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unusualmusic_lj_archiveMalawi says "fuck you!" to WTO 's (backed by Washington) insistence on free trade and eliminating tariffs, and ends a 13 year famine in TWO YEARS!!!!
This week in torture: Choice quote: Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal:"Another McCain story, somewhat better known, is about the Vietnamese practice of torturing him by tying his head between his ankles with his arms behind him, and then leaving him for hours."
*Blink* I thought putting prisoners in the stress position is NOT torture. Or is it only torture when POC do it to white Americans, and it is NOT when White Americans do it to POC? Anyway, there're more updates on Congress hearings, the Justice Dept's manoeverings and much more, so go read the whole thing!
Clinton's gas tax is a windfall for oil companies, when she is criticised, appeals to ignorance by stating that experts are NOT to be trusted. Um? Is this woman a Democrat? She's agreeing with John McCain and the Republican strategy of tricking and manipulating voters to vote against their own interests by distorting the truth and assailing the experts as people who are not to be trusted. I am sick unto the death of the dumbing down and the elevation of ignorance in America.And the oil companies laugh all the way to the bank. "Idiocracy" was supposed to be a cautionary tale, dammit!
The West's Profit War on poor countries: How free trade and deceptive aid conditions lead to and perpetuatal hunger and starvation, and obscene profits for Western agricultural companies
When women pay for the actions of men
Pilgrim's Pride hires illegal immigrants...then calls ICE on them when they are finished exploiting them
Wage-free theft
Behind the "Miley Ray Cyrus controversy: The plan to transform her from child star to the next big country thing, starting with that Vanity Fair shoot
This week in torture: Choice quote: Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal:"Another McCain story, somewhat better known, is about the Vietnamese practice of torturing him by tying his head between his ankles with his arms behind him, and then leaving him for hours."
*Blink* I thought putting prisoners in the stress position is NOT torture. Or is it only torture when POC do it to white Americans, and it is NOT when White Americans do it to POC? Anyway, there're more updates on Congress hearings, the Justice Dept's manoeverings and much more, so go read the whole thing!
Clinton's gas tax is a windfall for oil companies, when she is criticised, appeals to ignorance by stating that experts are NOT to be trusted. Um? Is this woman a Democrat? She's agreeing with John McCain and the Republican strategy of tricking and manipulating voters to vote against their own interests by distorting the truth and assailing the experts as people who are not to be trusted. I am sick unto the death of the dumbing down and the elevation of ignorance in America.And the oil companies laugh all the way to the bank. "Idiocracy" was supposed to be a cautionary tale, dammit!
The West's Profit War on poor countries: How free trade and deceptive aid conditions lead to and perpetuatal hunger and starvation, and obscene profits for Western agricultural companies
When women pay for the actions of men
Pilgrim's Pride hires illegal immigrants...then calls ICE on them when they are finished exploiting them
Wage-free theft
Behind the "Miley Ray Cyrus controversy: The plan to transform her from child star to the next big country thing, starting with that Vanity Fair shoot
