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To Save the World
Please stand with us for five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time on May 13, 2007, in your local park, school yard, gathering place, or any place you deem appropriate, to signify your agreement with the statement … Continue reading
Texas HB 1534 Shadow Hearing
HB 1534 SHADOW HEARINGMonday, April 30, 2007 – 6:45p – 8pm.Austin State Capitol Legislative Conference Center room E2.002 Please plan to attend the Texans for Medical Marijuana Shadow Hearing next Monday evening. It’s shaping up to be an exciting event. … Continue reading
Trash Talkin’ Thursday – Casualty Counting
This mental midget of a moron named Junior must believe all of us are idiots. U.S. excludes bombs in touting drop in Iraq violenceBy NANCY A. YOUSSEFMcClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON — U.S. officials who say there has been a dramatic drop in … Continue reading
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Flaunting Commonly Accepted Rules of Human Decency
UN Slams Failure to Grant Due Process: Report Says Number Held by MNF Without Charge or Trial The new UN report on human rights criticized Coalition authorities for indefinitely holding detainees without charge or trial, charging, “The current legal arrangements … Continue reading
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Exploitation of Humanity for Capitalism
IRAQ: Foreign workers lured to work in Iraq BAGHDAD, 24 April 2007 (IRIN) – NGOs have warned of increasing numbers of foreign workers being mislead to work in Iraq for little or no pay and at great risk to their … Continue reading
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UN Says the "Surge" Has Failed
UN: Baghdad Security Operation Has FailedThe Irish Examiner UKWednesday 25 April 2007 Sectarian violence continued to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shiite neighbourhoods of Iraq’s capital, despite the coalition’s new Baghdad … Continue reading
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Well, Duhhhh
Possible ‘Illegal’ White House Activity ProbedBy DEB RIECHMANN, AP WASHINGTON (April 25) – A little-known federal investigative unit has launched a probe into allegations of illegal political activity within the executive branch, including a White House office led by President … Continue reading
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Canucks Take a Lesson in Racism From the Yanks
Canada’s Spiesby Stefan ChristoffApril 21, 2007Montreal Mirror The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is conducting regular interviews and interrogations with hundreds of Arabs and Muslims across Canada at their work places, homes and in the vicinity of local mosques, say … Continue reading
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Taking Responsibility for Energy Use
POWER PLAY: HOW DENMARK PAVED WAY TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCEBy Leila Abboud Thirty-Year Plan Uses Wind, Taxes, Pig Fat; Consumers Pay More [Rachel’s introduction: Denmark is working steadily to conserve energy and get itself loose from the grip of Big Oil … Continue reading
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Cole On the Dynamic Between al-Maliki and al-Sadr
As premier loses stature, radical cleric is gaining itBy Juan ColeArticle Launched: 04/22/2007 01:45:27 AM PDT Radical young Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may have become more important in hiding than he was when he could dare come out in public. … Continue reading
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The Truth About Amerikans
What’s frightening about this video is not the ignorance. It is the arrogance and the racism, two traits that have every potential to wreck everything for which these idiots believe Amerika stands.
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