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  • Venezuela Plans More Oil Discounts
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0425-01.htm
    Published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by the Boston Globe Venezuela Plans More Oil Discounts 2 from Mass. play role in deal for region
    by Susan Milligan
    CARACAS - Leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said yesterday he would greatly expand the discounted home heating oil program he started last year for needy people in Massachusetts and other northeastern states.
    Chavez, a firebrand populist who has clashed repeatedly with (…)

  • TONY SNOW : TALENT-LESS BUSH SYCOPHANT
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is the perfect Bushmen..... A talentless ,wan , sycophant - willing and even eager to tell you any falsehood , no matter how outrageous or demonstrably false , to serve the Bush family cult ........ He’s the female Mary Matalin - another Bush shill who keeps landing on her feet , despite failure after failure after failure ......... Snow flopped as speechwriter for old man Bush ....... He flopped as the co-host of Fox’s News singular (…)

  • Bush Pioneer withdraws support"I can’t in good conscience write another $25,000 check at this time"
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    First, a little background - I obtained this letter from a first-hand source, and she asked me to spread it as far as I can.
    Jack Overstreet, lifelong Republican, is a Bush Pioneer, having donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bush ’00 and Bush ’04, even contributed to his ’04 Camapign as found here: http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_result.php?first=Ja... (He lives in Colorado and Wyoming respectively), a oil man himself, and everything else, just about the worst Republican you’d (…)

  • SATTERFIELD : BUSH’ S `GOOD’ LEAKER
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CIA officer Mary McCarthy was sent packing for allegedly exposing Herr Bush’s practice of kidnapping Arabs and placing them in gulags ............. This malign evil is reminiscent of the behaviour of longtime Bush family friend , the deposed Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.......... Officer McCarthy denies that she leaked this material to the Washington Post’s Dana Priest ........... In any event this leak served the greater good and deserves to classified under the rubric of (…)

  • Pacifica Radio to Air Congressional Iraq Forum Live
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    I’ll be co-hosting with Verna Avery-Brown of Pacifica Radio a live broadcast on Pacifica from 8:30-11 a.m. ET on Thursday, April 27, of a forum on Capitol Hill hosted by Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee. http://www.pacifica.org/stations
    The forum will take place in 2325 Rayburn House Office Building (with an overflow room planned for anyone wanting to attend who can’t fit in). The two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are continuing to do what (…)

  • NEWS JUNKIE
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Leopold
    Please consider buying a copy from Amazon or at a bookstore near you. Check out www.newsjunkiebook.com for a preview and a sample chapter
    From Publishers Weekly
    Leopold, one of the reporters who broke the Enron story, is now breaking his own story: how he got addicted to cocaine, committed grand theft, cleaned himself up and found happiness as a "news junkie." While residential rehab programs and an incredibly committed wife were key to his turnaround, what saved his (…)

  • PETITION THE 50 STATES : DEMAND IMPEACHMENT
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is no more room for maneuver for those still steeped in denial over Bush administration manipulation of pre-war intelligence.............. They fed us lies to trick us into war -it’s that simple ........ http://www.democrats.com/drumheller It is now imperative for each person of good will to petition the legislature in his or her state to demand that the US House of Representatives commence a serious and comprehensive impeachment investigation of the manifest crimes of President (…)

  • "Let’s Impeach the President" Neil Young to release new protest record free to internet April 28!
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Neil Young’s newly recorded protest album "Living With War," including a song calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush, will be posted for free Internet streaming next week, his label said on Friday.
    Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young’s Web site, www.neilyoung.com, and listen to the 10-track collection in its entirety, free of charge, said Bill Bentley, a spokesman for Warner Music Group’s Reprise Records.
    The album will first become (…)

  • California Becomes Second State to Introduce Bush Impeachment
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.opednews.com
    Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well.
    California Assemblyman Paul Koretz of Los Angeles (where the LA Times has now called for Cheney’s resignation) has submitted amendments to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 39, calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. The amendments (…)

  • Gary Kucinich hopes to join Dennis in Congress"I’m coming to Congress to put an end to this war"
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There was a mix of anxiety and anticipation in the Kucinich household Easter morning as the Strongsville family waited for a call from their eldest son.
    I was so overjoyed when I heard him. We just love him and miss him so much,’’ Gary Kucinich said, recalling the phone call from his 19-year-old son, Gary Jr., a U.S. Marine stationed in Iraq.
    Despite the joy, the call was bittersweet for the elder Kucinich, a Democratic candidate in the 13th Congressional District primary who has made (…)