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  • James and Sarah Brady Comment on the Vice President’s Hunting Mishap
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To: National Desk
    Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 202-289-5792
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ — James and Sarah Brady made comments today related to Vice President Cheney’s reportedly accidental shooting yesterday in Texas.
    "Now I understand why Dick Cheney keeps asking me to go hunting with him," said Jim Brady. "I had a friend once who accidentally shot pellets into his dog - and I thought he was an idiot."
    "I’ve thought Cheney was scary for (…)

  • Agenda 21 - A World-wide Blueprint for International Totalitarian Control
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to the United Nations, "Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment."
    Agenda 21 is actually a world-wide blueprint for international totalitarian control of all the earth, and its resources - including "human resources". The goal of Agenda 21 is "sustainable development" - a term used to expound upon the (…)

  • Cheney Shoots Man
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted on Sun, Feb. 12, 2006
    Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunterAssociated PressWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.
    Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.
    Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and (…)

  • Britain to probe Iraq ’abuse’ video
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pictures from a video apparently showing British soldiers beating a group of Iraqi teenagers have been published on Sunday by the News of the World, a British tabloid.
    The footage appeared to show soldiers dragging youths and kicking them.
    A military spokesman in Iraq condemned "all acts of abuse and brutality" by British troops, saying the allegations related to a "tiny number" of soldiers.
    The Royal Military Police are probing the incident, which the newspaper said happened in (…)

  • Blair orders probe into Iraq abuse allegations
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ben Hall
    Tony Blair promised a full investigation into fresh allegations of abuse of Iraqis by British troops after a Sunday newspaper obtained a video apparently showing soldiers beating a group of youths.
    The Ministry of Defence launched an urgent probe after the News of the World published images from the video of soldiers kicking, punching and striking young civilians with batons. The newspaper said the incident was filmed during street riots in Basra in early 2004.
    The (…)

  • Breakthrough or Blockade in Middle East Peace Process? Why Hamas won, and why negotiations must resume
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joel Beinin
    Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted that her staff was caught off guard by Hamas’ victory in the Jan. 25 Palestinian Legislative Council elections. "I’ve asked why nobody saw it coming," she said. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."
    While the State Department, President Bush and many other observers understand that Hamas’ popularity is due to frustration with Fatah’s corrupt governance of the Palestinian Authority, they have been (…)

  • Four Presidents and a Raucous Funeral for a King
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Karen Jacobs and Tabassum Zakaria Speakers seized on the presence of President Bush to attack his policies on Tuesday at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the first lady of the U.S. civil rights movement.
    Jimmy Carter, one of four presidents to speak, took a jab at Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program during six hours of sermons, speeches and song for the late widow of Nobel peace laureate Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968.
    The 10,000 mourners also heard the Rev. Joseph (…)

  • Photo shows lobbyist at ’01 gathering with Bush Convicted lobbyist is just a blurry figure in the background
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Philip Shenon, Lowell Bergman, New York Times
    Washington — After weeks in which the White House has declined to release pictures of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist, the first photograph to be published of the two men shows a small, partly obscured image of Abramoff looking on from the background as Bush greets a Texas Indian chief in May 2001.
    By itself, the picture hardly seems worthy of the White House’s efforts to keep it out of the public eye. Abramoff, a (…)

  • If anyone is guilty of trying to make Venezuela unstable it is the United States
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    The other day, I sat down to watch Molly Ivins on C-Span.org. Ms. Ivins is a columnist after my own heart. In the interview, a caller phoned in and cited that he was once a moderate Republican, but felt the need to leave that party since it no longer represented his values.
    The date of the interview was January 27 and was one day off of my six year anniversary where I too felt as that caller did and left the Republican Party. While he did not say if he joined another (…)

  • The President KNEW...(a photo-op summary)...and MORE.
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Why is this not front-page news at DKos?)
    The President KNEW...
    Katrina was coming.
    The President KNEW...
    that Brownie had phoned...
    ...on the day that the levees had breached to tell him that New Orleans was sinking...
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...the following day, too.
    The President’s wife KNEW...
    ...the following (…)