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Don’t Kill Last 300 Whales for Navy Training

Don’t Kill Last 300 Whales for Navy Training

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Tell the U.S. Navy to Protect Right Whales from Deadly Sonar! Only 300 North Atlantic right whales are believed to exist — and unfortunately their migratory route goes right through the area where the U.S. Navy plans to unleash lethal mid-frequency sonar off North Carolina’s coast. Ear-splitting military sonar is needlessly killing whales and other marine mammals throughout the world’s oceans. Yet the U.S. Navy wants to put a training range for lethal mid-frequency sonar right next to a key…

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Girl Scouts, hmmm

Girl Scouts, hmmm

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So the U.S. Girl Scouts are offering membership to Muslim girls as a “chance to fit in“? “It is kind of cool to say that you are a girl scout,” Asma said. “It is good to have something to associate yourself with other Americans. I don’t want people to think that I am a hermit, that I live in a cave, isolated and afraid of change. I like to be part of society. I like being able to say that…

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Bush Mangles Names, then Bolts

Bush Mangles Names, then Bolts

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Yeah, our “beloved leader” is really interested in helping to negotiate peace in the middle east. Isn’t that what his record is all about? Isn’t it? Isn’t it? Crooks and Liars: Looking confused and distracted, the president butchered the names of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas *shock* and even needed guidance on where to stand with the two leaders for a photo op — which was apparently the only reason he attended at all. After…

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Take Torture off the Table

Take Torture off the Table

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It’s wrong. It’s anti-American. It doesn’t even work. Tell Congress to Take Torture off the Table Congress needs to send a clear message to the Bush administration: cruel interrogation techniques – including mock execution, forced nakedness and induced hypothermia – are morally wrong and have to stop. Important legislation that sets one humane standard for ALL government agencies has been passed by the House, but has stalled. Keep the pressure on! Tell Congress to swiftly bring U.S. interrogation policy into…

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Way to Support the Troops

Way to Support the Troops

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Nice. You get wounded, and then you are asked to REPAY part of your incentive to enlist in the first place? Insult upon injury. Literally. “Service members seriously wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan after they received a $10,000 bonus for enlisting are being asked by the Pentagon to repay portions of the incentive money, says a U.S. senator who calls the practice an example of military policy gone wrong.” “A bill in the mail is not the kind of present…

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$52M to Ashcroft from Justice Department

$52M to Ashcroft from Justice Department

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From TruthOut, news that the Department of Justice awarded former Attorney General John Ashcroft a $52 million contract, “among the biggest payouts reported for a federal monitor,” to help the US Attorney’s Office in New Jersey monitor leading manufacturers of knee and hip replacements. $52M to help one state in one precise industry. Interesting. I wonder how much monitors have been getting to check out toy manufacture. I wonder what the total budget of the New Jersey US Attorney’s office…

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