My country 'tis of thee.......

[marmar]

:cry:



from Think Progress:



According to internal Army documents, “shoddy electrical work” by private contractors at “American military facilities” in Iraq is causing more “deaths and injuries from fires and shocks than the Pentagon has acknowledged.” There were 283 fires between August 2006 through January 2007.

Maryland state troopers “infiltrated three groups advocating peace and protesting the death penalty,” according to documents obtained by the ACLU. “Information about the protesters and their activities was sent to seven agencies, including the National Security Agency and an unnamed military intelligence official.”

“Despite pleas from the White House and the State Department, as well as an international court order to review their cases, Texas will execute five Mexicans on death row.” “Mexico complained that the convicts, all men, had not been allowed a chance to talk to a Mexican consul after their arrests.”

“Climate change will pose ’substantial’ health threats including heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens in coming decades,” according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. In addition, “‘it is very likely’ that more people will die during extremely hot periods in future years, with the elderly, the poor and those in inner cities at the highest risk.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/18/thinkfast-july-18-2008/