American Dream Heads Overseas
People are Talking About A Job-Loss Recovery

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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry speaks to United Auto Workers
members during a campaign stop where he received the UAW endorsement

John Kerry, the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, took dead aim at President George W. Bush’s economic record yesterday, as he unveiled his first major policy proposal since winning his party’s nomination last week.
The senator from Massachusetts told a partisan crowd in Detroit that if he is elected President he would enact changes to the tax laws aimed at reversing the trend of U.S. companies shipping jobs to other countries — commonly referred to as “outsourcing” — telling those assembled that he would “end the tax policy allowing companies to defer U.S. taxes on profits made in other countries.”
The Democratic nominee said his tax reform plan would help him create 10 million jobs over four years.

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Turning the Tide: Noam Chomsky Joins the World of Blogging

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Vancouver: March 20 rally for Peace

Noam Chomsky has entered the big, messy world of blogging with his new blog Turning the Tide.
Today’s posting covers the invasion or Iraq …

All opponents of the invasion of Iraq — at least, all those who bothered to think the matter through — took for granted that there would be beneficial effects, as is often the case with military interventions: the bombing of Pearl Harbor, for example, which led to the expulsion of Western imperial powers from Asia, saving millions of lives. Does that justify Japanese fascism and its crimes? Of course not: there is far more to consider, and I’ve never had any question that these other considerations amply justify condemning Japan’s aggression as a war crime — the “supreme crime” of Nuremberg.


Reader David Cubitt sends along a somewhat spotty Vancouver Co-op Radio link to their Redeye site, where you’ll find an audio link to Chomsky’s speech, in Vancouver, at the International Day of Action rally, which Deborah Campbell covered, albeit somewhat cynically, for The Tyee.ca.

Microsoft Rules the Universe: Introducing Blogbot

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Bill Gates worries that, perhaps, there may be consequences for mowing down the competition

The behemoth that is Microsoft announced yet another innovation yesterday, this time for the weblogging community: MSN Blogbot. Essentially a tool for searching weblogs, MSN Blogbot is set to début before the end of June. MSN Corporate Vice President of MSN Information Services, Yusuf Mehdi, announced Blogbot along with MSN Newsbot (which will be released separately), a news search engine also in development.
And then there’s something else — Answerbot. This will be a search feature that will retrieve answers to questions posed in natural language, along with links to related sites, although Answerbot is probably a few years away from launch.

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Hear and Read the Full Testimonies at the 9-11 Commission Hearings

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Audible.com has thankfully seen fit to offer free audio of the 9-11 Hearings, currently being held in Washington, D.C.
The testimonies of U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; Clinton administration representative to the United Nations and then, in late 1996, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright; counterrorism director in White House administrations from Reagan through George W. Bush, Richard A. Clarke; national security adviser to the Clinton administration Samuel L. Berger; and former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, among others, have been made available.
Thanks, again, to Debra Galant for pointing us to Audible.com.