From ZardozZ News & Satire...Memorial Day Never Forget
Below, the Arlington West Iraq war memorial display on beach next to the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Calif., on Saturday, May 27, 2006.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Pass It On: TomPaine.com
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Web Of Corruption
Randall "Duke" Cunningham. Kyle "Dusty" Foggo. Brant "Nine-Fingers" Bassett. Tom "The Hammer" DeLay. Keep on top of all the sleazy two-bit gangsters who run the Republican Party and our defense establishment with this colorful flow chart .
From American Progress: "High Gas Prices Hammer Minimum Wage Earners"
Double Whammy
High Gas Prices Hammer Minimum Wage Earners
May 24, 2006
You won’t have to go far this Memorial Day weekend to notice that local gas stations are unable to change their signs as quickly as prices are rising. Low income families, many of whom work at the minimum wage, are especially affected by rising gasoline prices. After all, the federal minimum wage has not budged since 1997.
Millions of minimum wage workers are caught in a tightening vise. The reason: It now takes more than a day of work in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for them to earn enough money to fill a tank of gas, up from a little more than half a day in March 2001. In 14 states minimum wager earners must labor until lunchtime Tuesday to pay for the gas to drive to work. In another 16 states these employees have to work until well past mid-morning on Tuesday to pay for their gas.
Analysis by Christian E. Weller, Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress, published today shows that rapidly rising gasoline prices and mostly flat minimum wages have resulted in the cost of minimum wage earners getting to work each week jumping an average 104.9% between March 2001 and May 2006. On average, across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, it takes 11.2 hours of work for minimum wage earners to pay to get to work, up from an average of 5.5 hours in March 2001.
In the 17 states and the District of Columbia that raised the minimum wage between March 2001 and May 2006 or already had in place a minimum wage higher than the federal-mandated level, it still took minimum wage earners until Tuesday morning to begin earning money to pay for something besides gasoline. But according to the study, minimum wage employees in these states could more quickly turn to earning money for rent, food and clothing, education and other basic necessities.
The minimum wage, of course, represents the floor upon which many low income workers begin to negotiate for higher wages to take care of themselves and their families. Amid rising gasoline and oil prices, 23.2 million families with incomes of less than $24,102 paid almost 8% of their annual income for gasoline in 2004, according to the most recent date from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And that’s before the recent jump in gas prices.
The public policy response to this deteriorating situation for the Americans with the lowest incomes should be clear. While in the long-run it’s paramount to reduce energy costs for families by increasing energy efficiency, low income families need immediate help. This can primarily come by raising the minimum wage. This would provide financial relief for low income families facing this painful double whammy.
Read the entire report (PDF)
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Help fund the fight against extreme poverty
Right now, we have an opportunity to really help fight global AIDS and poverty. Congress is making decisions that could create hope and opportunity for people in the world's poorest countries and they needs to hear from YOU!
Please join me in showing our support by going to www.ONE.org and emailing your members of congress...One.org
Please join me in showing our support by going to www.ONE.org and emailing your members of congress...One.org
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant Implosion
Added on May 21, 2006, 08:29 PM
by Tundon (1 videos | online: 2 hours ago )
enjoy the show.
and another in slow motion...
Added on May 22, 2006, 06:01 PM
by executioneer (3 videos | online: 5 hours ago )
The Trojan Nuclear Plant in Oregon being dynamited, only this time it's in SLOW MOTION
by Tundon (1 videos | online: 2 hours ago )
enjoy the show.
and another in slow motion...
Added on May 22, 2006, 06:01 PM
by executioneer (3 videos | online: 5 hours ago )
The Trojan Nuclear Plant in Oregon being dynamited, only this time it's in SLOW MOTION
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Amnesty International Accuses US of "Secret Flights to Torture and 'Disappearance'"
Amnesty International Accuses US of "Secret Flights to Torture and 'Disappearance'"
Posted by Sonja in US Foreign Policy, Transatlantic Relations on Monday, May 22. 2006
Secret detention and "disappearances" of dissidents and political opponents are something that only happen in evil, undemocratic countries in South-or central America, right? Wrong. It happens on behalf of the United States all over the world, including Europe, says amnesty international USA. In a report dated April 5, 2006, the US is accused of "rendition" and "disappearance". Rendition, as defined by the human rights organization, is "the transfer of individuals from one country to another, by means that bypass all judicial and administrative due process." The number of cases appear to be in the hundreds, and "every one of the victims of rendition interviewed by Amnesty International has described incidents of torture and other ill-treatment." In addition, the USA has acknowledged the capture of about 30 "high value" detainees whose whereabouts remain unknown. While before September 11, 2001, the rendition program was mainly intended to render terrorist suspects to the United States for trial, since the "War on Terror" it seems to be aiming more and more to deny detainees access to American courts. New Directives implemented under the Bush administration remain classified, but are said to give the CIA and the other 15 members of the American "intelligence community" the power to capture and hold terrorist suspects.
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Posted by Sonja in US Foreign Policy, Transatlantic Relations on Monday, May 22. 2006
Secret detention and "disappearances" of dissidents and political opponents are something that only happen in evil, undemocratic countries in South-or central America, right? Wrong. It happens on behalf of the United States all over the world, including Europe, says amnesty international USA. In a report dated April 5, 2006, the US is accused of "rendition" and "disappearance". Rendition, as defined by the human rights organization, is "the transfer of individuals from one country to another, by means that bypass all judicial and administrative due process." The number of cases appear to be in the hundreds, and "every one of the victims of rendition interviewed by Amnesty International has described incidents of torture and other ill-treatment." In addition, the USA has acknowledged the capture of about 30 "high value" detainees whose whereabouts remain unknown. While before September 11, 2001, the rendition program was mainly intended to render terrorist suspects to the United States for trial, since the "War on Terror" it seems to be aiming more and more to deny detainees access to American courts. New Directives implemented under the Bush administration remain classified, but are said to give the CIA and the other 15 members of the American "intelligence community" the power to capture and hold terrorist suspects.
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"Iranian terrorists" and "sleeper cells"
Video Description
FOX News cranks up the fear! FOX and the NY Post are the first to report that "Iranian terrorists" have "sleeper cells" inside, and surrounding, the US.
If "Iranian terrorists" were to strike in the US, we would have to go to war, right? Just having the threat of Iranian terrorists in the US, could be a reason to go to war, right?
Excerpts:
"There is one report of, as much as $100 billion a year going from Iran to the Hezbolla."
"This is the first big proclamation, that I am aware of, that talks about Hezbollah being, perhaps, in position to strike here."
Let the Propaganda games begin!
Pat Robertson is up to his 'old' tricks again...
Pat Robertson is up to his old tricks. God has told him that a tsunami will hit the Pacific Northwest and hurricanes will smash the East Coast. Luckily, a newscaster was actually able to get his hands on a recording of the conversation. Sinners beware, divine retribution is on the way.
Clip1: A news report about the "prediction."
Clip 2: A newscaster gets his hands on a recording of the conversation.
Friday, May 19, 2006
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Monday, May 1, 2006
"A Day Without Immigrants"
Support "A Day Without Immigrants"Millions of immigrants across the United States will take a sick day from work and school to peacefully march in protest of Congress' ill-conceived and overly punitive immigration reform proposals and to demand the recognition that is due them as an indispensable part of our labor force. This is not unprecedented in our country's history.
On May 1, 1886, workers in the U.S., many of them immigrants, took to the streets to protest oppressive working conditions. Over the course of the next several days, there was bloodshed and repressive police tactics, but thereafter, all workers in the U.S. incurred the benefits of an 8 hour, 5 day workweek, the right to unionize and other needed protections.
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