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Thursday Thought: The USA Today
Thanks to Diane Stirling-Stevens | The Rag Blog | Posted August 28, 2008
‘Everyone at the Top Is Getting Fat Off Our Misery’
See “New Orleans, Three Years Later” by Jordan Flaherty and Katrina video with Richard Dreyfus, below. By Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog / August 28, 2008 I was looking at my calendar; the ‘things to do’. I note on … Continue reading
Free Gaza Boats Returning to Cyprus
Gaza activists to return to Cyprus with Palestinian studentsBy Stefanos Evripidou / August 28, 2008 THE TWO ‘Free Gaza’ boats will set sail from Gaza today for Cyprus after successfully breaking the Israeli sea blockade of the Strip last Saturday. … Continue reading
Montana Governor Brian Schweizer Blasts Bush and His Petro-Dictators
Governor Brian Schweizer See video below. Schweitzer electrifies convention with energy speechBy Josh Dorner / August 27, 2008 While most of the excitement last night was focused on Senator Clinton’s speech, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer gave an electrifying (and highly … Continue reading
Bush Remains Arrogant and Defiant
Joshua Bolten (center) with a couple of other White House criminalsBush steps up fight over congressional authorityBy Matt Apuzzo / August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the … Continue reading
Remember the Bees? EPA Is Hiding Something
EPA is Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder InformationAugust 18, 2008 NRDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery WASHINGTON — The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is … Continue reading
Just Like Nazi Germany
See video below. Longstanding Berkeley Community Center Raided by FBIAugust 27, 2008 More than a dozen computers seized in questionable search BERKELEY, CA — At 10:30 am on Wednesday, August 27th, the UC Berkeley police, plainclothes FBI agents, and an … Continue reading
FBI Still Trying to Hide Its Fearful Incompetence
Judges consider whether FBI violated free speechAugust 27, 2008 NEW YORK — A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should … Continue reading
Police Brutality in Denver: the Face of Democracy
Here are dramatic scenes of the knockdown of Alicia Forrest, a member of Code Pink. The Aspen Times says that a policeman violently shoved her. The Rocky Mountain News reports that she was thrown to the ground “with a smack.” … Continue reading
The DNC Sponsors List Is Rather Enlightening
The list I’ve posted here barely scratches the surface of what the Rocky Mountain News dug out of the public record. I note that this article was published on 12 May, but it is still very timely information. Such notables … Continue reading
We’re Number One: Texas Leads Nation in Lack of Health Insurance
Texas Continues To Shine At Being UninsuredBy Olivia Flores Alvarez / August 26, 2008 Texas is at the top of the heap again – this time we are the most uninsured state, health care-wise, in the country. Woo hoo! Oh, … Continue reading
Nothing Fair About the Trade Deals Made with Chequebooks and Lawyers
Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade dealsBy George Monbiot / August 26, 2008 The world’s hungriest are the losers as an old colonialism returns to govern relations between wealthy and poor nations In his … Continue reading
