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  • Chinese Official: Don’t Buy U.S. Bonds
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chinese Official: Don’t Buy U.S. Bonds
    Tue Apr 4, 6:00 AM ET
    HONG KONG - China should stop buying U.S. Treasuries and take steps to reduce its holdings in those bonds, a Hong Kong newspaper on Tuesday quoted a high-ranking Chinese official as saying.
    China should instead increase imports from the United States, said Cheng Siwei, a vice chairman of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, the Wen Wei Po reported.
    Currency traders said the report caused some players to sell (…)

  • KATIE THE ANCHOR-ETTE : SEE MORE BS
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Once again the empty suits filled , pockets filled with loot, have decided to "repackage" the CBS Evening News.... They’ve hired Today show co- host Katie Couric from NBC.... The Today show co-host goes into evening and then ,no doubt, into that good night of broadcast oblivion , a complete flop.....They will buy a couple of months of improved ratings . The novelty will wear off and the BS-ers will have to buy off her enourmous contract ..... Katie probably hopes this happens..... (…)

  • Dishonest and Delusional or Criminal? On Impeaching the President
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Although Americans stuck with the president through huge tax cuts for the rich, a destructive environmental policy, an economic policy that enriches corporations and lowers wages, and his attempts to dismantle Social Security, it took Hurricane Katrina before his ineptitude became an embarrassment.
    As Americans wake up to the reality of George W. Bush, his popularity plummets. Even stalwart conservatives are calling the president incompetent and out of touch.
    In the face of poor (…)

  • Impeachment Does NOT Mean Cheney Will be President
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    That anyone would even begin to think that Cheney would come out of the impeachment process uncharged and unscathed is mistaken, sorely mistaken. That one would think to impeach Bush without Cheney, and Rumsfeld and the others, is short-sighted... maybe blind. We’d get Hastert as president, but we’re waiting at the door for him, too, to impeach him for his taking bribes. Even if Hastert were to become president, no Republican would be Speaker of the House because they have all lost their (…)

  • Failure to impeach Bush a dereliction of duty
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My heart received a modest lift when I spotted your March 17 article on Page A5 noting that consensus among Americans is growing that the President deserves congressional censure for his clandestine acts of domestic espionage.
    That would be a very gratifying development, but hardly the most appropriate denouement.
    My heart would be lifted much higher were I to read that Congress had finally decided to do its duty and impeach the President on the charge of violating the federal statutes, (…)

  • U.S. policy now aims to isolate Venezuela’s Chavez By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. policy now aims to isolate Venezuela’s Chavez
    Sunday, March 12, 2006 By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
    WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is stepping up efforts to counter the attempts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to build a unified opposition to U.S. influence in a region that is drifting politically to the left.
    U.S. diplomats have sought in recent years to mute their conflicts with Chavez, fearing that a war of words with the flamboyant populist could raise his (…)

  • Harvard Takes On the Israel Lobby By Joshua Holland, AlterNet.
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A few weeks ago two scholars published a study that might have languished in the obscurity of academia.
    But the paper was about the impact that the "Israel Lobby" — which the authors characterized as a loose confederation of like-minded individuals and groups — has on U.S. policy in the Middle East. So, predictably, it set off a nice little firestorm with accusations of anti-Semitism flying around our most hallowed Ivy League colleges and members of Congress discussing how to respond to (…)

  • WISCONSIN BADGERS THE WAR
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Final results from 32 Wisconsin towns who voted on a non-binding resolution calling for immediate US troop withdrawal from Iraq are as follows : # of Communities in favour of immediate withdrawal 24 .... # of communities opposed to withdrawal 8 ....... # of Voters in favour of immediate troop withdrawal 40,043 ( 61%) ..... # of voters opposed to immediate troop withdrawal 25,641 (39%) ....... The chattering classes have attempted to marginalise the PEACE NOW movement as the (…)

  • Woman Claims She Was Fired for Bumpersticker By Matthew Rothschild
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Woman Claims She Was Fired for Bumpersticker
    By Matthew Rothschild March 11, 2006
    Linda Laroca has a bumpersticker on her car that says, “1360 Air America Progressive Talk Radio.”
    That allegedly got her into trouble with her boss at Advantage Sales and Marketing, according to an article in North County Times [1] by Teri Figueroa.
    Laroca appeared on the Ed Schultz radio show on March 10 and gave this account.
    She and her boss were speaking in a parking lot (…)

  • By Matthew Rothschild Homeland Security Hassles Owner of Truck with Bumperstickers
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Homeland Security Hassles Owner of Truck with Bumperstickers
    By Matthew Rothschild February 22, 2006
    Dwight Scarbrough used to be in the Navy. He was a machinist on submarines, some of them nuclear, in the Pacific from 1975-1980.
    Now he heads up the Vets for Peace chapter in Boise, Idaho.
    And he’s not shy about expressing his opinion.
    At any given time, he may have as many as ten bumperstickers or peace signs on every conceivable spot of his truck.
    He (…)