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  • The death of a Reactionary Pope
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Back
    THE MEDIA haze of kind words and rosy reminiscences about Pope John Paul II can’t change what the man was in real life—a hard-line right-winger who saw his mission as defending the most backward institutions and traditions of the Catholic Church.
    Obituaries for John Paul—born Karol Wojtyla—mentioned his humble beginnings in Poland, then governed by a so-called communist government that repressed the Catholic Church. Named pope a few years before the Solidarnosc general (…)

  • NIST blames fireproofing for WTC collapse
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Philip Green
    Fireproofing has been blamed for the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings collapse after the two airplanes - American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines 175 - struck the north and the south tower within minutes of each other killing 2,749 people, including those on the two jets.
    The 10,000-page report prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), out of which 3,400 pages were made public Tuesday, stated that the hijacked airplanes had struck the (…)

  • “Howard and Bush are war criminals" ‘They are afraid of you’
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following remarks were made by independent journalist John Pilger to a March 20 anti-war rally in Sydney.
    The other day, the Aboriginal filmmaker Richard Frankland said this: “When you’ve got a voice, you’ve got freedom, and when you’ve got freedom, you’ve got responsibility. Negotiating with politicians doesn’t work. You’ve got to change attitudes.” That’s the task for all of us here today. It’s not an easy one. In fact, many good people in Australia and other countries believe their (…)

  • 10,000 people in San Francisco prevent Arnold Schwarzenegger from attending his own fundraiser
    6 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tim Tagaris
    (Note: This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in America since the civil rights movement! 10,000 people in SF tonight prevented $chwarzenegger from attending his own fundraiser for the $pecial election. Cops joined in to protect the protesters outside the Governor’s fundraiser. Follow the liveblog of these astounding events)
    This is one thing I love about California, and San Francisco in particular, they don’t play around. Bob Brigham is on-the-ground right now, (…)

  • The National Republican Party: In Contempt of Courts
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Nashua Advocate
    If the radical right’s utter contempt for our nation’s courts was anything less than wholly evident prior to tonight, that blinder has been at once and permanently removed. The worst kept secret about the Republican Party in 2005 is that it does not hate the federal government in its entirety: it merely loathes—and seeks desperately to decimate—one co-equal branch of that government, the judicial branch. Editorial, The Nashua Advocate, March 23rd, 2005
    If ignorance of (…)

  • Berlusconi ’Massacred’ in Regional Elections
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered a crushing defeat at Italian regional elections, official results showed on Monday, a huge boost for center-left leader Romano Prodi’s hopes of unseating him next year.
    In what one of his defeated regional governors described as a "massacre," Berlusconi’s center-right coalition appeared to have lost 11 of the 13 regions at stake, holding on to just two — Lombardy and Veneto — both in its stronghold in the north.
    Prodi, who had (…)

  • Interview with Congressman Kucinich
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    After logging,uh,some frequent-flyer miles in a run for President,Congressman Dennis Kucinich is back in his district working on issues of concern to Clevelanders.It’s been a while since he’s had time to sit down with us but he’s here now and I’m glad you are.Welcome back,it’s been a long time since we’ve talked
    Kucinich:It’s good to be here.
    Feagler:I don’t know exactly where to start this,but let me start with perhaps,some words about the pope who apparently is in his last and fatal (…)

  • TRUTH LEFT OUT: Data Indicates a Massive 2004 Exit Poll Whitewash
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Back in January, 2005, I emailed Dr. Steven Freeman about the Mitofsky anaylsis of the 2004 Presidential election exit poll. In that email, I made an observation about a particular detail in the Mitofsky analysis that had not been noticed by any researcher or critic of the report at that time. You may see the original observation I made here.
    The Mitofsky hypothesis proposes that "within precinct error" (WPE) is the reason for the exit poll discrepancy that we’ve all heard about. In his (…)

  • Democrats, Paper ‘Trails’ Aren’t Good Enough; Count The Damn Ballots!
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lynn Landes
    March 19, 2005-After the 2004 election I thought I would barf if I heard one more Democratic pundit or politician lament the lost election and blame it on the party’s "message." As grassroots activists across the country reported thousands of election irregularities and voting machine "glitches" that overwhelmingly benefited Bush, the Democratic leadership seemed unusually willing to look the other way. John Kerry quickly conceded, former President Carter attended Bush’s (…)

  • Bush Embraces WMD Report that Lays Blame on CIA
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    ​ ​​​​ President Bush was pleased to accept the report from the WMD Commission, and he agrees with their conclusions- all the mistakes (wmd lies) were the fault of the intelligence community. Neither Bush nor anyone in his administration was criticized by the Commission appointed by Mr. Bush.
    The 9 member commission was headed by retired Republican judge Laurence Silberman and former Democratic Senator Chuck Robb who said, "They got wrong the critical judgments with (…)