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  • Bolivia head starts land handout
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By James Read
    Bolivia’s president has given more than 30,000 square km (18,600 sq miles) of land to indigenous peasant communities under a programme of agrarian reform.
    Evo Morales launched the programme after landowners walked out of talks with the government, warning they would take action to defend their estates.
    Thousands of peasants gathered in the centre of Santa Cruz to see Mr Morales launch his agrarian revolution.
    They cheered and waved rainbow flags symbolising indigenous (…)

  • Bachelet fires riot squad chief who beat up students
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Merco Press (Falklands)
    Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced Wednesday the firing of the head of the riot police and severely condemned the ’excesses’ committed by over-zealous Carabineros during the violent repression Tuesday in Santiago of protesting students.
    "We will not accept condemnable acts such as those we saw yesterday" she said during a joint press conference at the presidential palace next to the head of the reporters’ guild, Alejandro Guillier.
    Several journalists (…)

  • Dixie Chicks are No. 1
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Nichols
    Cultural conservatives, who have been busy of late trying to claim that the rebellious songs of The Who are other rock groups are really right-wing anthems, have misread America’s tastes in a major way when it comes to the Dixie Chicks.
    Conservative politicians, pundits and political writers — from Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston to Media Research Council president L. Brent Bozell and bloggers by the dozen — couldn’t wait to trash Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and (…)

  • Only Domestic Help Wear Uniforms
    3 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As you may know, President George W. Bush has three brothers and a sister. Together, the five Bush children have produced 10 combat-capable enlistment age adults who would be suitable for military service in this, a time of war declared by their father or uncle.
    These children are the president’s daughters, Jenna and Barbara; Jeb’s sons George P. and John Ellis Bush Jr., and daughter, Noelle; Neil Bush’s daughter Lauren and son, Pierce: Marvin Bush’s son Marshall; and Dorothy Bush Koch’s (…)

  • DO AMERICANS HAVE A "NATIONAL INTEREST?"
    3 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Spritzler
    Is it in our "national interest" for the United States to wage a "war on terror?" What immigration policy best serves our "national interest?" Framing questions this way seems neutral and uncontroversial. We’re all Americans, after all, and so we should at least agree that whatever serves our "national interest" is good and whatever harms it is bad.
    But there is no such thing as our "national interest." Working class Americans have interests and values that conflict (…)

  • It’s Only a Dream: The Truth about Bush
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (This is a parody of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. I wrote it in honor of the new poll which shows that George W. Bush is the WORST President of all time!) Take these facts upon your brow your base is parting from you now. This much let us all avow You are not strong at all, we deem your "mandate" claims have been a dream. All your "capital"s gone away... or was it there? "Oh no!" we say. Was it "vision" or just none? you have nothing, zero won! All that you’ve claimed, so it would seem, is but (…)

  • Bush Marriage in Trouble?
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just a little info from the Wayne Madsen site:
    June 1, 2006 — Rocky shoals for Bush marriage? Informed sources Inside the Beltway report that First Lady Laura Bush has established temporary residence in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC as a result of a tiff with President Bush over an extramarital relationship involving her husband. Mr. Bush’s tryst is said to involve Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It is not known how long Mrs. Bush plans to remain at the Mayflower, however, her (…)

  • Movement to Render Electoral College Obsolete Gains Ground
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Movement to Render Electoral College Obsolete Gains Ground by Chris Bowers, Wed May 31, 2006 at 12:08:10 PM EST This is exciting news: Seeking to force presidential candidates to pay attention to California’s 15.5 million voters, state lawmakers on Tuesday jumped aboard a new effort that would award electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote nationwide.
    As it is now, California grants its Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote in the state. (…)

  • Was the 2004 Election Stolen? By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    URL:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
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    Back to Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
    Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
    Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
    The complete article, with Web-only citations, follows. For more, see exclusive documents, sources, charts and commentary.

  • Call on Gov. Schwarzenegger to Investigate Chemtrails
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Calling for a State Level Investigation into the Aerial Spraying Campaign known as Chemtrails/Persistent Contrails. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/835318817
    Do you notice on an otherwise clear beautiful California day, that there are airplanes flying at a very high altitude emitting a trail of substance that doesn’t dissipate? They are officially known as ’Persistent Contrails’, but for independent investigators they are called Chemtrails. This mysterious phenomenon is (…)