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  • $500K Seized; Strange Situation Reported At Nuclear Plant
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. — Two workers looking for tools set off a security situation at a Beaver County nuclear power plant that drew a response from police and federal investigators, WTAE Channel 4’s Paul Van Osdol reported.
    State police said the men drove up to the Beaver Valley Power Station in a tractor-trailer on Tuesday night to pick up two large containers of tools for a contractor for whom they worked.
    Security guards stopped the men for a routine inspection, but they drove away, (…)

  • UNCURIOUS GEORGE & 9/11
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was George W. Bush aware that a hijacking was in progress BEFORE the first plane struck the WTC at 8 : 46 am Eastern Time , the morning of 9/11/01 ? ......... A report from ABC News White House correspondent John Cochran strongly suggests this was the case............ " Peter , as you know ,the President’s down in Florida talking about education. He got out of his hotel suite this moring , was about to leave , reporters saw White House Chief of Staff Andy Card whisper into the (…)

  • Mitt Romney’s Unfair Health Care
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Schiller
    Recently, the state of Massachusetts passed a universal health care bill which is being hailed by the media as an ideal model for federal and state level legislation to extend health care to all Americans. While congress and state governments across the nation should start taking action to achieve the goal of extending health coverage to all those who deserve it, they would be better advised to formulate a different approach. The legislation championed by Mitt Romney is (…)

  • Pentagon Releases Extensive Gitmo List
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BEN FOX
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.S. government released the first list of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison on Wednesday - the most extensive accounting yet of the hundreds of people held there, nearly all of them labeled enemy combatants.
    In all, 558 people were named in the list provided by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit by The Associated Press. They were among the first swept up in the U.S. global war on terrorism for suspected (…)

  • All Eyes on May Day A Real Day Without Mexicans?
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOHN ROSS
    Outgoing Mexican president Vicente Fox’s long-treasured pipedream of an immigration agreement with Washington went up in smoke in early April when Republican senators torpedoed a compromise measure that would have legalized millions of undocumented workers living north of the border and guaranteed hundreds of thousands of unemployed Mexicans short-term jobs in the U.S.
    But the proposed reform carried by Senators Ted Kennedy (Dem Ma.) and John McCain (Rep. Ariz.) would have (…)

  • Bush won’t exclude Iran nuke strike
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Saul Hudson
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy failed to curb the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions.
    Bush said he would discuss Iran’s nuclear activities with China’s President Hu Jintao, who has been cool toward sanctions, during his U.S. visit this week.
    Asked if his options included planning for a nuclear (…)

  • Desert Rats Leave The Sinking Ship Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Palast
    Well, here they come: the wannabe Rommels, the gaggle of generals, safely retired, to lay siege to Donald Rumsfeld. This week, six of them have called for the Secretary of Defense’s resignation.
    Well, according to my watch, they’re about four years too late — and they still don’t get it.
    I know that most of my readers will be tickled pink that the bemedalled boys in crew cuts are finally ready to kick Rummy in the rump, in public. But to me, it just shows me that these (…)

  • VENEZUELA : Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New Milennium
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New Milennium A Discussion of the Current State of Venezuela by Maria Paez Victor; March 29, 2006
    [A talk prepared for the "Walter Gordon/Massey Symposium", Toronto March 15, 2006]
    Throughout most of its history, there has been very little interest in North America about Venezuela except as a supplier of oil. With the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999, all this changed. He ushered in the Bolivarian Revolution, founded on ideas expounded (…)

  • US launches major military exercises in the Caribbean as a warning to Venezuela and Cuba
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    US launches major military exercises in the Caribbean as a warning to Venezuela and Cuba by Jorge Martin; Hands Off Venezuela; April 01, 2006 According to a press release by the US Southern Command on Monday, March 27: "A U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group will deploy from the U.S. east coast to the Caribbean Sea to conduct Operation Partnership of the Americas from early April through late May 2006." The strike group will be composed of "aircraft carrier USS George (…)

  • US Planning Fourth Attempt To Oust Hugo Chavez
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    US Planning Fourth Attempt To Oust Hugo Chavez by Stephen Lendman; April 18, 2006 http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10113&sectionID=45
    This essay has a dual purpose. I began it initially to explain how sophisticated and effective the dominant corporate media is in programming the public mind to believe whatever message they deliver regardless of whether it’s true which it rarely is. I chose the title Reeducation 101 - Defogging and Reversing the (…)