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 [Welcome to "Ralph's World"] Martha's Monthly Debuts: You were the man who stood up in Parliament and declared you would send my kids into Iraq as front line American cannon fodder. You are the man who would put my family in harms way with absolutely no conscience because it suits you politically!

 [The Lumber Of The World] Blood for Oil?: Baker’s mission, we now know, was less about debt-forgiveness than about cutting a deal for the Carlyle Group, which was to receive a $1 billion investment from Kuwait as a quid pro quo for restructuring Iraq’s liabilities, thereby guaranteeing Kuwait - and various oil companies - billions of dollars in war reparations, still due from Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War. Good business if you can get it.

 [Americanprogressaction.org] The Progress Report - American Progress Action Fund: For example, the bill creates a loophole in the Safe Drinking Water Act allowing "oil and natural gas drilling companies to inject fluids laced with toxic chemicals and contaminants into oil and gas wells that penetrate underground aquifers, risking contamination of drinking water sources." The bill also "creates a loophole in the Clean Water Act" for oil and gas companies which allows the industry to ignore regulations designed to limit "erosion and runoff into rivers and streams" at construction sites. Funding is also provided for "an inventory of oil and natural gas resources" in sensitive coastal areas, a move seen "by many coastal states as the first step toward reopening these areas to drilling."

 [Prwatch.org] Spin of the Day - Center for Media and Democracy: The New York Times reports Hughes was interviewed as part of the federal grand jury investigation into who leaked ... Topics: public relations | environment ...

 [Thinkprogress.org] Think Progress » More Thoughts On Enjoying Minority Party Status: Sergeant Benderman refuses to go to Iraq and kill children and so gets court-martialed and probably imprisoned, while Senator Biden refuses to stay on Capitol hill and grill Karen Hughes and enjoys a long weekend. To paraphrase Edward Abbey: J.

 [Acsblog.org] ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: Senior Bush adviser Karen Hughes, in a response to questions submitted by Senator John Kerry about her involvement in the disclosure of CIA operative Valerie Plame's covert status, as part of her confirmation process to fill the State Department's top public relations post, responded, "Because of my ongoing contact with the White House, I was interviewed as part of that investigation and was happy to cooperate, as I noted in my Senate Foreign Relations Committee questionnaire. As you know, these questions relate to an ongoing criminal investigation.

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