Don Lane, former Mayor, and consultant for the S.C. Coast Hotel project, will be speaking on Bathrobespierre's Broadsides Sunday February 13 at 10 AM. He will answer questions by phone (831-427-3772) and via the chatroom (www.Pagesincolor.com).

Despite the fact that the UC Code of Conduct commits suppliers of university merchandise to disclose the location of their (and their contractors’) factories, they often fail.

It appears that UC is bending over backwards to offer Ms. Denton and Ms. Kalonji such lucrative incentives at the same time that service and clerical workers have been without a contract for months, and struggle to stay above the poverty line.

The lawsuit, filed by the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch, alleges that participants from industry effectively became members of the task force formulating the White House's industry-friendly energy recommendations, while environmental groups and others were shut out of the meetings.

Dick Cheney has continued to cloak the composition of his 2001 energy task force in secrecy. The Federal Advisory Committee Act says the government must disclose the work of groups that include non-federal employees. A lawsuit is pending to force disclosure. Jane Mayer of The New Yorker suggests that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were planned well in advance of the September 11th crisis - planned for the benefit of US oil corporations headquartered in Texas