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  • The Moon-Bush Cash Conduit
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Moon-Bush Cash Conduit By Robert Parry June 13, 2006 Over the past quarter century, South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon has been one of the Bush family’s major benefactors - both politically and financially - while enjoying what appears to be protection against federal investigations into evidence that his cult-like organization has functioned as a criminal enterprise. Indeed, the newest disclosure about Moon funneling money to a Bush family entity bears many of the earmarks of (…)

  • The Only People Who May Miss Al-Zarqawi Are The Pro-War Neocons, Who Claimed He Was Part Of Al-Qaida
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Final Say The Only People Who May Miss Al-Zarqawi Are The Pro-War Neocons, Who Claimed He Was Part Of Al-Qaida To Justify The Invasion Of Iraq By Eric Margolis June 11, 2006 "Zarqawi will be dead soon," two of his disgruntled Jordanian supporters told me in March. "He will be betrayed by his own men."
    And that’s likely what happened last week. Tipped off that Iraq’s most wanted man was in a rural house, U.S. aircraft bombed it, killing some of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s top aides, a (…)

  • Cut and Run or Gut and Ruin?
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. Giambattista Vico
    In the latest polls, Bush rose four percent. Is there anyone knowledgeable enough out there who would explain the mercurial rise, fall, and then rise again of an irrefutably failed Administration? How is it that one morning Joe Six Pack gets up and decides, yes by God I’m now positive about the President’s performance? Did he hear a (…)

  • The Peter Principle and the Bush Administration
    21 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last night on Frontline they broadcast a biting documentary entitled "The Dark Side", which revealed the truth about how the CIA and the Pentagon were at odds about evidence for going to war in Iraq,etc. These guys emerged as the "Gang that couldn’t shoot staight", and reminded me of Lawrence Peters, who created the "principle" IN ANY HEIRARCHY, PEOPLE RISE TO THE LEVELY OF THEIR INCOMPETENCY AND REMAIN THERE.
    Nowhere can I find better examples of this rule than in the Bush (…)

  • Darkness and Light. When international law and science are silenced, the only outcome is darkness
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gabriele Zamparini (*)
    Introduction
    There was a time when the arbitrary act of the powerful was the unquestioned rule and the abuse of the prince was called the ‘art of government’. The word ‘justice’ was used to describe the prince’s magnanimity or the reward for the suffering of this life, because... justice is not of this world.
    Centuries of darkness and misery are now called the history of civilization.
    During this history, women and men have constantly rebelled and struggled (…)

  • Classic Right Wing Responses
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Someone (it wasn’t Elvis) once said "There are none so blind as those who will not see"
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    I have a really good Conservative friend who has a good mind except when it comes to politics, and then his mind tends to freeze, his eyes glaze and all reasoning goes out the window. Here, in nutshells,are some of his typical responses to assertions made by me againt the Bush administration.
    Cheney is a war profiteer and has a terrible voting record in the Senate. (…)

  • Telling Lies About Ahmadinejad
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Telling Lies About Ahmadinejad Kurt Nimmo June 17, 2006
    Buried in the Week in Review section of the New York Times is an admission that Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be "wiped off the map," a reference to a mistranslated phrase bandied about the corporate media over the last several weeks as an example of Iran’s intention to attack Israel, especially after it develops nukes, either next week or a decade out, depending on the level of fanaticism of the (…)

  • Bush Denies Iowa Tornado Relief
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.whbf.com/global/story.as...
    Bush Denies Iowa Tornado Relief
    June 16, 2006; 10:17 PM EDT
    IOWA CITY, IA - President Bush has denied Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack’s request for federal disaster aid to parts of the state that were hit by severe tornadoes in April.
    Vilsack says he’s extremely disappointed in the president. He requested help for Jones, Muscatine and Johnson Counties.
    Iowa City was one of the worst-hit areas. The storms killed one person and caused tens of (…)

  • Veterans Affairs Loses Records
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Veterans Affairs Loses Records Analysis By Mike Hudson June 20, 2006 For nearly five years, we’ve heard ad nauseam about the stepped-up security that’s made America safer in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Security, security, security. It’s like a Bush administration mantra, repeated over and over again by Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Bush himself.
    They even created the federal Department of Homeland Security.
    So it was a little surprising to get a letter - as many (…)

  • There’s A Way Around The Electoral College Conundrum
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There’s A Way Around The Electoral College Conundrum By HENRY N. STAHL JR. 6/19/2006 Since the early 1800s, about 500 proposals to amend the Constitution in regard to the presidential election process have been put forth. Recent Gallup polls indicate that up to 75 percent of the American electorate is displeased with the Electoral College method of selecting our chief executive. With our president pontificating the world over about the importance of democratic elections, it seems rather (…)