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April 29, 2007:
Hundreds of millions of dollars in Katrina aid from overseas unclaimed, unspent| |
Excerpt: Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil. Some offers were withdrawn or redirected to private groups such as the Red Cross. The rest has been delayed by red tape and bureaucratic limits on how it can be spent. |
April 26, 2007:
Justice Dept asks appeals court to curtail attorney access for Guantanamo prisoners| |
Excerpt: Under the proposal, filed this month in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the government would limit lawyers to three visits with an existing client at Guantánamo; there is now no limit. It would permit only a single visit with a detainee to have him authorize a lawyer to handle his case. And it would permit a team of intelligence officers and military lawyers not involved in a detainee's case to read mail sent to him by his lawyer ...
Comment: Why are fair trials out of the question? Because there isn't enough evidence to prove that these prisoners are guilty. To find them guilty, American standards of justice must be lowered further and further, bit by bit -- a little like dancing the limbo -- until the new standards of justice been lowered so far that it's impossible to squeeze under it. |
April 25, 2007:
Perv cop gets probation -- says high school boy "seduced him"| |
Comment: If this was any other middle-aged predator, you might expect he'd face harsh punishment. But this perp had 25 years of experience as a policeman, so his punishment is ... a scolding by the judge. |
April 23, 2007:
$3.6-billion in Katrina contracts went to
questionable companies, Republican cronies| |
Excerpt: FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste -- and possibly violated federal law -- by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and bad paperwork, investigators say. |
April 19, 2007:
Training of Iraqi troops no longer matters in U.S. policy| |
Comment: In the never-ending fountain of lies from the Bush-Cheney administration, let's not forget that "training Iraqi troops" was one of the key lies of the Bush-Cheney re-election ... |
April 17, 2007:
Bush's 'war on terror' phrase helps terrorists| |
Excerpt: President George Bush's "war on terror" rhetoric has strengthened terrorist groups by helping them to create a shared identity, the British Development Secretary, Hilary Benn, warned on Monday.
Comment: There is no war on terror.
There are endless occupations of foreign nations, endless explosions, gunfights, and war, endless death of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, and of course plenty of death for innocent civilians in these occupied nations, but in all the reasons offered for this, the so-called "war on terror," there's nothing that isn't just plain propaganda. |
April 14, 2007:
Russians take to the streets, show what
might have once been called 'American spirit' | |
Comment: Why should this be "newsworthy" in Amerika? Because, like the Russians, we don't have the right to hold marches or rallies without permits from the authorities.
The Russian police -- telling protesters where they can or can't gather, beating protesters with nightsticks and fists, arresting them by the hundreds -- aren't behaving like nasty Communists. They're living up to the proud standards of American freedoms ... they're like NYPD-lite! |
April 7, 2007:
Ford executive prevents President from blowing himself up| |
Comment: Why is the recurring and phenomenal stupidity of America's President mentioned in the media only in articles like this -- for chuckles, in the implied context of comedy?
Seems to me, the staggering intellectual absence of President Bush is newsworthy, and ought to merit mention in the serious coverage of the ordinary day-to-day catastrophes he's created. |
April 6, 2007:
Police raid finds tomato growing operation| |
Excerpt: Guns drawn, police serving a marijuana search warrant at a Pullman apartment found green leafy plant material. It just wasn't the kind they normally find in residences in the college town.
It was tomato plants.
Comment: In America, your home can be raided by police, solely because it's alleged that you possess a heat lamp for growing plants -- an item so common it's sold in virtually all hardware stores, garden shops, at Target stores, etc. |
April 3, 2007:
Police officer, fired for tazering
handcuffed man, gets his job back| |
Excerpt: A Lorain police officer who was fired for using a stun gun on a handcuffed man in the back of a cruiser last May was given his job back by an arbitrator yesterday. |
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April 30, 2007:
Top 10 things you don't know
about the Iraq spending bill
by Madeline Zane, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The top 10 things you may not know about the Iraq spending bill, as reported through the haze of the mainstream media's insistence that the Democrats are stubborn idiots, who can't override a veto, and who are simultaneously hurting the troops and risking serious damage to their public image by trying to end a pointless unpopular war... |
April 30, 2007:
Those who ignore history ...
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Bush's claim that any withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would bring terrorism to America is as absurd as the Vietnam-era 'Domino Theory', that if America allowed South Vietnam to fall to the communists, all of Southeast Asia would follow. |
April 30, 2007:
Can I take a Mulligan on the 21st Century?
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Democrats are a little slow when it comes to learning contemporary INFOBABBLE! The amendment to the bill should be called a 'Victory timetable'. How could Bush veto victory? |
April 30, 2007:
Trading places
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It would be nice to have just a little equality -- nothing major, nothing way out and extreme -- if only for a short time! Maybe it would make us care a bit more. Might wake a few more people up. |
April 29, 2007:
Thinking inside the box
by Robert j., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I have recently converted a 48 foot insulated shipping container into a self-contained (just need water) dwelling. I am now looking for a suitable location to set it. I would prefer to put it on an existing, or being readied piece of private property. ... I am looking to lease, rent, buy or ________(?) from a sane, non-militant family, small group or individual living away from the things of man. I am more than willing to help out. |
April 29, 2007:
What is, is (regardless of what we're told)
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: We've heard dozens of similar sorts of "myths" (lies) from the Bush Regime about the "War on Terror", the Iraq War, and virtually every other major policy initiative of the last six years. Not only do the Bushies attempt to distill every complex problem down to a simple-minded slogan ("We're fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here"), but whenever facts or the law get in the way, the Bush Regime redefines the meaning of the language or changes the symbols. |
April 25, 2007:
Street gangs and governments
by Robert j., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The military and the police are morphing into one fun-loving organization, sporting the same kinds of uniforms, carrying themselves the same way, with the same tactical mindset, even the same equipment.
If the education system had actually taught history in school, we would notice the obvious signs that inevitably lead to you and I getting our asses kicked. |
April 23, 2007:
INFOBABBLE! works in mysterious ways
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The phrase in question was 16-words long: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." (and if anybody says they ain't I got friends who can wreck your career) |
April 23, 2007:
How would it make you feel?
by JS Magruder, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is fascinating to read comments where the first cry is always "It's the law! They broke the law!" Then, almost invariably, the subsequent cry is for some sort of violent, vigilante justice such as castration, or some equally appalling reaction to the crime. Should anyone (and it happens) leave a comment that burying people up to their necks in excrement in the public common is perhaps not the best way to reform offenders, the comment will be met with a chorus of posts crying; "Think about how you would feel if it were your ___________ (fill in the blank)." |
April 23, 2007:
Stocks show surprising strength -- but why?
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Stocks are climbing as the dollar is falling, partly because prices are relative to value, partly because people may be seeing stocks as having more long-term value than Ameribucks, and partly because foreign earnings of mega-cap corporados are increasingly valuable. |
April 16, 2007:
The Katrinians
by Cassandra, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The people from Louisiana and Mississippi are refugees of both a natural and a political disaster, and like most refugees before them, they're not welcome by the communities where they've washed up. |
April 16, 2007:
No good deed left unpunished
by J.S. Magruder, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: We love to casually assign the word "hero" to those that kill, yet we punish a man for doing a truly heroic deed that should have been celebrated rather than resulting in his termination from State employment. What a world we live in. Blech. |
April 16, 2007:
18 megabyte gap in e-mail tape backup
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: White House officials are scrambling to explain
the disappearance of email documents related to the controversy surrounding the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. An undeleted Justice Department e-mail message shows that the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales proposed replacement candidates for U.S. attorneys nearly a year before they were fired. You got alotta esplainen to do, Alberto. |
April 16, 2007:
This is our future, like it or not
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Thanks to your silence, your willingness to sit back and do nothing, this is our future. Not even the slightest bit of dissent or public display of dissatisfaction, or any form of protest about anything will be tolerated. |
April 12, 2007:
War? What war?
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Although millions of Americans seemed to have been thoroughly brainwashed and desensitized, they manage to drive like lunatics, get mad because gas goes up 12 cents, and bitch that Don Imus said this or that. They take sides like their favorite team got dissed, but when it comes to anything relating to Iraq or the coming war with Iran, it might as well be Mars, because it's a non-issue to these people. |
April 10, 2007:
Arsenic, Bush-Cheney, and hatred
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Please be careful about feeling hatred too much or too often. It's not good for your health. In general it seems best to try to somehow have fun while working against such awful entities and events. For me, it's sometimes looking at my actions as merry mischief upsetting the king's apple cart. Or looking at things as trying to shield the innocent and helpless from evil or accident, rather than hating the evil itself. |
April 9, 2007:
Who's next to get screwed?
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: First it was the steel industry, then it was textiles, then it was manufacturing, then the auto industry, then the high-tech sector, and now the housing bust. The North American Union is just another manifestation of "Free Trade," politically correct jargon for corporate fascism, with the ultimate goal of putting an end to the United States as a sovereign nation, instead leaving the U.S. an entity whose importance would be little more than that of a glorified trading post in a global economy controlled by multi national corporations. |
April 9, 2007:
A man of extraordinary courage
Major Michael D. Mori, U.S.M.C.
by Robyn Shelly, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The United States can be very proud of Major Michael Mori. He stands for those "American" values that George Bush and his cronies trumpet long and loud, but rarely seem to uphold. He is proof that there are still people of integrity in the United States. |
April 9, 2007:
The Decider's new clothes
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: This is the US Justice Department you're questioning. Would they lie to you? |
April 9, 2007:
Coyote comix
by Don Nash, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: When in the course of human events, it becomes clear that governments have failed all the people ... |
April 8, 2007:
When the dark curtain finally closes
by Robert J., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The uncomfortable reality is that we are screwed. There are no good options available to us at this point. The only thing I can think to do is to help minimize the suffering of those that care enough to find a safe place to ride out the storm. I don't believe it will do any good to struggle against this. The snowball has picked up too much speed to be stopped now, even if you could reform our broken government into a compassionate and functional democracy. The economic, geopolitical damage has been done. |
April 5, 2007:
Just another day in my life
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I find myself constantly shaking my head. One minute you read that 80% of Americans say they think the Government had something to do with 9/11, and you think to your self, good, they're waking up, it's a start ... And then something happens to diminish that little spark of hope, and you two steps back to where you were before. |
April 2, 2007:
Newspeak Project Management System
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: This classified document is code named 'Dictatorship
for Dummies', and the manual is based on George Orwell's warnings in the book 1984 ... |
April 2, 2007:
They learn it from us
by J.S. Magruder, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Children, like it or not, model their behavior on adult authority figures, and the authority figures haven't exactly been the picture of Christian kindness in respect to the Works of Mercy. |
April 2, 2007:
What is the death toll now?
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Future historians will hold George Bush as one of the greatest mass murderers in history. He will be ranked alongside Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Mussolini. Corporate, church, and political leaders who backed him -- and continue to back him now -- should be prosecuted with him at the Hague, as accessories in his crimes against humanity. |
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