Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Posted on February 14, 2008, Printed on February 14, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/76819/
From Chile to the Philippines to South Africa to her home country of
Canada, Maude Barlow is one of a few people who
[I'm not much of a sports fan, but it seems to me that it's time to
take the money totally out of sports (beyond salaries for jobs done).
The winner take all nature of the game creates a _gigantic_
incentive to use performance-enhancing drugs to get into the high-paid
majors (which pay much (much)
When riding a dead horse, you should...
1.Buy a stronger whip.
2.Assert This is the way we always have ridden this horse.
3.Arrange to visit other sites to benchmark how they ride dead horses.
4.Provide additional training to increase riding ability.
5.Outsource to private contractors to see
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== BBC | US retail sales in surprise rise
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7243029.stm
US retail sales rose 0.3% in January official figures show, bolstered
by sales of new cars and petrol.
== BBC | Venezuela breaks ties with
[February 14 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News Commentary: New
Hopefuls Or Out From Under The Racist Rock? Either Way, The
'Obama-cans' Voted Democrat In The Open Primaries, But How Will They
Vote In The General Election This November?
Here: http://leighm.net/wp/2008/02/14/tth_080214/
Or Here:
Feds admit to jailing U.S. citizens as illegal immigrants, but call
incidents rare
from mcclatchydc.com: Congress
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/congress/story/27627.html
WASHINGTON — A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official
acknowledged Wednesday that his agency has mistakenly detained
Leigh Meyers wrote:
Feds admit to jailing U.S. citizens as illegal immigrants, but call
incidents rare
We did a nice protest yesterday at the US consulate in Durban on this
theme... there are some nice pics of the great warrior Dennis Brutus
(83) at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs ... and tomorrow
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I assume that's 5 PM?
Leigh
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