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The planned takeover of a major Midwestern farm loan cooperative by a Dutch banking giant
A solar-powered version of their sporty mobile gear jacket. Global Solar's thin-film photovoltaic cells on the back of the jacket charge a small battery pack that provides juice to MP3 players, phones, cameras, and other devices stashed in more than 30 hidden pockets.
VideoGreat White Shark in Cape Cod Salt Pond
What have you done for me lately
An Army Reserve staff sergeant who last week wrote a critical analysis of the United States' prospects in Iraq now faces possible disciplinary action for disloyalty and insubordination. If charges are bought and the officer is found guilty, he could face 20 years in prison.
It would be the first such disloyalty prosecution since the Vietnam War.
Patriot Act II would create 15 new death penalties, one of which could be applied to acts of protest. Under the Hastert measure’s definitions, anti-war protesters could be deemed terrorists. In fact, any dissident could be spied on, harassed, and imprisoned indefinitely for exercising their legal and constitutionally protected rights.
Halliburton rose from the 22nd-largest military contractor in 2000 to seventh in 2003.
'Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates.'"
OUCH! -- How Money In Politics Hurts You
"Every time they say tax the rich, the rich dodge and you pay,”
President George W. Bush, August 28, 2004, Troy, Ohio
Pretax profits of 275 large, profitable Fortune 500 companies between 2001 and 2003: $1.1 trillion
Actual amount of profits they reported to the IRS, according to a new study by Citizens for Tax Justice: $557 billion
Federal tax rate companies are supposed to pay on their profits: 35%
Actual effective tax rate paid by these 275 profitable companies, in 2003: 17.2%
Number of these companies that actually paid no federal tax in one or more of the years 2001, 2002 and 2003: 82
Percentage decrease in the number of face-to-face audits of corporations by the IRS in 2003 compared to in 2000: -32%
Total tax subsidies received 2001-2003 by just the top eleven largest receipients of corporate tax breaks (GE, SBC Communications, Citigroup, IBM, Microsoft, AT&T, ExxonMobil, Verizon, JPMorganChase, Pfizer and Altria): $51.9 billion
Amount the annual budget of the U.S. Department of Education could be increased if those $51.9 billion in subsidies hadn't happened: Double
Campaign contributions made by these eleven companies to federal candidates and parties, 1989-present: more than $135.7 million
Return on investment for their 2001-2003 tax breaks: 38,000%
Number one receipient of their contributions: President George W. Bush
Amount he has received from their PACs, employees and their family members for his 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns: $1.8 million
Amount of extra tax each taxpayer paid to give those eleven companies their subsidies: $397.55
Size of the corporate tax cut just hammered out by congressional negotiators at the end of last week: $146 billion over five years
Number of poor families who will see their child tax credit shrink or disappear because, at the same time, congressional negotiators refused to make a technical adjustment to the law: 4 million
Number of children affected: 9.2 million
GrandMa Rubys Secret
Taking On Sadr City in a Pickup Truck
The web's one-stop resource for country statistics on anything and everything, whether it be soldiers, olympic medals, tourists, English speakers or wall plug voltages.
You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags. You can use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables.
Integrated into these is a full encyclopedia with over 200,000 articles.
Bush has decimated the Bill of Rights and basic freedoms embodied in the US Constitution, paving the way for a potential dictatorship should he get a second term. In short, he has done to America things no foreign terrorist could ever imagine.
Bush and Co. have achieved the first federal legal erosion of Roe v. Wade since its adoption in 1973.
Note:Oklahoma Senate candidate Tom Coburn, a doctor who has performed abortions, says doctors who perform abortions should be put to death by the state.???
If you have ever wondered whether a signed document transmitted over a fax machine is legally binding, consider the fact that in connection with his colonoscopy, Bush transferred Presidential power to Vice President Cheney, and later resumed power, by faxing signed documents to Congress
I know it`s true, cause I saw it on tv.
"Television is more popular than Jesus"--
John Lennon, drawing parallels to a previous statement he had made.
THE END OF THE AGE OF OIL
In the 1950s, it was not Saudi Arabia but the United States that was the world’s greatest producer of oil.
Much of our military and industrial might grew out of our giant oil industry, and most people in the oil business thought that this bonanza would go on forever.
But there was one gentleman who knew better. He was an oil exploration geologist named Marion King Hubbert
The Politics of Oil
Here`s a new website about Bush and the Saudis that
talks about how the Saudis fund terrorism
and
how their money IS involved in 9/11.
They also talk about how the pResident of the United States has connection with a country that funds terrorism. (Which is totally unacceptable when you have Americans dying in Iraq over a damn lie!
Ohio's republican secretary of state has issued an order (three days before the registration deadline) to throw out all voter registration forms printed on paper less then 80lb.
The state sent out 40lb forms to those requesting them.
And, a national election security planning bulletin will be sent today to the 50 states and the District, containing guidelines to governors and election officials for coordination of law enforcement, polling place and ballot-counting security, legal powers to order emergency election changes and public communication from now through Election Day.
All the Plants of the Bible This is a list of all the plants in the (Hebrew)Bible arranged alphabetically by common name.
There's a biblical reserve in Israel where they've planted most of the plants that appear in the bible.
Cops kill Starbucks smoker("an unarmed civilian") for refusal to obey the new smoking policy at the cafe.
Children raised by wolves, monkeys and other animals
Survivor Stories of Prison Rape
The new Draft – Everyone, Men and Women under thirty years old,, well,,everyone except rich republicans children.
Even more disturbing than the draft is the fact that some in Congress would like to expand the draft beyond military service to also include "national service." You see, for many of our leaders, bringing back the draft has less to do with providing needed soldiers for combat – America has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in peaceful nations from Japan to Germany – than it does expanding the size and power of government.
How to build your own violin
Hollow-body, Solid-body electric, or Steel guitar.
The Beer Bottle Organ
A pyrophone( instrument dependent on flame for sound).
Joe Barrick's one-man band
Cigar Box Guitars
Bagpipes
Home-built didgeridoo
PVC flutes
$20 Hurdy Gurdy
And other home-built instruments..
The Psychedelic Jew's Harp
For the first time in history, four hurricanes – Charley, Frances, Ivan , and now Jeanne -- have smacked into Florida's long coastline one after another in a single hurricane season (not yet over).
In March, Brazil experienced the South Atlantic's first hurricane ever
The Atlantic coast of Canada got whacked by Hurricane Juan, "the storm of the century,"
The United States has already experienced a record number of tornados in 2004.
Japan has had the worst season of typhoons in memory.
There has been massive flooding in Europe, Bangladesh, and China, and a deathly summer heat wave that struck Europe in 2003.
Rising sea levels and the increased melt-off toward the poles has increased from previous estimates
The Inuit are already suffering dramatic changes to their Arctic environment, warns a native leader.The glaciers which were once held back by the Larsen B ice shelf are now growing (and sliding off into the sea) at a rate which is as much as six times faster than before. (And as goes the Arctic, so goes the Earth.)
Perpetual war portfolio: Which companies make the killing machines?
The Bush administration has hired at least one company tied to the network of Victor Bout, one of the world's most notorious arms traffickers.
George W. Bush: A Short flying history
The display of information with diagrams.
Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall, originally published in 1859
Exegetes of the Mayan calendar, who appear to think it indicates something really horrible (conceivably the end of the universe) on December 21, 2012;
Unbelievable!!!
TXU Energy, the largest electric utility in Texas, has postponed its plan to use "credit scoring" for setting its rates.
Get used to hearing about credit scoring. It's the wave of the future for utilities, insurance companies -- even for phone, cable and Internet providers.
The basic idea is to charge different rates to different customers based on customers' FICO scores. The upshot will be that poor people, young people, the retired and the recently widowed will be charged more than other, wealthier people for an array of services.
This is a precursor to the cashless society we are on the verge of establishing. We will all be issued a debit card, the amount will be determined by a variable of reasons,, and actions(good and bad) we perform in society.
This will lead to even further controls on us,, such as,, a corporation invests in an apartment complex and will be able to buy energy at a lower rate, then being able to rent the apartments with utilities at a far lower rate than a homeowner, or even a house renter could afford on their own.
IMHO
All 276 members of Oprah's car audience recieved a brand new Pontiac G-Six, worth $28,500.00. They would seem to be very lucky.
As usual, bureaucrats have to step in and muck up a seemingly good situation.
It turns out, the winners must count the car as income. If they choose to keep the car, they must pay $7,000.00 in taxes!!! That's a quarter of the total value of the car. Who can afford to give $7,000.00 dollars, straight out of pocket, to the IRS? It's even more than sales tax.
And this is AFTER Pontiac agreed to pay other charges, like state sales tax, and licensing fees.
It was not a story about Dan Rather. The white millionaire celebrity can defend himself without any help.And it should be pointed out, that falsifying documents to influence an election is a felony.
It was really a story about fear, the fear that stops other reporters in the US from following the evidence about this Administration to where it leads.
American news guys and news gals, practicing their smiles, adjusting their hairspray levels, bleaching their teeth and performing all the other activities that are at the heart of US TV journalism, will look to the treatment of Dan Rather and say, "Not me, babe."
No questions will be asked, as Dan predicted, lest they risk necklacing and their careers as news actors burnt to death.
The World Health Organization said on Saturday it was "suspecting human-to-human transmission" of bird flu had occurred in northern Thailand, marking what could be the first such transmission of the lethal virus
Tom Ridge's war profiteering.
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has been reported to hold investments in at least seven different companies directly benefiting from new Homeland Security projects. Not having those investments in a blind trust, still having stock in companies that do business with the agency — that creates an appearance of conflict of interest.
Kind of like,, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, of Nebraska who just happened to be CEO, or on the board of directors, of the electronic voting company that tabulated the votes in the race he was running.
Common wisdom used to hold that the appearance of a conflict of interest was almost as a bad as an actual conflict of interest, and was to be avoided at all cost. But clearly this administration could give a shit about that.
This is hardly a scandal though,when practically no one in the media put up serious protestations about Cheney's deferred income from Halliburton while awarding them no-bid contracts in Iraq, although, The financial holdings and sources of income for most applicants under serious consideration must be disclosed for review for possible conflicts of interest, and any conflicts must be remedied by divestiture, the creation of special trusts, etc.--from the White House's page on appointments.
The moral to the story?--
Homeland Security: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
The cleaning power of taco sauce.
SCIENTISTS have invented a car made from potato.
Toyota's ES3 concept car boasts a plastic bumper, trim and floor mats derived from the vegetable.
On September 24, 2004, Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation once again honor the creators of some stunning scientific images, drawings, and multimedia environments, in the second annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
John Kerry and the men of Swift Boat PCF-94 video game.
This report cites a memo from the Office of Management And Budget, which specifies that education funding is to be frozen at the 2004 level. It also cites how the president plans to make the cuts, including a $340 million cut from Title I, which provides funds for low-income students; shrinking Pell grants for higher education; cutting back federal special education funding; and reducing vocational training programs by $26 million. Doesn't matter if you're in elementary school or college—these cuts will affect all.
Roomba Discovery robotic vacuum
Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Mississippi is using the Pyxis HelpMate SP Robotic Courier System to move stuff around in the hospital like meals for patients, medicine, lab samples, supplies, and medical records. Once the hospital’s floorplan has been programmed into it (along with info about how to deal with the elevators), you just load the robot, which they’ve nicknamed the “EMMA” (which stands for Electronic Materials Management Associate”), up with whatever you want to sent and then tell it where you want it to go.
Vstone's programmable & autonomous humanoid robot "Robovie-M" can play soccer.
The question for all christians. Do you believe Jews, Muslims, and others who die without accepting Jesus Christ as their savior will be allowed into Heaven?
Zeynup Tugrul, a Turkish journalist who was captured in Iraq, tells a harrowing story of the ordeal in today's New York Times. As she tells the story, she makes a point about the nature of the insurgency, at least in and around Mosul, that doesn't exactly jibe with the Bush administration's happy talk:
Everywhere they were taken, she said, people appeared eager to help anyone they thought was part of the resistance.
"I saw that around Mosul, everybody is the resistance - not terrorists, but not civilians really either," she said. "They used the small kids to bring them water, and nobody treated them like children. They'd be with the men who were talking about cutting heads, and the kids would be standing guard, like little men, so you become afraid of the children too."
When we were imprisoned, we were housed by local people, in their own homes. Their mothers and wives were doing the cooking and exhorting their sons to go out and die as martyrs.
It's hopeless for the U.S.
At a U.S. Senate Committee hearing Rumsfeld raised the possibility polls might not be held in all of Iraq.
"Let's say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some places you couldn't because the violence was too great," Rumsfeld said, hours after the leaders of the United States and Iraq met in Washington.
"Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet," he said.---(HUH? A "Partial Democracy" This is getting ridiculous!!! )
Working for America has a web site that will tell you what companies in your area are outsourcing jobs overseas. Just enter your zip code and you'll get a list of companies.
The Creatures in My Head.
Here is the Globe Explorer,,The World's largest online library of aerial and satellite imagery.You just type in an address.
Microsofts Terraserver is another cool earth imaging website.
And then there is also the Earth Moon Viewer.
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date.(link is down)
This is what the Earth looks like at night
Here is a incredible picture of Venus.
Nasa has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allows you to zoom from planetary resolution down to where you can pick out individual streets. You need a pretty good PC and internet connection.( Recommended Specifications * Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional * Intel Pentium 3 1 ghz or AMD Athlon or higher * 256 MB of RAM * 3D Graphics Card o nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra o ATI Radeon 7500 o Intel Extreme Graphics 2 * DSL / Cable connection or faster * 2 GB of disk space)
The Indian scalp law read:
"That there shall be paid out of the publick treasury of this province unto any party or parties that shall voluntarily go forth at their own charge, by commission as aforesaid, in the discovery and pursuit of the said Indian enemy and rebels, for every man or woman of the said enemy that shall be by them slain, the sum of fifty pounds; and for every child of the said enemy under the age of ten years that shall be by them slain, the sum of ten pounds . . .."
'Featuring the World's First SurgeonCam and The Digital Endoscopy Fellowship. A Digital Window to the OR for Physicians, Trainees, and Patients.'
US vice president Dick Cheney has attacked Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, saying his criticism of Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi showed an appalling “lack of respect”.
Why would Kerry say such a thing?
British officials gave warning more than two years ago that Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi prime minister, was seen as "a western stooge" who "lacked domestic credibility", secret documents seen by The Telegraph reveal.
Ayad Allawi the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.
They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security center, in the city's south-western suburbs and shot in their heads.
Could that be why?
Gun-rights activist Rick Stanley, a Denver businessman and former Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate, was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for threatening two judges.(I was at the 2001 Bill of Rights rally he was arrested at,,)
Basically,,Rick Stanley succeeded in having the governor uphold
the 2nd Amendment, but Stanley was still sentenced to six years for his
letters to judges of trials for criminal charges over Stanley's actions
prior to the new law. To help figure out whether Stanley's letters to
the judges were appropriate, recall the judicial attitudes he has
faced.
From a Sep. 10, 2002 UnderReported.com story Judge admonishes defense to not reference Constitution which quotes a June 23, 2002 Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial:
The defendant and his attorney report that the judge said, "Then I'll explain it again.Stanley, 49, owner of Stanley Fastener & Shop Supply in northeast Denver, was taken from Adams County District Court in handcuffs.
You are not to reference the Constitution in these proceedings.
You will not address it in voir dire, you will not address it in your opening remarks, you will not ask any questions about the Constitution when you summon your witnesses, and you will not talk about the Constitution when you give your closing arguments.
Do you understand my instructions?"
What Presidents Said About the War Powers
Thou Dost Protest Too Much-- An old law turns protesters into threats against the president.
Stagger Lee: A Historical Look at the Urban Legend
The US government acknowledges that Uzbekistan's secret police 'use torture as a routine investigation technique,' but it still funds the organisation to the tune of $80 million. Uzbekistan has great geo-strategic significance and is seen as an important ally of the US in the so-called war on terror.
American aid to Uzbekistan tripled to $500 million last year. The country allowed the US military to use its airbases for its occupation of Afghanistan and later agreed to the building of a US military base at Khanabad where hundreds of US troops are now stationed.
Uzbekistan was the hub of the Soviet Union's old biological weapons program. Many of the deadly pathogens created in the Soviet era are still at labs and other sites located within the country.
Videos of the real life Spiderman
Naomi Klein casts light on why so little of the $18.4 billion in redevelopment funds have been allocated in Iraq, and why so little reconstruction has taken place. Her contention is that a privatization agenda effectively disenfranchises Iraqi's from participation in their own economy.
The State Department has a map and list of the countries where al Qaeda has had activity. Just one question
1.- Why is Iraq not on the list?
This is the hand we were dealt: High Plains Grifter-
The Life and Crimes of George W. Bush
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Coda: The House Rules
It takes a village to stomp a weasel.
By using organic, or plastic, field-effect transistors as pressure sensors deposited on a flexible material, researchers at the University of Tokyo have created an artificial skin which will give robots the sense of touch.
The terorrist behind some of the recent high profile beheadings in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, was allowed to escape on 3 different occasions by the Bush administration because they feared taking him out would undercut their case for attacking Saddam Hussein. And now, Zarqawi is behind yet another beheading of an American civilian.
But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never never pulled the trigger..In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.
The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.
“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.
Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.
“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.
In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq.
The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
The Bush family have a history of aiding, abetting, and associating with known terrorists.
More on this,,, and more and,,, more
"George W. Bush named Otto Reich as his assistant secretary of state for Western hemisphere affairs--despite Reich’s longstanding ties to anti-Castro terrorist Orlando Bosch"
Here is a Orlando Bosch’s terrorist curriculum vitae
- one of the most extensive terrorist resumes in the 20th Century. Something on the order of 100 separate terrorist bombings, and murders have been attributed to Bosch - including planting the bomb that blew up a Cuban airliner in 1976.
By George W. Bush's definition of terrorism, there are, in fact, terrorists within his own family !
Strange Flash animations
How to pay the Whalers Dues with,,maybe,, Whale Kebabs?
Can you accept the notion of a doctor being overruled by a politician when it comes to prescribing medicine?
The real cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill is finally emerging: The drug industry gets more than $100 billion in profits, while seniors and taxpayers get the tab.
Huda Alazawi was one of the few women held in solitary in the notorious Iraqi prison.
The wonderful world of household toxics.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted an aerial photographic survey of the barrier islands in Alabama and Florida that were impacted by Hurricane Ivan. The photographs have been compared to pre-storm photographs to illustrate extreme coastal change.
On what day were you born? and (if you`re under fifty), what was No.1 song on the day you were born?
Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
The US Atrocities that Kerry was exposing(An Introduction to the My Lai Courts-Martial)
An interview with Kitty Kelley, whose scathing portrait of the Bush family has fired up the Republican camp
"George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," the news release said. "Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics."(snicker,,snicker)
The Pentagon does not recognize civilian casualties in its reports. All dead and injured Iraqis are listed as insurgents.
COVERING UP AMERICA’S DAY OF DECEPTION QUESTIONS THE 911 COMMISSION DARED NOT ASK--Part 1& Part 2
A hydrogen thermonuclear bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958 may have been found. The 'Mark 15, Mod 0' nuclear bomb was jettisoned into the Atlantic Ocean off Savannah after a B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter collided in mid-air. 'The 7,600-pound, 12-foot-long thermonuclear bomb contained 400 pounds of high explosives as well as uranium' and it was found off Tybee Island by retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Derek Duke,, who said that radiation levels were from seven to 10 times higher than normal.
There are over 50 nuclear bombs that were "lost" and just sitting out there somewhere. Here is a list of lost bombs (in middle of page) and a summary of locations:
WEAPONS LOST/MISSING
Thanks to the declassification and release (by The National Security Archive) of documents related to America's first Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), developed in 1960, we now know just how true this was over four decades ago.
What we know, in fact, is that our military high command had laid out, and our top civilian leadership approved, a plan for the possible launching of a first strike meant to deliver over 3,200 nuclear weapons to 1,060 targets in the then-Communist world.
Had all gone well, at least 130 cities would have simply ceased to exist. Official (classified) estimates of casualties from such an attack ran to 285 million dead and 40 million injured -- and some military men feared that the lethal effects of fallout on the United States itself from such an apocalyptic attack might be devastating. Given the underestimation of those fallout effects at the time, such an attack might indeed have meant, in a world of bizarre imperial conundrums, hegemony rather than survival.
As it happens, we've had a SIOP ever since and still have one today. But what kind of an instrument of overkill it may be remains highly classified.
Pictures of the most nuclear and thermonuclear atmospheric(or surface) explosions conducted in the period between 1945-1963.
All about Nuclear Terrorism
A Chernobyl survivor interview
Guardian article/interview with an engineer
Accident chronology, extent of contamination
Reactor design
Time magazine coverage
The Soviet Nuclear Legacy
Website for Atomic Veterans, the guys in the forces who were present at the Pacific atmospheric nuclear tests and those who 'cleaned-up' Eniwetok 20 years later.
Chart the continental US fallout.
Whisky of Mass Destruction - how the US spied on a tiny island distillery
The Emperor Has No Clothes
by US Senator Robert Byrd
Over a thousand pounds of pig flesh processed at a Sioux Center meatpacking facility was recalled over fears that a missing microchip could be embedded in the meat.
Pierre Beauchemin alias The Elastic Man
As TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief for the past five years, Scott MacLeod has seen more than his share of tragedy.
But nothing prepared him for the devastating news in July that a colleague, 33-year-old South African photojournalist Kevin Carter, had killed himself. Carter was famous in South Africa for his fearless coverage of deadly township violence, and he had become internationally known for his Pulitzer prizewinning photo of a vulture coolly eyeing an emaciated Sudanese child struggling toward a feeding station.
Iraqi children are suffering both economically and psychologically after the war to topple Saddam Hussein, with many forced to work instead of attending school.
Pictures that Bush does not want you to see
The Norwegian government is now suggesting a possible ban on cellphones in Norway’s prisons, and Norwegians (well, the lawyers there) are nonplussed. It’s big news, except for the even bigger news, that up until this point it was perfectly legal for prisoners to have their own cellphones
What's really in pet food.
DU ammunition comes out of the gun barrel on fire-- it can be imagined that people hit with a few rounds are glowing for a second or two.
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
One of Bill Moyers' most important speeches.
De-Classified Document Admits Oswald Was CIA
The Living Room Candidate exhibition maintains a comprehensive and detailed collection of over 300 commercials from the past fourteen elections (1954-2000).
The US media,, owned and controlled by a handful of huge corporate conglomerates, play an indispensable role in the mass murder of Iraqi men, women and children.
Soldiers from a combat unit at Fort Carson say they have been told to re-enlist for three more years or be transferred to other units expected to deploy to Iraq, the Rocky Mountain News reported Thursday.
Another Bush Commercial--
Aired during the Eagles game.
Choice line:
Healthcare for every "eligible child".
What constitutes "eligible"?
At the beginning of this current Iraq war, there was reference to Bush I's belief that to go into Baghdad would plunge Iraq into chaos and destabilize the Middle East.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is one of the top 100 individual citizens in the nation who has benefited MOST from Bushonomics -- by virtue of the net value of her assets increasing after taxation due to Bushonomics.
She is one of the top 100 people in the nation who has benefited from Bushonian tax cuts for the wealthy, who is a beneficiary of an $8 billion trust, whose principal assets, by the way, are not Heinz stock, as is commonly presumed, but stock positions, or share ownership, in other words, of the so-called group of 117 corporations, which is the so-called preferred group, from which more than half of all Republican political and special interest money comes from.
These are the 117 corporations, making up the bulk of the defense- pharmaceutical/ health care-tobacco, etc. industries, which constitute the core of Republican money. In fact, those industries, indeed, represent the control of the planet.
If you take the largest energy companies, the largest health care and pharmaceutical companies, the largest defense companies, the largest financial services companies, etc., they do, effectively, constitute control of the planet’s financial resources.
Matt Lauer, Your Pants Are On Fire
Why ants survive in microwave ovens.
Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, The Phoenix Program was aimed at "neutralizing"—through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture—the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying "final solution" that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality.
3,000 innocent dead in NYC = terrorism
15,000 innocent dead in Iraq = liberation???
I think not. Americans ARE the terrorists.
That Rosy Unemployment Rate
In an explosive extract from his new book, Seymour Hersh reveals how, in a fateful decision that led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the US defence secretary gave the green light to a secret unit authorised to torture terrorist suspects
A day-by-day tally of President Bush's whereabouts since Aug. 2, his last full day in Washington:
Libertarian Presidential Ticket--Badnarik/Campagna
Images of War through the eyes of the Iraqis
The National Weather Service, like the Federal Reserve Bank, the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation is a privately owned and controlled organization. Each operating in their respective fields in totally unregulated and largely unsupervised environments, with the public thinking that each is part of the government."
"American abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib were terrible, but they are not crimes on par with beheadings and other acts carried out by terrorists, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday."
In other news, Charlie Manson said today that while his murder of Sharon Tate was terrible, it was not a crime on par with beheadings and other acts carried out by terrorists, so we should let him go.
- Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashnikovs (all models);
- Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI and Galil;
- Beretta Ar70 (SC-70);
- Colt AR-15;
- Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC;
- SWD M-10; M-11; M-11/9, and M-12;
- Steyr AUG;
- INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9, AND TEC-22;
- revolving cylinder shotguns such as (or similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12.
Nickel and Diming Homeland Security
What do we do , when our leaders are Senile? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mixed up al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein twice in a speech on Friday about the war against terrorism.
Excerpt from:
Al Franken's book: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Countered by frankenlies.com
In order to evaluate the aftermath of September 11, we first must understand that event
One of every three US workers doesn't make a living wage.
(What television program Bush was watching, September 11, 2001, has never been explained. It was not a corporate program.)--"Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack.
I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."
But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."
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Getting practically zero attention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration—under pressure from a FOIA suit—has released the names of 13,000 companies with more than twice the national average of occupational injuries and illnesses
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The Aquadom is the world's largest cylindrical aquarium. It's in the lobby of a multi-use development, stretching 5 storeys up, with a glass elevator down the middle of it.
Indicators measure the nation’s unemployment rate, consumer spending and other economic milestones, but Vice President Dick Cheney says it misses the hundreds of thousands who make money selling on eBay, to which Edwards replied that if we count all the money from lemonade stands and Girl Scout cookie sales then this economy will be on a real tear.
Our standard of living, could this be a reason,,that we would choose to kill a child
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"How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?" *
*$1182.21 Bounty to the first person to ask George W. Bush this question in a public forum.
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WHIRL-A-DRONE that one day, this early prototype could become "an unmanned aircraft capable of hovering in the same spot for days at a time."
Today, 13.8 million poor Americans live in the suburbs – almost as many as the 14.6 million who live in central cities. The suburban poor represent 38.5 percent of the nation's poor, compared with 40.6 percent of the total who live in central cities. 'The headlines about the Census report focused on the increase in overall poverty – from 11.3 percent of all Americans in 2000, a twenty-six-year low, to 12.5 percent in 2003. In the last year alone, 1.3 million people fell below the poverty line, bringing the total to to 35.9 million.
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By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism — it was to be a simulated accident.
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Congress decides that after 200+ years serious changes to the constitution needed...
"Defense Tech reports the U.S. Gov't. is proposing to exempt satellite images from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
U.S. government has killed more than 3,000,000 people in war since the end of World War II. None of those people directly threatened the United States.
Most U.S. citizens don't know that the U.S. government has engaged in 24 wars since the end of World War II.
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Leonard Peltier is a Native American, currently serving a life sentence in an American prison for the murder of two FBI agents on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. He was a leader in the American Indian Movement, an organization intended to bring attention to abuses of Native Americans by the US Government and violations of treaties between the Native American tribes and the US Government. Amnesty International considers Peltier a political prisoner.
Peltier appears to be running for President, along with Barry Bachrach, his defense attorney, primarily to gain publicity for his personal situation. His campaign Website does not take positions on any major political issues.
STILL UNREPORTED: The pay-off In Bush Air Guard fix
According to the Wildlife Conservation Society, approximately 330-370 adult Siberian, or Amur tigers are left in the wild, with 95% of these animals in the Russian Far East
The great ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains numerous legends about the powerful force of a mysterious weapon
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"John Negroponte, the new American viceroy of Iraq, is asking the U.S. Treasury to divert $3.3 billion of Iraqi aid money that was targeted to rebuild Iraqi water and sewer systems in a nation where half the people don’t have a working water or sewer system," writes Al Martin, author of ""The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider," an expose' of Bush Family fraud and the Secret Government.
"He's doing this without even consulting the Iraqi government. Negroponte wants to divert that money to military expenditures for the new Iraqi army to purchase weapons from the so-called approved list of American defense contractors."
Negroponte, an old Bush Cabalist, is now running the US occupation of Iraq from behind the scenes.
"It is the $18.6 billion rebuilding fund," Martin continues, explaining how Bush Cabal connected military and IT contractors are reaping the benefits of Bushonomics, i.e. budger deficit fraud of US taxpayers.
"Negroponte’s initial comment was that the money was to come out of the so-called $9 billion Iraqi interim oil fund, which constitutes the oil revenues that Iraq earned under U.S. administration. Of course, as we have pointed out before, that $9 billion has gone missing.
Therefore the $3.3 billion in question is now coming out of the $18.6 billion of U.S. aid for so-called Reconstruction projects.
Effectively, it’s U.S. aid. The prime beneficiary of this switch, by the way, will be United Defense. That was pointed out on Bloomberg News.
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available...in America right now.
– Merle Haggard
The Constitution forbids a state's electors from voting for candidates for president and vice president who are both "an inhabitant of the same state as themselves."
Yet by voting for Bush and Cheney, electors in Texas did precisely that. Cheney lived in Texas, had a Texas driver's license and filed his federal income tax using a Texas address.
He had also voted in Texas, not in Wyoming, a state where he had not lived full-time for decades.
There were complaints files during the 2000 election regarding exactly this. And the courts disregarded it was "not enough time to fix" and "well, it LOOKS like he is from Wyoming"
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Spending over two years in Mir's Earth orbit, going 17,500 miles per hour, put Sergei Avdeyev 1/50th of a second into the future, according to Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott III, and "he's the greatest time traveler we have so far."
"By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created in the Diebold central tabulator, a program installed in 1,000 locations, which controls both paper ballots and touch-screens, each system handling up to a million votes at a time." "After invoking the 2-digit trigger, this second set of votes can be changed so that it no longer matches the correct set of votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set.
The Pentagon has ordered an investigation into the awarding of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's five Vietnam War decorations.
"I'm going to leave it up to the voters whether five deferments makes someone more qualified than two tours of duty," Kerry said.
Cheney received a series of deferments from 1962 to 1966 for college and graduate school and then for having a child.
"Let me tell you what I think makes someone unfit for duty," Kerry said. "Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead this nation.
Doing nothing while this nation loses millions of jobs makes you unfit to lead this nation.
Letting 45 million Americans go without health care makes you unfit to lead this nation.
Letting the Saudi royal family control our energy costs makes you unfit to lead this nation.
Handing out billions [in] government contracts without a bid to Halliburton while you're still on their payroll makes you unfit."
All this crap, two dozen people running the war from the White House and outside of signing execution orders the only one to ever kill a man is Bush's wife, Laura.
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Comparing Bush's speech accepting the re-nomination for President to the last Presidential re-nomination acceptance speech, in 1996, by Bill Clinton.
Clinton began by thanking Al Gore, Hilary, the City of Chicago, and the delegates, after which he shared some brief impressions from his train-trip to the convention.
Then, only a few minutes in, he began firing off a fusillade of facts, figures and statistics: 4.4 million first-time homeowners, "hundreds of thousands" of new women-owned businesses, 10 million new jobs, and 10 million recipients of a recently increased minimum wage.
Clinton told the country of 25 million Americans with new protections on their health insurance, 40 million with pension protections, and 15 million who had received a tax cut.
12 million had taken advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act and life expectancy for those infected with HIV had doubled in just four years.
10 million students were saving money on college loans, 100,000 new police officers were on the streets, and 60,000 felons were prevented from purchasing handguns due to the Brady bill.
1.8 million fewer people were on welfare than when he took office and child support collections had increased 40%. The federal budget deficit had been cut by 60%.
197 toxic waste dumps were cleaned up in three years, more than the previous twelve years combined. And a 40% funding increase was modernizing weapons systems.
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Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship, Sen. Bob Graham wrote in a book, Intelligence Matters, to be released Tuesday.
The discovery of the financial backing of the two hijackers "would draw a direct line between the terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia, and trigger an attempted coverup by the Bush administration," the Florida Democrat wrote.
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"That's the same thing Democrat Tom Friedman who once wrote: "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.
Macdonald's cannot flourish without MacDonnell Douglas." American taxpayers won't cough up nearly a half-trillion dollars a year to promote the multinational corporate free market. They need to believe that are protecting themselves against some imminent threat.
So the war against terrorism must be "a task that does not end."
Cats can catch - and spread - the bird flu that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 26 people across East Asia in 2004.
This is the first time cats have been known to get sick from flu, and means the H5N1 virus has already acquired the ability to spread in some mammals.
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said yesterday that President Bush views America as a ''10-year-old child" in need of the sort of protection provided by a parent.
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Big Brother Alert--The first project in Europe to use satellites to track paedophiles and other criminal offenders.
And, here at home,, Secret Service Agents recently visited an 18 year old, telling him that his neighbors had alerted them to a potentially threatening bumper sticker on his car.
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Last week, the Census Bureau released statistics showing that for the first time in years, poverty had increased for three straight years, while the number of Americans without health care increased to a record level.
But instead of changing its economic and health care policies, the Bush administration today is announcing plans to change the way the statistics are compiled. The move is just the latest in a series of actions by the White House to doctor or eliminate longstanding and nonpartisan economic data collection methods.
In a Bush administration press release yesterday, the Census Bureau said next week it "will announce a new economic indicator" as "an additional tool to better understand" the economy.
The change in statistics is being directed by Bush political appointees and comes just 60 days from the election. It will be the first modification of Census data in 40 years.
Earlier this year the Bush adminstration reclassified restaurant workers jobs(a service sector) to manufacturing jobs, to hide the fact that so many manufaturing jobs have been lost since his election.
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"U.S. minimum wage would be $15.76 an hour, instead of the current $5.15 an hour if workers' wages had gone up as much as CEO pay has since 1990."
For CEOs, outsourcing jobs can be very, very good—46 percent better than last year good. A new report from United For A Fair Economy found that the average pay increase for CEOs who outsource most of their service jobs was 46 percent—compared with just a 9 percent increase for those who keep most jobs at home
And if minimum wage was at the purchasing power it had in 1973, it would be $8.75.
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Bush cut soldiers’ danger pay and family separation allowances, cancelled a Congress-proposed doubling of servicepeople’s life insurance benefits, and slashed GI Bill benefits. Most servicepeople now are too low-paid to receive Bush’s per-child tax credit and many live on food stamps.
Then, Bush cut $600 million from the Veterans Administration budget, although the VA is already under-funded by around $2 billion a year and now has over 200,000 new veterans to service—many of whom are already sick with Gulf War Syndrome, which has left over 270,000 Gulf War vets disabled and over 10,000 dead. There are also plans to cut $1.5 billion per year from the VA’s budget for each of the next ten years.
Also: "The Reserve and National Guard soldiers are on what the Army calls "medical hold," while the Army decides how sick or disabled they are and what benefits -- if any -- they should get as a result. Some of the soldiers said they have waited six hours a day for an appointment without seeing a doctor. Others described waiting weeks or months without getting a diagnosis or proper treatment. The soldiers said professional active duty personnel are getting better treatment while troops who serve in the National Guard or Army Reserve are left to wallow in medical hold.
Most soldiers in medical hold at Fort Stewart stay in rows of rectangular, gray, single-story cinder block barracks without bathrooms or air conditioning. They are dark and sweltering in the southern Georgia heat and humidity.
Around 60 soldiers cram in the bunk beds in each barrack. Soldiers make their way by walking or using crutches through the sandy dirt to a communal bathroom, where they have propped office partitions between otherwise open toilets for privacy.
A row of leaky sinks sits on an opposite wall. The latrine smells of urine and is full of bugs, because many windows have no screens. Showering is in a communal, cinder block room.
Soldiers say they have to buy their own toilet paper. They said the conditions are fine for training, but not for sick people. "
Rudy Guilianni said on "The View" yesterday, : "You're either with us or you're with the nazi's"
What???? Interesting thing to say when I`m sure he is aware of the past Bush family Nazi ties,, and Arnold Swapaniggers family history.The Black Dahlia
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