Bob Morris @ Aug 10th 2002 21:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Prisons are wonderful money-makers!
PDF detailing how prison factories make money. Not satire.
Prisoners in 2001. by Bureau of Justice Statistics. [PrisonSucks.com]
Bob Morris @ Aug 10th 2002 21:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Court upholds Vermont’s right to limit campaign spending
Vermont, one of my favorite places, continues to quietly be perhaps the most progressive state in the country.
A federal appeals court panel upheld a Vermont campaign-spending law today in a ruling that lawyers said could reverberate far beyond the Green Mountain State and propel the issue of political spending back to the Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan, ruled 2 to 1 that Vermont lawmakers had a right to impose spending limits of $300,000 on candidates for governor and $100,000 on candidates for lieutenant governor.
The justification for the limits lay in “preventing the effective sale of time and access to public officials that results from the corrupting influence of excessive fund-raising and campaign spending,” Judge Chester J. Straub wrote.
Such limits, Judge Straub said, were “necessary to safeguard the democratic process and the public’s faith in its representatives.”
Bob Morris @ Aug 10th 2002 21:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
This should be satire, but it’s not
Game show prize: A six month job
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Other countries may have television programs that lure entrants with offers of a million dollars, a new car or a luxury holiday. But in this nation of broken finances and shattered dreams, contestants on a new game show compete for the precious prize of a paying job.
Five days a week Human Resources pits two unemployed people in a contest to win a six-month work contract. They tell their life stories and answer questions to test their ability to perform the job they are seeking.
Bob Morris @ Aug 10th 2002 21:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
US puts its oil interests ahead of human rights
The Bush Administration has thrown its weight behind a global oil corporation in a court battle against human rights claims. The State Department has asked a federal court to dismiss a human rights lawsuit by Indonesian villagers against Exxon Mobil.
It claims a trial could harm American economic and political interests in Asia, including the struggle against terrorism.
Wow, I had no idea Exxon Mobil was so crucial to “American economic and political” interests.
Bob Morris @ Aug 10th 2002 21:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dick Armey
A few weeks ago, House Majority Leader and Texas Republican Dick Armey came out against the noxious spy-on-your-neighbor TIPS program.
Today Armey was quoted as being in favor of lifting the Cuba embargo and being opposed to an Iraq war. These are truly strange days, when you have a Democratic Senator, Joe Lieberman, trying to out hawk Bush on Iraq while a powerful Republican acts like Ted Kennedy…
In a vivid sign of waning support for the economic embargo on Cuba, House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) said he believes that the United States should open trade with the Communist regime and that he has backed the restrictions on travel and trade only out of loyalty to two Cuban American members of the House.
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In the US, the House majority leader and one of Mr Bush’s fellow Texas Republicans, Dick Armey, argued that Saddam Hussein’s conduct did not constitute provocation, and that a US attack would be a violation of international law
Campaigning for the mid-term elections in Des Moines, Mr Armey said: “If we act against Saddam Hussein, as obnoxious as he is, without proper provocation, we will not have the support of other nation states … it would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.”
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