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Avian flu: who’s really at fault
This morning, I stumbled across this article on avian flu and the US poultry industry’s response to it: Asian governments must provide financial incentives and shut down as many backyard poultry farms as possible to halt the spread of bird flu, a leading U.S. poultry industry official said. “We cannot control migratory birds but we…
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More Lies from BushCo
From Reuters AlertNet: A captured al Qaeda operative who told U.S. authorities that Iraq had trained al Qaeda members to use unconventional weapons was identified as a probable liar months before the Bush administration began using his claims to make its case for war … “Saddam’s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic…
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Legislating love
From my friend Dex: He looks too ‘aloof’ in photographs, so Immigration rejected his wife. This is a Canadian incident, but similarly racist, xenophobic, and just plain heartbreaking applications of immigration laws occur in the US every day. As Dex put it, “this is what happens when the government tries to legislate love.” Speaking of…
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The Bush Administration speaks from both sides of its mouth on torture
From Reuters AlertNet: Bush vows “we do not torture” terror suspects: “We do not torture and therefore we’re working with Congress to make sure that as we go forward, we make it more possible to do our job,” Bush said. And by working with Congress, they Bush Administration apparently means sending in Cheney to fight…