Florida Recount Funded by Enron/HalliburtonThe Bush Family’s Made Men According to IRS documents, the Bush campaign took in $13.8 million, most in large contributions. Listed among those large contributors were Bush and Cheney’s two most reliable genies – Enron and Halliburton. While the Gore/Lieberman campaign filed its IRS disclosures of their Florida recount expenditures months [...]
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Enron helped pay for the Bush recount effort
Posted in General on July 31, 2002 | Comments Off
Fire and Greed
Posted in General on July 31, 2002 | Comments Off
It has been a bad year for forest fire fighters, and a bad year for investors. Fires have broken out in near record numbers, and Colorado had the largest fire in its history. The Dow Jones has been racked by scandal after corporate scandal, and has lost almost 7% of its value since the beginning [...]
Eschaton Atrios has a great piece from Olbermann up: Then, my network starts covering this story 28 hours out of every 24, and six days after the story breaks more people watch my show than watch my old show Sportscenter. And while I’m having the dry heaves in the bathroom because my moral sensor is [...]
TNR on Owen
Posted in General on July 31, 2002 | Comments Off
The New Republic Online: Bench Press That many of the president’s nominees will be conservative is not reason enough to oppose them. That he might be trying to pack the courts with judges for whom opposition to abortion overrides intellectual honesty and judicial restraint is. Defeating Owen will not be easy. After scuttling Charles Pickering’s [...]
How violent is the anti-globalization movement?
Posted in General on July 31, 2002 | Comments Off
Independent News Apperently, not as violent as some governments would have you believe: Italian police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school where anti-globalisation pro-testers were sleeping to justify a brutal crackdown during last year’s G8 summit in Genoa. A policeman has confessed that he planted the explosives following a year of acrimony over the [...]
Coulter Approves of Terrorism!
Posted in General on July 31, 2002 | Comments Off
12-4-01 Coulter was asked why she condemns the terrorists so strongly, but not those who kill abortion doctors. She said that the latter have been extremely frustrated by the fact that they can%u2019t vote on this issue, thanks to Roe vs. Wade, and that they worked within the system for twenty years without success before [...]
Bush to weaken corporate reform law
Posted in General on July 31, 2002 | Comments Off
Yahoo! News – Democrats: Bush May Roll Back Part of Reform Law In a statement that lays out how the administration will interpret certain provisions in the bill, Bush said the protection for whistle-blowers applies only to those who provide information to congressional committees conducting investigations, but not necessarily individual lawmakers. “An individual member of [...]
UN to bury report?
Posted in General on July 31, 2002 | Comments Off
Independent News The United Nations went into abrupt reverse yesterday and said it no longer intended to release a report compiled by a team of UN officials who visited the site where a US warplane attacked a wedding party in Afghanistan on 1 July. The change of tack by the UN was apparently the result [...]
Armed Liberal (make sure you vote in his logo contest) points to this piece from Truth Laid Bear, where NZ argues for an immediate attack against Iraq. Why? This is what bothers me, the unanswered question of why. Why is Iraq more important than Afghanistan, which is sliding back into the chaos that gave rise [...]
Referrer logs are cool
Posted in General on July 30, 2002 | Comments Off
Because I have found a lot of cool site through them. Here are two more. Both are good, and both seem to have an emphasis on technology and how it affects/is affected by society – a topic close to my heart. Enjoy, everyone: Dissociated Press Doc Searls
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