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  • White House wary of war crimes charges
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    White House wary of war crimes charges
    WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) — White House officials are drafting legislation to protect U.S. personnel from certain war crimes prosecutions, The Washington Post reported.
    The War Crimes Act of 1996 has Bush administration officials concerned that officials and troops involved in handling terrorism detainee matters could be accused of war crimes and prosecuted in U.S. courts, the newspaper said.
    Senior officials are working on legislation that would (…)

  • The Thought Bubble (What Bush is thinking)
    26 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While watching DICK CHENEY:
    (I hate him! Sure, he gave me power, but he still wants to run the show. Darth Cheney indeed! Well,maybe I’m too tough on him, after all he does want to make me emperor for life.)
    While listening to NURI AL-MALIKI:
    (What a jerk! Can’t even speak English goodly. He looks like a two day drunk ((I ought to know)), and turns out he’s double crossing me..he’s a Jew hater. Now what can I do?)
    While listening to DONALD RUMSFELD:
    (I wish I could be as clever (…)

  • The "Drunken Mechanic" parallel
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A guy has his car breaks fixed by a drunken mechanic. He goes for a drive and crashes into a tree.
    He returns to the mechanic and accuses him of doing a terrible job. The mechanic says "No problem!..I can fix it". He does, and the owner goes for another drive,has another wreck......
    This is just like the Bush foreign policy (which the White House just announced "is working"). Bush initially claims he can do a bangup job. The world falls into chaos, then conservatives turn to Bush again, (…)

  • Bush’s Poverty Talk Is Now All but Silent Aiding Poor Was Brief Priority After Katrina
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael A. Fletcher
    Poverty forced its way to the top of President Bush’s agenda in the confusing days after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans. Confronted with one of the most pressing political crises of his presidency, Bush, who in the past had faced withering criticism for speaking little about the poor, said the nation has a solemn duty to help them.
    "All of us saw on television, there’s . . . some deep, persistent poverty in this region," he said (…)

  • Bush ’out of touch’ on stem cells
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Scientists have reacted with anger to US President George W Bush’s decision to veto a bill allowing federal funding for new embryonic stem cell research.
    They argue it will damage a promising field of medical research.
    Leading researchers labelled Mr Bush "hypocritical", "out of touch" and "selfish" over his decision not to sign into law a bill approved by Congress.
    Mr Bush argued that the law "crossed a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect".
    Polls suggest most (…)

  • Bush’s Faith in Force and the Middle East in Flames
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Engelhardt
    So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we?
    As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of any sort, let me offer a proposition that might make some modest sense of our reeling planet. Consider the possibility that the most fundamental belief, perhaps in all of history, but specifically in these last catastrophic years, seems to be in the efficacy of force — and the more of it the merrier. That deep belief in force above all else is perhaps the monotheism of (…)

  • Mexican workers want a recount
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Bacon
    Huge national demonstrations in Mexico are now demanding a recount of the votes cast in the presidential election, tainted by allegations of vote fraud.
    Mexico’s wealthiest families have a lot to lose. All benefited from Mexico’s conservative economic reforms, which the leading candidate, Felipe Calderon of the conservative National Action Party, vows to continue. The Villareals’ Grupo Villacero, for instance, was virtually given the huge Sicartsa steel mill by the (…)

  • Condi’s Flying Dutchman
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MAUREEN DOWD Washington
    As USA Today noted about summer movies, the hot trend in heroines “is not the damsel in distress. It’s the damsel who causes distress.”
    Uma, Oprah. Oprah, Condi.
    The more W. and his tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe have tried to tame the Middle East, the more inflamed the Middle East has become. Now the secretary of state is leaving, reluctantly and belatedly, to do some shuttle diplomacy that entails little diplomacy and no shuttling. It’s more like (…)

  • Democracy in Crisis - An Interview with Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Democracy in Crisis - An Exclusive BRAD BLOG Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    Recently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., (bio [3]) , wrote the article: "Was the 2004 Election Stolen [4]" where he examined the election fraud in Ohio that took place during the last Presidential Election. He also has written a book "Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush & His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy [5]". Mr. Kennedy, along with Mike Papantonio have filed a (…)

  • US-Israel Definition of insanity
    21 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’ve never seen a President - I don’t care who he is - stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens don’t have any idea what goes on - Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
    Two (…)