Tag: politics
All the articles with the tag "politics".
Radio Favela
Watched Radio Favela at the latin film fest last night, loved it. Was the story of a pirate radio station in the slums of Brazil. After 20 years, they just got a licence a little bit ago. Just got bac…
Al-Qaeda or Eta?
As everyone knows, yesterday was a sad day in Madrid . One wonders what changes this will bring, depending on the culprates. Good plan on Kerry's part - a d-bunker blog to take a close look at GOP att…
Links
'Unknown Soldier' interview. Remember when republicans attacked Clinton for letting donors stay in the white house? yeah... Media to blame for crap coverage of US intel on WMD's. Interesting. McCain w…
Private Armies
Private armies in Iraq. There was an interesting and disturbing story in Esquire a month back from a guy traveling with a private security force in Iraq. Best place to ride a motorbike like a maniac? …
Gay marriage
California Supreme Court declined a request to shut down San Francisco's gay weddings. Hey, you can even send flowers through the net. Bush calls for changing the constitution to ban gay marriage.
Priorities
Greenspan suggested cutting future benefits and raising the retirement age of social security . Yet the projected Social Security shortfall over the next 75 years is less than one-third the projected …
9/11
Hastert to block 9/11 commission extension . Rice, Bush, and Cheney declined a request to testify. I'm not exactly sure how Bush can say he is giving the commission his full support. Update: Looks lik…
More links
I realize I post too many links, but these two are really worth checking out: The top Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003 . Some of this has been picked up in limited bits (Depleted Uranium Rounds and…
Healthcare
Why Canadians are healthier - An impressive array of comparative data shows that Canadians live longer and healthier lives than we (americans) do. What's more, they pay roughly half as much per capita…
Politics links
Bush stonewalling the 9/11 report . Electronic voting machines do not equal accuracy . Salon story here . Free markets fix everything . Or not. More here . New York City Council approved a resolution …