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European leaders desperately played down Europe’s biggest crisis in 50 years as voters in France overwhelmingly rejected the European constitution. Chirac’s government will probably fall because of this, and it never had to happen. He could have just had it raftified, but instead called the election in an attempt to boost his re-election chances. [...] swarming the Minutemen with the ECD. Updating the anti-Minuteman swarm topic: the Electronic Civil Disobedience group has urged people supporting the Swarm the Minuteman project to join an electronic sit-in against the Minuteman movement, scheduled for May 27-29th. This uses Floodnet to overwhelm Minuteman web sites. Don’t use the program. I tried it for about [...] Email from Kirsten Anderson Didja hear about Schwartengrabber’s latest P.R. stunt? This was in San Jose. He was doing some sort of publicity stunt about funding for transportation. They were going to have him join with a bunch of Cal Trans and city people and fill pot holes. (put on a hard hat and a [...] Schapelle Corby, 28, from Australia, was sentenced last week to 20 years in Indonesia after 9 pounds of marijuana were found in her luggage. Her sentence has gotten huge media attention in Australia, and even the government is involved. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday said it would take some months to finalise a prisoner [...] Employers of illegal immigrants face little risk of penalty Owners of hotels, farms, restaurants and retail stores who hire illegal workers — never widely sanctioned to begin with — now face a negligible risk of being penalized. What the Minutemen don’t realize is they will be taking on entrenched business classes who need [...] It might be cheap, but it’s going to cost the earth. The cut-price airline ticket is fuelling a boom that will make countering global warming impossible. Unless the boom in cheap flights is halted, say Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, Britain and other countries will simply not be able to meet targets for [...] Texas bans all Medicaid claims for Viagra Via Rock and Rap Confidential from Reuters The rock band Nine Inch Nails said on Friday it canceled plans to appear on next week’s MTV Movie Awards after the network questioned the band’s plans to perform in front of an image of President Bush The band was slated to perform “The Hand That Feeds,” the [...] We’re at the breakfast table, reading the morning paper, listening to the Dorktones podcast. They are a Rotterdam garage-pop band that also does a podcast of obscure, amazing rock from all eras, stuff you’ll never hear elsewhere. I used to have a mail order business selling rare 60′s rock, and the Dorktones podcast plays 60′s [...] Vatican attacks on Spain’s gay marriage law A senior Vatican cardinal has today condemned as “iniquitous” plans to allow gay marriages and adoptions in Spain, one of Europe’s most Catholic countries. The attack on the Spanish Government’s Bill to legalise same-sex marriages is an early indication of how the new papacy can be expected [...] |  | ||||
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