- the public at large will never know of john kerry's unstable stances on double taxation dividends, 50-cent tax gas increase, litmus tests for judicial nominees, welfare reform, stock option expensing, flip flopping on $10,000 donations limits to his pac, ballistic missile defense, strategic petroleum reserve, funding for our troops in iraq and his latest view on the war on terror
(Canada Free Press).
- with republicans in charge of congress and president bush holding on to the white house, coal advocates are finding a friendly regulatory atmosphere, analysts said (Environmental News Network).
- while dick cheney was ceo of halliburton, the company provided a variety of services to the iranian state oil company
(Working for Change).
- 6 billion camisea natural gas project stands to enrich some of bush's closest corporate campaign contributors including two texas energy companies with close ties to the white house, hunt oil and kellogg brown & root (kbr), a subsidiary of vice-president dick cheney's old firm, haliburton (Earth Island Institute).
- dick cheney's former company, halliburton, not only builds oil pipelines around the world, it also provides security for 150 far-flung embassies, supplies housekeeping services for america's armed forces abroad and has recently begun offering teams of ''privatized soldiers'' to pump up the ranks of foreign armies
(Earth Island Institute).
- president bush is urging congress to do something that americans overwhelmingly oppose -- surrender the nations largest and most pristine arctic wilderness refuge to exploitation by oil companies (Defenders of Wildlife).
- suarez and vaitheeswaran ray suarez: well, on the political stump, vijay, oil prices did become something of an issue this week and last week, when john kerry, for instance, asks us to take a look at the strategic petroleum reserve as a way of taking the hills and valleys out of domestic supply (Public Broadcasting Service).
- only one thing will be greater than the bittersweet victory of an unemployed george w. sharing the fate of millions of hard-working americans who lost their jobs and suffered during his presidency as a result of his corporate handouts and tax cuts for the mega-rich disguised as effective economic stimulus: john kerry winning the presidency, working to repeal bush's giveaways, offering the middle class real tax relief, and transitioning our workforce and economy from a twentieth-century, dirty, unhealthy, and unsustainable lifestyle based on fossil fuels and over-use of our natural resources to a strong, healthy and sustainable economy based on clean, renewable energy, doing more with less, and respectfully protecting the web of animal and plant life that precariously struggles to survive amidst market forces bent usually on (League of Conservation Voters).
- we had already filled in the six-meter-long letters ''h-u'' and were outlining the ''m'' in the words that, when spelled out completely, would signal to george bush's death-dealing missiles that the refinery was a united nations-certified civilian site providing fuel and home heating oil to the residents of baghdad and beyond (Earth Island Institute).
- altman said that several local and regional organizations, including the arizona wilderness coalition, the center for biological diversity, the citizens coal council, friends of the earth, the sierra club, southwest environmental center and the campaign to protect america's would hold a ''counter news event'' to release the organization's ''top 10 resolutions for president bush and congress'' at 3:00 p.m. on thursday, jan
(Friends of The Earth).
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