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| Given the state of the Federal budget deficit, this just makes me sick (from Think Progress): Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) have a $250 billion proposal to cut estate taxes for the children of multi-millionaires even more than George W. Bush already did, and it’s attracting a disturbing amount of support. Their $250 billion proposal would raise the estate tax exemption [...] Let’s all hope that by next year’s Human Rights Day, Guantanamo is closed, and torture and warrantless eavesdropping are no longer S.O.P. for the U.S. Government. Because regardless of how Condi Rice might object, the U.S. is guilty of civil rights abuses, human rights abuses, and torture: The International Committee of the Red Cross found “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment of detainees at the U.S. military prison [...] Is it any wonder after all the trauma that AIG has been suffering that their executives need to get away from it all? Less than a week after the federal government committed $85 billion to bail out AIG, executives of the giant AIG insurance company headed for a week-long retreat at a luxury resort and spa, the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, California, Congressional investigators [...] Image by Getty Images via Daylife The police once again lock up some innocents right away as a show of force in order to presumably intimidate the rest into behaving. Different event, same old tactics. Ho-hum. Statement forwarded from Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two [...] Image via Wikipedia Although I am enforcing a news blackout on what is happening inside the DNC in Denver, Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher are doing a good job of showing us a little bit of how the corporate oligopoly runs our legally bribed government over at Salon.com from outside of the convention: Armed with full-scale Convention press credentials issued by the DNC, I went — [...] FWIW, I just received this email from the Clark County Dems Central Committee: ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BECOMING A PRECINCT COMMITTEE OFFICER (PCO)? You should have received your ballot in the mail already. If you want to be more involved and become a PCO, look on your ballot and see if there is a Democratic PCO in your precinct or not. If the space is blank, write [...] | Available Streams 2    | ||||
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