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  • GOP Leaders to Bush: ’Your Presidency is Effectively Over’
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DOUG THOMPSON
    A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency "is effectively over" unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.
    "The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the (…)

  • Mark Crispin Miller: “Kerry Told Me He Now Thinks the Election Was Stolen”
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New York University professor and author Mark Crispin Miller says in an interview on Democracy Now!: “[Kerry] told me he now thinks the election was stolen.
    He says he doesn’t believe he is the person that can be out in front because of the sour grapes question. But he said he believes it was stolen. He says he argues with his democratic colleagues on the hill.
    He said he had a fight with Christopher Dodd because he said there’s questions about the voting machines and Dodd was angry. (…)

  • Zogby poll: Majority of likely voters support considing impeachment
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeachment; ImpeachPAC is Launched to Support Pro-Impeachment Candidates
    By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the (…)

  • Drifting towards a Police State
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    “Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends” Former Attorney General, John Ashcroft
    Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where “defendants gave financial support to umbrella (…)

  • Vermont Passes Resolution to Secede from the USA
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by GREG SZYMANSKI
    An historic Vermont meeting in the state capital has passed a resolution to secede from the United States. Members of a peaceful freedom-fighting group want no part of neo-cons running the imperialistic U.S. government. The plan to secede from the U.S. is gaining momentum in the fiercely independent Green Mountain state.
    The neo-con band of criminals running Washington, trampling on civil rights at home and invading countries at will overseas, has led a large group of (…)

  • 2nd Circuit judges appear wary of Patriot Act secrecy rules
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK - A federal appeals panel yesterday suggested it might require the government to permit entities ranging from major corporations to libraries to challenge FBI demands for records under the Patriot Act.
    Judges on a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals commented as they questioned lawyers on both sides in two cases from Connecticut and New York in which lower court judges ruled that the government’s secrecy requirements went too far.
    Judges Barrington D. (…)

  • Bird flu panic spreads-among the beneficiaries: Donald Rumsfeld.
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A year ago Tamiflu was known, if at all, as an obscure remedy for influenza, which doctors typically treat with bed rest and chicken soup. Today, with panic mounting over a potential bird flu pandemic, it’s the most sought-after drug in the world, as everyone from suburban soccer moms in the U.S. to health officials in London and Taipei scramble to stockpile the pill. At the moment, it seems, virtually the entire world is on sick-chicken alert.
    "One dead parrot in the U.K. and four dead (…)

  • In the Name of Justice
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    Kevin Benderman sits in jail. An injustice. He did not want to go. He did not take his stand, break a law and dare the courts to put him in jail with a stiff sentence. Kevin Benderman put his principles on the line and dared to trust that his rights would be respected as the constitution he fought to defend demands.
    Kevin Benderman did everything he could to demonstrate to the military, and to the world, that he did not want to go to jail, by consistently (…)

  • Experts dismiss scare over bird flu
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DIANE CHUN
    At a time when headlines trumpet the potential dangers of "bird flu," Gary Butcher is the man of the hour.
    Butcher has been an extension veterinarian at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine since 1988. He was trained as a veterinarian specializing in avian diseases, and has a Ph.D. in poultry virology.
    As the only poultry veterinarian in the state, Butcher fields phone calls and e-mails about avian flu every day.
    Lately, he’s been traveling the (…)

  • Lies my government told me or How to sell an illegal war.
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ChrisSal
    Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
    No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld, testimony to Congress, Sept. 19, 2002
    The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq. George W. Bush, Nov. 23, (…)