Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 15:28 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bush Admin gettin’ on the good foot?
That’s it, I’m done. Simply can’t top this..
Australian news media as well as the AFP have reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell has unofficially appointed James Brown US Secretary of Soul and Foreign Minister of Funk.
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:41 - Category: Unfiled ;
Candlelight Vigil
Sat. Dec. 13, 6 pm
Hollywood & Highland
Los Angeles
Bring the troops home now!
End the occupation!
$87 billion for jobs, health care, housing & education
Speakers: Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness; John Parker, ANSWER; Jim Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild; Ely Orozsco, locked out Ralphs worker and strike activist
Music: Hip hop artist Wil B., Folk duo The Believers
Support the striking grocery workers, bring your donation of canned or non-perishable food to this event
This is a sidewalk demo, no permit needed.
Called by ANSWER LA, endorsed by many other groups.
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
Supermarket strike tanks Kroger earnings
Kroger Co., the top U.S. grocer, on Tuesday reported a much sharper-than-expected drop in quarterly profit, hurt by a protracted Southern California labor strike.
Kroger said it could not determine when the labor disputes would be resolved, and estimated that they cut 12 cents per share off earnings in the latest quarter.
Albertsons reported last week that their earnings were way down, also due to the strike. On Tuesday in L.A. the leadership of all locals in IFCW will meet in Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel to discuss strategy. There will be a march at noon, which is expected to draw 10,000 people, from the hotel to an Albertsons.
ANSWER LA continues to have a food and toy drive for the strikers. Call 213-487-2368 for drop off locations. An IFCW official told me last night they are stunned, amazed, and cheered at the wide support they are getting for the strikers.
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:29 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dubya Xmas present to Cheney
Halliburon war-profiteering
The United States government is paying the Halliburton Company an average of $2.64 a gallon to import gasoline and other fuel to Iraq from Kuwait, more than twice what others are paying to truck in Kuwaiti fuel, government documents show.
A Pentagon investigation has found evidence of overcharging and other violations in billions of dollars worth of reconstruction contracts for Iraq that were awarded to Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company, military officials said today.
This grotesque exploitation, favoritism, and war-profiteering is, of course, precisely the kind of thing Bush attacks other countries for doing, but then he never does let ethics interfere with plutocrats making more money, right?
Meanwhile
Bush army attacks Iraqi union HQ
On Saturday 6 December 2003 US occupation forces using about ten armoured cars and dozens of soldiers attacked the temporary headquarters of the Iraqi Federation of Workers Trade Unions (IFTU) in the Karkh District of Baghdad and arrested eight IFTU leaders who were subsequently released. The soldiers ransacked and destroyed IFTU possessions, including posters and banners condemning terrorism, covering the federation’s name with black paint, smashing windows, seizing documents, without any explanation or reason.
…while the Bush administration is rewriting Iraqi law governing business and criminal justice, it HAS RETAINED SADDAM’S BRUTAL ANTI-LABOR laws.
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
Hang them high
Two Men Charged Under Va. Anti-Spam Law
Two North Carolina men were indicted for violating the state’s junk e-mail law by sending thousands of e-mail pitches for investments, software and other products, in what prosecutors said was the nation’s first felony charges for unsolicited e-mail.
May there be many many more such indictments. I suspect juries will show no mercy. Good.
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:24 - Category: Unfiled ;
WHO says climate change killing 150,000 a year
Global warming killed 150,000 people in 2000 and the death toll could double again in the next 30 years if current trends are not reversed, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
New Iraq army hit by resignations
US plans to create a new Iraqi army have suffered a setback after hundreds of recruits resigned.
The army’s first 700-man battalion lost 300 troops who were within weeks of being deployed, Pentagon officials say.
Mr. Calculator tells me 42% of this new “army” deserted before their training was completed. It’s difficult to fathom how the Pentagon could treat recruits so badly they would resign in such large numbers, but apparently they managed to do just that.
Bob Morris @ Dec 12th 2003 07:22 - Category: Unfiled ;
Gonzalez gets 47% in 3% Green San Francisco
Via ProRev
Democrat Gavin Newsom beat Green Matt Gonzalez in the race for San Francisco mayor, 53% to 47%. Newsom, taking corporate contributions and with a paid professional campaign staff, spent about $31 for each vote he received. Gonzalez, no contributions, all-volunteer campaign, spent about $4 per vote. 54% of SF voters are registered Democrat and 3% are Green.
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