links for 2007-09-06

• Iraq convoy was sent out despite threat – Los Angeles Times
  Senior managers for defense contractor KBR overruled calls to halt supply operations in Iraq in the spring of 2004, ordering unarmored trucks into an active combat zone where six civilian drivers died in an ambush, according to newly available documents.
  (tags: KBR Haliburton Iraq drivers convoy ambush madness)
• How to Become a Vegetarian, the Easy Way | zen habits
  (tags: advice blog body diet fitness food health howto vegan zenhabits vegetarian)
• McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/05/2007 | 50 years later, lamenting state of Civil Rights Division
  Several of these former civil rights lawyers expressed fears that the Bush administration has tainted the division’s legacy by rolling back voting rights enforcement, bringing few employment discrimination lawsuits on behalf of African-Americans and diver
  (tags: civil+rights discrimination racism South federal Bush elections)
• Blueprint for Gulf Renewal – The Katrina Crisis and a Community Agenda for Action
  Where did the money go?
  (tags: Katrina study NOLA recovery disaster fraud corruption poverty education infrastructure GOP Bush)
• WirtzSucks.com
  (tags: hockey Chicago Blackhawks NHL)
• Group News Blog: “Do you understand where you are?”
  “Do you understand where you are?”
  (tags: america politics blogs race racism)

~ by SAP on 6 September 2007.