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Sunday, November 16, 2003
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- [MotherJones.com | News]
The Real Price of Prisons There are more people behind bars in the United States today than ever before. Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled to two million -- an unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented costs to all Americans.
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[MotherJones.com | News] [Editor Note: This is a must read article for all Americans who have any empathy for the maiming and deaths of American soldiers and personnel around the world. We have been supplying the weapons all along and it is a bi-partisan thing.]
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[MotherJones.com | News] By Justin Scheck October 27, 2003
When Environmental Protection Agency investigators released a report in late August scolding the agency for misleading New Yorkers about the severity of air pollution in the days after the World Trade Center collapsed, the response was immediate and angry. City residents demanded to know why they had been misinformed, and New York's junior senator, Hillary Clinton, called on President Bush to answer the report's allegation that the misstatements were due to White House pressure.
But Bob Martin, the agency's former independent ombudsman, says the only real surprise is that it took so long for the explosive accusations to be made. Martin says he was drafting a report in early 2002 that would have presented very similar conclusions. That report died when Martin's office was shut down in April of 2002, eliminated in a controversial reorganization plan initiated by former EPA boss Christine Todd Whitman.
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The Nation: "Public Citizen calls the energy bill 'an appalling abomination, written by a few Republicans working with energy industry executives behind closed doors', and lists some of the other obvious problems: The bill repeals consumer protections designed to prevent Enron-style scandals, it guts environmental protections like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act, opens public lands to oil drilling, and showers money on the polluters.
The larger problem, of course, is the idea of giving many billions of your dollars as a gift to the highly profitable energy industry, which collectively represents America's most pampered, subsidized, corrupt and corrupting batch of welfare queens." [Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio]
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