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  • Bye Bye Bipartisanship
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    I have long endorsed the political strategy of supporting both GLBT friendly Democrats and Republicans. For pragmatic reasons, it made sense not to put all of our eggs in one basket. However, that was before the GOP leadership was hijacked by right wing basket cases. Sadly, I think it is time for the GLBT movement to reassess the political landscape and consider saying goodbye to bipartisanship.
    The defenders of the status quo will claim that loyalty is an important (…)

  • New Address for Video of George Tenet’s 9/11 Lie
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
    Earlier I had posted a link to the bushbusiness.com website, which presented a video of George Tenet telling a lie about 9/11 during March 2005. This was during a speech at the University of Oklahoma, where his friend and mentor, former U.S. Senator David Boren, is president. The video was originallly posted here:
    http://www.bushbusiness.com/Wright_...
    For reasons which remain a mystery, the website has decided to take it (…)

  • A Self-Defeating War
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by George Soros The war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self-defeating policies. Five years after 9/11, a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts — Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia — a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world. Yet al Qaeda has not been subdued; a plot that could have claimed more victims than 9/11 has just been foiled by the (…)

  • When we turn our backs on the Law, we have told the bin Ladens they’ve won!
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    I have been speaking of what is a warranted fear as opposed to an unwarranted one and as I read this statement from the extremist right-wing-nut, Dick Cheney in which, concerning Ned Lamont’s win in the Conneticut Democratic primary, he stated that he found it "disturbing."
    The rightist vice president then went on to say “the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability (…)

  • The Bush Administration Makes New Enemies Daily
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ivan Eland
    In the frenzy surrounding the exposed plot to simultaneously blow up ten airliners flying from Britain to the United States, one line of inquiry being pursued by investigators should make the Bush administration very nervous. British and Pakistani law enforcement officials are examining whether the British plotters of Pakistani descent received money from an Islamic charity, Jamaat ud Dawa. The charity has been used as a front for a militant group fighting for the separation (…)

  • Idaho’s Off-Road Uproar. A bill promises to preserve the wilderness — for gearheads
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Carole King, CAROLE KING is a singer, songwriter and longtime conservation activist.
    WHILE OUR attention is on other parts of the world, an insidious movement is underway at home to privatize nationally owned land. Its proponents are using federal "quid pro quo" bills, which typically include just enough wilderness designation to get a buy-in from selected conservation groups. Roughly 250,000 acres have been privatized through such legislation since 2000.
    One such bill is the proposed (…)

  • ’Miami Vice’: The Class Analysis
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The film’s bleak vision of a world divided between shanty-towns and trailer parks at one end, and unimaginable luxury at the other, is not far off the mark.
    By Barbara Ehrenreich
    Everyone knows that the new big-screen "Miami Vice" is "darker" than the old one, meaning that the light-hearted, wise-cracking Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas have been replaced by the brooding, inarticulate Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, who favor dingy blues and grays over their predecessors’ lavender (…)

  • Pitch Black Void: The Neocon Wet Dream Come to Life
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taken from www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Freefall
    The towers fell upon their own imprints, floor after floor cascading down upon the next in an avalanche of concrete, glass, steel and flesh, in the process pulverizing everything, and everybody, between them, over 200 combined stories of human ingenuity flattened in the span of seconds, their reign over gravity and the skies eviscerated, falling down to the land of mortals not with the chaos of randomness and malevolent physics but (…)

  • H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan Recombinomics Commentary August 14, 2006
    White House press secretary Tony Snow has announce a press conference of H5N1 in mute swans in Michigan. His comments indicated it was low pathogenic avian influenza and is likely to have strong relationship to the H5N1 detected in Manitoba last August. The H5N1 was part of an expanded surveillance program across southern Canada. H5 was detected across Canada and was found in 24% of young mallards tested in British (…)

  • How many terrorists see an opportunity due to Bush and Blair’s stupidity?
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    At this point, I want to knock some sense into the mainstream media for playing Bush and Blair’s game and that is the game of terror and fear.
    These so-called news organizations that are read and viewed by millions are now coming out with disturbing facts concerning this alleged terror plot that would have blown ten airplanes headed to the United States out of the skies.
    In fact, I’m ripping mad that they would play with the lives of innocent people and those that (…)