR natural resources and capitalize on those things. And given our LACK of oil, we should not be building more roads. We should be building massive public transits from NYC to the California Coast.

2. Pakistan's "Spies". I really like how the writer of THIS NYC article, writes an ENTIRE column trying to align Pakistan as a whole country, and their "spies", to being responsible for Mumbai. At the very same time, including a very thin line about how, "there is no hard evidence linking..." (the two of them together). No hard evidence, but a whole column of shit and assumption. That's how we got into the "weapons of mass destruction" mess. Irresponsible reporting. Where is this reporter from? Wenatchee?

The Washington Post--

1. Just a comment, I'm glad to hear something may be done about Darfur. It's strange we go after Iraq because of "genoicide", but do nothing about Darfur. Or Zimbabawe for that matter.