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This was a good response by James to an earlier response post today that I thought deserved its own article Posting. excerpt "The same is true of the medical industry. Insurance for doctors of all types has skyrocketed. And you need insurance to be licensed to practice. The solution is simple: Allow judges to summarily declare a lawsuit frivolous, and force the plaintiff to pay 2x the defendents legal fees + court costs. "
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Just a weird email I got. Don't know if it's an emalborate hoax or what...
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Last year MADD ranked Massachusetts as one of the three worst states at fighting drunken driving and underage drinking, mainly because its laws do not mandate that blood alcohol levels above the legal limit are proof of intoxication.
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Paul Krugman
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28.05.2003 16:45 |
Stating the Obvious
The Right is using the lower taxes to slash Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security for the expressed purpose of eliminating progressive, socio-economic measures.
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Free Weed Club
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28.05.2003 16:38 |
Your Day Is Over!
In a land where freedom is a memory...
This is an entertaining and humorous message to the powerful and corrupt. It was constructed from a collage of audio clips that were sampled from Hollywood feature films. Enjoy and share!
www.freeweedclub.org
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Arianna Huffington
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28.05.2003 12:35 |
Democrats: Profiles In Spinelessness
...the problem isn't that Democrats are on the wrong side of the
issues. It's that they are afraid to make an issue of being on the right
side -- not to mention smack dab in the middle of the American mainstream.
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Anne Venneman
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28.05.2003 12:27 |
Resistance Is Fertile - Why you should come to Sacramento!
More Reason to head down to Sacramento, short list of planned activities
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Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
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28.05.2003 12:11 |
Mumia's Attorneys Ask to Question Leonard Weinglass
Attorneys for death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to order Mumia's prior Chief Counsel Leonard Weinglass to answer under oath 112 questions concerning charges that he was responsible for the "intentional burying of evidence that proves Appellant Jamal's 'actual innocence' of the crime of which he has been convicted."
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Interesting Discussion on DC-IMC
An ongoing thread on DC-IMC about 'censorship' at PDX-IMC. Thought our OR friends would like to listen in, and perhaps comment.
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Baltimore city council
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28.05.2003 09:31 |
Baltimore passes Anti-Patriot Act resolution
The Baltimore city council passed a resolution condmening the Patriot Act as a violation of civil liberties encouraging hatred of foreigners.
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Trying to remain positive
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28.05.2003 09:10 |
American people ruled unfit to govern! (Satire)
In case anyone missed this prophetic piece of SATIRE from 1999. From America's finest news source.
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not surprised
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28.05.2003 01:32 |
Chemical weapons finally found
The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that its investigators finally unearthed evidence of weapons of mass destruction, including 100 vials of anthrax and other dangerous bacteria. The bad news was that the stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer than 50 miles from Washington, in the Maryland countryside.
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Ward Sutton
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28.05.2003 01:09 |
Republican Matrix
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Patriot Act
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27.05.2003 23:04 |
Kucinich vs. The Empire
kucinich building insurgent campaign...
speaks out against war and corporate dominance
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the onion
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27.05.2003 16:49 |
Terrifying Bill Passed During NBA Playoffs
With the nation safely distracted by the NBA playoffs, Congress passed the terrifying Citizenship Redefinition And Income-Based Relocation Act of 2003 with little opposition Monday.
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Presidential Candidate Howard Dean today wrote to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, urging the FCC to avoid further deregulation of the American media. The text of the letter:
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Gary Cruse
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27.05.2003 11:56 |
Reinventing Libertaria
"Being a libertarian may be a step in the direction of conservatism, but being a Libertarian puts me in the pocket of people out to kill me."
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R. Brown
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27.05.2003 11:35 |
40 years later, 'The Dream' still waits
Many Americans have forgotten or simply never learned about the horrible reality of pre-Civil Rights era. Sadly, immigrant Arab and South Asian Muslims still confront threats to their civil rights 40 years after the historic March on Washington.
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Jezabel Magdaline
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27.05.2003 11:12 |
"SEX AND THE MUSE or burlesque for people" is seeking submissions
Seeking performance artists, musicians, dancers and visual artists to perform in a sex-posivtive, body-positive benefit for an Anti-Domestic Violence series this summer.
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Matthew Engel
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26.05.2003 23:12 |
True Hero of the Iraq War
Washington's rare Byrd
Only Robert Byrd had the courage to tell the truth
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Xeno Campanoli
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26.05.2003 19:35 |
Stuck in a Depression On the Brink of War Again
This paraphrase of Bob Dylan's Memphis Blues was published in the Feb 2003 issue of News from Nowhere, PO Box 10384, Eugene OR 97440 (Free in person or for postage).
the newsfromnowhere?yahoo.com
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This is a mind-blowing interview which helps connects the dots between what really happened on 9-11, the War On Terrorism, and the foreign policy of our American Reich. Somebody should e-mail this article to Noam Chomsky and see what he has to say.
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Jackson Riley
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26.05.2003 15:01 |
THOS SACRAMENTO FLYERS I PROMISED
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Lloyd Hart
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26.05.2003 13:52 |
Defeat the Republicans by First Crashing the Democratic Party
In the Sunday Boston Globe and the New York Times Sunday paper this week I read pretty much the same stories about how the Republicans plan to campaign using the war on terrorism as the party's and president's main platform plank.
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Ring Sequencer
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26.05.2003 13:33 |
Alaska Passes Anti-Patriot Act Resolution
May 23— Alaska has joined a growing national rebellion against the USA Patriot Act, voting to oppose the massive federal anti-terrorism law passed by Congress soon after Sept. 11, 2001. The state Legislature used some of the strongest language yet in passing a resolution condemning USA Patriot, following the lead of Hawaii and 112 cities, towns and counties around the country that have passed similar resolutions against the law.
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2.16 million inmates.
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26.05.2003 00:17 |
U.S. state-by-state adult imprisonment rates. In descending order. Drug-war police states.
The secret police states. This is the first time the complete U.S. state-by-state adult incarceration rates have been put on the web, as far as is known. These rates aren't listed in government web pages. The rates had to be calculated from the obscure data of Bureau of Justice Statistics spreadsheets. Please distribute widely. While you still can. http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/rates.htm
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Dr. Jane Koenig, UW professor of environmental health and a co-author of the study, said that although the research shows small changes in mortality, its implications are significant.
"This is involuntary exposure" to pollution, she said. "People have to breathe, and this pollution could be regulated if we had the backbone. . . . We should be building fewer polluting cars, instead of more SUVs."
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Jackson McCarthy
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25.05.2003 14:07 |
MORE FLYERS FOR SACRAMENTO
Here are two flyers and a three page pamphlet about the WTO agenda for Sacramento
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This is a news article from the "Skyhawk Voice" a school newspaper from Southridge High. Please respond with CONSTRUCTIVE criticism as to the quality of the information presented as well as the style of writing. Thank you.
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Tom West
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24.05.2003 10:58 |
The best agent for change is... Civility?
Lewis Feldstein, president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, cited the environmental movement, women's rights, civil rights and the drive to improve libraries and health systems as examples of private giving in the public good.
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aren't we all insulted
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24.05.2003 00:46 |
Lynch: Pentagon "Insulted", Fake Rescues "Risky"
"Defense officials said on Friday the Pentagon was insulted by media claims the rescue of Jessica Lynch in Iraq was hyped to boost support for the war... 'The thing that is most insulting is the suggestion that we would put U.S. service members at risk to stage such an event. This was a real rescue under a combat situation"'"...
(Staged rescues are riskier than real ones?!?!? Since when?)
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Bill Moyers
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23.05.2003 15:05 |
Bill Moyers on being a journalist
Democracy is about doing better. It's about fairness, justice, human rights, and yes, it's about equality, too; look it up.
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Tom Tomorrow
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23.05.2003 14:27 |
The Republican Matrix
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Lisa Troshinsky
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23.05.2003 13:24 |
'Class War' and the Bush tax cut
Chris Edwards, director of fiscal policy at the libertarian Cato Institute defended Bush's tax cuts, "though the lower income earners pay a high burden in payroll tax for social security and Medicare, they get a higher proportion of their wages in retirement benefits than do the wealthy"
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Mom sent me e-mail
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23.05.2003 07:04 |
Untied for Peace and Justice activities for end of May and the beginning of June
Police stats on shootings and race
"Young black males murdered police officers at a rate almost 6 times that of young white males" quoted from Highlights of the Policing and Homicide, 1976-98: Justifiable Homicide by Police, Police Officers Murdered by Felons
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Agencies
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22.05.2003 21:14 |
Republicans will gut Endangered Species Act to Protect Pentagon
Despite two reports from the congressional General Accounting Office stating environmental protections have not harmed US military readiness, Representative Richard Pombo (Republican/Libertarian) is on the hunt.
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BOB HERBERT
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22.05.2003 19:08 |
Dancing With the Devil
Let's see. Who's less patriotic, the Dixie Chicks or Dick Cheney's long-term meal ticket, the Halliburton Company?
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Geoff Schumacher
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22.05.2003 17:03 |
Libraries are good
Every libertarian diehard who decries the government's involvement in anything beyond military defense is an avid user of public streets and highways--and thankful for their existence. The same can be said for national parks and libraries.
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UPDATE - Two conspicuously under-reported incidents involving Israeli Nationals in the past two weeks.
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David Willett
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22.05.2003 15:38 |
From Bad to Worse: The EPA after Whitman
Both President Bush and Administrator Whitman disavowed a government report (authored by their own scientists) acknowledging humans' role in causing global warming -- we fear for the future.
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revolution summer san diego
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22.05.2003 15:29 |
revolution summer san diego
confronting global capital and oppressive institutions
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everyman
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22.05.2003 15:29 |
THE GOVERNMENT LIES!!! Here's Proof.
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Jim Hightower
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22.05.2003 15:00 |
McCarthyism Redux
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Luke Ackerman
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22.05.2003 11:52 |
OSU grad assistants need your help
OSU graduate teaching and research assistants work 40-100 hours a week, make on average less than $12,000 per year, and recieve NO Benefits! Help us help ourselves by writing to OSU President Tim White and telling him to settle on health insurance thats affordable for OSU grad employees. Remember 88% of americans recieve health insurance throught their employeer. Grad employees are no different.
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Not only did King's pedophile ring lead to the top echelons of the Republican Party it also lead to the top of the Bush administration and the Oval Office. Several of the children in Kings prostitution ring recount stories of seeing George Bush at some of King's Parties. While an outsider would not suspect anything amiss, the children in the ring would know what was taking place. At least one of King's young prostitutes reported that at one party, she saw George Bush pay King and then depart with a young black man.
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Kent Welter
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22.05.2003 10:06 |
Nuclear power resurging
Here are some recent excerpts that suggest the nuclear industry is staging a come back. Bush climate change initiatve.
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More from St Louis, about the trashing of the space they were staying at, from an article in a local paper.
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charles amsellem
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22.05.2003 08:19 |
Multimedia Expose' On American Political Assassinations(amsellem)
c 2003 by charles amsellem all rights reserved.
examining the events related to the assassination of Robert Kennedy expose the lies of american justice and the crimes of the intelligence establishment
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St. Louis Indymedia-repost
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22.05.2003 07:50 |
Raid last Friday on St. Louis Community Arts & Media Project (CAMP) house
This article describes the raid in St. Louis on Friday -- On FSTV report they said there was an IMC that was also housed here, although that isn't mentioned in any of the stories I've been reading on st. louis imc.
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Free Speech Radio News
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22.05.2003 07:36 |
St. Louis crackdown on environmental and social justice activists during World Agricultura
Heard it on KBOO -- Sounds pretty nasty-- 9 activists arrested, the house they were staying in closed/boarded up, with a "Condemned" sign on it, all the toiletries stuck into the toilet, stuff urinated on, video cameras smashed, bikes confiscated and returned with tires slashed, helecopters following groups larger than 6, felony drug possession charges (dropped) for Vitamin C... Go to Stlouis.indymedia.org for more info-- here's one of their features, without the links
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Ake Tyvi
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22.05.2003 00:48 |
Finnish police and government layers committing provable crimes against humanity
Finnish Government registers contain false and incorrect information. Would You believe in a such State? Finland's civil officials have also used systematic methods to silence their citizen. A bit differently to the third nations' methods, but clearly enough to see their marks. How reliable is such a State, who's registers carry only propaganda value? Cash trade only.
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FromTheWilderness want to do a follow-up ad to the "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" one that reached 2.5 million people last week.
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Two conspicuously under-reported incidents involving Israeli Nationals in the past two weeks.
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Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Jeffrey Sachs
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21.05.2003 19:54 |
An economic 'menu of pain'--U.S. government is going broke.
The feds face bills that are far beyond our capacity to pay -- by $44 trillion to be precise. The longer we ignore them, the bigger they get.
Yet President Bush is working overtime to deepen our fiscal trap.
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anti-HLS
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21.05.2003 18:12 |
SHAC update: Merck severs ties with HLS
The latest from SHAC USA:
(1) Check out the new and improved SHAC USA website! (2) Global giant Merck has abandoned HLS (3) Happy Memorial Day! Activists nationwide will be kicking off summer at the homes of local HLS supporters. Check it out at  http://www.shacamerica.net/home/index.htm and organize a visit in your area!
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Howard Dean on the Environment
Howard Dean lays out his criticism of the Bush administration's environmental record an his vision for America's ecological future. From Grist magazine
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Ron Scherer
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21.05.2003 15:25 |
World cracks down on Big Tobacco
To slow the spread of smoking, especially in poor nations, where smoking rates are soaring, the World Health Organization in Geneva voted for unprecedented and potentially deep restrictions on tobacco products.
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Attorneys for death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to order Mumia's prior Chief Counsel Leonard Weinglass to answer under oath 112 questions concerning charges that he was responsible for the "intentional burying of evidence that proves Appellant Jamal's 'actual innocence' of the crime of which he has been convicted."
c 2003 by charles amsellem all rights reserved.
The feds face bills that are far beyond our capacity to pay -- by $44 trillion to be precise. The longer we ignore them, the bigger they get.
The latest from SHAC USA:
Here are those absent flyers.
