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ACLU hits Bush administration’s anti-science policies
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently issued a scathing indictment of the Bush administration’s record on science. Its report, entitled “Science Under Siege,” was issued on June 21. It documents the White House’s distortion, abuse and quashing of legitimate scientific inquiry in order to promote its political agenda....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2005 9:49am PDT
US: ACLU hits Bush administration’s anti-science policies
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently issued a scathing indictment of the Bush administration’s record on science. Its report, entitled “Science Under Siege,” was issued on June 21. It documents the White House’s distortion, abuse and quashing of legitimate scientific inquiry in order to promote its political agenda....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2005 8:50am PDT
Vanity Fair: Turks Boasted of Payments to Hastert
Turkish officials boasted of giving “tens of thousands of dollars in surreptious payments” to House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) in exchange for political favors....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 4:30pm PDT
What - Me Worry? W Takes a 33 day vacation
While the war wages on with death and maiming, Bush decides its time to take a vacation...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 3:29pm PDT
Ballot Marking Best for Accessible and Verifiable Voting
The Verified Voting Foundation (VVF)
today published its initial detailed evaluation of the
disability access features of voting systems that provide
a voter-verified paper record....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 11:30pm PDT
DIck Cheney And Bush Sr Head To Saudi Arabia To Mourn Their Buddy King Fahd
Vice President Dick Cheney will lead the American delegation to Saudi Arabia to pay respects after the death of King Fahd and the accession of King Abdullah.
President Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, also will be in the delegation, along with Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and James Oberwetter, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 9:05pm PDT
"John Bolton is to Diplomacy as Jack the Ripper was to Surgery"
After a five month deadlock, President Bush used his Presidential powers to appoint John Bolton as the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the first business day of the Congressional recess. Opponents charged Bolton with trying to manipulate intelligence and intimidate intelligence analysts to support his hawkish views as the top State Department diplomat for arms control. We speak with Ian Williams, U.N. correspondent for the Nation Magazine, about the future of the United Natio...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 8:50am PDT
Bush imposes right-wing thug as ambassador to UN
In both the thuggish character of the nominee and the arrogant method of his installation, George W. Bush’s August 1 “recess appointment” of John Bolton as the US ambassador to the United Nations exemplifies his administration’s contempt for democratic forms as well as world public opinion....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 10:39pm PDT
Bohemian Grove & the 25th Vigil
Report from the Saturday, July 16, 2005 demonstration at Bohemian Grove on the Russian River...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 9:31pm PDT
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies
Brian Whitaker contemplates what the future holds for Saudi Arabia in the reign of King Abdullah and beyond...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:58am PDT
Bush to Name Bolton U.S. Ambassador to UN Today
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush will name John Bolton ambassador to the United Nations today in a recess appointment, an administration official said....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:50am PDT
Afghanistan: Voter Card Fraud Fears
Distribution of voter cards opens the way for possible widespread fraud in forthcoming election....
Posted: Sun, Jul 31, 2005 10:36pm PDT
Cairo: Protestors against Mubarak beaten
Egyptian riot police and government supporters attacked scores of pro-reform activists, beating them with clubs, kicking them and throwing them into police trucks during a Saturday demonstration in Cairo against President Hosni Mubarak....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 3:07pm PDT
Afghanistan: Voter Card Fraud Fears
Distribution of voter cards opens the way for possible widespread fraud in forthcoming election....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 2:55pm PDT
8/3 in SF: Supreme Court Town Hall Meeting & March
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
6:00 pm - Doors Open (Come early; seating limited)
6:15 pm - Supreme Court Town Hall Meeting
7:30 pm - "No Rubber Stamp" March to Civic Center immediately following Town Hall...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 1:18pm PDT
J.D.Davidson of 'Clinton killed V.Foster',a fraud pt.1
I wish to try to tell the story of my encounters with James Dale Davidson,Rhodes scholar like Clinton and a Clinton supporter until,for whatever reasons of his own,or others,he wasn't....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 3:26pm PDT
Ex San Franciscan in Alabama and Los Angeles Abused, Sheriff Allowed to Escape Justice,
I was abused and tortured by the federal government who used a proven criminal, who is a sheriff, in their first strike against myself, an auditor and free lance reporter. Now they will not take the Sheriff to trial. Links to crimes are in the news post below. They are at war with us. Know them and their true faces....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 3:25pm PDT
US energy bill funnels billions to oil, utility corporations
Congressional Republican and Democratic negotiators reached agreement Monday night on major elements of a new energy bill promoted by the Bush administration to reward its corporate backers in the oil, coal and utility industries....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 6:18am PDT
updated action list for Cite Soleil
Here's an updated action call with updated list of
contacts. In particular, we're trying to get the
international human rights agencies to speak out...
Pass this list onto your circles......
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 12:24am PDT