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Dear Sir (s),
I am portuguese and living in Portugal. Few people knows my country.
Nevertheless, what is happening in USA concernes me as well as the rest of the world.
The amount of progress or destruction America can produce is considerable. It is a shame that the biggest pollutor is not even interested in that matter.
It is a shame that probably the most powerfull nation has been promoting so many wars instead of promoting peace.
It is a shame that America is living in an autistic bubble, still.
Excuse for these rude opinions, but this is the general feeling all over Europe, Africa, Asia even in South America. I travel a lot and I am aware of it.
A friend send me the article by Harvey Wasserman :" Senator Byrd is correct to equate Bush with Hitler".
I really hope you will be able to help making Americans conscious about the horror of this kind of possibility that it seams to be among them already.
I visited a concentration camp, it is not an Hollywood movie I can assure you.
Keep the good work,
Wanda Videira
I’ve only been at Kent for a short time, but I get excited everyday I arrive. I encourage students to learn and work hard academically. Currently, there are over 200 students attending Kent Elementary School. They have a daily routine, which gives them a sense of security and belonging. It’s been a difficult adjustment for them, since the proposed closure of Kent Elementary School to them. Many of them are saddened and angry about the decision to make them leave their school, so other students can attend Kent. They don’t understand why they should be treated unfairly. I don’t have answers that they can understand, because I don’t understand it myself. Don’t get me wrong, I know about the missing 20.8 Million Dollars that no one is being prosecuted for. I know about Governor Taft’s plan to cut education funding and how the Ohio House and Senate Bills affect the funding for local school districts. The parents and students also know that Governor Taft and his wife adopted Kent Elementary. They want to know where are they now? Governor Taft, your adopted school needs your support.
AUSTIN, Texas -- I write about the Terri Schiavo case both as one who has personally confronted the "pull the plug" question on several levels in recent years and as a staggered observer of this festival of political hypocrisy, opportunism and the trashing of constitutional law, common sense and common decency.
Look, the fundamental question in such cases is, "Who decides?" Preferably, the dying themselves, with a living will. In this case, evidence that Terri Schiavo did not want her life continued in its current pitiable state has been offered and accepted in several courts of law. Next, the next-of-kin, though in many cases someone else may be closer to the dying person, such as a longtime lover, and should be legally designated to make the decision through power of attorney.
Look, the fundamental question in such cases is, "Who decides?" Preferably, the dying themselves, with a living will. In this case, evidence that Terri Schiavo did not want her life continued in its current pitiable state has been offered and accepted in several courts of law. Next, the next-of-kin, though in many cases someone else may be closer to the dying person, such as a longtime lover, and should be legally designated to make the decision through power of attorney.
President Bush just told reporters that he has no intention of setting
any timetable for withdrawal. "Our troops will come home when Iraq is
capable of defending herself," he said. Powerful pundits keep telling us
that a swift pullout of U.S. troops would be irresponsible. And plenty of
people have bought into that idea -- including quite a few progressives.
Such acceptance is part of what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness
of militarism."
Sometimes, an unspoken assumption among progressive activists is that the occupation of Iraq must be tolerated for tactical reasons -- while other issues, notably domestic ones, are more winnable on Capitol Hill. But this acceptance means going along with many of the devastating effects of a militarized society: from ravaged budgets for social programs to more authoritarian attitudes and violence in communities across the country.
Sometimes, an unspoken assumption among progressive activists is that the occupation of Iraq must be tolerated for tactical reasons -- while other issues, notably domestic ones, are more winnable on Capitol Hill. But this acceptance means going along with many of the devastating effects of a militarized society: from ravaged budgets for social programs to more authoritarian attitudes and violence in communities across the country.
Last summer marked the 40th
anniversary of several extraordi
nary events in American history – which the national media and, more curiously, the African-American political establishment have largely ignored. These events fundamentally reshaped America’s political landscape regarding the politics of race.
In the summer of 1964, about 1000, mostly white college students traveled to Mississippi as volunteers, assisting civil rights workers there to register thousands of African Americans to vote. Among their number was Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in 2000. The effort, termed “Freedom Summer,” captured the imagination of the nation and the world at that time.
Why Mississippi? To understand the symbolic significance of this voting rights campaign, one had to appreciate this southern state’s unique position as the paramount site for white racism in America for more than a century.
In the summer of 1964, about 1000, mostly white college students traveled to Mississippi as volunteers, assisting civil rights workers there to register thousands of African Americans to vote. Among their number was Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in 2000. The effort, termed “Freedom Summer,” captured the imagination of the nation and the world at that time.
Why Mississippi? To understand the symbolic significance of this voting rights campaign, one had to appreciate this southern state’s unique position as the paramount site for white racism in America for more than a century.
The bewitching hour of midnight is historically viewed as a time of bad luck, and that certainly proved true for David Kibble on June 19, 2004. Because of an unfortunate intersection of unrelated events just after midnight that evening, Kibble was shot and seriously wounded by a Columbus police officer and ended up in prison for a crime the physical evidence and witness statements suggest he didn’t commit.
First they steal elections and now they’re coming for the professors. Nazi Germany in the 1930’s? No, just the latest bill introduced in the Ohio Senate by the emboldened authoritarian forces of the Right. Ohio Senator Larry Mumphers (R-Marion) introduced Senate Bill 24. It has a nice Orwellian twist. Instead of protecting the last true marketplace of ideas in the every-increasing corporatized and militarized United States, the bill dictates that professors “shall not infringe the academic freedom and quality of education of their students by persistently introducing controversial matters into the classroom or coursework that has no relation to their subject of study….”
Unlike politicians in Ohio’s Statehouse, the bill legally mandates “intellectual honesty” and further requires that “the institution shall provide its students with a learning environment in which the students have access to a broad range of serious scholarly opinion pertaining to the subject they study.”
Unlike politicians in Ohio’s Statehouse, the bill legally mandates “intellectual honesty” and further requires that “the institution shall provide its students with a learning environment in which the students have access to a broad range of serious scholarly opinion pertaining to the subject they study.”
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro
Ohio Attorney General James Petro has had a longstanding reputation as a political enforcer for the dirty practices of the Ohio Republican Party. Prior to becoming Attorney General, Petro served as the state’s auditor. In that position, Petro established his credentials as a politician willing to punish whistle-blowers while covering up organized crime and corruption. Petro is now attempting to sanction the election protection attorneys who uncovered the fraud and irregularities during the 2004 Ohio election. Petro’s using state funds and assistant attorney generals as enforcers. Some, like the late Franklin County Sheriff Earl Smith, allege that Petro has longstanding ties to organized crime and that the Attorney General’s office in Ohio has been corrupted for decades. Smith ought to know. He served on the Governor’s Organized Crime Commission under Rhodes.
Bill Barndt
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro
Ohio Attorney General James Petro has had a longstanding reputation as a political enforcer for the dirty practices of the Ohio Republican Party. Prior to becoming Attorney General, Petro served as the state’s auditor. In that position, Petro established his credentials as a politician willing to punish whistle-blowers while covering up organized crime and corruption. Petro is now attempting to sanction the election protection attorneys who uncovered the fraud and irregularities during the 2004 Ohio election. Petro’s using state funds and assistant attorney generals as enforcers. Some, like the late Franklin County Sheriff Earl Smith, allege that Petro has longstanding ties to organized crime and that the Attorney General’s office in Ohio has been corrupted for decades. Smith ought to know. He served on the Governor’s Organized Crime Commission under Rhodes.
Bill Barndt
Was the election “stolen” from John Kerry?
I say probably, because it literally is about probabilities.
Almost all the so-called “irregularities” favored Bush. If, in fact, irregularities occurred because of innocent systems failure then why weren’t as many Republicans screaming about their votes flipping over to Kerry?
Why weren’t as many Republicans freaking out about more Kerry votes than their precincts had voters? Why weren’t as many Republican precincts as Democratic precincts inadvertently shorted voting machines?
What is the mathematical probability of nearly every irregularity in a Republican-manufactured voting system randomly favoring the Republican candidate? A gazillion to none, probably. So, yeah, I suspect fraud, big time. And sooner or later, someone somewhere will get religion or the guilts or a payoff and spill the beans.
I say probably, because it literally is about probabilities.
Almost all the so-called “irregularities” favored Bush. If, in fact, irregularities occurred because of innocent systems failure then why weren’t as many Republicans screaming about their votes flipping over to Kerry?
Why weren’t as many Republicans freaking out about more Kerry votes than their precincts had voters? Why weren’t as many Republican precincts as Democratic precincts inadvertently shorted voting machines?
What is the mathematical probability of nearly every irregularity in a Republican-manufactured voting system randomly favoring the Republican candidate? A gazillion to none, probably. So, yeah, I suspect fraud, big time. And sooner or later, someone somewhere will get religion or the guilts or a payoff and spill the beans.
On Tuesday, February 15,
Governor Taft signed the
“Choose Life” license plate bill into law, ignoring the nearly 1,000 letters and phone calls from NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio activists urging him to veto the measure. When this law goes into effect in 90 days, the state of Ohio will begin raising money for fake clinics, commonly known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs). In 1993, Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher found that five crisis pregnancy centers in the state “violate the law by advertising themselves as clinics when they are not medical facilities, provide no medical services and have no doctors on staff.” Many CPCs refuse to provide abortion referrals and discourage women from using birth control. Currently, there are more than 175 CPCs operating in Ohio.
What does this have to do with animal rights, you wonder? Ironically, while humans are promoting Right to Life license plates, trying to have more homo sapien babies born into this world, animal rights activists are promoting their own license plates in Ohio promoting prevention of too many cat and dog births.
What does this have to do with animal rights, you wonder? Ironically, while humans are promoting Right to Life license plates, trying to have more homo sapien babies born into this world, animal rights activists are promoting their own license plates in Ohio promoting prevention of too many cat and dog births.