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  • URGENT: A Second Anti-Venezuela Resolution to be Introduced Tomorrow in the House.
    9 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Wednesday, Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) intends to introduce a resolution in the House condemning Venezuela for supposedly not cooperating with the United States in the fight against narco- trafficking.
    Please contact your House representative today!
    – http://www.democracyinaction.org/di...

  • Kucinich Asks Tough Questions of Bush, Rumsfeld Wants Answers About What the U.S. Is Doing in Iraq
    9 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    original link
    May 6, 2006
    Congressman Kucinich has been asking tough questions of the President and the Secretary of Defense.
    He wrote letters in April to both Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush. The text of the letters appears in the May 4 issue of the Congression Record Extensions of Remarks.
    Kucinich’s April 5 letter to Rumsfeld began, "I am writing to request a copy of all records pertaining to Pentagon plans to use U.S. Special Forces to advise, support and train Iraqi (…)

  • Molly Ivins: The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington
    9 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted on May 8, 2006 By Molly Ivins
    AUSTIN, Texas-Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can fogey with the best: On my better days, I make David Broder look like Page Six.
    I don’t care what anyone smoked 20 years ago, I approve of those who boogie till they puke, and I don’t care who anyone in politics is screwing in private, as long as they’re not screwing the public.
    On other hand, if you expect me to pass up a scandal (…)

  • 911 Loose Change—A MUST SEE video
    9 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sometimes ‘ignorance is bliss’ and sometimes we must ‘pursue the truth’. If you have not yet watched the video ‘911 Loose Change’, this is a MUST SEE!! The link is listed below:
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...
    This movie is packed a lot of very credible information ----based on science and logic, not on imagination or craziness. I ask you to take the time to watch this and then encourage your friends and family to do the same.
    All Americans need to view this--- we need to (…)

  • NEOCONMEN: Their Utopian Dream
    9 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There has been much published lately about the Neocons (Perle, Wolfowitz,Feith,Cristol et al) and their lamentable and abject failure to implement the P.N.A.C. scenario (Project for a New American Century). Don’t believe it. Their enthusiasm hasn’t waned, it’s just temporarily in limbo.
    When one considers their dream it really is Utopian in a way, and absurdly optimistic in it’s aims and aspirations.
    Did anybody really believe the dream? Yes! Here’s what they hoped would happen: (…)

  • jack welch and ge amerikkkas modern day judas
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How Tim Russert became Karl Rove’s bitch. by kant Mon May 08, 2006 at 10:19:01 AM PDT There is an ESSENTIAL conversation happening in the comments on a post over at Firedoglake.
    Call me stupid, but when I read these comments and the links embedded in them, it was like I was hit by a thunderbolt. I never really understood how guys like Russert and Mathews went from being eager and earnest Democratic liberals to shills for Bushco. Well it all comes down to one man... The widely revered (…)

  • Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush’s Illegal Spying
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ALTERNET LINK
    Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush’s Illegal Spying By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet Posted on May 8, 2006, Printed on May 8, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/35807/ Five months after news of the NSA’s warrantless spying program broke, and after we’ve learned numerous details of the program’s extent, a Portland, Ore., attorney may have finally obtained hard evidence of illegal wiretaps by the government.
    Thomas Nelson has been practicing administrative law for most of (…)

  • The Roots of May Day: Today’s marchers are liberals’ best hope.
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nelson Lichtenstein
    Today’s May Day marches are putting hundreds of thousands on the street and have politicized more people than anything since the height of the civil rights movement. Like every other massive social protest in American history, the events have generated their share of fear. Democrats and some leaders of D.C.-based immigrant groups worry that the call to boycott work and shut down Latino-dependent businesses will generate a backlash. Republicans and nativists see them (…)

  • NY Daily News Describes University of Oklahoma Bomber Joel Hinrichs as "Infamous Terrorist"
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
    In October 2005, on a University of Oklahoma bench within a two-minute walk of the stadium while a football game was in progress, OU student Joel Hinrichs set off a bomb in his backpack and killed himself. This happened three minutes before half time. The bench was adjacent to a sidewalk. Go here for my full report:
    Evidence strongly suggests that Hinrichs intended to kill others but experienced an accidental early detonation. (…)

  • EXCLUSIVE: CIA Nominee Hayden Linked to MZM
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MUCKRAKER LINK http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archive...
    While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employees of the company.
    follow link for rest of story