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Remarks put Nugent in stranglehold, baby (used derogatory racial terms for Asians & blacks
Denver radio listeners and disc jockeys were shell-shocked Monday after rocker Ted Nugent used derogatory racial terms for Asians and blacks on live radio....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 9:19pm PDT
Jury Awards $765,000 for Injury During a Riot
Jury deems Knepper 49% at fault, gives $765K...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 9:13pm PDT
Daschle Does D.C. - Minority Leader Livin' Large (in $2.25 million seven-bedroom house)
Who's buying, who's selling in the world of high-end real estate:
Minority Leader Livin' Large
The honorable gentleman from South Dakota....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 8:57pm PDT
A Warning Provoked By COINTELPRO Forgeries
Due to the most recent defamatory activities of my detractors (Computers NLA, aka KOBE), I've been forced to institute a policy whereby readers can determine whether an article published in my name is authentic....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 8:34pm PDT
'Saddam' calls for resistance
An Australian newspaper has published details of an audio tape purportedly by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urging Iraqis to fight the US-led "invasion"....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 8:09pm PDT
100,000 Signatures Plus to Recall Gov Davis
The 100,000 signature mark has been passed in the campaign to Recall Gov Gray Davis, the worst governor in California's history. They said it could not be done, but that much has been done and the campaign is now paying 200 circulators to gather signatures....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 7:25pm PDT
Video Highlights from MayDay in Berkeley (video/x-pn-realvideo 2.0MB)
8 minute video from Berekely on MayDay. Unfortunately I got distracted and don't have video of the torches. Will help someone who does edit and post. or at least for my archives....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 7:02pm PDT
MI5 admits: we let suicide bombers slip through net
Suicide bombers in Israel, Asif Mohammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, were trained and harbored in Britain as members of al-Muhajiroun! MI5 officials knew about this for years....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 6:57pm PDT
Ed Rosenthal to speak in Alameda Wed. May 7th
Ed Rosenthal to speak in Alameda Wed. May 7th...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 5:13pm PDT
Three Cubans swim to U.S. coast
Policy allows refugees who reach land to stay...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 5:05pm PDT
9th Circuit rules individuals have no right to bear arms
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed, where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest, where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees," Kozinski wrote in papers released Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 4:57pm PDT
Charley Reese: Iraqis say no to Saddam, no to the United States and no to Israel
Don't let the Bush administration con you into blaming Saddam Hussein for the suffering caused by the sanctions. From Day One, people opposed to the sanctions, including me, pointed out that economic sanctions only hurt the common people, never the government...Every administration in Washington has always known that. One can only conclude that the administrations wanted the people of Iraq to suffer. Well, they did....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 4:01pm PDT
The first unruliness started . . . - 40 arrested in Oakland sideshow crackdown
The first unruliness started about 3 p.m. at 50th Avenue and International when some drivers engaged in spinning donuts and exhibition of speed in front of 100 or so cheering observers.
Those such incidents continued for the next several hours as people unsuccessfully tried "to get a large sideshow going," Kozicki he said.
Police deployed officers in a way that prevented it from spreading, and enabled them to arrest violators, he added.
He said there were a few tense mom...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 3:51pm PDT
UK envoys held at gunpoint by Israelis
Israeli forces opened fire above a British embassy convoy and held it at gunpoint in Gaza while it was carrying diplomats and the family of an English peace activist left in a coma by an Israeli bullet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,950072,00.html...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 3:10pm PDT
Democracy Review: Dixie Chicks
The following concert review can be received equally as a political review on the state of our fragile democracy....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 2:40pm PDT
Henry Norr's Last Article On the Dangers of Electronic Voting - later, fired.
This is really an excellent article, and I suspect more likely a reason he was 'fired' - "Problems with Florida's new touch-screen equipment have been amply documented. To cite just two: Votes cast for the Democratic candidate for governor in one precinct during last fall's gubernatorial race were credited to Jeb Bush because of a "misaligned" touch screen. No one knows how many votes were misrecorded. In city council elections in Palm Beach last March, when a losing candidate...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 1:55pm PDT
Banks Attacked in Valencia, Spain
On the night of April 30, 2003, in the Cabanal district of Valencia, Spain, 3 banks were totally destroyed....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 1:38pm PDT