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  • FSA Scrapes The Barrel For Solicitor
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Adrian Murtagh gains experience as fraudster at Marriott Harrison, then finds a place at government agency where he can put those skills to work
    LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 02/12/06 — Adrian Murtagh (shown here), a former solicitor with City firm Marriott Harrison has found a home at The Financial Services Authority (FSA), in the United Kingdom.
    According to The Law Society, Murtagh is now working for the FSA-an independent body that regulates the financial services industry in (…)

  • Down With King George! American Liberties are Guaranteed (See Below)
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Declaration of Independence
    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (…)

  • US Senate Candidate Sheeler “Bush lied. People Died. He needs to be tried"
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Providence, RI - U.S. Senate Candidate Carl Sheeler (D-RI) has challenged his Democratic running mates, Sheldon Whitehouse and Matt Brown, by mail and by phone to support his efforts to call on both Congressmen James Langevin and Patrick Kennedy to support US Representative John Conyers (D-MI) in his impeachment proceedings.
    Sheeler, a Marine veteran and self-described 70’s style Democrat, has been tireless since July 2005 in his efforts to call for the withdrawal of our troops in Iraq: (…)

  • My President, RIGHT or wrong!
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is genuinely astonishing...but true. The vast majority of the Republican Congress seem to be saying to the world "He’s our President, right or wrong" !
    Bush lied us into the war (a criminal act), but "He’s our guy"
    Bush ran up the largest budget and trade deficits in history, but "He’s OK"
    Bush has presided over huge oil price increases, seriously harming the public, but "He’s not a bad man"
    Bush has sneaked into the outrageous new budget his Social Security privatization plan (…)

  • This 12-Step Program Can Break U.S. Oil
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Brune
    Our president almost came clean in his State of the Union speech last week when he finally admitted that "America is addicted to oil." That addiction threatens our national security, our environmental health and our way of life.
    It is true that our leaders are exhibiting the classic signs of an addiction denial, aggression, avoidance, blaming others and as a country we are falling far short of reaching our full potential.
    America’s stubborn dependence on oil erodes our (…)

  • Lessons Taught by Grammy
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Eugene Robinson
    Was his insolent claim that "George Bush doesn’t care about black people" the reason Kanye West didn’t win the prestigious album of the year and record of the year awards he deserved at the Grammys the other night? That’s just part of the story, I think, and we’ll get back to it after we first survey the Big Picture.
    I’ve always thought the Grammy Awards offered a better, more finely detailed portrait of the American zeitgeist than either the Oscars or the Emmys. The (…)

  • Jose Bove : French Activist Detained at JFK, Deported
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An anti-globalization activist who was sent back to France after arriving at an airport here accused the U.S. government Thursday of conspiring against his cause and trying to protect big business.
    Jose Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald’s restaurant in France in 1999, arrived Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, planning to speak at an event sponsored by Cornell University, but was denied entry by customs officials.
    Bove was not eligible to enter the U.S. under a (…)

  • On the President’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Russ Feingold
    As Prepared for Delivery From the Senate Floor
    Listen to my Statement From the Senate Floor
    Mr. President, last week the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America’s leadership in the world, and called on all of us to “lead this world toward freedom.” Again and again, he invoked the principle of freedom, and how it can transform nations, and empower people around the world.
    But, almost in the same breath, the (…)

  • Cheney ’Authorized’ Libby to Leak Classified Information
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Murray Waas
    Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.
    Libby specifically claimed that in one (…)

  • BUSH CREDIBILITY
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Credibility (An Oxymoron)
    By Peter Fredson
    February 11, 2006
    Credibility, trustworthiness, reliability, integrity, are for most humans words which give us a certain feeling that, whatever the occasion, there is a solid basis underlying the fitness of things. They imply that some care and attention will be given to the daily routine, that human relationships can be rewarding, and that ordinarily we can get though the day after depending on other people.
    It is therefore with (…)