http://www.then
ation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040927&s=legum
On August 11, John Kerry criticized the Bush Administration for blocking a bipa
rtisan plan to give seniors access to lower-priced prescription drugs from Cana
da. With almost 80 percent of Medicare recipients supporting Kerry’s position,
the Bush campaign was faced with the prospect of defending a politically unpopu
lar position.
That same day, … FDA Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford said terrorist “cues
from chatter” led him to believe Al Qaeda may try to attack Americans by conta
minating imported prescription drugs. Crawford refused to provide any details t
o substantiate his claims.
Asked about Crawford’s comments, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Sec
urity was forced to concede, “We have no specific information now about any Al
Qaeda threats to our food or drug supply.” The Administration had brazenly used
Americans’ justifiable fears of a future terrorist attack to parry a routine c
riticism of its policies.
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I’m wondering who reads my blog. If you are reading this, click on “direct link
and discussion” at the bottom of this post and make a little comment (anonymou
sly if you like).
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http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2004/09/297387.html
The proposal is for 16 wind turbines … that could “provide enough energy to s
upply 20,000 homes - 37 per cent of the domestic need for South Cambridgeshire”
. . .
The Guardian (Newspaper) reported that Country Guardian [a national anti-wind f
arm group] “strongly denies accusations of having close links with the nuclear
industry (its chair is Sir Bernard Ingham, who is a paid lobbyist for British N
uclear Fuels)”.
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I know I told many of you that I was going to be posting updates here when I was in NY, but I was way too busy. To satisfty your hunger, here is an incomplete list of people we interviewed:
- Amy Goodman
- Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show)
- Chuck D
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Congresswoman from Ohio)
- Ralph Nader
- David Cobb (Green party presidential candidate)
- Michael Badnarik (Libertarian presidential candidate)
- Mike Berg
- Cindy Corrie
- Peter Wintonick (director of Manufacturing Consent and Seeing is Believing)
- New York Aids Housing Project
- Sierra Club
- DNC Press Secretary
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