Month: May 2002

The Riddle Of The Spores

So what happened to that anthrax investigation anyway?

After five letters containing anthrax spores had been posted, in the autumn, to addresses in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation promised that it would examine “every bit of information [and] every bit of evidence”. But now the investigation appears to have stalled. Microbiologists in the US are beginning to wonder aloud whether the FBI’s problem is not that it knows too little, but that it knows too much.

[via Disinformation]

Bush Swells The State

Based on this, I predict that in five years we’re going to have a recession/economic panic the likes of which we haven’t seen since 1929.

Taking a broader look, spending on government programs from 1999 to 2003 will have increased 22 percent (in inflation adjusted dollars), according to a new analysis by the Washington Post. Measured against the GDP, total federal spending will soar to 18.5 percent in these three years. Spending rose 9 percent in the last two years of the�Clinton�presidency but will rise 15 percent in the first two years of the Bush administration. If�Clinton�was a social democrat in love with big government, what does that make Bush?

[via RRE]