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Friday, May 12, 2006 |
CorpWatch: "Entergy Corp. was the last Fortune 500 Company still based in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina struck. Now its headquarters has not only abandoned Louisiana for the debatably fairer climes of neighboring Mississippi, it is also threatening to leave the Big Easy quite literally in the dark; that is, unless the federal government grants it the $718 million it demands to maintain and rebuild its gas and electricity infrastructure damaged in the storm.
Entergy Corp. racked up $10 billion in revenues last year and has $29 billion in collective assets."
The Corporation: a film about the creation of the American corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic dominance and its psychopathic tendencies, and its incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting pursuit of profit.
12:34:01 PM 
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Your cell phone enables the authorities to track you, your calls are stored in databases.
Gmail will never delete any of your e-mails sent or received.
Some of you may store their address books, links, files or backups on external servers. Think before you do this. All this information is accessible to big brother. And big brother is going nuts. Everyone is his enemy.
Call your phone company if they are involved in this database snooping.
Huffington: "Seventy two members of Congress just filed papers in support of the Center for Constitutional Rights' challenge to the domestic spying program (CCR v. Bush)."
Impeach Bush.
12:19:20 PM
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Euronews: "In what is believed to have been a racially motivated incident, an 18-year-old Belgian has shot and killed two people and injured another in the port city of Antwerp."
BringItOn!: "It's no surprise that in a country, where torture is condoned by our GOP leaders, that a bunch of high-school kids thought it would be fun to lure a 53-year-old mentally ill Vietnam veteran onto school grounds with money and food, and then force the man to strip naked while they all stood around pointing and laughing."
As you sow, so shall you reap. A right-wing neocon society is a cruel and unjust society.
11:58:33 AM
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Guardian: "Hillary Clinton's political shift to the right reached new territory this week as she warmly praised George Bush at a speech in Washington and defended her decision to let Rupert Murdoch sponsor a fundraising event on her behalf.
On the day that a New York Times poll found Mr Bush's approval ratings at an all-time low of 31%, the leading contender for the Democratic party's 2008 presidential nomination praised the US president's 'charm and charisma'."
Excuse me a minute, I have to puke.
11:49:43 AM
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"Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has admitted she lied to the immigration authorities in the early 1990s in order to obtain political asylum in the Netherlands. The Dutch TV programme Zembla has established that, rather than fleeing the violence and warfare in her land of origin Somalia, as she claimed, she spent more than ten years in reasonable comfort in Kenya before applying for asylum first in Germany and then in the Netherlands. She said she lied because she was afraid of being turned down a second time.
However, she told the leadership of the conservative VVD party the true story when she applied to become a VVD candidate in 2002. The party has confirmed this. Apparently, fellow VVD member Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk recently told her that, if she had been minister at the time and had known the truth, she would have had Ms Hirsi Ali deported."
Her real name is Ayan Hirsi Magan. She lied about her date of birth, her story as a war refugee, her family, the 'threats' from her family, the 'persecution', her personal history. In short, she is indeed the calculated and manipulative woman with a personal agenda many have accused her of. As a right-wing neocon she relies on lies, wealth and power. She is a completely unreliable person.
She was not forced to marry. She even left her husband without any consequences at all. There were no threats from her family, no revenge.
From the age of 7 she lived in Kenya (the family left Somalia before the civil war) and received a free education from the UNHCR. The Islamic school she attended was the best in the country. She lived in a relatively prosperous part of Nairobi and had a room to herself.
To secure for herself a promising career she besmirched her family and the Islamic background that gave her a good education. She deliberately painted a black picture of Islam that she never experienced as such, only to profit from it. The Dutch party she is an mp for, the VVD, knew she had lied. They used her in their anti-Islamist and anti-left campaign. And Ayan Hirsi 'Ali' presented the world with a fancy story it very much liked to hear.
11:41:25 AM
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