Category: Politics

(Just released today! The US ranks 17 with a score of 7.6 out of 10, with 10 being squeaky clean.) London / Berlin, 18 October 2005 — More than two-thirds of the 159 nations surveyed in Transparency International’s 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scored less than 5 out of a clean score of 10, indicating…

I can’t quite say why, but this short film sent to me by Matthew made my day…sometimes it feels good to know that the truth is really out there….watch it…seriously… Asshole :: Film Strip International And then there is this short film sent to me by Sibielle in Vancouver…I don’t know quite what to say…

All joking aside…this really should happen everywhere. Seriously, there is no place where there are not sex workers, there never will be, they deserve to be recognized, decriminalized, and protected. Link Sex worker Camille Cabral, representing French prostitutes, poses next to a European Union flag after a press conference organised by the International Committee on…

I was completely NOT surprised to find the following blurb this morning…now that the conservatives have quit pretending to be outraged and the left has finished their betrayal of constituants by defending her…this should come as no surprise…now can everyone just get back to the business at hand…giving GW Bush the keys to keep whatever…

(Why does the election in Liberia matter? Charles Taylor still has significant support in Liberia, he bears a large part of the responsibility for the brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone, the UN is leaving Sierra Leone in December, and “Mr Taylor undoubtedly still controls forces which could destabilise the region…” Taylor has also…

(Here’s an update on the Liberian elections, as promised. Seems to have gone pretty smoothly. No big surprises in the results – footballer Weah leads economist Johnson-Sirleaf, as expected. 74% of registered voters turned out!) Liberians will vote again in a second round of presidential elections after last week’s ballot proved inconclusive, the country’s election…

I’ve been noting the cost of normal non energy items going up. I bought a candy bar the other day and when I asked the clerk why a snickers is $.98 he told me “the prices of everything are going up.” He’s right. It’s more obvious here in Hawaii where virtually everything has to be…

(This is interesting. While I think it is a good idea to have citizens involved in the affairs of government, the argument of Barbara Ryan and her crowd does hold merit…if in fact there is a racist policy within the ranks of the minutemen…argueably, Whatcom County does have a history of civilian militant groups…they used…

(Okay, Captain X, you go ahead and tell the American people to trust me, Lieutenant Y, I want you to tell them that everything is going great, Seargent Z, you tell them to keep filling their big SUV’s with Gas and how you and your wife just bought a house and the American Dream, tell…