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Politics, finance, government, and our economic future into a neat belated New Year's resolution. Get your Reynolds wrap. Failure to hold leaders accountable, has resulted in an economic bubble that we'll be lucky to get out of. We need to pull the reigns on this runaway congress and give them some tough love.
a quoate from a recent interview.
The first U.S. soldier to be tried in connection with the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was convicted Friday on five charges related to abusing Iraqi detainees. Will George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, their legal counsels such as Alberto Gonzales, and those directly below them in the military chain of command also face charges for torture and murder?
Why did our new Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff, set 200 spies free who apparently had ties to September 11th? Why did he shield terrorists who sent money directly to Osama bin Laden?
john canal interviews u.s. sergeant benderman, who has refused applied for contientious objector status and risked court martial by refusing to return to iraq .
On November 19 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new draft guidelines to deal with the growing problem of unapproved genetically engineered plants contaminating food crops. Instead of tightening controls on GE crops, the FDA is proposing simply to legalize further food contamination and promote these hollow regulations as a model for the rest of the world.
Wal-Mart attempts to "set the record straight" by launching a tough-talking, no nonsense ad campaign. "As one of the world's most visible companies, Wal-Mart expects attention and criticism. When the criticism is warranted, we use it as a tool to improve the way we operate.
What's that quote from Italian dictator Moussolini about "fascism simply being a combination of state and corporate power"?
Dear Friends,
Not One Damn Dime Day - January 20, 2005
As it turns out, 2 Ford Motor Company stockholders and their lawyers have filed a "Notice of Pendency of Derivative Action.....Settlement Hearing and Right to Appear" in the court of chancery of the state of delaware in and for new castle county....Mr. Ford got 400,000 shares of IPO stock in Goldman Sachs Group ..................
Reuters obtained from Iraqi guerrillas "an English-language video urging U.S. troops to lay down their weapons and seek refuge in mosques and homes" (Michael Georgy, "Iraq Rebels in Video Taunt," January 12, 2005), promising protection to soldiers who heed their call. The Information Clearing House has made the video and a transcript of its content available: "A Message from the 'Iraq Resistance.'"
ok I know it's not the greatest injustice in the world, but a 52% increase in eBay listing fees has brought about a good old grass roots internet protest.
Automotive industry issues and concerns about the lack of competent mechanics and the reason why.The author gives recomendations on how to overcome the problem.
Today's vote by the Senate to approve the omnibus appropriations package means that consumers will remain without a piece of vital information about the food they and their families eat: its country of origin. The budget package contains a provision that will delay the implementation of mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) until 2006, effectively killing the program. The 2002 Farm Bill required mandatory country-of-origin labeling to be implemented by September of this year. This vote is a slap in the face to U.S. consumers as well as family farmers and ranchers, all of whom would benefit from the labeling program because they could distinguish their products in the marketplace.
...past six months have provided several vivid examples of why consumers need to know where their food comes from. The discovery of mad cow disease in two animals of Canadian origin (one in Canada in May and one in the United States in December) as well as the hepatitis A outbreak in Pennsylvania, which was caused by green onions from Mexico and sickened more than 600 people, were high-profile reminders of the distance food travels and the varying circumstances under which it is produced. Yet when consumers go to the grocery store, they have no way to differentiate between foreign and domestic products.
Ever get the feeling you live behind Bush's Iron Curtain?
Note Bush has tied in censorship with federal forced financial incentives to destroy information access on the local level. Rather sick and slick. In 1998 only 14% of libraries filtered. By 2004, 65% of libraries filter. After the introduction of CIPA it jumped from 43% to 65% filtering. Some key quotes from below: FINANCIAL INCENTIVES: "As for the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which ***ties receipt of E-rate discounts to filtering the Internet,*** 59.5% of respondents said they complied. A slightly larger percentage (65%) said they filter at least some Internet terminals. It was predicted that smaller libraries might not choose to comply with CIPA, given the limited savings; also, it is believed people in smaller, close-knit communities are less likely to flout rules of acceptable Internet usage. Indeed, only 44% of the smallest libraries (serving fewer than 10,000 people) filter any terminals, while more than three-quarters of libraries serving more than 100,000 people filter." FROM JULY 2003: "CIPA went into effect for public libraries in July, 2003. So you can see this resulted in a big jump from 43% to 65%. What's also interesting here is that 59.5% say they "comply with CIPA" which should mean that 59.5% of public libraries are now filtering for ALL patrons, including staff as is required by CIPA." ADULTS CONSIDERED CHILDREN AS WELL: "When the Supreme Court upheld CIPA in ALA v. U.S. (see  http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-361.pdf) there were 5 separate opinions, including Justice Kennedy's concurrence that suggested libraries should disable (or unblock filtered material) for adults. However, neither the Supreme Court nor the FCC (which is
charged with implementing CIPA) specifically directed libraries to have such disabling policies."
Iraqi insurgents are "responsible for fewer unintentional 'collateral' casualties than are the clumsy and overarmed American forces," says William Langewiesche in the Atlantic Monthly.
An Update on the FedGov plans for a National ID and Passport "security"
We ran down the street and around the corner. When we turned
the corner we stopped and looked back and realized that we were being chased. The guy caught up and talked to us. We learned later that he was the head of New York's terrorism intelligence branch. He had FBI connections and orders to make sure that there would be no Buckingham Palace-type incidents. He knew our names and even told me that I was the "guy from Minnesota."
MILITANT fathers are today accused of attempting to intimidate
family court workers who are involved in child custody cases. Family court staff have been denounced as child abusers, compared to Nazi war criminals and named and shamed as corrupt.
the renewed assault on the minds of america. class warfare on the children.
"No Surrender: writings from an anti-imperialist
political prisoner" By David Gilbert published by Abraham Guillen Press/Arm the Spirit Available from AK Press, 283 pages, $15.00
On December 18, I attended Gary Webb's memorial service in Sacramento, along with about 250 other people.
Here are two useful documentaries for activists: "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear": and "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire."
Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and assorted intellectuals of the "decent left" have earned their keep arguing that anti-imperialism is nothing but an echo chamber of nihilism, oedipal rage and tacit support for whomever the governing class declares the enemy. Once upon a time their kind derided the Communist left as window dressing for the gulag; now they argue with parallel duplicity that anti-imperialists are shills for "Islamo-fascist" death cults and suicide bombers. As the gate-keepers of acceptable dissent, that is to say "none," they rarely take time to note what it is, this America, they've declared their loyalty to and what it is exactly the "anti-Americans" oppose.
where are the democrats going from here?
In Iraq the "liberators" were torturers. Resistance groups call for a global front against American terror. "We didn't cross the oceans to occupy Great Britain or the US and we weren't responsible for September 11.."
U.S. CitiZeNs; ON The FrontLines Of Int. Relations- DID Expat.
& SoldierVote get Left Behind? A Pivotal, Hotly contested 'election of a lifetime' spurring Worldwide interest saw OverSeas Voters registration increase fourfold as these Americans are the Country's spokespeople, and best face forward. Recalcitrant insistence on conflict creating perpetual war, was on the table for We Decide, you saw the BillBoards reminding US whose Will was to be measured- The People's! RiP van Winkle Voters came out of the woodwork, contributing herculean volunteer efforts & enthusiasm were unprecendented and encouraging. NEVER in U.S. Presidential politics have MASSIVE crowds shown up to endorse an incumbent. But to throw out, Reject malfeasence and Get Rid of incompetence!
There is a grassroots idea sweeping the "leftist" consciousness of the nation. NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY is a sweet little piece of nonviolent resistance to the inauguration of "President" Bush that can appeal to many.
Elegant, easy, potentially very impactful, the idea is this: Don't spend ANY money on Thursday, January 20th, on Inauguration Day. LET THERE BE A BIG RETAIL BLIP. It is a way to remind the politicians who they work for, and whose money and sweat is supporting their "empire" policies. The anonymous email I recieved from someone named Tom said, "Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war, and since our political leadersa lack the moral courage to stand against it, here is a way the people can speak. . . ."
Martial Law around the corner
Below is the text of the Family Steering Committee's "Final Statement", in which they spew out their approval of the official story of 9-11. None of it, of course, is a surprise. And it's all because the 911 Truth Movement didn't keep its eyes on the prize.
Wild Oats Natural Markets fired union organizer over bag of bruised fruit!
Looking up the definition of insanity in several dictionaries, it appears we have a country filled with insane people. HELP!!!
There is a not only a dreadful ecological toll to Mountain Range Removal--but it has a human face as well. This is a call to action. Jeremy Davidson, 3, was killed when a boulder was dislodged by a bulldozer and came crashing through his bedroom from a Mountain Top Removal site. He was crushed in his sleep.
The debate over the "Salvador Option," a term in an of itself so chilling and inhuman as to recall the moral fitness of another first-world regime that weighed the "option" of Madagascar against Zyklon B.
There is a not only a dreadful ecological toll to Mountain Range Removal--but it has a human face as well. This is a call to action. The picture is of Jeremy Davidson, 3, was killed when a boulder was dislodged by a bulldozer and came crashing through his bedroom from a Mountain Top Removal site. He was crushed in his sleep. The picture was taken by Michael Williamson.
We are lied to on every level.
Links to a number of recent news stories on the draft issue. Includes information related to all of the drafts: poverty draft, youth draft, skilled worker draft and backdoor draft.
News on the Draft Issue from dailydraftdispatch.org
see also www.blackboxvoting.org
In addition of the numerous accounts of corrupt e-voting machines and spoiled ballots...
Links to a number of recent news stories on the draft issue. Includes information related to all of the drafts: poverty draft, youth draft, skilled worker draft and backdoor draft.
read this article and find out. you have to stay focused though! I do
hope you enjoy becoming ENLIGHTENED?
Mouth is a bi-monthly disability rights magazine whose readers' only special needs are for human rights and straight talk.
Is the Social Security Fund really in trouble or is Bush's move to privatize it just another move to transfer assets from the working class to the rich. If Bush has his way, over 50% of those over 65 will be living in poverty in this nation.
A response to Ex-Mumia Attorney
Open planning meeting tonight for a 3-day conference addressing sexual assault from a radical perspective.
7pm 2825 NE Dekum (1/2 block up from 27th and NE Dekum)
If you missed the CIA report, you know the one that Porter Goss tried to coverup? Unfortunately, this isn't an airball for Tenet. According to the report, Tenet and others should be held accountable for the failures on 9/11. Then again, that same CIA said Al-qaeda is out to get us. So if Tenet shouldn't be held accountable, then it's time to stop worrying about Al-qaeda...or does he have to give his medal of freedom back?
The fresh-faced pundit, recently pink-slipped by CNN, is bummed that Iraqis aren't more grateful for all America's been doing for them, and suggests their ingratitude will likely be shared by the victims of the recent tsunami, what with so many of them being Islamic and all.
Answers to comments about the article.
Narco-Petro Fascism using Aldous Huxley's Brave New World as a blueprint for suppression.
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Michael Moore Just finished his acceptance speech at the People's Choice Awards, in which he dedicated the award to the Men and Women fighting in Iraq. He said we all live in a great country and we all love our country, and that it didn't matter if you were Republicans, Democrats or independents, that we were all Americans.
Tragedy Central:
In the course of this campaign we have run up against the biggest and the most well protected companies in the world. From the 200 billion dollar a year pharmaceutical industry, the world biggest financial firms, to the largest insurance broker on the planet and the UK and US governments no less. All in good stride we have met our opponents with an honest and expected contempt and worked to dispense with their services to Huntingdon.
"Of course I'm biased as one of the co-authors, but if you want to see real evidence and a strong argument for election fraud, read this paper. I won't make a dime off of it, it's free. All I ask is for YOUR time to read it. There is an executive summary, but there is much more in the paper and it is tied together in the paper."
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, but they're "taking care of business rather than patient safety",says FDA's associate safety director Dr. David J. Graham. In interviews, he and others highlight the all too brutal facts.
Until now, the details, evidence, and personalities of all these nefarious characters have gone unreported. Now you finally have the truth before you -- how the United States government effectively shut down one of the most galvanizing movements for social change by stopping its leader dead in his tracks.
Had Kerry called for a new election, his huge base would have followed him.. The democratic nominee for president of the United States never seems capable of this righteous chutzpah. It's too bad there's not a donkey around who can kick anymore.
The man who centrist Dems love to blame for November's defeat (and everything else) held court at a lunch in New York City today. Organized by the inimitable publicist Peggy Siegel to celebrate Fahrenheit 9/11 receiving the New York Film Critics Award, the lunch featured placecards with sparkly flags and a "God Bless America" invocation. At the private event Moore offered his spirited two cents on, well, almost everything.
[1] FOIA: U.S. government initiated "comprehensive ANFO and C-4 vehicle bomb testing program" about a year before the OKC bombing. Records show the project was supervised and administered by the BATF [the 'first on the scene' at Murrah], ***but was actually funded through National Security Council (NSC) directive.*** Initiated under President Bill Clinton's NSC staff shortly after he took office in 1993. Intent of 1994's experiments: making videos and computer models to "be displayed in a courtroom to aid in the prosecution" in vehicle bomb cases according to government documents. The exact precedent and purpose of BATF agents blowing up vans and cars in the spring of 1994 at the White Sands Missile Range is unclear, though they were collecting test data. . . .despite only one known case in almost 25 years of such a danger. U.S. National Security Council suddenly anticipated a need for detailed information regarding ANFO vehicle bomb attacks a few months prior to the Oklahoma City blast.
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