Moby targets Bush for TV ad

Electronic pop supremo Moby has teamed up with Jonathan Soros - son of billionaire George Soros - in launching an internet competition for a TV commercial attacking President George W Bush.

The contest, called “Bush in 30 seconds” is open to the general public and will be judged by a celebrity panel including actors Jack Black and Janeane Garafalo, REM frontman Michael Stipe and documentary film maker Michael Moore.

“Anyone can make and submit a 30 second TV ad that is somehow based around the truth about George Bush’,” Moby wrote on his website.

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America’s enemy within

Armed checkpoints, embedded reporters in flak jackets, brutal suppression of peaceful demonstrators. Baghdad? No, Miami

We can expect more of these tactics on the homeland front. Just as civil liberties violations escalated when Washington lost control over the FTAA process, so will repression increase as Bush faces the ultimate threat: losing control over the White House.

The war is coming home

People get ready. The 2004 Presidential election will be the political equivalent of nuclear war. This is the time to get involved, to stand strong. Bush can and will be defeated and a grateful planet will thank us for doing it.

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Soros instrumental in overthrowing Shevardnadze in Georgia

It was back in February that billionaire financier George Soros began laying the brickwork for the toppling of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze

“It’s generally accepted public opinion here that Mr. Soros is the person who planned Shevardnadze’s overthrow,” said Zaza Gachechiladze, editor-in-chief of The Georgian Messenger, an English-language daily based in the capital.

And now Soros says Bush is the biggest threat to world peace and must not be re-elected.

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Insurance giant gives $100,000 to Gov. Schwarzenegger

Will injured workers pay the price?

Injured workers and their advocates today reacted to a report in the Los Angeles Times that Governor Schwarzenegger took a donation of $100,000 last week from American International Group Inc., a major insurance firm that writes workers’ compensation policies in California. The company has a deep financial interest in proposals to cut benefits to injured workers. The company reported that its profits are up 27% in the third quarter of 2003.

“This insurance giant is not giving out of the goodness of its heart. Will injured workers pay the real cost of this special interest contribution?” asked Art Azevedo, president of the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association. “Injured workers don’t have $100,000 lying around in their checking accounts, like these insurance companies that are crying poverty while pocketing billions. It’s not a fair fight when workers injured on the job are locked out while the insurance fatcats belly up to the bar.”

Indeed

Workers’ compensation insurance carriers report record profits: 2003 is turning out to be the most profitable in the last 25 years

Yet they cry how those darned workers are costing them SO much money - while they reap huge profits and pay themselves bloated salaries (pdf pg. 6)

2002 compensation:

$20,542,250, M. R. Greenberg,   CEO,   American Int’l. Group
  9,220,882, Dean R. O’Hare,    CEO,   Chubb Corp.
  4,688,998, Joesph V. Taranto, Chair, Everest Re Group
  2,956,398, J. S. Fishman,     CEO,   St. Paul Companies
  2,887,375, Stanley R. Zax,    Pres., Zenith and Zenith Insurance
  2,020,00,  Carl H. Lindner,   Chair, American Financial Group

Oink, oink, oink.

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