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  • A Second Take on Scooter-gate. It’s all about treason
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    Editorial note: The original version of this column, which ran on October 3, contained a number of errors involving dates, which I have now corrected. I have also added a significant amount of new material, so much that it is, for all intents and purposes, quite a different piece from the original.
    It isn’t generally known that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff - now revealed as New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s source in the (…)

  • War-Hawk Republicans and Anti-War Democrats: What’s the Difference?
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    The past week in DC found me in many offices of our elected officials: Senators, Congresspersons, pro-war, "anti-war," Democrat, Republican. With a few notable exceptions, all our employees toed party lines.
    Thanks to those who met with me, because, except for Sen. Barbara Boxer, (D-Ca), I was not their constituent. And I believe the Republicans who met with me, whether they knew it or not, were breaking with their leader on this, since he was too cowardly to meet with (…)

  • Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”?
    Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.”
    The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.”
    Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors (…)

  • Bellaciao Collective in Great Britain
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bellaciao Collective in Great Britain was a result of the need for contact between Italians resident in the UK (whether temporarily or long-term) who want to stay in close touch with the politics and political culture of their home country.
    A few of us belong to Italian left-wing parties. Others are sympathisers, while others again do not associate themselves with any particular party.
    The thing we share is that we all lean to the left: we believe in the values and ideals of the left (…)

  • FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.
    Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.
    Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco subsequently inked (…)

  • Bush uses failure during Katrina,overstated avian flu death tolls to push for end to Posse Comitatus
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    publisher’s note: This is the worst US president ever, responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 innocents, a moral zero, incompetent idiot who is a threat to the world. We have to stop him now or God help us all.
    Bush Would Use Military to Quarantine Avian Flu Pandemic
    In the event of a bird flu pandemic that spreads among humans in the United States, President George W. Bush is considering using the military to impose a quarantine on the affected areas. Currently state governors (…)

  • France : a million protesters...
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A nationwide one-day strike in France has disrupted travel and business and dealt the first major challenge to the economic program of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
    Official figures showed turn-out from the public sector, with 30 percent of railway staff and teachers, 23 percent of electricity workers and between 15 and 30 percent of post office staff joining the stoppages.
    Demonstrations were staged in cities from Marseille in the south to Le Havre in the north, with the largest (…)

  • NOLA: 800 bodies in the morgue - so what if you lose a body or two
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Loss of bodies adds to grief of many families. Authorities have few answers
    By DAVID ZUCCHINO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
    BATON ROUGE, La. - When he finally could leave his post guarding a nuclear power plant after Hurricane Katrina struck, Richard George Reysack III sped to the flooded home of his 80-year-old father east of New Orleans. Slogging through the muck, he found his father’s corpse face-down in the hallway.
    As devastating as that discovery was, at least Reysack had his father’s (…)

  • Dems/Iraq = Bush/Vietnam = AWOL
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yesterday I thanked the 6 House Democrats—Lee, Conyers, Woolsey, Grijalva, McKinney & Waters—who joined 300,000 of us at the antiwar march/rally/concert last weekend. We do appreciate it.
    Today I want to ask the obvious follow-up question, which several commenters also raised—where were the rest of the House & Senate Dems?
    There are 202 House Democrats, plus 1 Independent, plus several nonvoting House Dems. Plus, there are 44 Senate Democrats, plus 1 Independent.
    A grand total (…)

  • Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn’t a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That’s right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay $22 million to settle a suit asserting that "it aided a client in defrauding investors."
    The details of the case are both nauseating and highly (…)