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  • BUSH AND NEWSPEAK DIPLOMACY
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSH AND NEWSPEAK DIPLOMACY
    By Peter Fredson
    January 19, 2006
    Most of us know that Bush not only mangles phrases, but he manipulates the meaning of ordinary words, twisting them beyond recognition in some sick paraphrase designed to further his imperial ambitions. For instance, he seems to blast ordinary but “sacred” words in the US into unrecognizable rubble. Democracy, liberty, freedom, and sovereignty have been mangled and distorted far from any legitimate meaning.
    Democracy for (…)

  • Big Pharma/government persecutes free medicines.
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cannabis Three face jail for helping MS sufferers
    For immediate release
    The adage that a good deed never goes unpunished may well have been written for Mark Gibson, Lezley Gibson and Marcus Davies. These are the people behind THC4MS, an organisation whose sole purpose is to provide Multiple Sclerosis sufferers with a life-altering cannabis medication. A crime for which they due to stand trial at Carlisle Crown Court on the 1st February 2006.
    Over the last five years, THC4MS have sent (…)

  • A Joint Statement Concerning the Programs of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Iraq
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Iraqi Trade Unions
    The Iraqi economy has been severely affected by decades of sanctions, wars and occupation. The Iraqi trade unions and federations believe in the capacity of the country with all its oil and mineral resources to provide a decent living standard for Iraqis.
    The federations and unions consider that the wars and occupation have caused a dramatic decrease in the living and social standards of Iraqis and especially of workers.
    The federations and unions stress the (…)

  • Corruption Crisis in US Govt more than Republicans?
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The reason our republic is in crisis is not that we have a ruthless, criminal administration in power; it is not that the press is controlled by self-serving corporations; it is not because rampant bribery has overtaken the Congressional agenda; and the massive, devious and sinister program by Repuglicans to subvert democracy is still not adequate explanation for the crisis. The reason our republic is in crisis is that we have no opposition party.
    Without proof, I offer the following (…)

  • Bush’s personal favor for Abramoff: demoted Investigator, halted probe in 2002
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush removal ended Guam investigation US attorney’s demotion halted probe of lobbyist
    By Walter F. Roche Jr., Los Angeles Times | August 8, 2005
    WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
    The previously undisclosed Guam inquiry is separate from a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia that is (…)

  • Is Bush Stupid — Or Is America?
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many Americans believe George W. Bush is uninformed, simpleminded and, in a single word, stupid. But there is a different way to look at the evidence and conclude that while Bush may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, it is he who thinks the American people are the real dullards.
    After all, Bush is the one who explains the “facts” about current events as if he’s speaking to people with the mental capacity of a five-year-old. He also assumes - with some justification - that his listeners (…)

  • BUSH STEP DOWN rally, Feb 4th, Allentown PA
    18 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "BUSH STEP DOWN!" Rally at Cedar Beach Park southwest corner, Hamilton & Ott Sts. Allentown PA February 4th 1-2 pm It is time for the Bush reign to end. Lies to Congress and Americans to start a war, illegally spying on US citizens, Katrina, Medicare cuts, Veterans cuts, children’s school lunch cuts, economists figuring the true cost of Iraq war to be 2 trillion dollars, over 2000 troops dead, cronyism over experience, on and on the list goes.... Whatever your issue with this (…)

  • Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Davids Wanson
    New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
    By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge’s approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the (…)

  • Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.
    The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of (…)

  • Tyrant in the White House Bush Crosses the Rubicon
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil wars that followed, Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, emerged as the first Roman emperor, Caesar (…)