KBR is the US military's biggest contractor ?

The creeping privatisation of war has created a situation where some are more equal than others. See here the fall-out from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. When photos of cowering Iraqi prisoners appeared on Australian TV screens and newspapers, the public response was one of almost universal outrage. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0412-20.htm

At Least Osha Don't Hve Problems Like This!

Chinese chemical spill kills 13,Thirty-seven people died in a coal mine explosion in the north-east province of Jilin on Thursday and 115 people were killed last month in a single gas blast in Heilongjiang province.
READ MORE HERE>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2115860.stm

It's not your father's America any more

By HUBERT G. LOCKESPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER
This country is becoming more unrecognizable with each passing day. The government, we've learned recently, now packages the news. It provides television stations with hundreds of video news releases made up to resemble actual news reports that give us predigested, Orwellian information designed to convince the public that everything in the nation is being well-managed.
And A Homeland Security DoomsDay Scenario?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/217447_locke25.html

$69 billion in tax cuts ? for the Rich?Some Of Americas Richest Say no?

BOSTON—A group of wealthy Americans today announced that they would turn down their share of the BOSTON—A group of wealthy Americans today announced that they would turn down their share of the $69 billion in tax cuts that went to the wealthy in 2004,that went to the wealthy in 2004, http://www.responsiblewealth.org/
So as a result of that> Some of America's Richest Say 'No, Thanks' to Bush Tax Cuts
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0408-06.htm

President sees himself as carrying out the will of his God

"A majority of people in the US think Iraq aided al-Qaida before the war and had weapons of mass destruction."? how insidiously insane?

Just agreeing with a post By weed: such ignorance and stupidity in a country whose President sees himself as carrying out the will of his God makes me shudder for the future of the worldthis is surely the biggest threat to Western civilisation since the emergence of the 3rd Reich*********************
# posted by Weed : 5:27 PM
Sunday, March 13, 2005
US strategy towards the coming world oil shortage is to monopolise supplies - a more sensible approach would be to reduce its dependence on oil*************************
#Post by> mr weed again:)

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The White House and torture

It's no longer a secret that the CIA - to extract information from suspected terrorists - sends them to countries that practice torture, thereby allowing the president to keep saying that this nation does not practice torture.

http://www.decaturdailydemocrat.com/articles/2005/03/23/news/opinion/editorial02.txt

The White House and torture

It's no longer a secret that the CIA - to extract information from suspected terrorists - sends them to countries that practice torture, thereby allowing the president to keep saying that this nation does not practice torture.

http://www.decaturdailydemocrat.com/articles/2005/03/23/news/opinion/editorial02.txt

Whats it all about?

Just wonderin what its all about ? that's all:)? U tell me:)?