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The Terminator Says Hasta La Vista Baby to 75 Year Old
Calif. Governor Has No Mercy for Inmate
By DAVID KRAVETS Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - California's oldest death row inmate — a 75-year-old who is legally blind and nearly deaf — is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: block an execution because of the condemned man's advanced age and infirmity.
Clarence Ray Allen's attorneys contend that executing a feeble old man amounts to cruel and unusual punishment banned by the U.S. Constitution.
Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday denied Allen clemency. Barring a last-minute reprieve by the courts, the governor's decision means Allen will become the second-oldest person put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.
Calif. Governor Has No Mercy for Inmate
The Power of Oil
From Carl B.
The Power of Oil
Scramble for diminishing resource shapes global relationships
Dilip Hiro
YaleGlobal Online, 10 January 2006
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez
LONDON: A geopolitical game has been underway ever since oil became a strategic commodity just before World War I. Once dominated primarily by Western nations, the game now includes many non-Western ones, with the countries dependent on oil imports increasingly reluctant to antagonize those endowed with oil.
A case in point, Western capitals have abandoned threats of placing Iran in the dock at the UN Security Council – at least for the time being. On January 10, to the chagrin of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran resumed research in enriching uranium that it had voluntarily stopped earlier
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Boycott Bush
From Roland R.
A consumer campaign to boycott Bush's biggest funders
This website was established on April 12th 2001 by Ethical Consumer magazine, following the rejection by President Bush of the Kyoto Agreement on global warming. Since that date, he has gone on to offend many more people around the world by his illegal invasion of Iraq and other regressive steps such as opposing weapons proliferation treaties.
What we want
On this website we call on consumers who oppose any or all of Bush's activities to boycott the brands of his biggest corporate funders until they:
publicly call on him to support the Kyoto protocol, and
cease all political funding of the current administration until he does so.
Boycott Bush.net