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  • “ Rich people, God Bless Us!”
    5 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “ Rich people, God Bless Us!” By David Glenn Cox
    Here in the polarized states of America, with a little media magic, a draft dodger can become a war hero and a war hero a charlatan. After the New York Times exposé explains the media’s complicity in what has been going on, well thanks, but no thanks. Old news, Robert Novak and Judith Miller, Op Ed’s by Richard Perle and Pat Buchanon, the story then turns to inside baseball.
    Just conspirators trying to unburden their chest and clear (…)

  • Building Manager: DC Madam’s Death Not Suicide
    5 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Building Manager: DC Madam’s Death Not Suicide
    POSTED: 8:54 pm EDT May 2, 2008 UPDATED: 9:27 pm EDT May 2, 2008
    ORLANDO, Fla. — The building manager of a Central Florida condo said he spent time talking to Deborah Jean Palfrey on Monday as she packed to go to her mother’s house and she did not seem suicidal.
    Deborah Jean Palfrey has many ties to Central Florida. For the past 12 years she’s owned a condo at Park Lake Towers in Orlando.
    Video: Manager Says D.C. Madam Death Not Suicide (…)

  • Blips #69 From The Martian Desk
    4 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "DID YOU KNOW PENGUINS CAN FLY?"
    (Swans - April 21, 2008) "DID YOU KNOW PENGUINS CAN FLY?" asked a local resident recently. "Penguins do not fly," I retorted. "You are wrong," he replied. "How come? if I may ask... " "I saw it on TV," answered the strong-headed chap. To see something on TV — a computer simulation — was enough to make that man believe that penguins do fly. In September 2005, I had a conversation with another long-time Boonville resident who was adamant that we were (…)

  • The collapse of the United States is accelerating : Oil in Euros vs. US dollars
    4 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the last eight years implementing the plans for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) designed "to promote American global leadership" has backfired.
    To accomplish PNAC’s goals, all threats needed to be eliminated. From the onset, the United Sates earmarked two countries as mortal enemies: Venezuela and Iran. With Venezuela, it is well documented that the CIA attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chavez. And with Iran, the United States continues to (…)

  • Video : Labor Leader : “Wall St. Has Hijacked the Economy!”
    3 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaTpgZHyeE
    Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasure of the AFL-CIO, was one of the featured speakers at the “International Workers Day Celebration” event, held on May 1, 2008, at the National Labor College, in Silver Spring, MD. He ripped into the evils of Globalization and the harmful effects that it is having on the economy and in particular on the lives of working class Americans. Mr. Trumka also charged: “Wall St. has hijacked the economy!” He is the former (…)

  • Brave New World : ush signs Bill to Take all Newborns’ DNA
    3 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Steve Watson
    President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
    Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health (…)

  • USA and Torture : Condoleezza Rice Must Go! (video+petition)
    2 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    America will not stand for a Secretary of State who approved torture and then misled Congress. We call on the Presidential candidates to ask Secretary of State Rice to resign.
    video:
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19073916.html
    Sign the petition: http://condimustgo.com/

  • US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
    2 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
    By Fred Williams 2 May 2008
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) carried out an eight-hour work stoppage at West Coast ports on May 1 to demand an end to the war in Iraq.
    The work action halted activity at 29 ports from San Diego, California to Washington State. According to both the ILWU and the employers’ organization, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), 25,000 dockworkers represented by (…)

  • Sen. Mikulski’s Warmongering Exposed by Peace Activist
    30 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “I am here [at this demonstration] as a ‘personal’ witness!” Activist, poet and Vietnam War veteran, Ms. Madeleine Mysko
    Baltimore, MD - On April 24, 2008, a spirited antiwar protest was held in this city in the downtown area. It was sponsored by MoveOn.org and Progressive Maryland. One of the activists participating was Ms. Madeleine Mysko, a registered nurse and a veteran of the Vietnam War. She ripped into Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), who has consistently voted to fund the Iraq War to (…)

  • Hillary Clinton Say’s She’ll Nuke Iran (On Keith Olbermann TV show)
    28 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hillary Clinton Say’s She’ll Nuke Iran On Keith Olbermann
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19108357.html
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    Bill clinton, anti-war?
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