"We were sold for bounties," say Gitmo detainees

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Wednesday June 01, 2005 · 12:23 AM PDT

2005/06/01 · 00:23

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (May 31) - They fed them well. The Pakistani tribesmen slaughtered a sheep in honor of their guests, Arabs and Chinese Muslims famished from fleeing U.S. bombing in the Afghan mountains. But their hosts had ulterior motives: to sell them to the Americans, said the men who are now prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Bounties ranged from $3,000 to $25,000, the detainees testified during military tribunals, according to transcripts the U.S. government gave The Associated Press to comply with a Freedom of Information lawsuit.

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Over. Read More

ACTION ALERT: Call for Bush, Cheney, and crew to take reponsibility!

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Tuesday May 31, 2005 · 10:39 AM PDT

2005/05/31 · 10:39

From CNN:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush called a human rights report "absurd" for criticizing the United States' detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said Tuesday the allegations were made by "people who hate America."

"It's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world," Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.

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Cheney offended by REPORTING of abuse? Here's what I'm offended by...

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Monday May 30, 2005 · 4:11 PM PDT

2005/05/30 · 16:11

From CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he was offended by Amnesty International's condemnation of the United States for what it called "serious human rights violations" at Guantanamo Bay.

"For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously," he said in an interview that was to air Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."

Like this sanctimonious partisan hack of a politician has any right to be offended. Read More

Metrospy T-Shirts...why are the neo-cons advertising here?

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Sunday April 24, 2005 · 4:32 PM PDT

2005/04/24 · 16:32

The top entry of the "classifieds" section of the ads is for Metrospy T-Shirts, a company that makes shirts with neo-con slogans on them...

Hell, their very ad goes against the values we espouse on this site...

Conservative T-Shirts for Yer Mamma!
METROSPY T-SHIRTS: Animals do not have rights. The ones that taste good should be eaten. The ones that are friendly should be kept as pets and the others, such as spiders and ants should be killed. We don't have a problem with gays. They should have all the same rights as heterosexual men. They should be allowed to marry the woman of their choice. (click here) - To see the complete line of Metrospy T-Shirts Today!!

Is there something that can be done so that these people aren't getting publicity from readers of this site?

US 'either silent or complicit' in Saddam's Oil Smuggling...

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Thursday February 03, 2005 · 5:19 AM PST

2005/02/03 · 05:19

Anyhow, I was doing my early morning insomniac scanning of CNN's website for news, and came across this little nugget of an article.

(CNN) -- Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein's regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq's neighbors.

The oil trade with countries such as Turkey and Jordan appears to have been an open secret inside the U.S. government and the United Nations for years.

The unclassified State Department documents sent to congressional committees with oversight of U.S. foreign policy divulge that the United States deemed such sales to be in the "national interest," even though they generated billions of dollars in unmonitored revenue for Saddam's regime.

Outrage below the fold. Read More

Bush Admin cutting Pell Grants...wasn't he supposed to increase them?

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Thursday December 23, 2004 · 3:11 AM PST

2004/12/23 · 03:11

Now, I may be addlebrained, and in fact, some of my conservative friends have, in fact, told me that I am.

However, I distinctly remember Bush saying during the debates that he wanted to INCREASE the availability of Pell Grants, not decrease them.

Well, that was a lie.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/12/23/pell.grants/index.html

A change in eligibility for Pell Grants to be announced Thursday by the Department of Education would cut some 90,000 students from the rolls of recipients and affect more than 1 million others, an education advocate says.

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Genetically Modified Food...we need laws on this stuff.

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Wednesday December 01, 2004 · 9:40 AM PST

2004/12/01 · 09:40

This worries me...so I wrote an essay about it. Thoughts are welcome. I seriously believe that we need to press our Congresspeople on this matter. We need some type of legislation to protect our farmers, our food supply, and our species affected by the rapid growth of this industry with a lack of research on it's effects.

Essay below the fold. Read More

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