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Kucinich may be the only guy who can win this [US Presidential] election. Sounds far-fetched, right? What the Brits would call Loony Left delusional thinking. The U.S. press would just ignore the whole thing, naturally, until it's no longer possible. Just plain crazy. But is it? Every finely tuned ear has recorded the spike in interest every time someone has had the guts to speak up about various aspects of the nascent fascism we are confronting. From Gore's early comments breaking the taboo of criticizing Bush to Byrd's articulate blasts, mainstream politicians have received a grateful roar from the rabble with each thrust, the bolder the better.
The recent Israeli military incursions into the Rafah refugee camp have
left 1,240 Palestinians homeless. According to UNRWA, this brings the
total number of Palestinians who have been made homeless in Rafah since
the beginning of the current Intifada to 7,523. The total for the whole
of the Gaza Strip now stands at 11,987. These home demolitions are
grievous, immoral, and illegal acts perpetrated by the occupation
forces against a defenseless civilian population of mostly women and
children. The demolitions are acts of collective punishment and grave
breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, humanitarian international
law, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to
Amnesty International, such wanton destruction "constitutes a war
crime." These horrendous acts are accompanied by similar acts of ethnic
cleansing and expulsions in the West Bank.
ACTION REQUESTED
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition once again calls on all people of conscience to help the victims of the Rafah refugee camp demolitions by donating directly to UNRWA. Donations will be distributed to the victims who need help getting through the cold winter months.
ACTION REQUESTED
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition once again calls on all people of conscience to help the victims of the Rafah refugee camp demolitions by donating directly to UNRWA. Donations will be distributed to the victims who need help getting through the cold winter months.
Did bankrupt energy company Enron Corp. influence a controversial decision federal energy regulators made in November 2000, saying California wasn't entitled to more than $3 billion in refunds from power companies who allegedly gamed the state's wholesale electricity market?
About two dozen of the more than one million Enron emails dealing with California's energy crisis, recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, appear to make a strong case that the one-time high-flying energy company had some role in influencing the FERC decision three years ago--a major blow to California consumers and two of the state's investor-owned utilities that were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Utilities in California lost billions of dollars buying high-cost power on the wholesale market and selling it at a loss under a state mandated rate freeze.
About two dozen of the more than one million Enron emails dealing with California's energy crisis, recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, appear to make a strong case that the one-time high-flying energy company had some role in influencing the FERC decision three years ago--a major blow to California consumers and two of the state's investor-owned utilities that were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Utilities in California lost billions of dollars buying high-cost power on the wholesale market and selling it at a loss under a state mandated rate freeze.
It was in June that President Bush first began talking about “revisionist history”, a gambit that took some of us a little by surprise since he showed no previous signs of having read any history, revisionist or otherwise.
This was a little after he delayed the homecoming of several hundred American sailors by using their aircraft carrier to proclaim that the war was over. But if the war was over, and the point was to be rid of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, why were no weapons of mass destruction found, not even at the sites the U.S. said it had identified? It was those who were impertinent enough to raise this question that the president accused of revisionist history.
There’s been a lot of revisionist history around lately, from the president, and from the Democrats who are trying to distance themselves from a war that they couldn’t support strongly enough less than a year ago.
This was a little after he delayed the homecoming of several hundred American sailors by using their aircraft carrier to proclaim that the war was over. But if the war was over, and the point was to be rid of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, why were no weapons of mass destruction found, not even at the sites the U.S. said it had identified? It was those who were impertinent enough to raise this question that the president accused of revisionist history.
There’s been a lot of revisionist history around lately, from the president, and from the Democrats who are trying to distance themselves from a war that they couldn’t support strongly enough less than a year ago.
The unfortunate poor, uneducated, ghetto drug addicts get 25 years in “real jail”. People in real, chronic, severe pain that are tormented for life are in their own “society imposed jail” with no way to escape. And Rush Limbaugh gets to become a celebrity for getting caught, and turning his high powered Public Relations lawyers loose with the proper spin on Rush’s pitiful dilemma.
CNN and many TV news reports have fallen far short on high quality reports by only reporting on Rush Limbaugh's side of his addiction problem.
According to other sources Rush allegedly coerced and threatened his housekeeper to illegally obtain more than 4500 Oxycontin in 47 days. The implication from her is that he was in no apparent pain and was just a pill popper who liked the feeling (the rush) and didn’t mind risking being addicted.
CNN and many TV news reports have fallen far short on high quality reports by only reporting on Rush Limbaugh's side of his addiction problem.
According to other sources Rush allegedly coerced and threatened his housekeeper to illegally obtain more than 4500 Oxycontin in 47 days. The implication from her is that he was in no apparent pain and was just a pill popper who liked the feeling (the rush) and didn’t mind risking being addicted.