 |
|
|
With more than $100 billion in personal
assets among them, the five Waltons occupy positions six
through 10 in the Forbes billionaires rankings, twice as
rich as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, the guy at the top.
Collectively, they are antisocial malevolence with a last
name. These spawn of Bentonville, Arkansas harbor an abiding
hatred for the public sphere: business regulatory controls,
nondiscrimination laws, wage and workplace safety standards,
the social safety net—all of it—as expressed through the
operations of their retail empire, which is both the largest
employer in the United States and biggest importer of goods
made in China. As the Democratic Socialists of America put
it: “Wal-Mart is more than just a participant in the
low-wage economy: It is the most important single
beneficiary of that economy. It uses its economic and
political power to extend the scope of the low-wage economy
and threatens to extend its business model into other
sectors of the economy, undermining the wages of still more
workers.”
http://www.inthesetimes.com/print.php?id=672_0_1_0
....AlB
|
|
I have participated in Zogby polls for over a
year now. They sent me
this link to send along to others who may be interested in
being in
their pool of folks that they poll via the internet. Here's
the link:
http://interactive.zogby.com/pollregistration/registration/index.cfm
JohnH, 3/19/04
|
|
I was convicted by court-martial because my adopted
name, which I have had since a child, was changed at common law, not
by court order. No allegation was made that it was assumed for a
fraudulent purpose, only that it is illegal to use it in the military
(regardless of regulations), but that it is a different (unspecified)
law for women (one of the members of the court-martial was using such
a name).
...DavidH 3/19/04
|
|
No longer
"affordable" to be anywhere near Florida's coast unless you
are RICH,RICH,RICH...
I feel it is unconstitutional to require
certain citizens to pay for the repercussions of a natural
disaster, I am a single mom not living in some expensive
coastal home but unfortunately within the decreed distance
to the ocean that I am "forced" to pay for the damage in
Homestead.....I will be forced to move as I can not afford
the insurance, on top of the doubled homeowner's insurance
and food insurance.....is there anyone else out there that
feels this is unfair????
Thank you,
Lin 2/17/04
|
|
http://www.radiopower.org
has some good progressive talk shows that your readers might
enjoy.
|
|
Quote of the Day
"I knew that I could never again
raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in
the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the
greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own
government." - Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr.,
speaking on April 4, 1967,
one year before his assassination.
....AlB, 1/16/04
|
|
Whose Florida team!
Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity have just
released "The Buying of the President 2004" which includes
the most comprehensive look ever at Bush's fundraising
machine, his top career patrons, and his most egregious
pandering to special interests.
The book also includes a letter from then-Halliburton CEO Dick
Cheney to then-Vice President Al Gore, asking for the repeal
of clean air standards and a more "transparent" debate on
environmental regulation. Obviously, anyone interested in
Cheney's subsequent closed-door energy policy meetings and his
other anti-environmental actions as Veep will want to read all
about this.
Each of the leading Democratic challengers is also fully
covered . This is the guidebook for everyone planning to enter
a voting booth this year!
Take a look at this list of
contributors (pdf).
Streaming video of the press conference where the book was
released is available at:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/webcast
... Ina H, 1/14/04
|
|
THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A DAILY EMAIL.
THERE HAVE BEEN LAWS PASSED TO PROTECT THE
GLADES FROM THIS
KIND OF MURDEROUS INCURSION. WHY AREN'T THEY
BEING INVOKED?
... AL B,
1/14/04
ENVIRONMENT
Earth's Day In Court
The Supreme Court today has the chance to stop
water pollution from
destroying the Florida Everglades. The situation: A water
management company in southwest Broward County is dumping "as
much as 423,000 gallons a minute of polluted runoff from
suburban lawns, farms and industrial yards into the
Everglades." The company "doesn't dispute the water it's
pumping is polluted, but says it has no other place to put
it." The pollution is changing "the water chemistry, killing
some native plants and allowing other nonnative plants to
thrive." Perversely, the water management company says the
expense incurred to stop destroying the area would take money
away from the federal government's $8.4 billion effort to
protect its environment. A defeat for the Everglades would
mean water management companies could move polluted water
wherever they wanted with no thought of the repercussions to
the environment. Says David Reiner, president of the Friends
of the Everglades, "It's a get-out-of-jail-free card for water
management agencies throughout the country."
|
|
Ex-felons seeking voting rights get trial
A federal appellate court grants more than 600,000 former felons
in Florida a federal trial to challenge the state's ban on the
restoration of their voting rights.
A federal appellate court ruled Friday that Florida's 135-year-old
ban on ex-felons' voting rights could be racially discriminatory,
and ordered a Miami trial for hundreds of thousands of former
convicts seeking to restore those rights.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said the state
must prove the 1968 Legislature did not discriminate against
blacks when it slightly amended a post-Civil War law barring
ex-felons from voting.
|
|
Department of
Citrus
Several grove owners sue the state's advertising agency, the
sonorously called "Department of Citrus", for collecting taxes on
every box of fruit. This so called "box tax" must cover the
payroll of the agency's highly paid executives and their
assistants. To assure that, Mr.Crawford, the head of this agency
told the citrus industry that "unless they accept the Government's
box tax, their industry is in jeopardy..." This tax pays for
promotional efforts, which however could be better done and for
less money by professional advertising agencies.
They also spent money to have a study conducted showing that every
dollar paid by the growers resulted in $6.00 extra income for
them.
Detailed figures of this study are unknown. However, there is
little scientific value of a model considering too many unrelated
factors to attribute effects on one arbitrarily selected
component.
It would be more interesting to conduct a study to compare the
professional agencies' charges with the cost running the
Department of Citrus.
The budget for this agency has been increased from 67 million
dollars a year to 70 million dollars for 2002-2003.
That is much more than needed per year to prevent canker sensitive
groves from the disease. At the same time saving hundreds of
millions of dollars (over one billion if just compensation is
paid) of taxpayers' money, cancelling the eradication program.
Home owners financial and emotional damages would finally be
eliminated. .
....Peter Harsany, D.Sc.
12/2/03
|
|
On The Backs of The Poor
Congressman Allen Boyd has submitted a resolution {HR3333IH} that
would reinstate Gov. subsidized insurance to Cape San Blas and
Indian Point in Gulf Co. This would effect 400
present homes and 2000 future homes and would go around the
"National Flood Insurance Act of 1968" and would eliminate that
act within the Coastal Barrier Resources System Boundaries in Gulf
Co. This would mean millions more in taxpayers money going to the
upper income segment as a lot of these homes are lease and rental
and second homes. I believe that this effort is a foot in the door
to enable the developments by St Joe Co. on the beaches (which
will be million dollar homes) to have the average taxpayer pay 1/2
the price of their flood insurance. Also these are delicate
ecosystems some of which have already been degraded by
development.
...Marilyn B,
11/30/03
|
|
The evil that is in
the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as
much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the
whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real
point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we
call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an
ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims
for itself the right to kill. - Albert Camus, The Plague
... Al B, 11/23/03
|
|
"Welcome to Secure Florida, a cyber security resource
designed to increase awareness and education of cyber security issues
in the state of Florida. Within the site you can find information
about strengthening Florida's cyber infrastructure, both in your
business and in your home. ...."
http://www.secureflorida.org/index.php?submenu=FirstTimeUser&src=gendocs&link=FirstTimeUser
... thought you all might want to know about this
Tom, 11/23/03
|
|
Thank you for your website. How have we allowed such
an evil, vile, and heartless person to assume the position of Governor
of Florida? One may ask "allowed?". Yes, if we have not prevented
the political environment of "JEB" we have allowed it to happen. This
money grubbing developer from South Florida is killing our state. He
has opened up an artery and our life's blood is squirting out.
Thanks again for this valuable resource.
Erica K, 11/12/03
|
|
Waxman |
'Halliburton Price Gouging American Taxpayers'
from t r u t h o u t
Congressmen Waxman and Dingell reveal
the prices that Halliburton has charged to import gasoline into Iraq.
Oil industry experts say Halliburton's prices are "outrageously high,"
"a huge ripoff," and "highway robbery."
Read
Waxman's statement.
(Requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader)
Read the Congressmen's letter
to the OMB. (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Committee
on Government Reform - Minority Office
.... 10/15/03
|
|
Alcohol, Drug Problems May Be Dropped from
Sentencing Considerations
Among the U.S. Sentencing Commission's recommendations to the
U.S. Congress regarding federal sentencing guidelines is that
drug or alcohol dependence should no longer be a
consideration for a reduced sentence. (...more)
|
|
Oil and gas running out much faster
than expected, says study
By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor
World oil and gas supplies are heading for a
"production crunch" sometime between 2010 and 2020 when they cannot
meet supply, because global reserves are 80 per cent smaller than
had been thought, new forecasts suggest.
Research presented this week at the University of
Uppsala in Sweden claims that oil supplies will peak soon after
2010, and gas supplies not long afterwards, making the price of
petrol and other fuels rocket, with potentially disastrous economic
consequences unless people have moved to alternatives to fossil
fuels.
While forecasters have always known that such a
date lies ahead, they have previously put it around 2050, and
estimated that there would be time to shift energy use over to
renewables and other non- fossil sources.
But Kjell Aleklett, one of a team of geologists
that prepared the report, said earlier estimates that the world's
entire reserve amounts to 18,000 billion barrels of oil and gas - of
which about 1,000 billion has been used up so far - were "completely
unrealistic". He, Anders Sivertsson and Colin Campbell told New
Scientist magazine that less than 3,500 billion barrels of oil
and gas remained in total
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=449053
...AB, 10/8/03
|
|
Oliphant not above the law
Dear Governor Bush,
I am wondering just how Ms. Oliphant keeps her position as head
of the Broward County Election Board when her actions border on the
incompetent and abuse and are egregiously arrogant.
Today, a local news station, reported that she fired -- quite
arbitrarily --
two of her workers (one of 18 years and the other of 13 years
experience)
with neither rhyme nor reason; simply they were told that they should
either resign or they would be fired; when asked why, they were told by
Ms Oliphant that she did not have to give a reason!
Ms. Oliphant is not above the law. Although on many occasions
she has certainly acted as though she were.
I believe that actions of this hubris are illegal by federal or state
statute;
and particularly are a breach of employer-employee relations which
should bring law suits galore to her and to the county and state.
Ms. Oliphant is a public servant with public responsibilities.
Some person of importance should remind her of that.
Or perhaps she should simply be fired.
You already have a couple of good reasons.
Sincerely,
Alfred J. Buono, 10/8/03
|
|
Chinking at last on Bush's armour
Now that three days have passed since the second anniversary of 9/11, I
feel free to follow in U.S. President George W. Bush's footsteps: I,
too, will exploit this tragedy to further my career.
Of course, the stakes are much different. Me, I just need column fodder.
Him, he needs cannon fodder — and to pick up his approval ratings.
Meanwhile the media, or at least some of the more powerful mainstream
outlets, are in turn — finally! — picking holes in his armour, by
starting to ask the questions that only those dismissed as "conspiracy
theorists'' dared pose before. ... 9/15/03 from
http://www.independent-media.tv/index.cfm
|
|
Ban Private Prisons in Florida
"The Florida PBA has filed a constitutional amendment petition with
the Florida Secretary of State that would ban the privatization of
correction and probation services in Florida. This amendment, if passed,
would be the deathblow to the for-profit private prison industry in
Florida."
If you have not done so, please help get The Florida Police Benevolent
Association's Amendment to Ban Private Prisons in Florida on the ballot
by printing and signing their petition, and mailing it to them.
----Paul , 9/14/03
More info:
http://www.flpba.org/crimeshouldn%27tpay.html#TOP
The petition:
http://www.flpba.org/pics/CA%20Petition%20Form.pdf
Privatization Watch:
http://www.flpba.org/private/index_private.html
The Florida PBA:
http://www.flpba.org/
|
|
Ambassador Joe Wilson on "Sound Off with Sasha
this Friday!"
This is a pre-preview of the upcoming show this Friday when the
guest will be Ambassador Joe Wilson, the last US Diplomat who talked
with
Saddam Hussein before Desert Storm, and the one who exposed the falsity
of
the claim of Iraq's purchase of uranium from Niger.
He is now calling for the resignation of some of the neo-cons who egged
us
into this war.
Please mark your calendar, and tune in and call in with questions and
comments,
Sasha
"Sound Off with Sasha !" On Public Broadcasting from Fort
Myers Florida - Florida Gulf Coast University
WGCU 90.1 * WMKO 91.7
Fridays at 2 PM EDT
Hear it on the Web
www.wgcu.org/fm/streaming.html
Hotline:239.590.2580 or 888.408.2787
....DaveG, 9/3/03
|
|
How unions help all workers
Unions have a substantial impact on the compensation and work lives
of
both unionized and non-unionized workers. This report presents
current
data on unions' effect on wages, fringe benefits, total
compensation,
pay inequality, and workplace protections.
Some of the conclusions are:
• Unions raise wages of unionized workers by roughly 20% and raise
compensation, including both wages and benefits, by about 28%.
• Unions reduce wage inequality because they raise wages more for
low-
and middle-wage workers than for higher-wage workers, more for
blue-collar than for white-collar workers, and more for workers who
do
not have a college degree.
• Strong unions set a pay standard that nonunion employers follow.
For
example, a high school graduate whose workplace is not unionized but
whose industry is 25% unionized is paid 5% more than similar workers
in
less unionized industries.
• The impact of unions on total nonunion wages is almost as large as
the impact on total union wages.
• The most sweeping advantage for unionized workers is in fringe
benefits. Unionized workers are more likely than their nonunionized
counterparts to receive paid leave, are approximately 18% to 28%
more
likely to have employer-provided health insurance, and are 23% to
54%
more likely to be in employer-provided pension plans.
• Unionized workers receive more generous health benefits than
nonunionized workers. They also pay 18% lower health care
deductibles
and a smaller share of the costs for family coverage. In retirement,
unionized workers are 24% more likely to be covered by health
insurance
paid for by their employer.
• Unionized workers receive better pension plans. Not only are they
more likely to have a guaranteed benefit in retirement, their
employers
contribute 28% more toward pensions.
• Unionized workers receive 26% more vacation time and 14% more
total
paid leave (vacations and holidays).
by Lawrence Mishel with Matthew Walters
August 2003 | EPI Briefing Paper
Full story:
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm?id=1503
...JH, 9/15/03
|
|
The National Resources Defense Council posts the Bush
record on the environment at:
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/2003.asp
and it's horrible!!
....Barry, 8/12/03
|
|
Baghdad Independent Media Center:
http://www.almuajaha.com/
"Al-Muajaha is an independent newspaper that aims to represent all
levels of Iraqi society. The staff is a group of Iraqi students with
varied backgrounds, unconnected with either the previous Ba'athist
regime, or with the successor American government. We represent no
political party or faction; we are truly independent.
Al-Muajaha aims to fill the information gap between Iraq and the rest of
the world, to help the world understand Iraq and to help Iraqis
understand the world."
... PaulM, 8/8/03
(Note: our Florida IMC is
http://tallahassee.indymedia.org/ , and there are efforts underway
to set up an IMC in Miami
|
|
The Clinton Era
After much arguing and deliberation, historians this week have come up
with a phrase to describe the Clinton Era. It will be called: SEX
BETWEEN THE BUSHES.
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta announced that Clinton has
proven that you can get sex from Aides.
Gennifer Flowers was asked if her relationship with Clinton was anything
like Monica Lewinski's. She replied, "Close, but no cigar."
The FBI has coined a technical term for the stains found on Monica's
dress: "Presidue."
Clinton now recruits interns from only four colleges: Moorhead, Oral
Roberts, Ball State and Brigham Young.
Did you know that Clinton had asked to change the Democratic emblem from
a donkey to a condom? It represents inflation, halts production, and
gives you a false sense of security while you are being screwed.
Arkansas is very proud of Bill Clinton. All these women coming forward,
and not one is his sister!
Finally, Hillary Clinton recently went to a fortuneteller who intoned,
"Prepare to become a widow. Your husband will soon suffer a /violent
death!" Hillary took a deep breath and asked, "Will I be acquitted?"
....minnicklaw, 8/8/03
|
|
In 1758 philosopher David Hume wrote: "Nothing
appears more surprising than the easiness with which the many are
governed by the few; and the implicit submission with which men resign
their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers."
.... from
On the First Principles of Government by David Hume
|
|
Who Made George W. Bush Our
King?
Nat Hentoff: Some of the most glorious illuminations of the Bill of
Rights in American history have been contained in Supreme Court dissents
by, among others, Louis Brandeis, William Brennan, Hugo Black, and
Thurgood Marshall. Equal to those was the stinging dissent by judge
Diana Gribbon Motz when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (8 to 4)
gave George W. Bush a fearsome power that can be found nowhere in the
Constitution—the sole authority to imprison an American citizen
indefinitely without charges or access to a lawyer.
This case is now on appeal to the Supreme Court, which will determine
whether this president—or his successors until the end of the war on
terrorism—can subvert the Bill of Rights to the peril of all of us. ...
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0331/hentoff.php
....jkeels, 7/30/03
|
|
Why would we want to impeach the best President we've
had in 10 years? I guess some folks would just do anything to keep
America divided. ... Sharon, 7/28/03
Sharon, those folks you speak about are wrong. They have been affected
by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they
see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their
little minds. They think that the increasing poverty, death and
destruction they see around them is all there is. All minds,
Sharon, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great
universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as
compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the
intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Sharon, George W. Bush is the best President we have ever had in
this country, maybe in the entire world, or even in all worlds that have
ever or will ever exist. To question this would be like doubting
whether love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that
they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no President George W
Bush! It would be as dreary as if there were no Sharons. There
would be no innocent faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable
this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight.
The external light with which purity and innocence fills the world would
be extinguished.
Not believe in a Good George W. Bush! You might as well not believe in
Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. You might get those folks you
mentioned to have men to search Iraq high and low, under every rock and
deep in every bunker, but even if you don't find them what would that
prove? Just because no one can see these weapons of mass
destruction, that is no sign that they are not there. The
most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men
can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not,
but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or
imagine all the weapons there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside,
but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest
mean, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever
lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond
that is our Good Lord George W. Bush. Is it all real? Ah, Sharon,
in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Good George W! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Sharon, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will
continue to make glad the heart of humankind.
... WF (with apologies to Virginia, Santa, and the
New York Sun
editors of 1897...)
|
|
Vote stealing Florida style (Flash animation)
http://www.bushflash.com/gta.html -- (more
on the voting machine scandal )
|
|
Bush stonewalling will bring on probe
...The other reason the inquiry is proceeding relates to the
preposterous assertions by Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
that the famous 16 words were ''technically'' accurate because of the
attribution to the British. This is false.
In fact, the Bush speech hyped the claim by using the verb ''learned''
instead of simply using the word ''said.'' It also fudged the
significance of the allegation by saying the Iraqi effort had occurred
''recently'' when the only possible contact with Niger was in 1999. And
it was simply incorrect when it used the phrase ''significant quantities
of uranium'' when in fact there was no credible claim relating to
quantity at all...
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/201/oped/Bush_stonewalling_will_bring_on_probe+.shtml
....jk, 7/21/03
|
|
House Democrats Storm Out of Ways and Means
Committee
PentaPost reports, "The House of Representatives erupted into open
warfare today when Democrats stormed out of a Ways and Means Committee
session and the panel's chairman called in the Capitol Police. The day
began with a fairly ordinary procedural fight over [a] pension bill.
Committee Democrats complained that the Republican majority had not
given them enough time to review a substitute bill that they had
received shortly before midnight Thursday. Most of the Democrats then
moved to a nearby library to plot strategy after they demanded that
Republicans read the legislation line by line. Infuriated, Ways and
Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) instructed the Capitol
Police to remove the Democrats from the ornate library... After the one
remaining Ways and Means Democrat got in a spat with a GOP committee
member, Thomas dispensed with the reading of the bill altogether and
pushed through the legislation, without a single Democratic vote."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11104-2003Jul18.html
Dispute over pension bill gets heated
By Marilyn Geewax, Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service
Tensions spill over and police are called as some Democrats boycott the
House Ways and Means Committee.
Bill Thomas (R-CA) Tries to Turn Capitol Police into Storm Troopers
to Intimidate Dissenting Democrats
"Instead of demanding that Stark leave, or even just
threatening to call security if he did not leave, Thomas called the
Congressional Sergeant of Arms who was told, falsely, that physical
threats had been made, and that the police should be called to 'clear
the room' - not the committee room, but THE LIBRARY where Democrats were
gathered to discuss a hotly debated pension bill. So, imagine the shock
the Democrats had when policemen stomped into the library saying they
had orders to remove them forcibly if necessary!! Stark, of course, was
not in the room. When the Democrats refused to leave, Thomas immediately
knew he had to back-pedal. He 'rescinded' his order to the police,
saying it was a 'mistake.' But the Democrats refused to allow this
outrage to pass and are demanding a resolution on the incident."
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4445/index.php
.... BillY, 7/20/03
|
|
Governor's partisan foe going national
TALLAHASSEE - Tony Welch, the Democratic spinmeister whose zingers got
under Gov. Jeb Bush's skin during two elections, is taking his partisan
act national, aiming directly at the governor's brother.
Welch, the Florida Democratic Party's leading verbal attacker for four
years and currently the state teachers union communications director,
will begin a new post July 1 as press secretary for the Democratic
National Committee. He'll likely become a fixture on cable television
talk shows, ripping President Bush and putting Florida's political
importance back in the spotlight.
''Everybody expects a really competitive race in 2004, and I want to be
a part of that,'' said Welch, 37, a graduate of the University of West
Florida and a former reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat.
...JKeels, 6/18/03, from
|
|
Hello Friend of PCC-You know we have taken a stance
against building another airport under the current circumstances; you
likely agree or may have a different view. Regardless of where you
personally stand on the airport, the overwhelming number of average
citizens in Bay County have wanted to see the public vote on the
airport and would be willing to abide by the outcome.
We have learned that the chamber of commerce over in
Bay County is asking its members to vote in the new above on-line poll
against having even a referendum on the airport; please, if you have
not already done so, vote yes at
www.wjhg.com and
urge sympathetic friends/colleagues to do likewise-these polls can
sometimes influence public opinion, even though they are not
scientific, more on the strength one side or the other can mobilize.
Under the current circumstances, however, we are also having our court
suit heard a week from today and of course Judges just occasionally
look at the news also. Thanks for your help and more later. John
Hedrick, Chair, Panhandle Citizens Coalition; 6/16/03
|
|
Who killed Black Radio News?
http://www.blackcommentator.com/44/44_cover.html
... RT. 6/15/03
|
|
Haney Creek
Greenway Group
We need HELP, visit our web page
www.hcgreenway.org
.
SFWMD is close to issuing a ERP for application 001206-4 to fill 7 acres
of the wetlands
...HELP, 6/5/03
|
|
This is very powerful:
http://www.bushflash.com/memorial.html
... kg, 6/3/2003
|
|
The new touch screen voting machines leave no paper
trail
for recounts; also, I am told, they have built-in
modems which can be
activated from anywhere to make changes in the
machine counts.
...Al,
5/27/03
|
|
George W. Bush on sacrifice:
 "I've
been to war. I've raised twins. If I
had
a choice, I'd rather go to war."
Houston
Chronicle, January 2002
But here's
The Real Bush War Record
|
|
Action!
Stop "Patriot II"
Secret arrests. Unrestricted wiretaps. Church
surveillance. Patriot II (officially known as the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act) is a follow-up to Ashcroft's USA PATRIOT Act. Like most
sequels, this one is even worse than the original. Patriot Act II would
extend the unconstitutional reach of USA PATRIOT by granting sweeping
new powers to the government, including unchecked government
surveillance, secret arrests, and wiretapping of churches, synagogues
and mosques. It gives John Ashcroft and the Justice Department the
ability to label political protest groups as "terrorists," and even
strip their members of U.S. citizenship. Take action to stop another
federal power grab before it happens.
http://ga1.org/campaign/patriot2
.....JohnK, 5/10/03
|
|
The two faces of Rumsfeld
--- 2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell
nuclear reactors to North Korea
--- 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of
evil and a target for regime change (more)
Taliban appears to be regrouped and well-funded
A new hierarchy of leaders has emerged across parts of Afghanistan.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – As the fiery chief justice of the Taliban's Supreme
Court, Abdul Salam shook the world once, proclaiming the right to
execute foreign aid workers accused of converting Afghans to
Christianity.
Today, not only is Justice Salam back, talking to a foreign reporter for
the first time since the Taliban fell a year and a half ago, but he says
the Taliban are back as well. Regrouped, rearmed, and well-funded, they
are ready to carry on guerrilla war as long as it takes to expel US
forces from Afghanistan. (more)
....jk, 5/9/03
|
| < | |
Help
support