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  • Thank you, President Bush!
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "A guy I knew back home fell out of a ten story building. As he was falling people kept saying: So far so good ".... Steve McQueen, "The Magnificent Seven"
    Mr.Bush, I think you’ve had a bad rap by many of your subjects in the US of A. They continually accuse you of lying us into a horrible war, of killing thousands of innocent Iraqis and causing the deaths and suffering of thousands of US troops, and of causing an irreversible contamination of of Iraq by depleted uranium...which continues (…)

  • Taliban ’knew of Cheney visit’
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taliban ’knew of Cheney visit’ 27/02/2007 12:07 - (SA)
    Islamabad - A suicide attack at an Afghan air base where US vice-president Dick Cheney was staying shows that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have penetrated local intelligence agencies, analysts and officials said.
    The blast early on Tuesday at Bagram air base near Kabul also highlights the increasing sophistication of the extremist outfits as they prepare for a feared spring offensive against Western troops, they said.
    The day (…)

  • Air Force Two: Lights went out
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Air Force Two: Lights went out 25/02/2007 12:11 - (SA)
    Panic over Cheney’s Air Force 2
    Singapore - US vice-President Dick Cheney’s plane suffered electrical problems before stopping in Singapore on Sunday but officials denied the halt was an emergency measure.
    Air Force 2’s landing at Paya Lebar Air Base en route from Sydney was a scheduled refuelling stop, they said, dismissing reports of a last-minute diversion.
    "This was the pre-planned, scheduled refuelling stop. We were not (…)

  • Kucinich Introduces HR 1234 To Immediately End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich Introduces HR 1234 To Immediately End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 28) - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced HR 1234, a bill to immediately end the United States occupation of Iraq, in the House of Representatives today.
    "This is the plan that will get our troops home the fastest. It is workable and achieves the goals of ending the war and enabling our troops to come home," Kucinich said.
    HR 1234 is a plan for the United States to use existing (…)

  • U.S. Tactics of Containing Regional Roles in Middle East
    28 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    Two-pronged U.S. tactics of confrontation and engagement unfolded last week and described by some media as “turnabouts” in the strategy of containment of what Washington perceives as adverse regional roles in the Middle East, but in the Iraqi context and in historical perspective these tactics are revealed only as old diplomatic manoeuvres in the drawers of the State Department.
    In remarks before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday Secretary of State (…)

  • Stocks Have Worst Day Since 9/11 Attacks
    28 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stocks Have Worst Day Since 9/11 Attacks
    Feb 27, 11:33 PM (ET)
    By MADLEN READ
    NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks had their worst day of trading since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Tuesday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 400 points on a worldwide tide of concern that the U.S. and Chinese economies are stumbling and that share prices have become overinflated.
    The steepness of the market’s drop, as well as its global breadth, signaled a possible correction after a long (…)

  • Kucinich Receives ’Champion for Peace’ Award from Military Families in L.A.
    27 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The military families are so deserving of support, I think of what it must be like to have a son or daughter in Iraq, knowing they’re in harm’s way, knowing that there is not a military victory to be won, and to me it’s an obligation to support them and an honor to support them."
    "If we really love our troops as the military families do," Kucinich told the crowd, "we should bring them home"
    http://www.cafepress.com/dk2008
    HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ohio (…)

  • US Military Attempt Arrest of Vice President Cheney, 3 Reported Dead
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Military Attempt Arrest of Vice President Cheney, 3 Reported Dead
    February 25, 2007 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Russian FSB sources are reporting today that an attempt by Special Forces Troops of the United States Military to arrest the American Vice President Cheney shortly after boarding his official plane in Australia has resulted in at least 3 dead and an unknown number of wounded.
    These reports state that the United States Air Force, which is in (…)

  • Bush World’s #1 Terrorist (Qantas T-shirt ban) & Stupid (huge Mebourne Airport advertising sign)
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Melbourne International Airport, gateway to one of the World’s Most Livable Cities, is in the news because of George W. Bush.
    Thus (1) Australia’s international carrier Qantas recently excluded an Australian passenger for wearing a T-shirt depicting Bush with a caption “World’s #1 terrorist” and (2) TODAY at Melbourne Airport there is a huge entrance billboard depicting a bemused George Bush and advertising a real estate search site with the caption: “So easy anyone can find a new home” (…)

  • MCA HEADED FOR SUPREMES
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher
    Following an appeals court’s divided decision upholding the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act, opponents of the measure are racing the clock to file an appeal to the US Supreme Court and have it heard during the court’s current term.
    A spokesperson for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the New York-based legal advocacy group that brought the original suit, told IPS it expected the appeal to be filed within the next two weeks and heard in the spring. (…)