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  • Brown message to US: it’s time to build, not destroy
    15 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Brown message to US: it’s time to build, not destroy Minister signals foreign policy shift ahead of PM’s Washington trip
    Patrick Wintour and Julian Borger Friday July 13, 2007, The Guardian
    The first clear signs that Gordon Brown will reorder Britain’s foreign policy emerged last night when one of his closest cabinet allies urged the US to change its priorities and said a country’s strength should no longer be measured by its destructive military power.
    Douglas Alexander, the trade and (…)

  • How Rich Are You?
    12 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    So just how rich are you? Are you doctor or lawyer rich? Are you CEO rich? Or perhaps pro athlete rich? Or maybe you’re just a poor shlub like me just an average Joe with an average income. The average is $46,000 but that’s for all families, if you refine it even more to traditional family average is $57,000. But now if you’re a dink (dual income no kids) it rises to $66,000 per year. I guess being childless you can travel on the job more and need less time off.
    For non family households (…)

  • HOW TERROR LOST ITS MEANING
    12 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 12, 2007
    HOW TERROR HAS LOST ITS MEANING
    John Chuckman
    Why does terror dominate our headlines and the attention of our governments going on six years after 9/11? The answer cannot be what George Bush says that it is: it is not the fault of people who hate democracy and freedom.
    We know this for a great many reasons. One of the world’s oldest terrorist organizations, the IRA, had no interest in British government and society. It was interested only in being free of their (…)

  • The Yes Men!!! Amazing funny warriors of Truth
    12 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Yes Men!!! Amazing funny warriors of Truth
    The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com (read the whole story of GWBush.com here http://www.rtmark.com/bush.html ), and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO’s website http://www.gatt.org ). Some visitors don’t notice the site is a fake, and send speaking invitations meant for the real WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse and soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives. (…)

  • The Iraq War: Every cloud has a silver lining!
    11 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush and the MSM may brag about their efforts in Iraq, but the public at large and most pundits decry it as the "4 year failure".
    Ask anyone in the world and they will tell you that the war is the biggest failure the US ever launched as a military/occupation venture. But wait!
    Secretly, when you slink down the back allys of Foggy Bottom and query those "in the know", they will confide that this "war" is considered by Washingtonians as the biggest success in our history!
    Huh?
    True. (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan to Lead Rally in Charlottesville, Va.
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Swanson
    WHAT: Rally for peace, justice, and impeachment, part of Cindy Sheehan’s "Journey for Humanity"
    march/drive from Crawford, Texas, to New York City.
    WHO: Cindy Sheehan, other leading activists for peace and justice, the Charlottesville Center for Peace and
    Justice, Code Pink, and other allied peace and justice organizations.
    WHEN: Friday, July 20, 6:00 p.m.
    WHERE: Outside, on the west end of the Downtown Mall, in front of the Charlottesville Ice Park, in (…)

  • Corporate Tested, Media Approved
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The face race is well underway and in full swing, the second quarter fundraising stats are in and Obama raised more money than Hillary did. John McCain raised less than Rudy but neither raised as much as Obama of course this is all media crapola. The idea that some how fundraising equates to support when in fact the opposite is more likely true. The media opines fundraising is the only metric they have to gauge support before actual ballots are cast. That is of course complete and total (…)

  • Overgrown Kids, Unshackled Ids, and the Death of the Superego
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." Sigmund Freud
    Frightening as it may be, the Earth’s fate rests in the hands of children. With incredibly formidable military firepower at its disposal, the United States could catalyze Armageddon at any time. And while they may be adults chronologically, our sociopolitical structure is dominated by emotional infants.
    Nietzsche once pronounced God dead. In the (…)

  • Judiciary Committee Schedules Hearing on Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. announced that he will be holding a full committee hearing next week titled, “The Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials.” The hearing will be held next Wednesday, July 11, at 10:15 am in the committee’s hearing room, 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.
    “In light of yesterday’s announcement by the President that he was commuting the prison sentence for Scooter Libby, it is (…)

  • The Pious Publishers Are Already In Heaven
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Charlene Cothran (Venus magazine) and Michael Glatze (Young Gay America magazine editor) were gay niche publishers who discovered that peddling fiction is much juicer (and potentially more profitable) than selling straight news on gay life. The newly minted "ex-gay" stars tell us they have seen the light - unfortunately, it appears to be the spotlight - as they now parade themselves in the Christian media, pawning their terrific tales of transformation. Cothran and Glatze (…)