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  • Florida deputy seen dumping paralyzed man onto floor posts bail (videos)
    18 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Brian sterner
    This video image released by the Hillsborough County Police Dept. shows Brian Sterner, a 32-year-old paralyzed man, lying on a Tampa, Fla., jailhouse floor on Jan. 29, 2008, after he was dumped from his wheelchair by police deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, left, holding the chair.
    By Associated Press
    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair onto a Tampa jailhouse floor has been released from jail after posting bail. (…)

  • The Lost Kristol Tapes
    18 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Imagine that there were a Beatles record only a few people knew existed. And imagine you got the chance to listen to it, and as you did, your excitement grew, note by note. You realized it wasn’t merely as good as Rubber Soul, or Revolver, or Sgt. Pepper’s. It was much, much better. And now, imagine how badly you’d want to tell other Beatles fans all about it.
    That’s how I feel for my fellow William Kristol fans. You loved it when Bill said invading Iraq was going to have (…)

  • Peace Candidates Step Forward to Challenge Bush Enablers
    17 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This week an exciting new candidate has come forward to challenge Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco district where the voters are being ignored by the Speaker of the House. Citizens around the nation are pledging time and sending donations to Shirley Golub in an effort to show Nancy Pelosi that we have had enough. She has failed to uphold the Constitution and appears to be protecting Bush from his crimes, not defending our Constitution and holding him accountable to the law.
    Shirley Golub (…)

  • Civil Resistance In the Age of Bush and Cheney
    16 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Hughes
    “Be the change that you want to see in the world.” - Mohandas Gandhi
    The late Philip Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, wrote in 1997: “The empire’s wars are killing us.” (1) One of the big props for that empire is the clique in our society, known as the “Military-Industrial Complex.” This is the same powerful special interest that President Dwight D. Eisenshower warned the nation about in his “Farewell Address.” (2) Peace activist Berrigan felt, as a result of the arms (…)

  • America’s Top Accountant Resigns : US Comptroller General warms of US bankruptcy
    16 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    David M. Walker, The Comptroller General of the United States and “head of the Government Accountability Office, announced Friday that he will resign in March to lead a new foundation focused on long-term public policy challenges… Walker, 56, has repeatedly warned that the government faces a long-term fiscal crisis as the baby-boom generation retires, driving up spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.”…
    “As GAO chief, Walker has warned that the government is ignoring threats (…)

  • US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars: bank
    15 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars: bank
    Feb 14 04:20 PM US/Eastern
    The meltdown in the US subprime real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed Thursday.
    The crisis, which has spread beyond US shores to banks and other sectors worldwide, is "one of the most vicious in financial history," according to Bank of America chief market strategist Joseph Quinlan.
    Quinlan said (…)

  • Popping The Obama Bubble
    15 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Popping The Obama Bubble
    Now that the Kennedy’s have formally anointed Obama with the legend of Camelot we have to wonder if he deserves it, or, if "it" is really anything at all. Firstly, JKF gained mythic proportions only by being assassinated. Before that, he became President by the tiniest of margins; in fact, on the day of his assassination he was in Dallas, not as a legend, but as a struggling politician shoring up his sagging political fortunes there in anticipation of his next (…)

  • Republicans Walk Out, Americans Pray They Won’t Return
    15 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Republican lawmakers in Washington, DC, did today what voters and citizens across the country have been trying to do for the better part of the last 8 years: they removed themselves from the House chamber of the Capitol.
    Following an impassioned speech decrying "political grandstanding" by minority leader John Boehner, Republican members of the House of Representatives walked out of congress and onto the steps of the Capitol in a move oddly similar to "political grandstanding."
    Many (…)

  • Federal contract fraud crackdown / to make contractors report abuzes
    14 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Federal contract fraud crackdown has loophole Plan to make contractors report abuse exempts Iraq, other overseas work
    President Bush in his own words A look at the quotable foreign policy speeches that define George W. Bush’s presidency. Produced by Kevin Flynn and Lisa Desai. MSNBC.com
    updated 9:14 p.m. ET Feb. 12, 2008 WASHINGTON - A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to report abuse of (…)

  • Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Assaults by security firms in IRAQ
    14 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults Left, Andrew Cutraro for The New York Times; Right, David Ahntholz for The New York Times Jamie Leigh Jones, left, a former employee for the military contractor KBR, told Congress that she had been gang-raped by co-workers in Iraq in 2005. Mary Beth Kineston, also a former KBR worker, said she was sexually assaulted by one driver, groped by another worker and fired after complaining.
    By JAMES RISEN Published: February 13, 2008 WASHINGTON — (…)