Some things His Royal Lowness has uttered, in public

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
George W. Bush

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
George W. Bush

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. Bush

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
George W. Bush

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. Bush

Bring them on.
George W. Bush

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
George W. Bush

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. Bush

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. Bush

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
George W. Bush

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
George W. Bush

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
George W. Bush

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
George W. Bush

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
George W. Bush

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
George W. Bush

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. Bush

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
George W. Bush

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
George W. Bush

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
George W. Bush

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
George W. Bush

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. Bush

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
George W. Bush

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. Bush

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
George W. Bush

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
George W. Bush

I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
George W. Bush

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
George W. Bush

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
George W. Bush

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
George W. Bush

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
George W. Bush

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
George W. Bush

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
George W. Bush

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. Bush

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
George W. Bush

Our nation must come together to unite.
George W. Bush

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
George W. Bush

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
George W. Bush

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. Bush

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
George W. Bush

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
George W. Bush

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
George W. Bush

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. Bush

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
George W. Bush

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. Bush

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. Bush

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. Bush

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
George W. Bush

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
George W. Bush

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
George W. Bush

The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.
George W. Bush

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
George W. Bush

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
George W. Bush

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
George W. Bush

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
George W. Bush

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
George W. Bush

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
George W. Bush

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
George W. Bush

This way of life is worth defending.
George W. Bush

This young century will be liberty's century.
George W. Bush

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. Bush

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
George W. Bush

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
George W. Bush

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
George W. Bush

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
George W. Bush

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
George W. Bush

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
George W. Bush

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
George W. Bush

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
George W. Bush

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
George W. Bush

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
George W. Bush

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
George W. Bush

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
George W. Bush

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
George W. Bush

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
George W. Bush

Will Google's Greed Ruin the Internet?

By Jeffrey Chester, The Nation. Posted October 6, 2007.

Should we be worried about Google? Ten years after the search engine was launched by two Stanford University graduate students, Google has become an empowering force and adopted behavior that has transformed the way we access news and information, shop for goods and services and -- increasingly -- how we engage in politics. Who would have imagined four years ago, that Google and its subsidiary YouTube would co-sponsor debates in which ordinary citizens could directly engage with presidential candidates?

Last week, Google's stock hit an all-time high, on the strength of reports that the company will earn more this year than the $10.6 billion it earned in 2006. But while Google has almost overnight become a trusted source of information for the technologically attuned, few have thought to question the extent to which its success poses threats to both our privacy and our aspirations for the positive potential of the Internet.

Google's dramatic growth is a reflection of its role as the most powerful player in the world of interactive marketing. Ninety-nine percent of Google's annual revenues (according to its 10K filing with the SEC) comes from selling targeted advertising on its search engine, which is driven by a massive consumer data collection system.

Google is far more than the digital incarnation of Madison Avenue in the twenty-first century. It is the engine driving us into a new communications era, in which interactive marketing will significantly shape our lives. The company is aggressively expanding its advertising role, building out a sales team poised to partner with the biggest brand advertisers on the planet. Google is pitching its souped-up interactive advertising system to global corporations so they can better blend marketing messaged into the news, information and entertainment we consume.

Google's message to Madison Avenue, as expressed at the OMMA Expo in New York this week is that its technology can leverage tremendous insights about global consumers of products and information, and can deliver the right interactive marketing messages to consumers at precisely the right moment. Ellen Naughton, Google's director of media platforms, urged advertisers to "fish where the fish are," a reference to the millions of viewers of online video, including YouTube. Naughton was particularly proud of "Green Tea Partay," a Google-sold video ad that has drawn more than 3 million viewers to date on YouTube. It's a cheeky video, in which Smirnoff Vodka marketing messages are subtly integrated into the insistent beat of an preppy California hip-hop routine.

As Wall Street celebrates Google's success as a marketing platform, the company's plans to extend its business and power are cause for concern, according to a handful of privacy and consumer groups in the US and the European Union, and elsewhere. Google has engaged in a rapid series of acquisitions, giving it control over YouTube (the world's most powerful online video service); Feedburner (which distributes content and ads to more than a half-million blogs and other news feed sites); and it is in the process of acquiring the online data collection behemoth DoubleClick. Much about Google's corporate goals can be gleaned from the $3.1 billion it is willing to pay to control DoubleClick.

As the online ad technology and data collection system favored by Fortune 500 companies, DoubleClick proclaims that its prowess is "...why all 10 of the world's top 10 brands, 8 of the top 10 global agencies and 8 of the top 10 U.S. and European Web sites choose DoubleClick to help meet their digital marketing needs." It has "1,500 of the world's top publisher, advertiser, agency and advertising networks as clients...." Among the attractions DoubleClick also offers: an elaborate data collection operation delivering "billions" of targeted, personalized, interactive ads each day, and a service that allows it to track more than 100 different ways we watch video online (If you're troubled by the drinking messages stealthily embedded in the story line of "Green Tea Partay" video think how marketing messages will permeate YouTube programming once Google finalizes its purchase of DoubleClick.)

Digital Gold Rush

Google isn't alone among the digital giants swallowing up online marketing properties. More than $33 billion has been spent in an ad-industry-focused merger and acquisition spree during the first half of 2007, Advertising Age reported in July. Microsoft, Yahoo!, Time Warner, ad giant WPP, and, of course, Google were among those spending big bucks to acquire firms that collect, analyze and target us largely via stealth and highly sophisticated interactive ad technologies (adding to their empires such interactive marketing entities as Tacoda, BlueLithium, Third Screen Media, and aQuantive).


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