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[from npr.org] "Bushwhacked's first chapter is devoted to an examination of Harken Energy Corp., in which Bush became a part owner in 1986. He sold his Harken shares in 1990, just before the stock's value plummeted. Ivins compares the company to Enron, the failed energy giant. Harken was "a perfect replica of Enron in miniature... but with exactly the same patterns of misbehavior for which [Bush] later wound up scolding others," she says."
Timely quotes from Howard Zinn's 1995 "A People's History of the United States"
Senate Votes for a Measure to Thin Trees
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: October 31, 2003
Violence is not the issue. I don't think it ever was. Not back in the day when the Weather Underground blew up toilets in the Capitol Building and not today as the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) flips out over SUVs and condominiums. Revolution isn't a leather-jacket tactic radicals adopt - it is a transformation of the whole society made by millions. It can be violent, but it's not about violence. And it's definitely not, as the old saying goes, a dinner party.
Read what happened to Peace activist family in Harrisonburg, Virginia who put simple
sign in their yard...
"Individualization is both a success- and a suffering-history. Individualization has produced on one side the emancipated individual and on the other the modern lack of orientation.. Whoever wants to be come-of-age must renounce familiar certainties.. For many years, people have agreed that the `new individualism' has led to a dangerous decline in publicv interest/welfare orientation."
News from the Field
Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC)  http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo
October 31, 2003
Hunger and poverty rate rising.
Congress will vote soon on a bill to add prescription drugs to Medicare. This is a bad bill. Tell your senators and representative to vote NO.
Am reposting this one that sure raises lots of questions and provokes some mighty
serious thinking. We need to think seriously and ask lots of questions in these times.
Santa Clara VTA chose the ADEC System for the bus demonstration program over other retrofit technologies partially due to its low cost and successful implementation on City of Houston diesel vehicles.
"In the end, Vietnam didn't matter. Iraq does."
"The diverse crisis prophets today are treated like those lying shepherds who triggered a false wolf alarm many times and whom no one believed any more when the wolf really came. For a long time, nothing was as taboo and out on the left as the suggestion of any theory of collapse. Capitalism appeared more flexible and resistent than ever." Other articles by Robert Kurz are available on portland.indymedia.
This just in: More irrefutable proof that Dubya's is the slimiest administration in 100 years
After a delay of more than a year, the Senate Armed Services Committee has forwarded the nomination of Major General Robert T. Clark to the full Senate for confirmation. The decision drew disbelief and a call for action from the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC).
Another good website bites the dust.
It is time to intensify the struggle for political prisoners. See the DISPATCHarticle written by JEFF FREE LUERS-
SCABS OF NEW YORK...rat contractors, company unions and the decline of union labor in the Manhattan residential construction sector
Let's see, 69% of Kellogg Brown & Root's profits came directly from US taxpayers. Nothing like corporate welfare to make one's stomach turn. With $2.7 billion coming from US taxpayers to Halliburton it looks like Cheney's $33 million payoff was a good investment. And hey, there are no losers, except of course the citizens of the US, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But what are their lives worth next to Cheney making a few hundred million more dollars?
By paying civilians to handle military tasks, the Bush administration is freeing up U.S. troops to fight. But the use of contractors also hides the true costs of war.
Their dead aren't added to official body counts. Their duties - and profits - are hidden by close-mouthed executives who won't give details to Congress. And as their coffers and roles swell, companies are funneling earnings into political campaigns and gaining influence over military policy - even getting paid to recommend themselves for lucrative contracts.
CNN's "Fit to Kill"
Eforcing the Clean Air Act would dramatically cut emissions from the nation's dirtiest power plants. Instead, the Bush administration has weakened the Act, thereby endangering the improved progress of our nation's air quality over the last three decades.
The study of more than 70 U.S. companies and individual contractors turned up more than $500,000 in donations to the president's 2000 campaign, more than they gave collectively to any other politician over the past dozen years.
Thanks to todays KBOO news we can now be certain that 1984 is now! The currents we smelled in the Reagan/Bush I years are laid out palinly in the current cabal's New American Century policy, but a careful observation reveals more insidious elements.The military industrial complex is supreme and democracy no more.
Corporate media is now coming out with information we already knew.
(AP) Companies awarded $8 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan have been major campaign donors to President Bush, and their executives have had important political and military connections, according to a study released Thursday.
The "Coleman Republicans," most of whom are running in heavily Jewish districts -- and several of whom are Orthodox or observant -- are not shy about leveraging issues of Jewish concern to further their candidacies, like Israel.
The ideology of liberalism subjectivizes the causes of social problems. The dominant order of the social system is raised to the dogmat of a natural law above all criticism. Everyone is guilty in his/her private unhappiness or failure. Social crises and catastro-
phes can only be caused by subjectively guilty persons, the terrorist, speculator and child molestor. The system itself can never be the culprit.
GDP Jumps 7.2 Percent, Biggest Increase in Nearly 20 Years
In a recent Conference Board survey of 5,000 U.S. households, less than half of respondents described themselves as satisfied with their jobs. That was the highest percentage of disgruntled workers since 1995 in the survey by the New York-based business research group.
Kitzhaber proposed 3 tier system.
Join the NRA blacklist -its fun
Just in time for Christmas, Barnes & Noble is marketing the ghost-written product of Jessica Lynch's 1 million dollar book contract: I AM A SOLDIER, TOO:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=1400042577&itm=1
Preorders are being taken and the book ships on November 11th. Not everyone is happy about it. I thought Alfred A. Knopf had higher standards.
The following report gives serious pause for thought! A must read for sure!
What I am saying, in short, is that there is a team of arsonists throughout the country that have for some time escaped recognition by most of the media as the major networks, instead spin it into a wildfire debate (Sierra Club included).
N.B.G. = Nothing But Grants.. In a crucial victory for President Bush, House and Senate negotiators agreed today to provide nearly $20 billion in aid to reconstruct Iraq as a direct grant, beating back powerful bipartisan demands that some of the money eventually be repaid.
9/11 Investigation cover-up, a treasonous and potentially deadly Bushco CIA cover leak, the MIGHTIEST military in history at the breaking point, with less Iraqi street dancing and flowers than predicted, and now this:
Senior citizens are "the most selfish group in America today... They have become the new welfare state, and given the size and political clout of this constituency, it's very dangerous" -- Stephen Moore, President of the Club for Growth
"The conservative movement has really built up an infrastructure of not just ideas, but the ability to kind of get out there and do the kind of hard communications work to sell to the American public,"
Third parties -- Greens, Libertarians, etc. -- could be a deciding factor in the 2004 presidential election.
Whitehouse bars search engines from website.
Vice-President Dick Cheney pressed the EPA to go easy on the energy industry, with which he is closely linked. "It amounts to a get-out-of-jail-free card for some of the nation's biggest polluters," said Frank O'Donnell of the Clean Air Trust.
Create a TV ad that tells the truth about George W. Bush. Sick of the propaganda being beamed at you from the current administration's media mavens? Here's a new way to fight back: Enter MoveOn.org Voter Fund's political ad contest. You don't have to be formally trained in the art of filmmaking, just ready, willing and able to create an ad that tells the truth about George Bush.
recopy of article taken from Associated Press about "conspriacy theory" coming to life in Santa Cruz, California...wonder WHY?
BushCo stumbles, fumbles, bumbles and of course lies his way through a press conference today. What was particularly funny was that King George coined the term "suiciders" during this press conference. Let's hope this national embarassment - The Oblivious One - does not leak out of the press room to the rest of the world.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=134-10282003
A Shiv from the future: Later this week, Halloween will finally give up and rename itself "A Prelude to Christmas," infuriating children, Trekkies and Satanists everywhere.
It's not over yet!
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two Americans killed in a recent ambush in Afghanistan were contract employees of the CIA, the agency said Tuesday.
For Jeb Bush, the implications of his legislating the "Feeding Tube" may come as a shock -- a backlash from conservatives who have ceaselessly preached freedom and small government. His law has exposed the rent in the Republican Party between the libertarian crowd and the Christian right.
Labor-Environmental Alliance Links Seattle to Miami in the Fight Against the Free Trade Area of the Americas
ON THE ROAD WITH THE BLUE-GREEN MACHINE. Moving across the US from Seattle to Miami, the unlikely alliance of trade unionists and environmentalists who derailed the World Trade Organization ministerial in 1999 is on the march again. For immediate release: November 2003 Contact: Dan Leahy, 360-402-0441
Social justice, a theme of social ethics, threatens to fall by the wayside when every right is given to capital in turbo-capitalism. W.Zademach, pastor in Oberfranken, Germany active in the religious socialist movement describes the three planes of social justice: assuring the survival of the weakest, basic social rights and participation in the production conditions of the econmy. Translated from German
Many of you have emailed and called us asking for an update on the status of Bush's insidious bill, and want to know when this bad legislation will finally receive a proper burial. The following is an update on where the bill currently stands.
cars vs. SUVs
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine in 19..................
George Dubya becomes President, having run as a "compassionate conservative," and what do we get? Hell's own conservative and dick for compassion.
Read all about why the U.S. occupation of Iraq is failing, the Democrats unabashed support for the occupation, the growing outcry from military families here in the U.S., and how the inner logic of the state leads to war. There are also articles about the recent overthrow of Bolivia's corrupt president, government repression of social movements in the U.S., reflections on the kamikaze radicalism of the '60s era Weather Underground and how contemporary activists can be more radical and less extreme at the same time, and more...
KYRS kicks off their first broadcast in SPOKANE!
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