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After watching the PBS/National Geographic Documentary: Strange Days on Planet Earth

I tried to remember what kind of educational preparation I received ages ago. I was taught to memorize boring charts about how US Government was arranged. Whitewashed snippets about American History and how wonderful we were, how awful the American Indians were and how brave [...]

Posted by bosskitty April 24th, 2008 | Category: Op-Ed, arrogance, changing planet, climate crisis, consequences, consumerism, critical resources | Comments (2)

US President George W Bush has insisted the US is not in recession but says that he remains concerned about the economy’s performance.
In his State of the Union address, President George W Bush made reviving the US economy the centrepiece of his last year in office. But can he do enough to avoid blame for [...]

Posted by bosskitty March 7th, 2008 | Category: Bush, Constitution, Politics, Tax Dollars, Tax Relief, arrogance, economic stimulus, economy, recession | Leave a comment

 
 
NY Times Holds Stories Because They’re Afraid of Conservatives
Now the New York Times has gotten itself in the same old pickle they always do — they are going to be criticized by Republicans when in fact they were trying to be extra fair to Republicans. What they don’t get is that the [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 24th, 2008 | Category: Christianity, Free Speech, History, Holy War, Hypocracy, Islam, Jews, Media, Nazi, Propaganda, Religion, Totalitarianism, Truth, arrogance, atheism, bloggers, censorship, civil liberties, disinformation, marketing, reason | Leave a comment

 
GAO Hands FEMA Another Katrina Blow
FEMA officials must be wondering if Hurricane Katrina will ever blow over. Now, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that FEMA lost another $30 million taxpayer dollars through “ineffective oversight” of contracts to maintain and deactivate those mobile homes and travel trailers use for emergency housing. The loss, reports the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 28th, 2007 | Category: Excess, FEMA, GAO, Katrina, Mismanagement, Oversight, Public Health, Tax Dollars, arrogance, catastrophe, consequences, emergency, fraud, profiteers, refugees | Comments (3)

Cheney: No bailouts, no tax hikes…more oil

The vice president wields considerable power on economic policy. In a Fortune exclusive, the free-market fan weighs in on the credit crisis and his biggest fear. more
• Cheney’s brain trust
• Dick Cheney does the economy
Vice President Dick Cheney wields considerable power on economic policy. In a Fortune exclusive, the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 26th, 2007 | Category: Cheney, Clean Energy, Corporate Corruption, Deception, Environment, Favored Firms, Mafia, Oil, Tax Dollars, alternative energy, arrogance, brain trust, budget, climate change, consequences, consumers, critical resources, economics, economy, energy, extortion, infrastructure, markets, recession, risk, taxpayers | Comments (1)

Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.
BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 24th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, America, Anti-War, Arab Nations, Armageddon, Arms Trade, Black Ops, Bush, Casualties, Coalition Troops, Collateral, Corporate corruption, Deception, Holy War, Hypocracy, Islamic Jihad, Narcotics, Occupation Army, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Contractors, War Cost, addicts, administration, arrogance, candidates, consequences, cover up, disinformation, economics, escalation, illegal arms, profiteers, responsibility, terrorists, troops, veterans, victims | Leave a comment

Naturalization paperwork jam hits Texas hard
Backlog may keep some from casting votes for president
WASHINGTON — Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 21st, 2007 | Category: America, Border, Border Wall, Citizenship, Corruption, DHS, Democracy In Action, Eddie Lucio III, Founding Fathers, HHS, Homeland Security, Human Rights, Human Traffiking, Hypocracy, Immigration, Mexican, Middle East, Narcotics, No Border Wall, Politics, Public Health, Rio Grande, Roma Texas, Tax Dollars, Texas, Texas Politics, Ugly American, aliens, arrogance, asylum, betrayal, candidates, civil liberties, consequences, contradictions, criminal, deportation, displaced persons, drug war, drugs, equality, extortion, illegal arms, immigrants, policy, poverty, prejudice, profiteers, refugees, scams, slavery, taxpayers, victims | Comments (1)

Growing race gap in American incomes
Associated Press Tuesday November 13, 2007 Guardian Unlimited
Decades after the US civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white Americans has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of more than 2,000 families for [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 13th, 2007 | Category: 14th Amendment, Christians, Race War, Religious War, USCCR, arrogance, betrayal, bigotry, civil liberties, civil rights, civil war, consequences | Comments (2)

U.S. Promises on Darfur Don’t Match Actions
Bush Expresses Passion for Issue, but Policies Have Been Inconsistent
By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer
In April 2006, a small group of Darfur activists — including evangelical Christians, the representative of a Jewish group and a former Sudanese slave — was ushered into the Roosevelt [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 29th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Armageddon, Bush, Cheney, Corporate Corruption, Darfur, Democide, Geneva Convention, Promises, arrogance, bunkers, genocide | Comments (5)