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  • Before Bush, no leader modern history, not even Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, has publicly demanded the right to torture
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ON BEING "GOOD AMERICANS" IN A TIME OF TORTURE by Fred Branfman February 25, 2006
    "Gestapo interrogation methods included: repeated near drownings of a prisoner in a bathtub." "The CIA officers say 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted the longest under waterboarding, two and a half minutes, before beginning to talk, with debatable results." - Brian (…)

  • not Halloween, but these monsters are still scary
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HAVE YOU EVER SAW A MORE GRUESOME TRIO???

  • The Bush Administration’s Great State of the Union Ethanol Scam
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Did Congress and the Senate "Day Trade" Ethanol on the day of the State of the Union address and rip-off Americans the following morning by selling it off?
    It certainly looks as though the marriage between the White House, Senate and Congressional leadership and Wall Street has been exposed.
    A side note: On January 18, 2006, Rep. Louise Slaughter stated that she had information relating to Rep. Tom DeLay and Rep. Bill Frist having "day-traders" working out of their offices. She said that (…)

  • White House ’Discovers’ 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak By Jason Leopold
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday 24 February 2006
    The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday.
    The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador (…)

  • MSNBC Countdown provides analysis from David Sirotaan who is an expert on big money’s influence on government
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MSNBC Countdown provides analysis from David Sirotaan who is an expert on big money’s influence on government:
    This is not a scandal about one deal with one country. What’s especially motivating the President in his threat to issue a veto is the fact that he knows that if Congress is allowed to override this [deal] a precedent is set.
    ...
    America’s trade policy, for two decades, has entirely been [controlled by] corporate-owned free trade. If this deal is allowed to be blocked it would (…)

  • Complicit media : Should They Face War Crimes Prosecutions ?
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The journalists who are employed at major outlets have no fig leaf to hind under. In preface , I don’t know believe in war crimes prosection for the moronic neo-con websites . However , well educated , lavishly funded professional war agitators in the cable TV universe as well as their allied magazine and newspaper flagships need to feel the heat. They are no better than the radio announcers who fomented the genocide in Rwanda or hyped Der Fuhrer’s lies and cheered on his (…)

  • CORNERED RAT:APPROACH WITH CAUTION
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    the second picture , explains the first picture of why Laura took a frying pan to dumbyas head. _ 2.22.06: Bush in Golden, Colorado. (AFP/Jim Watson)
    "The Crack At The End Of The Whip"
    I saw the Army for what it was: a powerful militant arm of a corrupt and ruthless government; the crack at the end of the whip.
    February 24, 2006 Socialist Worker
    JEFF ENGLEHART (…)

  • CONSPIRACY PHOBIA
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2-25-06
    CONSPIRACY PHOBIA
    by Dr. June Terpstra
    Most people in the west have been programmed by media propagandists to react negatively when they hear the word "conspiracy." They treat anyone who investigates actual conspiracies as an oddball and call them names in an attempt to dismiss and discredit what is being said and what is being investigated at times with thorough and revealing research.
    I struggle with this because on one hand history proves that people with power (…)

  • Verizon Faces New $20 Billion Suit over NSA Spying Complicity
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Upping the ante in what may be a high-stakes legal battle, an Upstate New York lawyer filed a $20 billion class-action lawsuit against Verizon last week, charging that the company violated customer confidentiality in aiding warrantless eavesdropping by a federal spy agency.
    The civil suit is the second to challenge corporations for helping the National Security Agency carry out a secret order by the president to spy on communications between people in the United States and parties overseas (…)

  • Former CIA Officers say BushCo planning to Attack Iran
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative Magazine Aug 1st 2005, former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi wrote:
    In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack (…)