Soaring Deficits Put US At Risk Bill Gallagher March 29, 2005 Detroit - What is the greatest threat America faces? Why, of course, it’s international terrorism. That "truth" dominates our national life. George W. Bush, our Lord High Protector, often reminds us — with the assurance of Moses reading from the tablets of the Ten Commandants, the words wrought with God’s own hand — he knows his anointed mission is to protect us from this pervasive "evil." Everything - from obscene tax cuts (...)
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Soaring Deficits Put US At Risk
29 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Follow The Money: Corruption in Iraq is out of control. Will the U.S. clamp down on it?
27 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsFollow The Money Watchdogs are warning that corruption in Iraq is out of control. But will the United States join efforts to clamp down on it?
’Fraud-free zone’: Willis, center, in Iraq with two CPA colleagues, preparing to pay a contractor in 2003
NewsweekApril 4 issue - By many accounts, Custer Battles was a nightmare contractor in Iraq. The company’s two principals, Mike Battles and Scott Custer, overcharged occupation authorities by millions of dollars, according to a complaint (...) -
Blank Check for Bush: Congress fails to serve as check and balance
20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentMost members of Congress have ceased to function as serious legislators. They simply walk through the motions, collect their checks and then vote as the White House tells them they must.
This is not a complaint merely about most Republicans in the House and Senate - whose unwavering allegiance to even their president’s maddest schemes mirrors that of Sancho Panza to Don Quixote. The Democrats are just about as bad, as was illustrated by their support this week of the administration’s (...) -
Congress on Steroids! See No-Nonsense Representatives Get Tough on Witnesses!
19 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsIn the baseball steroid hearings, we saw aggressive questioning by representatives, but when it involves anything important, like war funding or CIA torture, members of this Congress are nothing but yes-men and neutered pussycats.
If you watched or read about the Congressional hearings yesterday conducted by the House Government Reform Committee, you’d have thought Congress was a real legislature, with bulldog representatives willing to stop at nothing to get at the truth.
There was (...) -
$9 Billion Stolen from Iraqis, Congress investigates Steroids in Baseball
18 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThere is real and verifiable corruption in Washington DC. These facts are all public knowledge, but the media refuses to put it all together. The only conspiracy here is that of the media to keep this story buried.
Last year whistleblowers exposed fraudulent practices by Dick Cheney’s (433,000 stock options, $1 million annual paycheck) Halliburton. Our government gave Halliburton a no-bid contract valid for 5 years. The top army official recommended an open-bid 1 yr deal, she was (...) -
Out-of-control Spending in Iraq is an insult to US taxpayers: 162 dems vote to give Bush $82B more
17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsWASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), a leader in the House of Representatives against the war in Iraq, issued the following statement today on the $82 billion Supplemental Appropriations Bill:
"Before we issue another $82 billion for operations in Iraq, to continue a failed policy in Iraq, we must address the greater picture: The Administration has been morally corrupt in its handling of every aspect of the Iraq war, from the very beginning to the present.
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KBR spent 27.5 million getting $82,100 worth of fuel into Iraq
16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentShipping was extra - a lot extra
WASHINGTON - Iraq needed fuel. Halliburton Co. was ordered to get it there - quick. So the Houston-based contractor charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel.
In the latest revelation about the company’s oft-criticized performance in Iraq, a Pentagon audit report disclosed Monday showed Halliburton subsidiary KBR spent $82,100 to buy liquefied petroleum gas, better-known as LPG, in Kuwait and then 335 times (...) -
Vote NO on Bush’s $82 billion Supplemental Budget Request to fund the occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan
15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the Bush Administration’s request for an additional $82 billion to fund the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps as early as Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Every day the U.S. spends over $200 million of working peoples’ money to fund war and occupation in Iraq. 100,000 Iraqis have died. More than 1,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded. There should not be one more dime spent on Bush’s criminal wars, occupations (...)
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Democratic Senators Cave on Bankruptcy Bill
14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Matthew Rothschild
On March 11, the U.S. Senate passed the bankruptcy bill that will fill the coffers of the credit card companies while bleeding consumers dry.
The bill passed by a whopping 74 to 25 margin, with eighteen Democratic Senators going over to the dark side.
Here are the spineless 18:
Max Baucus, Montana.
Evan Bayh, Indiana.
Joe Biden, Delaware.
Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico.
Robert Byrd, West Virginia.
Thomas Carper, Delaware.
Kent Conrad, North Dakota. (...) -
Help Senator Stevens Retire : Fax Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsRobert F Kennedy Jr’s Natural Resources Defense Council is organizing to Tell Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
Stevens says it may be his last try at ANWR
Washington, D.C. - A Senate vote on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next week could have more than just an effect on energy development or conservation efforts. What happens next week may affect the political future of Alaska’s senior senator, Ted Stevens.
He’s been nicknamed “senator for (...)