Sacramento BeeSacramento, Calif., United States of America — www.sacbee.com
"Then, one day, some focus group showed that people, particularly older people, react negatively to any connection between Social Security and the word private. For some reason, people like the sound of 'personal accounts' better than they do 'private accounts.' / So the Republicans, with their fabulous ability to march in lockstep, all about-faced and started referring to the privatization of Social Security as 'personal accounts.' This is the new political correctness." [more]
"A federal judge in Orange County refused Thursday to block additional arrests and deportations of Middle Eastern and Muslim men who show up to be fingerprinted, photographed and questioned by immigration officials." [more]
"Hundreds of men, most of them Iranian Americans, were arrested and detained in the Los Angeles area last week when they showed up to be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted under the post-Sept. 11, 2001 policy. Arrests also were reported elsewhere around the country, including the Sacramento region." [more]
"'We have approximately 80 members of Team Alpha, Fifth Company, 19th Special Forces who have been activated to support Operation Enduring Freedom,' said Capt. Denise Varner, a California National Guard spokeswoman. 'They will be deploying soon for a classified destination.'" [more]
"Rebuilding Afghanistan will be a massive task requiring years and many billions of dollars. But the job could be under way, and pay quick dividends, if the United States were to respond promptly to petitions for relief by hundreds of Afghans who lost loved ones or property as a result of U.S. bombing attacks." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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