George Bush is clearly not up to the job
By Bill Maxwell

The title says it pretty well.

The Anti-Bush Majority
by Tamara Straus

The corporate-owned media also has been working extra hard to avoid the subject. Only the briefest coverage was given to the June Civil Rights Commission report on the election, which found, among other voting disasters, that black voters' ballots were 10 times more likely to be thrown out than those of white voters.

Log onto the Web, though, and type "anti-Bush," and you will be faced with a different vision of American public opinion. There are now approximately 800 sites whose mission is to analyze, attack and especially ridicule the 43rd president of the United States. Anti-Bush Web sites may not be visited by all the Americans of the Fox News poll, but they do show the Internet has become home to the largest, most underreported political coalition in the United States -- what I call the anti-Bushies.

The article lists many anti-bush sites. Of course there is no shortage of material.

Library "radicals" targeted in latest copyright battles
By Lisa Bowman

In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for free.

But I save the best for last.

Global Warming Much Worse Than Predicted, Say Scientists
by Michael McCarthy, Steve Connor, Richard Lloyd Parry and Stephen Castle

The report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of several hundred of the world's most distinguished meteorologists, including many Americans, is a substantial slap in the face for US President George Bush, whose unilateral abrogation of Kyoto has thrown the international effort to counter global warming into chaos. It comes on the eve of first big meeting, held in Bonn next week, to try to repair the treaty.

The president cited doubts about the science of climate change as the reason why he would not impose on the American economy the cuts in industrial gases which Kyoto requires – and which the US signed up to at the original treaty agreement in 1997.

But yesterday the IPCC scientists gave their unqualified support to the view that global warming is real. Furthermore, they said, since their last report was published six years ago, they found they had vastly underestimated the rate at which global temperatures are rising. They now believe they will rise by as much as 5.8C by the end of this century, almost twice the increase predicted in their 1995 report.

This is likely to lead to crop failures, water shortages, increased disease and disasters for towns and cities from flooding, landslides and sea storm surges, they believe, with the poor developing countries likely to be hit hardest. The crucial point that emerges from the report is that all these new stresses may be happening at the same time to a world already under great stain from massive population growth, poverty and pollution.

Summaries of these reports are available. Summaries for Policymakers and Technical Summaries are available for free in PDF format. Read what Bush and company don't want to believe. "The president cited doubts about the science of climate change." Come on! You want data? Read these summaries. The sad thing is that "George Bush is clearly not up to the job" (see above.)