With 7,000 families a day losing their homes to foreclosure ... this can not be allowed.
Lose your house, lose your vote --Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters By Eartha Jane Melzer 10 Sep 2008 The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP's effort to challenge some voters on Election Day. "We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren't voting from those addresses," party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week.
Published on Friday, June 6, 2008 by The Guardian/UK by Allegra Stratton and agencies A polar bear that swam more than 200 miles in near-freezing waters to reach Iceland was shot on arrival in case it posed a threat to humans. The bear, thought to be the first to reach the country in at least 15 years, was killed after local police claimed it was a danger to humans, triggering an outcry from animal lovers. Police claimed it was not possible to sedate the bear. The operation to kill the animal was captured on film. The adult male, weighing 250kg, was presumed to have swum some 200 miles from Greenland, or from a distant chunk of Arctic ice, to Skagafjordur in northern Iceland. More here |
Did the oil companies really need $123 BILLION in profit last year???
Ponder the fact that Exxon alone profited over $40 BILLION DOLLARS in 2007, and that fact that foreclosures here in California alone, rose 375% from one (very, very) bad year ago. I believe it is all related.
A day hasn't passed recently that I haven't heard of another family losing their home. Neighborhoods, formerly manicured and safe, are decaying rapidly and expansively, while those corporations who pushed for this Middle East debacle, profit without limits. (Thanks to my precious Gail for the piggy picture ... if anyone can find the artist, I'd love to acknowledge how much this photo touched me.)
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References: Exxon also set an annual profit record by earning $40.61 billion last year - or nearly $1,300 per second in 2007. That exceeded its previous record of $39.5 billion in 2006. Click here for article in CNN Money.
"Last year these companies alone {Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500), Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA), BP (BP), Chevron (CVX, Fortune 500), and ConocoPhillips (COP, Fortune 500)} made over $123 billion in profit," said Markey. "What is the oil industry doing with all this profit? Unfortunately, it goes as much to financial engineering as to renewable engineering." Click here for article in CNN Money.
One day, a long, long, long time ago....
There lived a woman who did not whine, nag or bitch.
This was a long, long, long time ago ...
And it was just that one day.
The End
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Dedicated with much love to all my friends & fellow activists who whine, nag and bitch while raising awareness to the dangers of:
breast implants,
vaccinations,
genetically modified seeds,
cell phones,
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity,
and other environmental industry cover-ups.
(And heartfelt thanks to Marlene for this perfect piece ... and for her decades of invaluable love & support. )
Bolivia has now filed espionage charges against Vincent Cooper, a U.S. Embassy official who instructed Peace Corps volunteers and Fulbright scholar John Alexander van Schaick at mandatory orientation and security briefings "to provide the names, addresses and activities of any Venezuelan or Cuban doctors or field workers" they encountered.
