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| GAO Warned of MadCow Risk-FDA left GAPING LOOPHOLES |
| 12.31.03 (2:33 pm) [edit] |
[b]Did you know that the T Bone cut of steak is a vertebra from the animal's spinal column[/b], and as such may contain a section of the actual spinal cord? Boneless cuts may be contaminated as well.
[b]Bush's Mad Cow Safeguards Not Enough, Critics Say
Wed December 31, 2003 01:20 PM ET [/b]
“Consumer advocates also urged the Food and Drug Administration to expand its ban on using remains of ruminant animals, such as cows, in cattle feed and to bar the use of cattle remains in all types of livestock rations.”
“Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said table scraps, roadkill animals and poultry litter must be barred from livestock feed.”
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml" title="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml" target="_blank"http://www.reuters.com/newsAr...;jsessionid=RGURVGCNKOVYA CRBAE0CFFA?type=domesticN ews&storyID=4061885&pageN umber=1
[48] Both Canada[49] and the United States[50] banned the feeding of the muscles and bones of most animals to cows and sheep back in 1997, [b]but unlike Europe left gaping loopholes in the law.[/b] For example,
[b]blood is currently exempted from the Canadian[51] and the U.S.[52] feed bans[/b].
[u]You can still feed calves cow's blood collected at the slaughterhouse[/u].
In modern factory farming practice calves may be removed from their mothers immediately after birth, so the [u]calves are fed milk replacer, which is often supplemented with protein rich cow serum[/u]. Weaned calves and young pigs also [u]may have cattle blood sprayed directly on their feed to save money on feed costs[/u].[53] For more information on this and other risky agriculture practices please see http://organicconsumers.org/m...
And the Canadian[54] and U.S. feed bans[55] also [b]allows the feeding of pigs and horses to cows[/b].
Cattle remains can be rendered down and fed to pigs,
pig remains can be fed back to cattle.[56]
rendered cattle remains can be fed to chickens
chicken litter, or manure, can be legally fed back to the cows.[57]
So the fact that according to the USDA the most infectious tissues of the U.S. mad cow case, the brain, spinal cord, and intestines, "were removed from this animal and sent to rendering" [b]is not necessarily reassuring[/b].[58]
[b]According to the General Accounting Office in 2002:[/b] [b]“The FDA 's failure to enforce the feed ban may already have placed U.S. herds and, in turn, the human food supply at risk.[/b]
FDA has no clear enforcement strategy for dealing with firms that do not obey the feed ban... Moreover,
FDA has been using inaccurate, incomplete, and unreliable data to track and oversee feed ban compliance."[62]
The report can be downloaded at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/...
References:
[48] Kimberlin, R. H. "Human Spongiform Encephalopathies and BSE." Medical Laboratory Sciences 49 (1992): 216-217.
[49] Canadian Food Inspection Agency BSE Fact Sheet. May 2003 P0091E-00. http://www.inspection.gc.ca/e...
[50] Food and Drug Administration 2000 CFR Title 21, Volume 6, Chapter 1, Part 589. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nar...
[51] Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Regulations: Food for Ruminants, Livestock and Poultry (Part XIV), "Prohibited Materials"
[52] Food and Drug Administration 2000 CFR Title 21, Volume 6, Chapter 1, Part 589. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nar...
[53] International Center for Technology Assessment. Citizen Petition Before The United States Food And Drug Administration. 1/9/03. http://www.icta.org/legal/mad...
[54] Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Regulations: Food for Ruminants, Livestock and Poultry (Part XIV), "Prohibited Materials"
[55] Food and Drug Administration 2000 CFR Title 21, Volume 6, Chapter 1, Part 589. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nar...
56] Public Citizen. Letter to the FDA and USDA RE: BSE. 21 April 2001. http://www.citizen.org/cmep/f...
[57] Food and Drug Administration Sec. 685.100 Recycled Animal Waste (CPG 7126.34)
[58] FDCH Political Transcripts December 23, 2003
[62] United States General Accounting Office. GAO Report to Congressional Requesters. January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE: Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts. GAO-02-183. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/...
Much more information about MAD COW at http://organicconsumers.org/m...
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| Truth About Mad Cow - The Very Real Risks of US Beef, and Lies Being Told to You |
| 12.30.03 (7:29 pm) [edit] |
In 1996 Oprah was sued by a Cattlemans Association for her show discussing [b]the potential for disease from eating beef, due to lack of proper regulation of the industry[/b]:
"One hundred thousand cows per year in the United States are fine at night, dead in the morning. [u]The majority of those cows are rounded up, ground up, turned into feed and fed back to other cows. [/u][b]If only one of them has mad cow disease, it has the potential to affect thousands.[/b] Remember today in the United States, 14 percent of all cows by volume are ground up, turned into feed, and fed back to other animals." - Former Texas Cattleman Howard Lyman on the Oprah Winfrey Show, April 16, 1996. Link to that story and transcripts: http://www.prwatch.org/prwiss...
So far, the congress and senate are only proposing to ban slaughter of sick and dying cattle for beef purposes.
That does not address the real and largest cause of MAD COW. It is the canablization of the cattle, putting ground up cattle parts and blood in feed given to cattle.
Europe had to deal with this problem and made the necessary changes in their regulations and inspections.
Mad Cow is carried in blood parts and in muscle tissue.
"(This is why if you try to donate your blood to the Red Cross, you will be rejected if you spent significant time in Britain during the height of its mad cow epidemic. [b]Britain is afraid that humans with mad cow disease may have contaminated the British blood supply[/b], and they do not use its own blood plasma since as yet no test can adequately screen blood for mad cow disease.) "
More at Alternet, Link: http://www.alternet.org/story...
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| Giant Sucking Sound Heard in U.S. is Now Being Heard in Mexico |
| 12.29.03 (2:50 pm) [edit] |
Where in Mexico the wages are around a dollar and a half, in China it is less than 80 cents an hour. http://www.philly.com/mld/inq...
Computer and Accounting jobs, high tech are being exported to India.
If factory jobs, accounting and tech jobs are flooding out of the country, and the government is outsourcing alot of its jobs, is decreasing the postal dept by 40%, eliminating 1 out of 3 military bases, privatizing the military (1 out of 10 serving in Iraq are private), then how do you plan for the future?
If the voting machines are rigged, and the owner of the company making them promises to do everything possible to get the current admin re-elected, then what do you do?
If you are turning 18 in the near future and the draft is reactivated, then what do you do?
YOU KICK ASS! Get busy, find out who your govt reps are, and start emailing them. Then print your email and mail that copy to them. Email your newspaper! Email to other media. Educate them. Bombard them! Get active.
You cant expect any freedom if you dont get out and work for it! It isn't permanent, you have to tend to it.
It is not an entitlement, but a badge of honor.
If you do not resist evil, then you enable it.
Get tough, stand up and fight!
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| 17 and 18 yr olds -Get the Heck Outa Dodge!!!!! |
| 12.29.03 (2:36 pm) [edit] |
Army Stops Many Soldiers From Quitting
Orders Extend Enlistments to Curtail Troop Shortages
By Lee Hockstader
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 29, 2003; Page A01
Through a series of stop-loss orders, [b]the Army alone has blocked the possible retirements and departures of more than [u]40,000 soldiers[/u], [/b]about 16,000 of them [u]National Guard [/u]and [u]reserve members who were eligible to leave the service this yea[/u]r. Hundreds more in the Air Force, Navy and Marines were briefly blocked from retiring or departing the military at some point this year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36979-200 3Dec28?language=printer" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36979-200 3Dec28?language=printer" target="_blank"http://www.washingtonpost.com...
THEN WILL COME THE DRAFT, AROUND 2005 OR 2006!
So talk to your parents and friends about how they plan to vote in 2004! Dont be used as cannon fodder for Halliburton or Bechtel! Bush was a deserter. He has no business ordering others to their deaths!
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| Dress'm Up Dubya - This is great fun! Really! |
| 12.29.03 (11:07 am) [edit] |
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The link at: Dress'm Up Dubya
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| Legalizing Illegal Immigrants-Bush's motivation |
| 12.29.03 (10:53 am) [edit] |
According to the Post, Rove & Co. "concluded that they needed a response to the large population of undocumented workers for the plan to be credible and [b]for Bush to get credit from Hispanic voters. [/b]
[i]In that last clause lies the motive behind the sellout. [/i]The entire story at: World Net Daily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/...
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| Protest Limbaugh Favoritism |
| 12.28.03 (9:38 pm) [edit] |
"The City of West Palm Beach Florida, the District Attorney's Office, the County and State Agencies, the State of Florida,
the DEA, FBI, and Justice Department have all backed off from this investigation of Rush Limbaugh's illegal drug use,
illegal drug purchasing, and his use of others to purchase his illegal drugs."
"They have decided to go after the 'sellers/dealers' of the illegal prescription and other drugs Rush Limbaugh has used and purchased over the last four years.
The powers to be are also going to prosecute the poor maid who Rush 'used' and 'intimidated' as a middle man
to purchase his illegal drugs. An addict is an addict.
If it were your wife, husband, daughter or son who was caught in similar criminal circumstances, and you were not with the 'in crowd,' and you did not have political clout, then your loved ones would 'go to jail'
and be punished to the maximum extent of the law. Remember Rush has purchased thousands of pills over the last four years."
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with illegal drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with using and trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law.
The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995
Take a stand against insider favoritism."
Send an email to an advertiser, a govt representative, to anyone that enables this hippocritical behavior. See the full message at: Bartcop http://www.bartcop.com/punish...
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| The Anti Bush- Attacks on Dean Just Slide Right Off |
| 12.27.03 (12:28 pm) [edit] |
What is it about Dean that is so appealing?
He doesnt take his orders from the "Press" or the "Establishment".
Why is that so important?
Because the "internet generation" has compared notes and found that the "Press" and the "Establishment" are BOGUS.
The "Net-Gens" found and read the fine print:
"This News Announcement and Pundit Statements are a PAID ADVERTISEMENT by Corporate Sponsors....
The statements presented on this show are not ACTUAL EVENTS, NOR DO THEY REPRESENT THE ACTUAL THOUGHTS OF REAL PEOPLE AS PORTRAYED IN THIS SHOW."
Howard is the Anti-Bush, the Anti-Crony.
He is CONNECTED with his supporters, and not filtered or censored by CORPORATE INTERESTS.
HE DOESNT HIRE ADVERTISING AGENCIES TO TELL YOU THAT A MISTAKE IS NOT A MISTAKE, HE explains his mistake and claims it and MOVES ON. He corrects himself.
DEAN IS NOT A BIG CORPORATE SUCKUP!
[b]Attacks on Dean Just Slide Right Off[/b]"When Howard Dean appeared on NBC's "Meet The Press," the reviews were scathing, with most pundits calling the interview earlier this year a disaster. But others saw it differently. Traffic on Dean's Web site soared, and he collected more than $100,000 in the next 24 hours."
"When Dean suggested America was no safer with Saddam Hussein in custody, rivals in the Democratic presidential contest seized on his comments as a major gaffe. But days later, more than 30 New Jersey lawmakers — joined by Gov. James E. McGreevey — elbowed onto a packed stage to endorse him."
More about the Howard Dean phenomenon at the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/n...,1,169298.story?coll=la-headlines-n ation
[b][i]WE THE PEOPLE WISH TO HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD, AND OUR VOTES COUNTED. WE ARE TIRED OF HAVING OUR VOICES DROWNED OUT BY THE BIG CORPORATIONS.[/i][/b]
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| TRIFECTA! you may be eligible......... |
| 12.23.03 (9:41 pm) [edit] |
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| Oil = War and Misery: Uruguay Votes Against Privatization of Their Oil |
| 12.23.03 (9:33 pm) [edit] |
The IMF is trying to force Uruguay to sell their oil industry to the "Nice" corporations, who only want to help them.
Ancap provides the government with a substantial part of the income used to fund pension plans, health care, and education.
The IMF has considerable clout in Uruguay due to the country's massive foreign debt, most of which is left over from the rule of US-backed military dictators in previous decades. (we were just trying to give them democracy) RRIGHT!http://dominionpaper.ca/inter...
Look for war in any country that refuses to be bullied into selling its natural resources to a corporation.
i.e Iraq, Nigeria anywhere.
(Iraq had nationalized its oil)
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| What's Left? |
| 12.23.03 (8:34 pm) [edit] |
Morgan Stanley estimates the number of [b]U.S. jobs outsourced to India will double to about 150,000 in the next three years. [/b]
Analysts predict as many as two million U.S. white-collar jobs such as programmers, software engineers and applications designers will shift to low cost centers by 2014.
Such as [b]Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N and AT&T Wireless AWE.N , [/b]are reluctant to attract attention for political reasons. Reuters Article here: http://www.reuters.co.uk/news...
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| Pigboy Upset! Prosecutors to lift tail and examine privates |
| 12.23.03 (2:21 pm) [edit] |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Prosecutors can examine Rush Limbaugh's medical records to determine whether he should be charged with "doctor shopping" for prescription painkillers, a judge ruled Tuesday
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap /20031223/ap_on_en_ot/lim baugh_painkillers_26" title="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap /20031223/ap_on_en_ot/lim baugh_painkillers_26" target="_blank"http://story.news.yahoo.com/n...
I hope they dont forget to investigate him for money laundering. I dont think his maid laundered that for him.
This little pig boy went wee wee wee.........
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| BIG LIE: Prescription Benefit That Wasnt:Price Comparison.... |
| 12.22.03 (7:33 pm) [edit] |
Ok - We know the govt thinks we are all stupid sheep, and they are counting on the elderly to be helpless:
[b]Here is a factual case of how the benefit applies to my 80 yr old Mother's meds:[/b]
According to AARP website benefit calculator -
[b]Out-of-pocket Rx spending without [/b]Medicare Rx benefit
[b]$8,170.00[/b]
[b]Projected out-of-pocket spending (including premium) under Medicare Rx benefit, 2006[/b]
[b]$4,173.50[/b]
[b]Decrease in out-of-pocket spending as result of Medicare Rx benefit, 2006 (Savings)
$3,996.50[/b] Link to the Calculator:
http://sites.stockpoint.com/AARP/drugbenefit.asp#lblBenefitsComparison " title="http://sites.stockpoint.com/AARP/drugbenefit.asp#lblBenefitsComparison " target="_blank"http://sites.stockpoint.com/A...
[b]Cost for same meds as above, if purchased from Canadian Pharmacy:
$5,037.48[/b]
Savings:
[b][i]$3,132.62[/i][/b]
Will I, as Power of Atty for my Mother - sign her up for the prescription drug plan? And have to give up her medigap insurance? NO WAY!
Public Citizen Calls for Investigation of Former Medicare Chief’s Ethics Waiver
HHS Secretary and Ethics Officer May Have Acted Improperly in Ignoring Potential Employers’ Massive Interests in Medicare Bill [i]Full story:[/i] http://www.citizen.org/pressr...
[b]The New Prescription Drug Bill IS an Entitlement Program - to the Pharmaceutical and Insurance Companies[/b]. It is a dis-embowlement program of Medicare and a huge slap in the face of seniors and taxpayers in the U.S.
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| Iraq-Gate I as written in 1993 by CJR |
| 12.21.03 (3:12 pm) [edit] |
[b]March/April 1993 from the Columbia Journalism Review[/b]
ABC News Nightline opened last June 9 with words to make the heart stop. "[b]It is becoming increasingly clear[/b]," said a grave Ted Koppel, "[b]that George Bush, operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s[/b], initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States ultimately had to destroy."
Most say that the so-called Iraqgate scandal is far more significant then either Watergate or Iran-contra, both in its scope and its consequences. And all believe that, with investigations continuing, it is bound to get bigger.
[b]Why, then, have some of our top papers provided so little coverage?[/b]
Read the entire story here: http://www.cjr.org/archives.a...
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| French Fry Cheney Over Fraud |
| 12.20.03 (6:04 pm) [edit] |
Cheney faces prosecution: report
December 21, 2003 - 12:05PM
A French official is examining whether to [b]prosecute US Vice President Dick Cheney over alleged complicity in the abuse of corporate assets[/b] dating from the time he was head of the services company Halliburton, the French newspaper Le Figaro said.
The case stems from a contract by a consortium including the American company [b]Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a Halliburton subsidiary[/b], and a French company, Technip, to supply a gas complex to Nigeria, the newspaper reported.
A Paris investigating magistrate has been conducting investigations since October into allegations that $US180 million ($A243.18 million) was paid in [b]secret commissions during the late 1990s up to 2002 [/b]from funds established by the consortium in Madeira, the report said.
Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive between 1995 and 2000.
In a letter to the attorney-general's department, magistrate Reynaud van Ruymbeke ruled out directly prosecuting Cheney on a charge of bribing foreign officials, Le Figaro said.
But the official did not exclude the possibility of prosecution on the grounds of complicity in misuse of corporate assets, it added.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/arti...
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| Felons @ Diebold Voting Machine Company - 5 in Management |
| 12.20.03 (5:58 pm) [edit] |
[b]Felons in management at Voting Machine Manufacturer, writing code for software, etc.[/b]Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary
10:05 AM Dec. 17, 2003 PT
SAN FRANCISCO -- [b]At least five convicted felons secured management positions at a manufacturer of electronic voting machines[/b], according to critics demanding more stringent background checks for people responsible for voting machine software.
Voter advocate Bev Harris of http://blackboxvoting.org alleged Tuesday that [b]managers of a subsidiary of Diebold, one of the country's largest voting equipment vendors, included a: [/b]
[b]cocaine trafficker,[/b]
[b]a man who conducted fraudulent stock transactions and
a programmer jailed for falsifying computer records[/b].
[u]The programmer, Jeffrey Dean, [b]wrote and maintained proprietary code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes[/b] as senior vice president of Global Election Systems, or GES.[/u] Diebold purchased GES in January 2002.
According to a public court document released before GES hired him, Dean served time in a Washington state correctional facility for [i]stealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that "involved a high degree of sophistication and planning[/i]."
The former GES is Diebold's wholly owned subsidiary, Global Election Management Systems, which produces the operating system that touch-screen voting terminals use.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) announced a bill last week that would require stringent background checks on all electronic voting company employees who work with voting software.
The bill, which Boxer plans to introduce in January, would toughen security standards for voting software and hardware, and require touch-screen terminals to include printers and produce paper backups of vote counts by the 2004 presidential election in November.
Harris and Andy Stephenson, a Democratic candidate for secretary of state in Washington, conducted a 10-day investigation in Seattle and Vancouver, where the men were convicted. Harris and Stephenson released the findings in a 17-page document online and at a news conference in Seattle.
Also Tuesday, Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed announced legislation that would require electronic voting machines in the state to produce a paper trail. If the legislature approves it, touch-screen machines in the state would be required to produce paper receipts by 2006.
Voters would get to see but not touch or remove the receipts, which would be kept in a county lock box. [b]Computer programmers say software bugs, hackers or electrical failures could cause more than 50,000 touch-screen machines used in precincts nationwide to delete or alter votes. [/b]
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said last month that touch-screens in the nation's most populous state must provide paper receipts by 2006. http://www.wired.com/news/evo...,2645,61640,00.html
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| reports of Rush Limbaugh working around money laundering laws |
| 12.18.03 (10:47 am) [edit] |
There are [b]reports that U.S. Trust[/b], long coddled by the Fed, even before the Board let Schwab buy it, [b]helped Rush Limbaugh smurf his way around the $10,000 anti-money laundering threshhold[/b]. [i]U.S. Trust delivered [b]$9,900 [/b]to El Rushbo[/i] -- helping a client in need, apparently. "To get his business, Limbaugh said, U.S. Trust told him that 'if I needed cash, they would bring it to me.' [b]They also suggested he take out less than $10,000 [/b]at a time to help cut down their paperwork, he said." Great... Will the enforcement hammer further fall, on this the first spawn of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? We'll see
Link to Innercity Press Bankbeat link: http://www.innercitypress.org...
A conviction on such charges in Florida would be a first-degree felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison
ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/section...
Political columnist Al Martin, author of "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider," writes that [b]the seizure of Rush Limbaugh's medical records may give his attorneys a way to fight future charges.[/b]Link: http://www.conspiracyplanet.c...
[i]Schwab has connections with the White House (Duh) via Condoleeza Rice, who sits on their Board of Directors.[/i]
Link: http://multinationalmonit or.o...
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| End War Profiteering in Iraq |
| 12.17.03 (6:30 pm) [edit] |
[b]In November, Republican House negotiators blocked a provision that would have created criminal penalties for war profiteers and cheats who try to defraud American taxpayers and cash in on the relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq.[/b]
The provision has now been introduced as a stand-alone bill and should be passed as soon as possible.
Take action here: http://www.workingforchange.c...
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| Marines Execute an Iraqi to the Cheer of Fellow Marines |
| 12.17.03 (4:09 pm) [edit] |
This video was on CNN, apparently. It has stored at The Information Clearinghouse. It is not gorey, but it is horrible.
Should only be viewed by a mature audience.
Link: http://www.informationclearin...
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| Pot #1 Cash Crop in California |
| 12.17.03 (7:23 am) [edit] |
[b]Most domestically grown marijuana comes from California[/b], where federal land covers nearly half of the state
[b]Most of the methamphetamine labs and dumpsites seized in national forests are found in Missouri's [/b]Mark Twain National Forest.
Large scale marijuana production has been found in [b]Alaska's Tongass National Forest.[/b] http://www.govexec.com/featur...
With each plant worth anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars, depending on potency, [b]federal officials estimate that marijuana is the No. 1 cash crop of a number of states, including California [/b]LINK@"http://www.govexec.com/features/1203/1203s2.htm"
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| Republicans as Role Models |
| 12.16.03 (9:26 pm) [edit] |
REMEMBER - DEAD POLITICIANS DON'T COUNT!
[b]The Republican Adultery
Honor Roll of Shame[/b]:
[b]NEAL BUSH[/b] -claims that attractive women came to his hotel door looking for sex while he was on business trips in Hong Kong in Thailand. And as a big-hearted Texan Neil, the third of five Bush children, merely did as he was asked.
[u]Rep. Henry Hyde[/u] Broke up a family during his seven year adulterous affair!
Mike Bowers Cheated on his wife for FIFTEEN YEARS!
[b]George Bush [/b][i]Linda Tripp says had he an affair with a woman named "Jennifer"[/i]
[b]Newt Gingrich Dumped his ex-wife while she was in a hospital bed suffering from cancer....[/b]
[u]Bob Dole [/u]Cheated on his first wife with his current wife, Elizabeth Dole.
[u]Former Rep. Bob Dornan [/u]Reported to have cheated on and beaten his wife.
[u]John Linder [/u]Has a wandering eye for his female staff members.
[u]Ronald Reagan [/u]Dumped Jane Wyman by cheating on her with several Hollywood starlets
William Cohen Dumped his white wife for a new black one.
[u]Guy Millner [/u]Has been married three times, partly because he has sex with women he isn't married to....
[b]Rush Limbaugh [/b]Fat as he may be, he cheated on two of his three wives...
[b]Mitch Skandalakis Hired hookers [/b]from his Las Vegas hotel room!
[b]Michael Deaver [/b]Was so drunk he doesn't remember hiring hookers...
[u]John Warner[/u] Dumped his wife for Elizabeth Taylor...
[b]Bill Randall A Florida Congressional candidate and minister,[/b] he fathered an illegitimate child during his affair!
[b]Bill McCartney Promise Keepers founder [/b]who didn't keep his Promise to his wife and then lied about it for 20 years!
[u]Rep. Dan Burton [/u]Had at least six adulterous affairs, and fathered a son who, today, he ignores!!
[u]Rep. Bob Barr [/u]Cheated on all three of his wives - and [i]coerced one into having an abortion [/i]- then lied about it!
[b]Rudolph Giuliani [/b]Boffs his assistant in Gracie Mansion while his wife stays home with the kids!
[u]Sen. Strom Thurmond [/u]Cheated on his fourth wife at age 88!!
[u]Gilbert Davis[/u] Paula Jones' attorney, who allowed himself to be videotaped DrUnK during his adultery!
[b]Bob Packwood [/b]Drank huge amounts of hard liquor and then tongue-kissed his female staffers against their will!
[b]Gov. Kirk Fordice [/b]Got so hopped up by his mistress that he crashed his Jeep Cherokee and got himself hurt!
[u]Beverly Russell The Christian Coalition coordinator [/u]who molested his stepdaughter Susan Smith, who later killed her own kids.
[u]Marv Albert Calls himself a Republican[/u], bites his longtime mistresses, and has sex with her while wearing women's panties!
http://www.americaheldhostile...
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| OxyContin, Hydrocodone, Xanax, Morphine...Rush is Rrrright? |
| 12.16.03 (8:56 pm) [edit] |
The liberal left police are invading Rush's privacy!!Oh My!!!!!!!
The warrants named the doctor[b]s [/b]from whom the records were seized and [b]listed hundreds of pain pills prescribed to Limbaugh in a six-month period. [/b]
The warrants also revealed that authorities are looking into b]"doctor shopping" [/b]
Busy, busy busy - From March to September, Limbaugh picked up [b]1,733 hydrocodone pills, 90 OxyContin pills, 50 Xanax tablets and 40 pills of Kadian [/b]- time-release morphine - the warrants show.
[b]His Back Hurt, But His As- is nailed![/b]
The court documents indicate that sometimes less than a week would lapse between different doctors' prescriptions for the painkillers.
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| Bush to Change Overtime Pay Law -Who It Will Affect |
| 12.16.03 (8:17 pm) [edit] |
[b][u]Under the Bush overtime scheme:[/u][/b][b]Workers making between $22,101 and $65,000 who now are eligible to receive overtime [/b] could be reclassified as executives or administrative or professional employees—and [b]would no longer qualify for overtime pay. [/b]Some of the jobs - are [b]police, firefighters, nurses, retail managers, insurance claims adjusters and medical therapists. [/b]
[b]Nurses are in short supply now, wait till they tell them that they wont be getting overtime pay anymore, just straight pay![/b]
[b]Likely Results:[/b] [i]Exempts will be working a lot more extra hours, wont they?[/i]
This will be heard in the senate some time around Jan. 20, 2004 so be ready!
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/overti mepay/underattack.cfm#bush" title="http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/overti mepay/underattack.cfm#bush" target="_blank"http://www.aflcio.org/yourjob...
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| So - This is Freedom? |
| 12.16.03 (8:06 pm) [edit] |
[b]Last night the locals report 24 Iraqis killed for demonstrating.[/b]
THE NEWS BLACKOUT IN THE US CONTINUES:
On BBC - footage of Americans gunning down Iraqis as they ran from the armor clad vehicles. Gunned down in the street as they tried to run away, red tracer bullets leaving laser-like trails as they flew past bodies falling upon the cement. Link to article: http://electroniciraq.net/new...
[b]"This is the freedom?[/b] So these people are for Saddam. So what? He is gone now, let them demonstrate. [b]They are being killed for this?[/b] [b][i]This is what they call freedom for Iraqis?"[/i][/b]
[b]Iraqis are being killed all over the country today for holding pro-Saddam demonstrations[/b].
[b]Reports are streaming in of Iraqis being killed in demonstrations in Samarra, Falluja, Tikrit, and around parts of Baghdad[/b]. Some of the demonstrations have turned violent, this being the reason for American force -- [b]while most haven't until Americans opened fire first[/b].
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| Rachel Corrie on the Ground |
| 12.15.03 (8:21 pm) [edit] |
[image]question_761500223 .jpg[/image]
Picture taken at 4:47PM on 16 March 2003, Rafah, Occupied Gaza. Rachel Corrie lies on the ground fatally injured by the Israeli bulldozer driver. Rachel's fellow activists have dug her a little out of the sand and are trying to keep her neck straight due to spinal injury. Photo by Joseph Smith. (ISM Handout)
"The confrontation between the ISM and the Israeli Army had been under way for two hours when Rachel was run over. Rachel and the other activists had clearly identified themselves as unarmed international peace activists throughout the confrontation.
The Israeli Army are attempting to dishonour her memory by claiming that Rachel was killed accidentally when she ran in front of the bulldozer. Eye-witnesses to the murder insist that this is totally untrue. Rachel was sitting in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her. When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside she climbed up onto the mound of dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it wearing a fluorescent jacket to look directly at the driver who kept on advancing. The bulldozer continued to advance so that she was pulled under the pile of dirt and rubble. After she had disappeared from view the driver kept advancing until the bulldozer was completely on top of her. The driver did not lift the bulldozer blade and so she was crushed beneath it. Then the driver backed off and the seven other ISM activists taking part in the action rushed to dig out her body. An ambulance rushed her to A-Najar hospital where she died."
http://electronicintifada .net/v2/article1248.shtml" title="http://electronicintifada .net/v2/article1248.shtml" target="_blank"http://electronicintifada .net...
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| Pictures of Rachel Corrie |
| 12.15.03 (8:19 pm) [edit] |
[image]question_102328487 4.jpg[/image]
Picture taken between 3:00-4:00PM on 16 March 2003, Rafah, Occupied Gaza. A clearly marked Rachel Corrie, holding a megaphone, confronts the driver of one of two Israeli bulldozers in the area that were attempting to demolish a Palestinian homes. She was confronting the bulldozer in order to disrupt its work, and prevent it from threatening any homes. Photo by Joseph Smith. (ISM Handout)
http://electronicintifada .net/v2/article1248.shtml" title="http://electronicintifada .net/v2/article1248.shtml" target="_blank"http://electronicintifada .net...
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| Tiger Kills 10 Yr Old Boy in Wilkes County (North Carolina) |
| 12.15.03 (10:13 am) [edit] |
Monday, December 15, 2003
Boy, 10, killed by tiger in Wilkes County (North Carolina)
[b]Child was shoveling snow near cage when he was pulled inside [/b]
A 400-pound Bengal tiger in Wilkes County killed a 10-year-old boy yesterday after the animal dragged the boy into its cage, authorities said.
The boy's uncle shot and killed the tiger after it attacked Clayton James Eller. Clayton was pronounced dead at 2 p.m. at Wilkes Regional Medical Center, said Wilkes County Coroner Howard Laney. The boy died of wounds to the head, neck and chest. The mauling happened shortly after 1 p.m., said Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin.
Clayton had been using a shovel to push snow off the apron of a swimming pool near the tiger's cage, Mastin said. More at:
http://www.nbc17.com/news/2705162/detail.html" title="http://www.nbc17.com/news/2705162/detail.html" target="_blank"http://www.nbc17.com/news/270...
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| Another 911 about to Happen? Cheney Energy Task Force Feet to the Fire Again! |
| 12.15.03 (9:09 am) [edit] |
[b]Supreme Court to Hear Cheney Energy Task Force Case[/b]http://story.news.yahoo.com/n...
[b]Will the pending Supreme Court Hearing on the Dick Cheney Energy Task Force trigger another 911 type incident as a diversion?[/b]
Deja'vu: [b]On Friday,[u]Sept 7th,2001[/u] it was in the news that the GAO was getting ready to decide
whether to take the Bush admin to court....[/b]
They set a Thursday, Sept 13th deadline for the administration to turn over the documents related to the meetings.
[i][b]That was all forgotten when, voila... Sept 11 happened.[/b][/i]
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/dai lynews/gao_010907.html" title="http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/dai lynews/gao_010907.html" target="_blank"http://more.abcnews.go.com/se...
If you go to the web site of The United States General Accounting Office, http://www.gao.gov/
then at the top, select [u]"site map"[/u]
about a quarter of the way down, in the right column, you will see the title for "Walker vs Cheney"
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| Bush Racketeering Suit by 911 Widow Not Going Away!! |
| 12.14.03 (7:24 pm) [edit] |
[i]When I first heard the lawsuit, I figured that it would get brushed under the rug.[/i]
[b]NOW I DON'T[/b].
[b]News[/b] of the RICO suit [b]is showing up in the most interesting places, namely [u]GovExec.com[/u][/b], a paper and online magazine for Government Executives.
[b]"Ellen Mariani [/b]filed a lawsuit Nov. 26 under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations [b](RICO) Act [/b]with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
The suit alleges that [b]President Bush and other officials knowingly and willfully failed to act to prevent the murder of her husband, Louis Neil Mariani, [/b]who was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center.
[i]Read it at: GovExec.com -[/i] http://www.govexec.com/dailyf...
Also, you may want to check out another site that also has a radio show:
[b]Tuesday, December 16th, 2003 - Highway 2 Health[/b]
Ila Swan will host Highway2Health Radio Program Tuesday Dec. 16th.
The Program begins at 6:00 PM PST, 9:00 PM EST.
[b]The speaker will be Mr. Philip Berg, the attorney who is representing Ellen Mariani in her lawsuit against George W. Bush. [/b]
[b]Ellen's lawsuit is against George Bush, Richard Chenny, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, CIA, Norman Muneta, DOJ,[/b] and a few others that either knew about the attack or should have known. This lawsuit may have been converted to a class action, where all citizens can join.
When you hear the evidence in this case, it will not only amaze you, it will make you damn angry.
Tune in, callers are welcomed. TOLL FREE CALL-IN LINES.
DO NOT BE FASHIONABLY LATE! Peter Kawaja for HighWay2Health at http://www.highway2health.net...
I have been forwarding the news as posted on the GovExec.com website to my state congressman and senators. I am going to help stir the pot. [b]Don't let them sweep this under the rug.[/b] Enough is enough.
I can tell you - A Massive e-mail campagn DOES have an effect, I have participated in them before.
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| Rummy IDs Saddam personally |
| 12.14.03 (3:12 pm) [edit] |
[image]question_421288497 .jpg[/image]
Since there are so many Saddam doubles running around, Rummy made the trip over to ID Saddam himself. Rummy verified Saddams ID by his "very firm handshake."
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| The Truth About Vaccines - Before You Get Another Vaccine |
| 12.13.03 (6:05 pm) [edit] |
There is a widely held belief that vaccines should not be criticized because the public might refuse to take them. [b]This is valid only if the benefits exceed the known risks of the vaccines[/b].
[b]Vaccines are enormously profitable for drug companies [/b]and recent legislation in the U.S. has exempted lawsuits against pharmaceutical firms in the event of adverse reactions to vaccines which are very common
[b]In 1986 there were 1300 cases of pertussis [/b]in Kansas and 90% of these cases occurred in children who [b]had been adequately vaccinated[/b]
[b]Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS [/b]The peak incidence for SIDS is age 2 to 4 months the exact time most vaccines are being given to children.
A Dr. W. Torch was able to document [b]12 deaths in infants[/b] which appeared within 3½ and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new cases of SIDS death and one near miss which had occurred within 24 hours of a DPT injection. When he studied 70 cases of SIDS two thirds of these victims[5] had been vaccinated from one half day to 3 weeks prior to their deaths.
There is valid reason to think that not only are [b]vaccines worthless in preventing disease[/b] they are counterproductive because they [b]injure the immune system permitting cancer, auto-immune diseases and SIDS to cause much disability and death. [/b]
An article in the Washington Post on Jan. 26, 1988 mentioned that[b] all cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine[/b] with no known cases of polio from a wild strain since 1979
http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james.htm" title="http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james.htm" target="_blank"http://www.newswithviews.com/...
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| whistleblower Tip Lines -tips -Iraq contracting abuses, intelligence failures, and other investigati |
| 12.13.03 (11:05 am) [edit] |
New information:Army Corps of Engineers raises questions [b]about the prices Halliburton[/b] and its subcontractor are [b]charging at every step of importing gasoline from Kuwait into Iraq,[/b] including why they are buying gasoline for far more than the wholesale price, charging many times what it costs other companies to import gasoline into Iraq, and adding a significant markup to each gallon. (Dec. 10)
GOVERNMENT REFORM WEBSITE: http://www.house.gov/reform/m...
I Recall hearing about the price gouging FIRST while listening to the Jon Daily Show on comedy central.
WATCH THAT SHOW TO BE ON TOP!
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| There will be JOBS? or SNOW JOBS? |
| 12.13.03 (10:10 am) [edit] |
[b]SNOW JOB?[/b]
[b]US Treasury Secretary John Snow told graduating college students on Saturday he is confident the US economy will create new jobs [/b][i]even if he doesn't know what industry will be hiring. [/i]
what an idiot - I'm sorry.
He thinks they are idiots.
[b]Does he know if there will be a paycheck with these jobs?[/b]
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| U.S. Economy Shrank Under Lewinsky |
| 12.12.03 (8:28 pm) [edit] |
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Thats what really happened! : ) :lol:
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| Kucinich Kicks Krap outa Koppel! |
| 12.12.03 (8:14 pm) [edit] |
[b]Which Democrat Has Political Courage?[/b]One has the guts to stand up to Ted Koppel — and one has the guts to stand up to the Democratic party
The ABC News anchorman moderated the debate, held on the campus of the University of New Hampshire, and [b]began the session like a teacher might begin a first-grade class: [/b]by asking the candidates to "raise your hand if you believe Governor Dean can beat George W. Bush."
[i]Konsequently, Koppel Kept Kracking Krappy Kwestions and........[/i]
[b]Then, Krazed Kucinich Kame out Kickin' [/b]
Read some serious intellectual Krazy Karma Kickin' here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/york/york2003121 00840.asp" title="http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/york/york2003121 00840.asp" target="_blank"http://www.nationalreview.com...
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| Bu$h $pending $28 M for Draft by June 15, 2005 |
| 12.12.03 (6:41 pm) [edit] |
[b]MORE WAR IN 2004[/b]
[b]President Bush is spending $28 million to have the Selective Service system ready to report to him on March 31, 2005.[/b]
He wants the system ready for activation within 75 days.
This would make the approximated date of the return of the draft June 15, 2005.
[b]Be familiar with the Universal National Service Act of 2003, H.R. 163,[/b] introduced on January 7, 2003. This act, can be found on the website of the U.S. Congress at http://www.congress.gov
[i]Only 44% of troops in Iraq have said they are going to re-enlist.[/i]
[b]Suicides among United States servicemen in Iraq are running at up to three times the usual rate,[/b] the US Army has revealed.
[b]One of the latest victims [/b]was buried in a Pennsylvania village on Monday.[b] After calling home, Corey Small, 20, killed himself in front of other troops who were waiting to use the phone.[/b]
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/14/10 65917415308.html?from=storyrhs" title="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/14/10 65917415308.html?from=storyrhs" target="_blank"http://www.smh.com.au/article...
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| Guantanamo Bay-Halliburton $ays:KA-CHING!!$$ -$HAME OF THE U.$. ! |
| 12.12.03 (6:40 am) [edit] |
[b]At Guantanamo, hundreds have been held without charge for two years,[/b] abandoned in a legal black hole. Many detainees, including the small number who have since been released, were imprisoned for a non-combatant reason
[b]LIKE A KIDNAPPING -They were bound hand and foot, blindfolded, gagged and their ears were muffled.[/b] The Camp X-Ray cells measured approximately 2x3 metres with walls of wire mesh, concrete floors and metal ceilings
[b]April 2002, new accommodation, Camp Delta.[/b]
The main part of the prison camp to this day, blocks of 48 cages each, with two rows of mesh cages separated by a narrow corridor.
[b]There is a more relaxed regime of Camp Four,[/b] where docile, cooperative prisoners are rewarded with dormitory-style living and free association with other detainees....
[i]US justifications for holding the Guantanamo prisoners for so long in isolation is that they need to be interrogated for valuable intelligence[/i].
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_485115" title="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_485115" target="_blank"http://www.hindustantimes.com...,00120001.htm
[b]"Defeating terrorism means convincing the world of the importance of the rule of law.
The Bush Administration severely handicaps this effort if[/b], in the process of fighting terrorism´s violation of the right to life, it so fundamentally violates the right to a fair trial" - [i]Human Rights Watch [/i]http://www.hrw.org/editorials...
[b]The [b]first team of lawyers [/b]to be appointed to represent the detainees was dismissed [/b]after [b]complaining that the rules for forthcoming trials were unfair. [/b]They were afraid that the U.S. rules for these [b]tribunals would create [b]ethics violations [/b]that might result in their [b]disbarrment. [/b][/b]
A group of lawyers told [u]Vanity Fair [/u]magazine that [b]rules such as allowing government representatives to monitor conversations between the lawyers and their clients made a fair trial for the detainees impossible.[/b] They are planning a lawsuit against the government, arguing that they were given unlawful orders, the magazine reports.
One of Britain's top judges, Lord Justice Steyn, condemned the detentions at Guantanamo Bay as [b]"a monstrous failure of justice". [/b] - [i]BBC News [/i]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wo...
[b]They have not been charged or allowed access to lawyers, and their detention has been condemned both by human rights groups and allies of the US[/b]
[b]OH WELL, AT LEAST HALLIBURTON GETS SOMETHING OUT OF IT [/b]- Halliburton Co. was awarded a [b]$9.7 million contract [/b]to build the additional 204-cell detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay.(Using low-wage contract workers from the Philippines and India)July 27, 2002 http://www.commondreams.org/h...
[b]OH GOODY EVEN MORE $ FOR HALLIBURTON!!![/b]
The U.S. Navy said Friday it has awarded a $12.5 million contract to build new troop facilities at Guantanamo Bay,
to Brown and Root, a HALLIBURTON subsidiary. The Defense Department said it expects the project to be completed by June 2004.Reuters, 06.13.03, 6:54 PM ET - [i]Forbes Magazine[/i]
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003 /06/13/rtr1000228.html" title="http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003 /06/13/rtr1000228.html" target="_blank"http://www.forbes.com/markets...
[b]$O, YOU CAN $EE WHY THE$E DETAINEE$ WILL BE IN GITMO FOR AWHILE!!!![/b]
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| $20,000 offer!!! |
| 12.11.03 (7:41 pm) [edit] |
[b]THE FOLLOWING OFFER is made to U.S.-licensed medical doctors who routinely administer childhood vaccinations and to pharmaceutical company CEOs worldwide: [/b]
Jock Doubleday, president of the California nonprofit corporation Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc., hereby [b]offers $20,000.00 (U.S.) to the first medical doctor or pharmaceutical company CEO who publicly drinks a mixture of standard vaccine additive ingredients [/b]in the same amount [b]as a six-year-old child is recommended to receive under the year-2000 guidelines [/b]of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mixture will not contain viruses or bacteria dead or alive, but [b]will contain standard vaccine additive ingredients in their usual forms and proportions[/b]. The mixture will include, but will not be limited to:
thimerosal (a mercury derivative),
ethylene glycol (antifreeze),
phenol (a disinfectant dye),
benzethonium chloride (a disinfectant),
formaldehyde (a preservative and disinfectant), and aluminum.
This offer, dated January 29, 2001, has no expiration date unless superceded by a similar offer of higher remuneration.
http://gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org/VaccineOffer.htm" title="http://gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org/VaccineOffer.htm" target="_blank"http://gentlebirth.org/nwnm.o...
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| Flu Vaccine - Read this before you consider it!!! |
| 12.11.03 (7:00 pm) [edit] |
When I found out that [b]politicians like Rumsfeld made money off of the vaccines,[/b] I became skeptical and did some investigation.
[b]Especially when Sen Majority Leader Bill Frist[/b] (family owns HCA hospital chain) [b]wrote a clause [/b]in the "Homeland inSecurity Bill" [b]to protect vaccine makers from liability.[/b] ([i]Some democrats made the senate take it out once they discovered it).[/i]
[b]The government and the media(bosom buddies) are really hyping the flu vaccine[/b]. The hysteria has spread all over, even the school children have caught the fear.
[b]Educate yourself on the side-effects of the flu vaccine,[/b]
evidence linking the Flu vaccine to serious neurological side effects.
occasional cases involving influenza vaccines causing Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
and other autoimmune conditions.
http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/overview.htm?topic=Influenza" title="http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/overview.htm?topic=Influenza" target="_blank"http://www.yourlawyer.com/pra...%20(Flu)%20Vaccine
...[b]mercury is contained in the flu vaccine[/b]. "The [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] directed manufacturers in 1999 to take mercury thimerosal out of child vaccines, but there was no directive to take it out of the other vaccines.
[b]there's no guarantee the vaccine targets the right bugs[/b]
The flu vaccine is different every year,
"It's an experiment every year with ethics and safety."
http://www.testfoundation.org/fluvaccines.htm" title="http://www.testfoundation.org/fluvaccines.htm" target="_blank"http://www.testfoundation.org...
[b]The flu vaccine contains:[/b]
[b]Formaldehyde:[/b] a known cancer causing agent
[b]Thimerosal: [/b](a mercury derivitive linked to autism)
http://home.sprynet.com/" title="http://home.sprynet.com/" target="_blank"http://home.sprynet.com/~gyrene/flu.htm
[b]Vaccines "contain not only the particular virus but they also contain traces of leukaemia virus, cancer producing viruses etc. [/b]These are not completely removable, they exist in the chicken from which these eggs are taken and although they claim that they are like 98% purified, 2% of several billion viruses is still an awful lot of cancer and leukaemia dangers."
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/snead1.html" title="http://www.whale.to/vaccines/snead1.html" target="_blank"http://www.whale.to/vaccines/...
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| Ridge-give illegals some legal status,Bush disses Europe, Dems:increase troop strength, Privatizatio |
| 12.11.03 (3:57 pm) [edit] |
[b]Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge Wants to Give illegal entrants some sort of legal status[/b]
From the Miami Herald: http://www.miami.com/mld/miam...
[b]Bush wants French, Russian and German leaders "to forgive Iraq's debts[/b]," - [i](But at the same time these countries are banned from bidding on reconstruction contracts! )[/i] the New York Times reports
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/internatio nal/middleeast/11PREX.html" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/internatio nal/middleeast/11PREX.html" target="_blank"http://www.nytimes.com/2003/1...
[b]Democrats unveil plan to increase troop strength [/b]
Rumsfeld has opposed the idea of increasing troop numbers, said it would be very expensive over the long term, and that measures should instead be taken to reduce demands on the force.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1203/121003c dpm1.htm" title="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1203/121003c dpm1.htm" target="_blank"http://www.govexec.com/dailyf...
[b]About 10,000 military contractors serving in Iraq.[/b] Dyncorp, for example, a Pentagon favourite, has the contract worth tens of millions of dollars to train an Iraqi police force. [i]It also won the contracts to train the Bosnian police and was implicated in a grim sex slavery scandal, with its employees accused of rape and the buying and selling of girls as young as 12.[/i] A number of employees were fired, but never prosecuted. The only court cases to result involved the two whistleblowers who exposed the episode and were sacked.
"Dyncorp should never have been awarded the Iraqi police contract," said Madeleine Rees, the chief UN human rights officer in Sarajevo.
Many ethical issues arrise when using private armies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.guardian.co.uk/int...,3604,1103566,00.html
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| Nei Bush - Chinese - Multi-million$$$ contract w computer chip company |
| 12.11.03 (7:09 am) [edit] |
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THANKS TO THE MEMORY HOLE.
If you want a better view of this contract, you can see it at: http://www.thememoryhole.org/...
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| Commercial Shows GW Bush as Santa Claus, in CNN channel this evening, can view here |
| 12.09.03 (3:48 pm) [edit] |
[b]Featuring President Bush as a sort of big-donor Santa Claus,[/b] the ads point out that while Halliburton and big pharmaceutical companies and the media conglomerates clearly made Bush's Christmas list, the American people didn't.
Video can be viewed at the following link:
https://www.moveonvoterfund.org/donate/new.html?id=2194-1382774-PzRF Iy3d_6mNb8HGRQdk6g [image]question_110391602 0.jpg[/image]
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| Weapons of Mass Destruction - Seriously... Not a joke! |
| 12.08.03 (7:25 pm) [edit] |
[b]Weapons of Mass Destruction Not in Iraq, but Anniston, Ala.[/b]T
he cache of chemical weapons includes 873,020 pounds of sarin, 1,657,480 pounds of VX nerve agent and 1,976,760 pounds of mustard agent - enough to kill or incapacitate millions
Though the United States is required by international treaty to be rid of chemical weapons by 2007, nearly 75 percent of the nation's now-banned arms still exist. It amounts to a nationwide stockpile of 23,415 tons of liquid sarin nerve agent, blister-causing mustard agent, a deadly nerve liquid called VX and variants.
That's 46,830,000 pounds of chemicals. A teaspoon of any of them is enough to kill or maim.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2316.htm" title="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2316.htm" target="_blank"http://www.informationclearin...
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| The George Bush G.I.Joke Doll! |
| 12.08.03 (4:42 am) [edit] |
Strut and Pose Your G.I. Joke Doll while real soldiers fight and die in combat every day!!!!
http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazine/files/ont hestands/ots_437/6.html" title="http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazine/files/ont hestands/ots_437/6.html" target="_blank"http://www2.warnerbros.com/ma...
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| Terminator Backtracks in CAL-E-Forni-Ya, Pro Quid Pro? |
| 12.07.03 (7:15 pm) [edit] |
[b]Schwarzenegger Donors Link Contributions, Budget Cuts Group Calls on Governor to Return $, Ban Fundraising During Budget Season[/b]
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/corporate/pr/pr003888 .php3" title="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/corporate/pr/pr003888 .php3" target="_blank"http://www.consumerwatchdog.o...
[b]Associated General Contractors of America San Diego Chapter, Inc.[/b]
"Governor Schwarzenegger will be in San Diego on Tuesday, December 2 for a noon time rally and an evening fundraiser. Please consider attending one or both events."
"At 12:00 Noon at the Broadway Circle in Horton Plaza, the Governor will address San Diegans about his plan to deal with the state budget crisis. He has proposed a state spending cap......"
"A fundraiser to help erase his campaign debt will be held at La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla beginning at 5:30 PM. The address is 1132 Prospect St. Because AGC endorsed his candidacy, members can attend for $250 per person or $500 couple..."
"Governor’s Budget Cutting Proposal Could Eliminate Thousands of Construction Jobs!"
http://www.agcsd.org/quarterback.htm" title="http://www.agcsd.org/quarterback.htm" target="_blank"http://www.agcsd.org/quarterb...
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| Rumsfeld Plans to Privatize the Military |
| 12.07.03 (12:53 pm) [edit] |
"Rumsfeld has already outsourced much of the logistics and supply functions of the military to private firms, especially to Cheney's old employer Halliburton. There are now 90-odd companies competing to provide private soldiers from places like Fiji and Nepal to work as machine-gun-toting guards in Iraq."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0350/mondo5.php" title="http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0350/mondo5.php" target="_blank"http://www.villagevoice.com/i...
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| U.S. Oil Co. in Court Over Slavery forced labor, rape, torture -- even killing. |
| 12.06.03 (10:09 pm) [edit] |
The California based [b]Unocal[/b] oil company's corporate partners used Myanmar's (also known as Burma) notoriously brutal military regime to provide "security" for a natural gas pipeline project in the remote Yadana region near the Thai border.
In other words, the Myanmar Military was hired by Unocal to see that an oil pipeline went through.
The[b] soldiers' true role was to force villagers in the pipeline region to work without pay [/b]-- a modern form of slavery, the 9th Circuit opinion said.
And [b]Unocal knew[/b], both before and after investing in the project, that the military was enslaving the people, the opinion said.
[b]Unocal's own consultant[/b], former military attache John Haseman, reported to Unocal in December 1995 that the soldiers were committing "[b]egregious human rights violations"[/b] along the pipeline route.
[i]It's a case involving allegations of forced labor, rape, torture -- even killing. [/i]
People were forced out of their homes
The suits claim that, [b]because of the pipeline project[/b], the villagers lost their homes, their family members were killed, and they were raped, assaulted, tortured or forced into slavery
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/150576_human01.html" title="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/150576_human01.html" target="_blank"http://seattlepi.nwsource.com...
The people of Burma are unable to participate in decisions about their environment, and resistance often means torture or death
More information at:
http://www.earthrights.org/morenews.shtml" title="http://www.earthrights.org/morenews.shtml" target="_blank"http://www.earthrights.org/mo...
Where there is oil, diamonds, prescious metals, there is poverty, sadness, brutality, torture, rape, and death.
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| A Bird in Bush's Hand Aint Worth Shi-! |
| 12.06.03 (7:48 pm) [edit] |
The Real Turkey is holding the platter:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/04/10 70351720290.html" title="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/04/10 70351720290.html" target="_blank"http://www.theage.com.au/arti...
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| 18 year olds to feel a draft on/around March 31, 2005 |
| 12.05.03 (7:07 am) [edit] |
[b]SSS plan to bring DRAFT ACTIVATION TIME down to 75 days by March 31, 2005. [/b](http://www.sss.gov/ click on 2004 Performance Plan -- and notice they put the DRAFT BOARD NOTICE BACK UP -- THIS TIME ON THE HOME PAGE!!)
http://www.sss.gov/Default.htm" title="http://www.sss.gov/Default.htm" target="_blank"http://www.sss.gov/Default.ht...
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| Tell Pres Bush:Withdraw your overtime pay take-away,Energy De-Reg feeds Corp Crooks - History! |
| 12.05.03 (6:38 am) [edit] |
Under a proposal by President Bush, [b]more than 8 million workers might not be paid extra for the overtime hours they work.[/b] President Bush can make these changes through executive order, even over objections from Congress. [b]Please show your support for overtime pay during the Overtime Pay National Week of Action by signing this petition.[/b]
http://www.saveovertimepay.org/index.cfm" title="http://www.saveovertimepay.org/index.cfm" target="_blank"http://www.saveovertimepay.or...
[b]He is a greedy S.O.B.[/b]dont let him get away with this...
[b]USE YOUR POWER TO ACT WHILE YOU STILL CAN GET POWER FOR YOUR PC![/b] Roosevelt created the new law in 1935 called the [b]Public Utility Holding Company Act, to correct the Enron like accounting practices[/b] and price hikes [b]that incited the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.[/b]
[b]in the ensuing 68 years, not one electric utility holding company regulated under PUHCA ever went bankrupt. [/b]Not one! Utilities made some mistakes, of course, like building nuclear plants. But overall, [b]the economy, which became dependent on reliable electricity, did pretty well.[/b]
[b]By the 1990s, though, some rich, powerful people started complaining about not making enough money. [/b]The brilliant people at [b]Enron didn’t like PUHCA.[/b] So they used their power and money to get some exemptions from the law. Then all hell broke loose. You know that story. Other energy companies like NRG Energy, Mirant and NorthWestern Corp. demanded, and got, similar treatment. So where did they go? You got it: [b]bankruptcy court.[/b]
Instead, here’s what we heard coming out of Washington: "[i]PUHCA is outdated. It stifles competition. It prevents investment." [/i]They said this knowing that we are far more dependent on electricity than in 1935.
[b]Congress at this moment is perilously close to approving this. [/b]Then, we will see if history repeats. Plan on more blackouts.
End of History Lesson: Now go make history -
Latest Public Citizen Action Items
Action Alert! Tell Your Senators How You Feel About their Vote on the Energy Bill!
[b]TAKE ACTION - send a free fax to your representatives[/b]:
http://www.citizen.org/fax/background.cfm?ID=246&source=5" title="http://www.citizen.org/fax/background.cfm?ID=246&source=5" target="_blank"http://www.citizen.org/fax/ba...
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| Going Postal, Bye Bye Tech Jobs, We Helped Afghani Flower!De-regulation Ahead, Enron Sequel, Walmart |
| 12.04.03 (9:07 pm) [edit] |
Its Piling Up!!
[b]Unemployment is still looking worse[/b]:Read between the lines - Apparently the unemployment statistics are not close to the truth.
[i]Once a person has collected all of their possible unemployment benefits for the year, they are no longer counted as unemployed, even if they are.[/i]
[b]Gee, that is awfully similar to the way we do body counts in Iraq[/b].
[b]Even your postman is at risk:[/b]
Co-chairman appointed by Bush, James Johnson recommends reducing the Postal labor force via attrition, noting that 47% to be eligible for retirement in the next 7 years.http://www.govexec.com/dailyf...
You know all of those Tech Schools that advertise on TV all of the time?
HEY GEEKS, WANTA MOVE TO INDIA TO WORK?
Gartner: [b]One in 20 end-user IT jobs to move offshore[/b]
[b]One out of every 10 jobs at US IT suppliers and services providers - and one out of 20 IT jobs at user companies - will move offshore[/b] by the end of next year, according to analyst group Gartner. http://www.computerweekly.com...
De-regulation still looms across the horizon. [b]My Senate's Big Fat Omnibus Bill[/b] didn't pass, but they'll be back....
[b]ENRON’S RISE AND FALL IS why energy deregulation will never work in the United States [/b]and what types of reforms must be implemented to ensure consumers have access to affordable and reliable energy. http://www.citizen.org/cmep/e...
[b]The President is really doing a great job in Iraq, isn't he?[/b]
Well, at least the Iraqis don't have to worry about paying $2.65 a gallon for gasoline. Now they are having to pay up to 5 times that from black marketers taking advantage of the gas lines:
[b]With All That Oil, Baghdad Gas Lines 110 cars long[/b]. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/1...
[b]Hey, George Bush has done a great job with Afghanistan, hasn't he?[/b]
Good thing we went in and saved the Afghanis?We kept our promises, [b]Right? Right?[/b]http://www.atimes.com/atimes/...
Well, at least they have their poppy population: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/...
The U.S. Department of Defense and retail giant Wal-Mart have each recently announced that they will require their suppliers to use RFID ("Radio Frequency Identification technology).
While this may seem like a convenient way to track items, it's also a convenient way to do something less benign: track people and their activities through their belongings.
EFF RFID archive: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Su...
[b]BOYCOTT WALMART [/b]
International Boycott Walmart Meetup Day
WHEN Monday, December 8 @ 7:00PM
(2nd Monday of every month.) http://boycottwalmart.meetup....
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| A 9 Year Old Will Decide the 2004 Presidential Election...... |
| 12.04.03 (8:29 am) [edit] |
[b]Ohio finds Black Hole in Security Flaws of electronic voting machines [/b]
[b]The state's top elections official has called off deploying them in March[/b]
The findings confirmed what experts across the country have said for months:
[b]"Electronic voting systems are prime targets for manipulation by anyone from expert computer hackers to poll workers to individual voters." [/b]http://www.cleveland.com/news...
[i]I think considerable credit should be given to Presidential Candidate, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who posted Diebolds internal memos on his government web-site[/i].
[b]"Diebold Employee Manual Reveals Knowledge of Software Flaws"[/b]
He also pointed out that Diebold had conflicts of interest:
'In August 2003, after returning from President Bush’s Crawford, TX ranch, [b]Diebold’s chief executive wrote a fundraising letter where he stated he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."' [/b]http://www.house.gov/kucinich...
[b]HIS WEBSITE IS A MUST SEE,[/b] he really knows what is going on, and he is good at rooting out corruption.
This is the guy that kept Clevelands public power company being bought out by a private interest.
Kucinich, Capable Crusader!!
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| What Special Interests Control Your Senator? Easy to Read Chart Breaks it Down! |
| 12.03.03 (6:37 am) [edit] |
How Honest/Crooked is your politician?
I thought it would be interesting to see [b]if/how special interest groups influenced the recent vote on the Medicare Reform Bill. [/b]
[b]When you look at this chart, you can pretty well predict how these senators are going to vote on some of the issues.[/b]
If you are against this bill, you should be interested to know that [b]Senator Lieberman (da Bagel) and Senator John Kerry (Catsup King) did not cast their votes.[/b]
By the way, they both received large contributions from the following industries:
[u]Senator John Kerry[/u]
Lawyers/firms $3,079,449
Insurance $130,750
Hlth Profs. Pharma $ 333,076
Comm Bks $212,375
Lobbyist $227,950
Sec/Invest $1,031,275
[u]Senator Lieberman [/u]
Lawyers/firms $1,480,361
Insurance $173,000
Hlth Profs. $361,950
Pharma $73,000
Lobbyist $106,935
Sec/Invest $661,450
I created a spreadsheet with [b]all of the senators listed [/b]as voted yay or nay, and listed some of their[b] top supporting industries by campaign donation.[/b]
Amounts are listed, information from searching www.opensecrets.org.
[i]When you look at the whole picture, it is clear that campagn finance is the one most corrupting
factor in politics.[/i]
I have converted the spreadsheet to pdf format, so adobe acrobat reader is the software that opens it.
I analyzed more industries than shown, but had trouble formatting, so
I tried to show the most related and/or the most unusual.
Let me know what you think.
[b]HERE IS THE LINK![/b]
http://www.geocities.com/citizen27106/Medicare VoteNov25.PDF" title="http://www.geocities.com/citizen27106/Medicare VoteNov25.PDF" target="_blank"http://www.geocities.com/citi...
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| Shocking -Breakdown of Senators and Medicare Related Campagn Contributions |
| 12.02.03 (9:43 pm) [edit] |
The Recently Passed Medicare bill further demonstrates more of the Reverse Robinhood like action of the pResident and the Special Interest Controlled Senate and Congress.
I have created a spreadsheet breaking down the Senators into Yes and Nov votes for the Medicare Bill.
This chart shows how much money related industries have donated to each senator.
[b]You will be shocked![/b]
Go to this site, and click on the box that says:
"Money Talks - Follow the Money, See Who Supports Your Senator"
http://www.geocities.com/citizen27106/money_ta lks.html" title="http://www.geocities.com/citizen27106/money_ta lks.html" target="_blank"http://www.geocities.com/citi...
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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