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Eric Lichtblau
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15.09.2003 22:51 |
Ashcroft Mocks, Condemns Librarians and Others Who Oppose USA Patriot Act
Attorney General John Ashcroft today accused the country's biggest library association and other critics of fueling "baseless hysteria" about the government's ability to pry into the public's reading habits . . . "If he's coming after us so specifically, we must be having an impact," said Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association's Washington office.
In an unusually pointed attack as part of his latest speech in defense of the Bush administration's counterterrorism initiatives, Mr. Ashcroft mocked and condemned the American Library Association and other Justice Department critics.
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David Kravets
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15.09.2003 15:00 |
California's Oct. 7 Recall Postponed Until Installation of New Voting Machines
A federal appeals court postponed California's Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election, ruling the historic vote cannot proceed as scheduled because some votes would be cast using outmoded punch-card ballot machines.
In what was the last of about a dozen legal challenges to the attempt to unseat Gov. Gray Davis, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday it is unacceptable that six counties would be using outdated punch-card ballots, the type that sparked the "hanging chads" litigation in Florida during the 2000 presidential election.
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Unable to buy enough real flags for the new school year, Central High has taken to showing an image of the American flag on classroom TVs while students make the pledge.
A new state law requires school children to say the pledge at least once a week, and the school simply doesn't have enough flags for that.
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Democracy Now!
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15.09.2003 13:58 |
Second Black Bodybuilder Claims Schwarzenegger Repeatedly Made Racist Comments to Him
Pacifica interview with Robby Robinson who claims fellow bodybuilder Schwarzenegger repeatedly directed the term "nigger" at him. And we hear from San Jose Mercury News reporter who writes that while supporting anti-immigrant Proposition 187 Schwarzenegger himself violated the terms of his immigrant visa in the 1970s.
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concerned
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15.09.2003 13:31 |
Iraq Oil Contract Details Withheld Due To "National Security"
How can anyone take this administration seriously? They're looting the nation and too few people are aware or care. If Cheney's energy notes containing maps of Iraqi oil fields are any indication, eventually this information will be made public and we'll listen to the deafening silence that follows. So what if Cheney's notes had maps of Iraqi oil fields and Halliburton was awarded no-bid contracts worth $7 billion to control and distribute Iraqi oil, the new fall season is on tv.
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Christine Dugas
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15.09.2003 13:18 |
Dual-Income Middle Class Barely Treads Water
Millions of middle-class families can no longer afford to live on two incomes.
A generation ago, a typical American middle-class family lived on the income of a single breadwinner. In recent years it has taken two working spouses to live the modern middle-class dream. Now, it seems even that is not enough to survive the skyrocketing cost of housing, health care and college while saving for retirement and shouldering growing debt loads.
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Maria Alicia Gaura, SF Chronicle Staff Writer
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15.09.2003 12:27 |
Santa Cruz, CA Calls for Bush's Impeachment
The Santa Cruz City Council became the first in the country Tuesday night to demand a congressional investigation that could theoretically lead to President Bush's impeachment for the war in Iraq.
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www.Freace.de
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15.09.2003 06:17 |
New Bush Speech
"The American people should be prepared to grieve for more dead soldiers in the "war against terror".. Bush cannot break from the idea that Iraq possessed and produced weapons of mass destruction and promoted terrorism or from the notion that Iraqis are happy about their liberation and thre attacks are only committed by Baathists and foreign terrorists." Translated from the German
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Students Against Vector Exploitation
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14.09.2003 23:53 |
Students Stand Up to Summer Work Business
National group of students rally against unethical business practices of summer work company.
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BuzzFlash
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14.09.2003 23:39 |
Dick Cheney: Complete Liar or Too Stupid to be Vice-President?
How stupid does Cheney think we are? Apparently, pretty stupid. And maybe we are. Under any normal circumstances (not being ruled by a Republican one-party state), he should have been impeached -- and perhaps imprisoned -- a long time ago.
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Jeffrey St. Clair
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14.09.2003 23:24 |
Anatomy of a Swindle: Land Fraud as Government Policy
The old desert rat Edward Abbey praised the San Rafael Swell as one of the most austere and beautiful places in the desert Southwest.
Naturally, the Swell, underlain with coal seams and pools of oil, has also been long prized by other less aesthetically-minded interests: strip miners and oil and gas companies.
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KROPOTKIN
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14.09.2003 19:47 |
D.I.Y. FEST / SKILLS SHARE
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it's an act, alright
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14.09.2003 19:19 |
The Patriot Act Parade
New Terror Laws Used Vs. Common Criminals: Police and prosecutors have increasingly turned the force of the new laws not on al-Qaida cells but on people charged with common crimes; Bush Seeks to Expand Access to Private Data:
For months, President Bushs advisers have assured a skittish public that law-abiding Americans have no reason to fear... the Patriot Act
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In loving memory of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain, a Houston activist who was killed on September 17,1998, when a tree was felled by a MAXXAM logger while he was documenting illegal logging on their land. http://www.headwatersforest.org/david.chain/
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This is a legal update about the raid of the co-op house in LA, and the framing of Josh Connole.
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David B.
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14.09.2003 16:44 |
Nuclear Power Plants: The Terrorist Threat
If there is any doubt that the "War on Terrorism" has anything to do with actual security, and is anything but an attempt by the ruling class to use fear to herd the populace, it can be cleared up by examining the Bush Administration's response to the threat of terrorist attacks against nuclear power plants.
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I love this idea and haven't seen it discussed here in Portland (which doesn't mean it *hasn't* been discussed, just that i haven't seen it). -- With the world's attention focused on the ensuing battle in Cancun, Mexico against the WTO, another battle will be fought on September 14 in Berkeley, California in the continuation of a centuries-old historic schism between the anarchists and the communists, in the form of a soccer tournament.
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Michael Moore to Wesley Clark: Run! (for Pres.)
This next week General Wesley Clark is expected to join the race for the Democratic nomination. Moore, who supported Nader last time, writes: "Michael Moore likes a general? I never thought I'd write these words..."
Read about the General who many feel will likely be the next President of the United States, if there is a next President of the United States.
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The ghost of Sen. Paul Wellstone
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14.09.2003 13:19 |
HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF: WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!!!!
If George W. Bush is re-elected in 2004, the USA will be no more. The military-industrial complex has taken control of our government. Bush is the new Hitler. He let 9-1-1 happen. 9-1-1 was the new Reichstag Fire.
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AP wire repost
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14.09.2003 10:13 |
Justice Pushes for Looser Subpoena Rules
Bush Administration Wants Subpoena Power That Doesn't Require Approval
From Judge or Grand Jury
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Richard Starkey
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14.09.2003 09:04 |
March to Folly
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scott huminski
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14.09.2003 06:59 |
CRONIES V. QUALIFICATIONS: HOWARD DEAN'S DILEMMA
Dean's desire to appoint unqualified cronies to high positions.
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Tribal Member
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14.09.2003 00:16 |
Fraud and abuce by the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
Cowlitz Indian Tribe uses Federal Funding to intimidate, harass and discriminate against other tribal members
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Chris Rich
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14.09.2003 00:02 |
The Drug War Is Genocide
Fight the RIAA
Take a Stand Against the Madness; Stop the RIAA!
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Bob Fitrakis
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13.09.2003 23:13 |
The Voting-Machine Industrial Complex
The voting machines are simply the final nail in the people's coffin. The comatose electorate rests silently as the hammer of authoritarianism falls.
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Carlyle in the news again
Bradley Fight Vehicles are manufactured by a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group.
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Tribal Member
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13.09.2003 15:15 |
Up coming Pow Wow for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe
Boycott the Pow Wow next month for the Tribes leadership concerning the Envirnment
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Janet Kauffman
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13.09.2003 12:28 |
A Dirty River Runs Beneath It
From the air, Midwest farmland still looks like a comforting quilt. What you don't see is what's unsettling. You don't see the animals inside the confinement buildings. You don't see the waste pits holding millions of gallons of liquid manure -- they look like innocent lakes from high up.
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Victims of War
The grim reality of your tax dollars at work for you.
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www.Freace.de
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13.09.2003 05:23 |
New Reason for War
John Bolton, assistant secretary of state, named a new reason for the offensive war against Iraq: that Iraq had scientists able to carry out research on weapons of mass destruction.. Even a war against Greenland would be possible with this argument.
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Ben Maras
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13.09.2003 01:06 |
Real smoking gun, Exxon conspiring with White House against EPA
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granola munch
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13.09.2003 00:09 |
Is "Bowling for Columbine" Fiction?
David T. Hardy says, "Bowling is fiction. It makes its points by deceiving and by misleading the viewer. Statements are made which are false. Moore leads the reader to draw inferences which he must have known were wrong. Indeed, even speeches shown on screen are heavily edited, so that sentences are assembled in the speaker's voice, but which were not sentences he uttered. Bowling uses deception as its primary tool of persuasion and effect."
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Well, the found an activist scapegoat to charge with the distruction of Southern Cali SUVs.
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Tara Copp and Jessica Wehrman
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12.09.2003 21:24 |
Troops Dig Into Own Pockets To Pay For Gear
Patrick Garrett, a defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org says, "the Army ran out of desert camo boots, and a lot of soldiers were being issued regular black combat boots. Soldiers decided that wasn't for them, so they paid for new boots with their own money."
According to the Pentagon's "Operation Iraqi Freedom Lessons Learned" draft report, soldiers spent their own money to get better field radios, extra ammunition carriers to help them fight better and commercial backpacks because their own rucksacks were too small.
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Gary Younge from The Guardian
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12.09.2003 20:44 |
Support for Bush and war slumps
President George Bush's approval ratings have slumped to a lower point than they were in the week of the terrorist attacks two years ago, according to the latest Gallup poll
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Seth Ackerman
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12.09.2003 19:12 |
In These Times article on 9/11 intelligence failures: incompetence? or something worse?
Article highlights the unbelievable failures in intelligence that now have some incredulous observers asking if mere incompetence could account for it. (long!)
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Lynette Clemetson
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12.09.2003 16:55 |
U.S. Housing Unaffordable to Most Low-Income Workers
With the rise in housing costs outpacing that of wages, there is no state where a low-income worker can reasonably afford a modest one- or two-bedroom rental unit, according to a study issued today by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, an advocacy group based in Washington. The study, "Out of Reach 2003," compared wages in each state, large metropolitan area and county in the nation against fair market rents as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 40 states, the study found, renters need to earn more than two times the prevailing minimum wage to afford basic housing. In the most expensive states — Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Connecticut — they must earn more than three times the minimum wage.
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SF Chronicle
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12.09.2003 13:58 |
Artists Blast Record Companies Over Lawsuits
Artists condemn record company lawsuits against music fans, including twelve year olds, who downloaded music off the internet.
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backdraft
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12.09.2003 13:54 |
Let save lifes
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WILLIAM BUNCH (anonymous repost)
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12.09.2003 13:12 |
20 unanswered questions about the 9/11 attacks
There are dozens of unanswered questions about the 2001 attacks, but we've narrowed them down to 20 - or 9 plus 11.
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Milton Friedman
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12.09.2003 12:40 |
SMOG: Can you breathe free in a free maket?
When asked about smog in the LA basin, Nobel Prize Economist and Libertarian Milton Friedman claimed that; "the smog went back 200 years. There are stories of the Indians describing that as a smoggy area"
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WashingtonPost
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12.09.2003 09:27 |
DC Taken to Task on IMF Arrests
Judge Orders D.C. to Release Report on IMF Arrests
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Indymedia Poster
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12.09.2003 09:26 |
LA breaking News - The FBI have taken away one activist, and surrounded the house.
The FBI and ATF have taken an activist away. Charge not known. The house is surrounded and they are waiting for a warrant to search it. People inside will be allowed to leave, but without taking anything out of the house.
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Graywolf
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12.09.2003 05:14 |
Cowlitz Indian Tribe is like what Pine Ridge was in the 1970's but with no Rez.
The Cowlitz People are being run the same way Pine Ridge was run in the 1970's.
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Larry Wills
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11.09.2003 23:56 |
Libertarians prepare to haul ass for a guv'ment-free clime
"(Libertarians) don't have the competence needed to run a political organization. The party attracts people who are anarchists at heart. They cannot follow orders or work as a team."
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PAUL KRUGMAN
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11.09.2003 23:39 |
Exploiting the Atrocity
Now it has all gone wrong. The deficit is about to go above
half a trillion dollars, the economy is still losing jobs,
the triumph in Iraq has turned to dust and ashes, and Mr.
Bush's poll numbers are at or below their pre-9/11 levels.
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Jim Lockhart
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11.09.2003 23:23 |
AUDIO FILE: BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN INTERVIEW
The Buffalo Campaign Road Show came to Liberty Hall this evening, September 11, 2003, after making presentations at the Northwest Portland Farmers Market and People's Food Cooperative. The Campaign is the only group working in the field every day to protect the Yellowstone Bison, America's only continuously wild herd. BFC volunters defend the bison and their habitat, and document every move made against them.
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peacecoup.us
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11.09.2003 14:33 |
peacecoup.us - We will lead
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The anti-authoritarian coordinating body in Colorado
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11.09.2003 13:53 |
Western North American Anti-capitalist/Anti-imperialist consulta for the FTAA
A consulta to help people plug into the already existing resources to get out to miami as well as facilitate a sharing of resources and discussions about strategy.
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Lloyd Hart
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11.09.2003 12:27 |
Fascism, Farm Subsidies and Suicide
As the fascists in the White House celebrate the success of the tragedy they helped make happen on 9/11 (September 11, 2001) on this day September 11, 2003, Lee Kyung-hae, a Korean farmer (who has been put out of business in Korea by cheap imports from the U.S. Global Economic Dictatorship) lies dead in a hospital morgue in Cancun, Mexico.
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Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's, makes it easy to get involved with your government.
Now no excuse to not write your US Senators and Reps.
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On this day two years ago, a clique within the United States Government, aided by Mossad, murdered 3,000 Americans in a deliberate act designed to seize power, strip Americans of their civil liberties, and wage an illegal and genocidal war against the people of the Middle East.
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Tim Christie, Register-Guard, Eugene
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11.09.2003 00:03 |
Premiums for medical insurance rose 14% this year
As premiums rise, so do paycheck deductions, especially for family coverage. Premiums for those who have to buy their own insurance, outside of group policies, will get more outrageous. The self-employed are getting screwed. How long can we keep this up? -- Lynn
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Dean is being criticized by LIE-berman, Kerry, Gephardt, etc. about his remark that he doesn't support either Israel or Palistine and that a true peace maker should be neutral
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Eberhard Unger
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10.09.2003 09:58 |
US Economy: Comparing Apples and Oranges
"Growth only occurred according to the hedonistic computing method in which quality advances are counted as though they were sales growth...This calculating method amounts to more than 50% of the whole GDP growth..A growth of 0.42% (unlike 3.1%) is hardly an economic wonder. The structural problems are unsolved and slow down the recovery.." Redefining progress and recalculating the GDP are vital.
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mock-up boy
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10.09.2003 09:29 |
9/11: BUSH KNEW flyer to download, print and distribute
here's a PDF to download, print and distribute. it's designed to be produced as 1/2 sheet, double-sided flyers on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.
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Unable to buy enough real flags for the new school year, Central High has taken to showing an image of the American flag on classroom TVs while students make the pledge.
How stupid does Cheney think we are? Apparently, pretty stupid. And maybe we are. Under any normal circumstances (not being ruled by a Republican one-party state), he should have been impeached -- and perhaps imprisoned -- a long time ago.
The old desert rat Edward Abbey praised the San Rafael Swell as one of the most austere and beautiful places in the desert Southwest.
I love this idea and haven't seen it discussed here in Portland (which doesn't mean it *hasn't* been discussed, just that i haven't seen it). -- With the world's attention focused on the ensuing battle in Cancun, Mexico against the WTO, another battle will be fought on September 14 in Berkeley, California in the continuation of a centuries-old historic schism between the anarchists and the communists, in the form of a soccer tournament.
The voting machines are simply the final nail in the people's coffin. The comatose electorate rests silently as the hammer of authoritarianism falls.
From the air, Midwest farmland still looks like a comforting quilt. What you don't see is what's unsettling. You don't see the animals inside the confinement buildings. You don't see the waste pits holding millions of gallons of liquid manure -- they look like innocent lakes from high up.
There are dozens of unanswered questions about the 2001 attacks, but we've narrowed them down to 20 - or 9 plus 11.
When asked about smog in the LA basin, Nobel Prize Economist and Libertarian Milton Friedman claimed that; "the smog went back 200 years. There are stories of the Indians describing that as a smoggy area"
The drug war must stop. Chong was charged five minutes after Ashcroft overturned a top court decision that selling pipes and bongs was not a crime that could be prosecuted under the current drug laws. Now a 65 year old man goes to the big house. Now THAT is a fucking crime!
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=345455&group=webcast
As the fascists in the White House celebrate the success of the tragedy they helped make happen on 9/11 (September 11, 2001) on this day September 11, 2003, Lee Kyung-hae, a Korean farmer (who has been put out of business in Korea by cheap imports from the U.S. Global Economic Dictatorship) lies dead in a hospital morgue in Cancun, Mexico.
here's a PDF to download, print and distribute. it's designed to be produced as 1/2 sheet, double-sided flyers on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.