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  • United States government, 2005: If it walks like a goose... (Part I)
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Previous readers know I can be a little, well, uh...rough on the Bushies, for lack of a better term (like, say, “unapologetically brutal”). That’s OK; I’ve never had a problem calling a spade a spade, or, for that matter, a scoundrel a scoundrel. Typically, though, as a matter of personal preference, I’ve pretty much tried to stay away from using vulgar or shocking language. Since November 2, however, some may have noticed I’ve not shied away from rolling out the f-word.
    It is a strong (…)

  • The Plot Against Sex in America
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Frank Rich
    When they start pushing the panic button over "moral values" at the bluest of TV channels, public broadcasting’s WNET, in the bluest of cities, New York, you know this country has entered a new cultural twilight zone.
    Just three weeks after the election, Channel 13 killed a spot for the acclaimed movie "Kinsey," in which Liam Neeson stars as the pioneering Indiana University sex researcher who first let Americans know that nonmarital sex is a national pastime, that women (…)

  • Workers Demand Union at Wal-Mart Supplier in China
    16 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by HOWARD W. FRENCH
    SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 15 - The scene on the street did not look like much, just the comings and goings of small groups of women from their factory dormitory, with a few lingering here and there in knots to discuss their situation.
    Since Friday, though, work has stopped inside the Uniden factory’s walls here, where 12,000 workers, mostly young women from China’s poor interior provinces, make wireless phones, which the Japanese manufacturer supplies in large number to (…)

  • Liked the Scott Peterson trial? You’ll LOVE the George Bush trial!
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jane Stillwater
    Americans were fascinated by the trial of Scott Peterson. And if they liked the trial of the alleged murderer of just ONE pregnant woman, imagine how much America will love the trial of George Bush, a man who is responsible for the murder of possibly THOUSANDS of pregnant women!
    Was Laci shot, strangled or drowned? Did she suffer before she died? And what about her unborn child? We may never know for sure but you can imagine that she did. But what we DO know is that (…)

  • Need a little break? Try this quiz.
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Received this via email last night and I thought with all that’s going on, some people might want to take a little break and take this quiz. I found it revealing and thought-provoking. Maybe others will too. I hope I formatted it correctly. Subject: Very interesting.......
    2 TOUGH QUESTIONS
    Question 1:
    If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, two who were normal and she had syphilis, would you (…)

  • Suicide theory on female soldier
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    A senior military policewoman found dead in Basra and named last night by the Ministry of Defence is understood to have killed herself.
    Staff Sergeant Denise Rose of the Royal Military Police’s special investigation branch was found dead from a gunshot wound at the army base in the Shatt-al-Arab hotel on Sunday, the MoD said.
    It added that the death was being investigated but was "not thought to have been the result of hostile action".
    Staff Sgt Rose, who had (…)

  • Police raped woman while her children slept, court told
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ben Mitchell
    Two police constables called to assist a drunken woman who had been attacked outside a nightclub drove her home and raped and indecently assaulted her, a court heard yesterday.
    Winchester Crown Court heard how PC Mark Witcher and PC Andrew Lang performed what they called a "spit roast" on the woman. This involved one officer having sex with her while she was forced to perform a sex act on the other.
    The victim, who cannot be named, described how the officers laughed at (…)

  • Uptight Christian Women get 10 mill to teach Iraqi Women How to Shop and Pray
    8 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What bullshit this is. Remember how the "missionaries" helped genicide the indigenous, then the white wives dressed up indigenous women and children in hideous western garb, slapped the shit out of them so they would not speak their own language and put them in bording schools which taught them to be "good xtians"...this will be the "modern" version of the christian/capitalist/demodictatorship of Iraq by the capitalist wives. Maybe Ann Coulter will go over there and get beheaded!
    GET THE (…)

  • Iraqi Women and Torture, Part III Violence and Virtual Violence
    5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Despite a well-documented picture of under-reported sexualized violence, the major media has not shown any interest in pursuing cases of rape or abuse of Iraqi women by the US military. Instead, two stories about hoaxes or more accurately apparent hoaxes made the rounds earlier this year. They’re worth looking at to better understand what’s behind the seemingly artless way in which hoaxes and allegations of hoaxes creep into the factual history of abuse in Iraq.
    On May 4, 2004, just when (…)

  • Iraqi Women and Torture, Rapes and Rumors of Rape
    31 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lila Rajiva
    Part One & II
    By now, everyone has heard of the ghost detainees of Abu Ghraib — the prisoners who were never processed into the system and were kept out of sight of the Red Cross so that they could be whisked from prison to prison unaccounted for. But what about the other ghosts detainees — the women? Where are the women of Abu Ghraib and why have they been kept out of sight?
    When the Abu Ghraib story first broke at the end of April, no one appears to have found it (…)