Vanity Un-Fair? Mag Drops
Plan to Use Recycled Content

It looks like Vanity Fair doesn’t practice what it preaches when it comes to its upcoming “green issue.”
Due to hit newsstands in the second week of April, the celebrity glossy had dedicated its May issue to the environment, reportedly featuring eco-friendly stars like George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover, in-depth articles on topics [...]

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Whistleblowers: Influence Peddling
By Cheney & Pols on Water Plant

Vice President Dick Cheney allegedly pressured the Department of Justice and the Council on Environmental Quality to approve plans for a controversial wastewater treatment plant in Tijuana, Mexico, according to documents uncovered by The Raw Story and soon to be published by the Project on Government Oversight.
Over the past [...]

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Made U Look:
Rummy ‘Bombs’ The Slopes

Donald Rumsfeld, with a fan (who’s not a drag queen), enjoying a little apres-ski action in Vail on March 4.
“I like to go fast as opposed to look good,” Rummy told the Aspen Times to describe his skiing style. The Secretary of Defense and his wife, Joyce, are longtime residents of Vail Valley.
(That day, [...]

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Out of 180,000 Millionaires,
Only 30 Were Audited by IRS
Only thirty out of the nation’s 184,054 millionaires were subject to a face-to-face audit in 2005, according to an analysis of Internal Revenue Service data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
Among their findings: Taxpayers reporting less than $25,000 in total positive income were six times more likely [...]

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Made U Look:
An Occasional Photo

Union Street, Brooklyn
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Was Liberian War Criminal
Charles Taylor on the U.S. Payroll?
Ex-strongman Charles Taylor, who is considered responsible for the deaths of between 250,000 and 300,000 while the dictator of Liberia, may have been on the payroll of the United States in the mid-’90s.
That may explain why the White House hasn’t been all that aggressive in pressuring Nigeria [...]

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Quote of the Day

“I love him in an entirely appropriate way.”
That’s Karl Rove, describing new White House chief of staff Josh Bolten.
Rove also refers to Bolten, who is Jewish and is an obsessed motorcycle driver, as “Bad Mitzvah.” Sensitive to the fact that he eats kosher, the Bushes always make sure to put a big mushroom on the [...]

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Atlantic Yards: A Bird’s Eye View
Some of those protesting Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal have come up with a clever use of Google Maps to make their argument that the development would irreparably destroy the character of a unique neighborhood.
The map shows the plan’s potential impact on Prospect Heights, along with photos of surrounding streets [...]

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Hastert’s Former Aide Worked
For Chinese Cargo-Screening Firm

In recent days, some lawmakers have expressed concern about a federal contract awarded to a Hong Kong conglomerate, Hutchison Port Holdings, to screen U.S.-bound cargo. in the Bahamas for terror threats.
One congressman who hasn’t raised any objections yet to the deal is House Speaker Dennis Hastert who last month threatened legislation to halt the [...]

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Katrina Contract Watch, Chapter Two

Last month, we reported on some of the insiders whose companies seem to be benefitting from the billion-dollar reconstruction effort underway in Louisiana and Mississippi. (Katrina Contracts: Corruption?)
We spent the last few days doing an update on that report. And here are those individuals whose numbers have been revised:
Joe Allbaugh (former FEMA director)
- $401 million [...]

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