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Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
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- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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Bill's beer
Coming back from Mexico in February, where he had gone to claim that his international drug war is a great success, Bill Clinton was given a beer by Air Force One stewards. No problem, alcohol is a legal drug. But hold your Clydesdales— they gave him a Hemp Golden Beer. The hemp plant (related to marijuana but without the high) has thousands of great uses, from making paper to beer, but demagoging politicians have banned U.S. farmers from growing it. So Bill's beer was made from imported hemp seed. He won't get another, though. The Office of National Drug Control Policy has now banned Hemp Golden (a legal product) from Air Force One, saying it's an "inappropriate" drink for the president's plane.