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POPSContractor Atrocity--It's Lying ... and It's Murder: How KBR Electrocuted US Troops
"... and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. These deaths did not come while the soldiers were on patrol or by unexpected encounters with downed "hot" wires. These "accidents" happened in facilities used as base camps for U.S. units, camps that were to have been completely refurbished - including the wiring - under terms of a $30 billion no-bid contract awarded to the one-time Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg-Brown-Root). The deaths reportedly all were the result of shoddy workmanship in the grounding of electrical sources, both in permanent structures and in machinery when in use. The problem is not new: in 2004, Army units in theatre were alerted concerning the potential for accidental electrocution. American electricians working for KBR in the war zone observed and notified KBR and even the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), the office that monitors contractor performance, of numerous instances of poor workmanship by undertrained and underpaid Iraqi and Afghan "e
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POPSWinter Soldier to be re-Broadcast If you missed this compelling program, listen in sometime. Very moving testimony from the soldiers who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by the Bush/Cheney criminals.
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POPSPalestine: A Letter to the Peace Movement Thousands of Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli detention centers where there is reported use of torture. People die at Israeli checkpoints because they cannot get to medical facilities. Palestinians are being denied water, food and medical supplies. Palestinians have to endure continual attacks by jets, helicopters and drones used for assassinations (which are illegal by international law) that also kill many civilians. According to Chris Hedges (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19127.htm), since 2000, 1033 Israelis have died and 4,437 Palestinian have died from this conflict. 119 of these deaths were Israeli children and 971 have been Palestinian children. All these deaths are a waste of life, but these numbers also show that the fault is not equal between the Israelis and Palestinians. The fault lies with the aggressor and the occupier. When people live under a brutal occupation, have their lands stolen, their houses destroyed, orchards wiped out by bulldozers
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POPSShattering the war consensus: Cindy Sheehan stands up to the crack house crowd Pelosi, though she is, like the Clintons, sneered at by the thug right (and thereby gains street cred in ultra-liberal San Francisco, the district she represents), has paved the way for Bush's war-funding requests to pass time and again with her political gamesmanship in the House. Among many other acts of accommodation, she was also secretly briefed, along with a few other members of Congress, on CIA torture practices in 2002, and in the spirit of bipartisan amorality saw no problem with it. "This is a progressive, populist campaign. Every day that we exist and bring up these issues is a victory for us," said Sheehan, the grieving mom who became the public face of opposition to the war in Iraq. Now, with a staff of two, she is turning her challenge to that war into a political campaign. To the extent that politics is about winning and losing, yes, hers is probably a lost cause. But I see it as something else. I see it as a clarion stand for principle and rallying point for all w
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POPSWere You Duped by All the Preznit's Liars? Morford Explains Another great column by Mark Morford....Personally I haven't been duped by this bunch since the beginning--or ever! I wonder why so many people fall for the lies? Are they that seductive? Not to me. But then I'm not a gung-ho "Patriot", wrapped in the flag, 'USA--right or wrong , forever!' kind of person...are you? If you are, even a little bit, then you've been duped, fooled and misled.
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POPSRice, in Baghdad, calls al-Sadr coward With further HYPOCRISY, Rice lies on: “Some of the violence is a byproduct of a good decision,” to take on militias and consolidate military power, Rice told reporters following a few hours of meetings and lunch with Iraqi leaders. “That, I think, is what has given the sense to the Iraqis that they have a new opportunity, a window of opportunity,” Rice said. “I don’t think you would have seen this kind of unity,” before.
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POPSI MADE IT! OREGON AT LAST! and on the plane down (I HATE FLYIN'--COULD THEY CRAM SOME MORE NERVOUS MONKEYS INTO SMALLER SEATS IN A TIN CAN?) ---it was uber-weird, me with my "Impeach Cheney" cap and Nixon button that Joe gave me and a whale pin....anyhow a lot of soldier/business/patriot type jazzbo's were givin' me "stinkeye" bigtime...it was freakin' creepy...Then the Stewardess gave a little "let's all hear it for the troops" speech with me the only visible person not applauding...tough shit...I ain't clapping for people who go 6,000 miles to steal oil and kill innocent people....fuck 'em! I'll have applause and compassion for 'em when they find some semblance of conscience. How I feel, can't help it. I'm fed up with the war and all the lies... Anyway.... rant over and I hope I never see another freaky bald Gordon Liddy lookalike starin' at ME like I was fresh meat for a Gitmo cell and a little water-boarding. Jeebus and Ramona! People cain't take a little political protest without the hatred just flowing out
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POPSCharles Richter Suffered With Asperger's - "I need not tell you that right now there are all the necessary means to create a decent world. The chief obstacles are ignorance; greed; militarism; nationalism; and the violence that stems either from a psychotic impulse to destruction, or from a feeling of inferiority and a desire for revenge." - It is painful to hear the same arguments now that we’re used to justify the two great wars -and along with them the same half truths, and probably some of the same lies". - In spite of the great development of information services the world has ever known, I think that no ordinary citizen has any real access to the facts on which he might base sound judgment on the national and social issues of our times". Hough closes her story by asking: " here we would be if Charles Richter's brain had been wired according to standard blueprints". The answer could be to on
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POPSThe War Election "If a steady argument against the war maintains that it was and is wrong -- that it is fundamentally immoral -- that's a tougher sell to the savants of Capitol Hill and an array of corporate-paid journalists. But by taking the political path of least resistance -- by condemning the Iraq war as unwinnable instead of inherently wrong -- more restrained foes of the war helped to prolong the occupation that has inflicted and catalyzed so much carnage. The antiwar movement is now paying a price for political shortcuts often taken in the past several years." This kind of weak, inane groupthink has always bothered me...Like the war would be OK if we were winning....crap.
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POPSBill Maher is losing his edge! Maher's lost it While I was watching last Friday, I kept wondering WTF...why is he letting these jazzbos get away with that? He just sits there with a dumb look on his face. I kept hoping he would say something--but no. Maher's definitely lost his edge and I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw it...I thought it was me. I should trust my own instincts more, neh? Hey Bill, if by some odd chance you are reading this---WAKE THE FUCK UP OR GET OFF THE TUBE! a useta be fan... However, Matt Taibbi was great...his amusement of the panel's idiocy and sharp comments were the only part of last week's show worth watchin'. But then Taibbi's alway wunnerful.
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POPSHow Sick Of It Are You? Sick enough? Then sign up here: www.sickofitday.org. And when you call in sick on March 19, before going back to bed or out to protest, check out this link to the document that started a revolution against another King George. Note where it says "Governments are instituted among Men (sic), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." We no longer consent. We are sick of it.
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POPSBush's Protect America Bill Bull Watching the Preznut's speech (why, oh why do I still bother?) it made me physically ill and thoroughly disgusted with the continuos fear-mongering crap
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POPSThe Year of Living Dangerously: Part Two of Two We fail to see that there is no choice, that elections are predetermined, and oftentimes orchestrated by the Ministry of Truth, that an opposition party is but a façade, that only the Corporatist Party exists, its two hands simply performing a juggling act, each taking its turn running the three ring circus we know as government. In our delusions of grandeur and exceptionalism we have become blinded to the reality that democracy is a sham, that real democracy is a threat to the corporatist element, that America has done more to destroy real democracy around the world than any nation on Earth. Read Part One
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POPSHearing For White House Lies on Missing Emails The WH front man for these lies continues: “We tried to reconstruct some of the work” in the chart and “could not authenticate the correctness of the data,” said Fratto. “We have no evidence and we have no way of showing that any e-mail at all are missing.” Riiiight, and my ex-wife never got the crabs from the freakin' postman, either.
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POPSClooney Stirs the Writer's Strike Stew The trouble with the strike, which I support, is that the more the good shows, such as they are, are replaced with stupid "reality" shows the more the watchimg public gets dumbed down, as if they aren't already as numb as a bag of frozen liver.
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POPSDon't feel Sorry for King Saint Dumbass This is the Preznut's legacy--death and a coupla trillion $$ down the sinkhole of war for oil...grief, destruction and ugliness, lies deception and stupidity. Worst Preznut ever!
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POPSBush Family Friends are the Terrorists Protecting international oil interests and his family's wealth explains why Bush continues to turn a blind eye to everything the Saudis do. A Thanksgiving Day story in The New York Times with the headline "Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S." got scant attention from the media, caught up in food and football.
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POPSex-WH Press Secretary Exposes Lies However, he is now backing down--obviously some in the WH put the kabong on his sorry ass...why did he wait so long? Probably couldn't sleep but now it's worse....too fuckin' bad, sleazebag
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