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Lieutenant Governor Candidate Wants Gasoline Price Controls The oil industry is off to an early start to raise gasoline prices and profits. Stewart Alexander, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for lieutenant governor, says he will push for gasoline price controls in California to end gouging at the pumps....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 6:37am PST
Battlecry's Ron Luce hates MTV Ron Luce claims he wants to protect American youth. But apparently not from guns.
From a recent MTV program: "While most gun owners are responsible, on average every hour someone between the ages of 15 and 28 is cut down by a bullet," the promotional statement continued. "Whether it's for protection, crime or sport, guns are having a deep effect on the youth of our nation."...
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 12:51pm PST
Ron Luce and "God's instruction book" for Intolerance From Chronicle report on Battlecry:
Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, "they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco."
Gay marriage "is another sign of the end of times," said Sherilyn David, referring to the apocalypse that some fundamentalist Christians believe is foretold in Scripture. The 22-year-old San Jos...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 11:02pm PST
KGO: Protesters Turn Out Against Christian Teen Rally Ammiano says the Battle Cry organizers consider homosexuality a sin.
Ron Luce, Battlecry: "If it's any sexual interaction outside of marriage it's not right and the bible is also clear that marriage is between a man and a woman and so that's God's instruction book for us."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 10:48pm PST
Politicians bid to alter state initiative process SACRAMENTO — California's top election official Thursday said he has a remedy for voters who say they are sick of being propositioned endlessly by everyone from governors to masked interests, using everything from twisted advertisements to flurries of fliers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 3:39pm PST
Egypt Holds Up the Mirror for US We might be fooling ourselves, but from a distant mirror, we look ridiculous. Al-Ahram has been around since 1875 and holds considerable respect throughout the world. It's not any less respectable than the New York Times,
especially in those 50 countries where Muslims are in the majority. And perhaps we need to listen to what they have to say about how far we have gone down the drain of government brainwashing....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 2:02pm PST
IRS Audited Greenpeace At Request of ExxonMobil-Funded Group The Wall Street Journal revealed this week that a little-known watchdog group, largely subsidized by ExxonMobil, was responsible for getting the IRS to audit the environmental organization Greenpeace. We speak with the reporter who broke the story and the head of Greenpeace USA....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 7:12am PST
EU sanctions as Belarus moves against protesters Police today stormed a square in the capital of Belarus and arrested opposition protesters, prompting the EU to announce sanctions against the country's leaders....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 6:19am PST
Boycott South Dakota! Please help us in Boycotting South Dakota!!!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 3:10pm PST
El Salvador 2006: Elections in a Broken Nation On Wednesday evening, March 1, in a plaza in the city of Ilobasco, Department of Cabañas, El Salvador, a crowd of over 500 were listening to FMLN party (Frente Faribundo Marti para la Liberación Nacional) candidates and supporters. The 2006 election campaigns for control of municipalities and the National Assembly were in their last week, and emotions were running high. A chant was started from the stage, which the crowd took up, "Se escucha, se escucha, Schafik es en la lucha" (lis...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 9:01am PST
Political Lemmings: The Democrats and the Precipice Can you really oppose the occupation of Iraq and still call yourself a Democrat? I'm not so sure. The majority of Washington Dems continue to applaud Bush's invasion of Iraq as well as his debauched crusade against terror. A few antiwar voices have echoed though Democratic corridors, but none have produced any genuine shifts in ideology, let alone direction. Nor will they....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 8:52am PST
A Time for Heresy 
For students at Wake Forest University, Bill Moyers clarifies how American government has become corrupted and suggests what must be done about it....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 9:42pm PST
67% of AOL Poll rejects W's Regime In the latest AOL poll, out of more than 213,000 online votes counted as of 7:00pm PST, over 67% of them rated the Bushed 'presidency' as "Very Unfavorable," versus only 18% who still regard the rogue regime as "Very Favorable."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 8:02pm PST
Tense confrontation continues between Thai prime minister and protestors The political standoff in Bangkok between Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and opposition leaders calling for his removal shows no signs of abating, despite high-level appeals for the two sides to resolve the crisis....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:39am PST
ALERT!!! Fundamentalist coming for fascist teen mega-pep rally: "BATTLECRY FOR A GENERATIO 
ALERT!!! Right wing Christian fundamentalist bigots are coming to San Francisco this Friday and Saturday to hold a fascist mega-pep rally called "BATTLECRY FOR A GENERATION." They are recruiting youth and their rallying cry is "Reclaim the values that made this nation great."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 12:53am PST
3/27: Help save the Sunshine Ordinance in Berkeley WHEN: Monday, 3/27, at 7:00 PM
WHERE: 2180 Milvia St., 6th Floor...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 10:36pm PST
Bush's Delusional Speech 
Paul Craig Roberts:
"[Bush] went on to tell his Cleveland audience that American could not be safe unless Iraq was a democracy. What a weak, pitiful, vulnerable place Bush's America must be. Unless a small, devastated Middle Eastern country is a democracy, America cannot be safe. Who in the Cleveland audience could possibly have believed this utter nonsense."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 9:07pm PST
George Bush is Blair's real problem Of course US power can be a force for good - but not under the current regime....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 5:31pm PST
Condoleezza Rice visits Australia and Indonesia to tighten US ties against China Coming just weeks after US President George Bush’s trip to India and Pakistan, the visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Indonesia and Australia last week was aimed at further strengthening Washington’s key alliances throughout Asia—directed against China in particular....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 5:23pm PST
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