Boycott red companies

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Friday December 03, 2004 · 11:53 AM PST

2004/12/03 · 11:53

I got this from Jerome Armstrong's post at MYDD.com -- I hope that's ok. It seemed like an important piece of info to pass along. The website Choose the Blue has compiled a list of companies that supported either democrats or republicans or both. It's helpful to me to know that I'm not inadvertantly supporting Bush or republican agendas by buying from red companies.
(Ok, so now I know that Estee Lauder and Donna Karan supported the dem party and Curves supported the republicans! I'm glad I never joined.) I'm wondering about LLBean. The site doesn't have every company, but it's a start.

http://www.choosetheblue.com/main.php

Arctic oil giddiness

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Monday November 29, 2004 · 1:38 PM PST

2004/11/29 · 13:38

I've been reading about the contradictory opinions on the effect of global warming. I'm thinking of pundit scientists popular with the B (movie) administration and oil companies that talk about the advantages of losing the polar ice cap regions. For example, increase in arable land for cultivation and access to oil reserves.

Never mind that we lose the polar bears and countless other species and native peoples who depend on the habitat to survive. Never mind the health problems people throughout the world endure because of emissions and other chemical toxins and gases that we live around - mainly from petroleum derivatives. Never mind that we are destroying one of the richest places (Brazilian rainforest) for medicinal antidotes to our current epidemic crises.

Rhetorically I wonder: why should they care about greenhouse gases if the end result has its advantages, even if philosophically we are against them? In terms of geologic time, the earth, climate, and universe have been going through cataclysmic events since forever.
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Powell scolds and threatens Ukraine for voter fraud

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Wednesday November 24, 2004 · 11:37 AM PST

2004/11/24 · 11:37

Does anyone else find this incredulous, absurd, Orwellian, etc.? When we are going through the second "election" of a president that was dubiously elected -- and even if it does turn out that he got the votes, we still have ample evidence of fraud.

Powell tells the Ukraine that they risk losing US support due to mass fraud and not meeting international standards for voting.

I just don't get where the pundits are that would call him on such (to me anyway) hypocracy.

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