Interesting, no? Seems our fascist goons also want to know what me and you are surfing for these days...

Huffpo contributor Bob Cesca goes off the deep end with this mad piece...

Since we know are inextricably linked to China in both debt and trade, it pays to pay attention to economic news from China.

This past weekend, China's central bank announced that the nation's foreign currency reserves had increased to a record $819.9 billion, with almost $50 billion of that having accrued during the fourth quarter of 2005.

As Watching the Watchers wrote back in November, the President's "Iraq Plan" unveiled then really didn't give a realistic description of Iraqi insurgents.

Now, an article in the UK's The Guardian, based on an assessment of the US's own Agency for International Development (USAid) paints a far grimmer picture of Iraq in general, and the insurgency in particular.

Monday was Dr King's birthday. You wouldn't know it with some....or do we?

The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) just released their data on wages and prices for December, 2005, with comparisons of December to the prior month, and all of 2005 with prior years.

Not particularly good news.

If that headline didn't spin your head around I don't know what will.  Actually, I do: how about if being GROSSLY underpaid means that you aren't underpaid at all?  Read on.  It makes a kind of sick, 21st century PR spin sense.

What's an agency to do when it wants to perform cost comparison studies with an eye to privatizing functions, but congress won't fund the requests?  Well, if you're the VA: you do the comparisons anyway, using funds and people earmarked for providing medical care to vets.

A press release from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)  today announced that the union's president has formally requested  that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, commence "an immediate criminal investigation of current management at the VA" for violations of two laws by diverting money that had been appropriated for health care to pay for outsourcing studies.

Mr. Bush and his cohorts would love for you to think that the NSA domestic spying controversy is about your personal privacy rights versus the safety and security of the country.  After all, privacy is a good thing, but you can convince a lot of people that the safety of all of us is far more important than keeping prying eyes from the phone call you had with Aunt Agnes.

But Mr. Bush and his friends know the truth.  They understand that it really comes down to balancing the need for security from external threats with the need for security from internal threats posed by a government with the power to monitor everything about its citizens.

At the least, somebody's worried about global warming....

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