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• The 7 Minute Daydream: What went on in Bush’s mind?
  2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  We all know about the 7 minutes during the 9/11 attacks when Bush sat "reading" My Pet Goat. But most people have no idea what was going on inside that bland brain as Bush just seemed to stare into space for those long, intermindable minutes.
  Well, thanks to new technology developed by Professor G.L.Looney of Harvard, we now have insight into exactly what Bush’s thoughts were. As a public service and as an exclusive to Bellacio, I present those musings below:
  Minute #1 (immediately after (…)

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• WAR MONGERS NEW SPIN : IRAN SPONSORS `TUR ’
  1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  The lunatics in the Bush administration will not be denied..... The bombing of Iran will go on as proceeded.... The Military plans are set in concrete.....As in the Iraq precedent , an undeclared war in Iran has been going on for some time.... The so called ’Good Turists’ , MEK , have been unleashed to blow up Iranian infrastructure and terrorise the civilian population.... The case that Iran has a ’Nookular’ weapons programme is total , complete nonsense.... There is no evidence that Iran (…)

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• Death Squads in Iraq by Robert Dreyfuss (CRG)
  1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  I’ve been writing for more than two years on Iraq’s Shiite-led death squads (see "Phoenix Rising," in The American Prospect). It’s been an open secret at least that long. Since that time, the number of Iraqis kidnapped, bound and gagged, and executed - or simply gunned down in the streets - by pro-government Shiite gangs is incalculable. But it is likely to be in the range of 25,000 in two years.
  Ellen Knickmeyer, writing in the Washington Post, has been doggedly following the story (…)

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• Another Prominent Military Figure Denounces NeoCons, Iraq, War on Terror
  1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Delta Force founder joins ranks who say there is no real threat to the US and war is based on lies
  Steve Watson / Infowars | March 27 2006
  Retired Command Sergeant Major Eric Haney, founding member of the military’s elite covert counter-terrorist unit, Delta force, has stated publicly for the record that he sees the war in Iraq as an "Utter debacle" based on intentions by the Bush administration that were "not what they stated" and that "there is no real threat to the U.S. in the world". (…)

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• Venezuelan Government To Launch International 9/11 Investigation
  1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Truth crusaders Walter and Rodriguez to appear on Hugo Chavez’s weekly TV broadcast
  Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | March 31 2006
  Billionaire philanthropist Jimmy Walter and WTC survivor William Rodriguez this week embarked on a groundbreaking trip to Caracas Venezuela in which they met with with the President of the Assembly and will soon meet with Venezuelan President himself Hugo Chavez in anticipation of an official Venezuelan government investigation into (…)

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• Frontal Assault on Freedom of the Press
  1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  The Bush administration is the first in history to launch a direct assault on journalists for violating the Espionage Act by releasing or publishing leaks of classified information. Although Congress originally passed the Espionage Act to prosecute government employees who divulge classified information to a foreign nation, it is now extended to reporters for doing their job - informing the public of our government wrongdoing, including breaking the law.
  In times of war or anticipated war, (…)

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• THE WAR LOVERS by John Pilger, the New Statesman
  1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes a kind of war lover and war salesman (and woman) very different from the ’almost endearing fools’ he has met in real wars. : Pilger :23 Mar 2006 The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and Cambodia, where drugs were plentiful. Bosnia, with its roulette of death, was another favourite. A few would say they were there "to tell the world"; the (…)

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• The Chicken-Poo Reflex...
  31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  The Chicken-Poo Reflex...
  People in this country used to have courage - they used to have intestinal fortitude. The United States faced down the Soviet Union, which had millions of men and many thousands of nuclear weapons without cringing or flinching. The United States faced down Adolph Hitler’s Axis Powers and Japan who also had millions of men and millions of weapons systems.
  In neither case did our parents or grandparents poo their pajamas every time someone with a turban showed up. (…)

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• Public Ever More Skeptical About Bush’s Crusade by Jim Lobe (InterPress Service )
  31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Published on Thursday, March 30, 2006
  The vast majority of the U.S. public appears to have grown thoroughly disillusioned with Pres. George W. Bush’s crusade to spread democracy abroad, according to a new survey by one of the country’s premier public opinion analysts.
  The survey, designed by Daniel Yankelovich, also found that public concern about U.S. dependence on foreign energy sources has skyrocketed in recent months, and has now joined Iraq as the kind of foreign policy issue that (…)

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• Noam Chomsky on Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
  31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive."
  The Boston Globe calls him "America’s most useful citizen"
  He was recently voted the world’s number one intellectual in a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines.
  We’re talking about Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. Professor Chomsky has just released a new book titled "Failed States: The Abuse of (…)

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