Confidential Brief for George W. Bush on Climate Change

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Friday December 02, 2005 · 11:48 AM PST

2005/12/02 · 11:48

This is a repost from a post of mine on Treehugger. I thought that the dKos crowd would particularly like it:

Not for the humor impaired, this confidential brief (pdf format) to US president George W. Bush is filled with childish fun. The cover claims that it is by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but that's surely just part of the spoof. Read More

Public Relations DISASTER for Bush is Brewing - Iraq War Photos

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Monday September 26, 2005 · 3:50 PM PDT

2005/09/26 · 15:50

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-09-21/news/news.html

It's all there. Just read it...

Basically, a bunch of US soldiers have been trading pictures of dead Iraqis for porn; they sent the pictures to a porn webmaster in exchange for access to his site, and the guy published the photos on nowthatsfuckedup.com . Read More

FDA to INCINERATE ~400,000 food rations donated by UK for Katrina victims

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Wednesday September 21, 2005 · 11:16 AM PDT

2005/09/21 · 11:16

You can read the whole story at Wikinews (they point to other sources):

The American Food and Drug Administration has recalled operational rations (MREs) donated by Britain to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The majority of the 400,000 rations donated by Britian, at a cost of millions of pounds, are set to be destroyed at a plant in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The move has infuriated aid workers who hasten to point out that "Under Nato, American soldiers are also entitled to eat such rations, yet the starving of the American South will see them go up in smoke because of FDA red tape madness."

MikeCapone

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Monday September 05, 2005 · 12:53 PM PDT

2005/09/05 · 12:53

Anybody saw it on CNN? Bush was signing autographs on kids' t-shirts and on small pieces of paper, acting like a rock star or something.

Pretty disgusting to see that his schedule is not too busy to keep him from doing that. I hope that people noticed that and that it will appear on MediaMatters and places like that at least, and make the editorial pages of big newspapers tomorrow.

US Frees 1000 Prisoners From Abu Ghraib

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Saturday August 27, 2005 · 6:46 PM PDT

2005/08/27 · 18:46

I just heard on the news that the US has freed about 1000 people from Abu Ghraib to help the negociations with the sunnis.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the fact that they just freed A THOUSAND prisoners for purely political reasons either shows that: 1) they were held for political reasons or 2) they were held arbitrarily for no good reason. Read More

Please help AntiWar.com - Donate generously!

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Friday August 05, 2005 · 4:26 AM PDT

2005/08/05 · 04:26

The best site to keep current on news about war - especially on news that governments all around the world would rather have you not know about - is AntiWar.com.

They've been around for 10 years and have covered almost all conflicts during that period, but now they need money to keep their staff and pay their bandwidth bills.

Please donate generously and keep encouraging them by visiting the site and telling family and friends about them.

Hurry up! Their pledge week ends soon and if they don't meet their objectives cuts will be made, or maybe they'll even close down.

Kyoto as a Model for Medical Innovation

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Friday February 25, 2005 · 1:53 PM PST

2005/02/25 · 13:53

Worldchanging features the following very interesting proposal:

Open Access News points us towards an interesting proposal: a global Medical R&D Treaty (PDF) which obliges signatory nations to spend a certain percentage of GDP in support of core medical research, including the development of biomedical databases and tools, vaccines and drugs, and evaluations of those products.

More below the fold. Read More

ACLU: got files from the Army, more TORTURE

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Saturday February 19, 2005 · 12:01 PM PST

2005/02/19 · 12:01

Here is what the ACLU had to say about files it has obtained from the US army about cases of torture other than Abu Ghraib, and even in places other than Iraq.

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Economic Hitmen - sources of many of the US' problems

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Wednesday February 16, 2005 · 10:04 AM PST

2005/02/16 · 10:04

There's an excellent article over at Alternet about "economic hitmen" and how they meddled with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and many other countries. It also explains how it's responsible for a lot of the reasons cited by terrorists for their acts.

A small quote from the interview under the fold, but please click on the link above and read the whole thing it's worth it. Read More

Wikinews.org -- A step in taking back the media

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Tuesday February 15, 2005 · 2:21 PM PST

2005/02/15 · 14:21

Most of you probably already know Wikipedia, the HUGE collaborative encyclopedia.

Well, they have many sub-projects and one of them is Wikinews, news written in a collaborative manner and with a Neutral Point of View (NPOV). Read More

Quote of the Week about Social Security

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Monday February 07, 2005 · 6:26 AM PST

2005/02/07 · 06:26

From WiiIAi:

"Like tax cuts, Social Security privatization was fundamentally about "starving the beast," circumscribing the powers of government. Connect pensions to the stock market, and any attempt to regulate pollution, raise the minimum wage, tax corporations, prevent them sending jobs oversees, etc etc etc would be denounced as threatening granny's <strike>private</strike> personal retirement account. Almost every aspect of a progressive agenda would be measured against the Dow Jones and found wanting. The R's would be practically assured of a permanent majority." Read More

Clinton has a library -- what should Bush have?

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Thursday November 18, 2004 · 3:17 PM PST

2004/11/18 · 15:17

My vote goes to a military cemetary. It would make sense. After all, he is probably the president that created the most jobs in the military burial business in a while.

'The George W. Bush cemetary, where the soldiers he sent to unnecessary imperial wars are laid to rest.'

But who knows, maybe he'll actually get a street in San Francisco named after him. Heh.

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