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A question:
Who wants to be part of the generation that let
democracy die?
Here are the so-called democrats who voted to end democracy today:
(from Kos)
THE VICHY DEMOCRATS
Akaka
Inouye
Cantwell
Rockefeller
Byrd
Bingaman
Lieberman
Nelson (FL)
Nelson (NE)
Baucus
T. Johnson
Dorgan
B. Lincoln
Salazar
Conrad
Landrieu
Pryor
Carper
Kohl
How horribly ironic that someone named Lincoln should have kissed Fascism’s shiny black boot today.
Laudable efforts were made but yet again the same traitors [...]

Sometimes it feels like we’re all on the final down stretch of a rollercoaster ride to hell:
BBC - Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases may have more serious impacts than previously believed, a major new scientific report has said.
The report, published by the UK government, says there is only a small chance of greenhouse gas emissions [...]

Like his name sake Harry Belafonte Senator Harry Reid is confronting the reality of what is taking place, he even mentions Orwell’s 1984:
What is the state of our union in 2006?
We have a national security policy that protects Halliburton’s bottom-line with no-bid contracts | but sends our troops to Iraq without body armor.
We have Vice [...]

Introducing Clean Up Washington
, A campaign aimed at the very source of all our current problems:
The “Clean Up Washington” website is the on-line face of a grassroots campaign undertaken by Public Citizen, a national public interest organization, that seeks to rid our nation’s capital of entrenched special interest influence-peddling.
CleanUpWashington.org is designed to be your [...]

This is really worrying, especially given the roles of those leaving - ethics and integrity…
From The Washington Note:
In recent months, picking up steam in recent weeks, there has been a massive exodus of top talent from the World Bank. According to reports, the senior Ethics Officer at the Bank has departed. Also on the exit [...]

From The Guardian:

A former US Republican congressman has resigned from the advisory board of a university alumni group after it emerged the latter was offering students money to police “liberal” professors at the University of California, Los Angeles.
James Rogan, who served two terms in office, sent an email on Wednesday to Andrew Jones, the head [...]

Jack Ohman
Assisted Suicide is a hot topic here in Australia too, since Big Brother has banned us from talking about it. Freaking outrageous - as is the fact that the whole nation isn’t up in arms about it. I wonder what concepts they’ll try and expunge from the collective Australian consciousness next.
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Another leaked British memo reveals Blair’s attempts to surpress the truth regarding his complicity with US torture camps.
From The Guardian:
The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA “torture flights” and privately admits that people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally [...]

Australia has regained the right to call an ugg boot an ugg boot, after an evil US corporation tried to privatise the name - an outrageous proposition - like going to Holland and trademarking the term ‘clog’:

The name “ugg” or “ugh” for the popular sheepskin boots, which have been sold and worn in Australia for [...]

The mainstream media is keen to paint Evo Morales as a global-scale drug dealer because he intends to re-legalize growing Coca. The hysteria is of course unwarranted. Here’s what he really plans to do:

“This leaf,” Morales said, holding a coca leaf in his hands, “gave birth to this political instrument,” referring to his [...]

After the election of Latin America’s first Indigenous leader since 1880 in Bolivia, another first for a Latin American country: Chile has just elected its first female president and she’s a centre-left agnostic single mother. I know I say it everytime I post the latest piece of good news from Latin America, but [...]

Scientist James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia theory, thinks its now too late to stop global warming. Given the level of indifference to our current crisis I tend to agree:

The world has already passed the point of no return for climate change, and civilisation as we know it is now unlikely to survive, according [...]