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  • Who Will End Up In The Pit Bull’s Doghouse?
    29 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    President Bush once called his mystery Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers "a pit bull in size six shoes." This courtroom Cujo is going to bite someone in the rear, and the roiling debate is whether she takes a chunk out of the right or left cheek.
    No one really knows, and if the John Roberts confirmation hearings are any indication, a tight leash and a muzzle will keep us from finding out the answer before she is confirmed. "We just don’t know anything about her," said (…)

  • Retired Air Force Col: They lied to us about the war and about 9/11 itself
    29 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    A few weeks ago I posted the audio and video from Part 1 of Retired Air Force Col. Robert Bowman’s Speech to Patriotic Americans, here’s Part 2.
    To Download, rt-click -> save as [the video] and/or 6.6mb Audio mp3 with cool backing music... here’s the transcript (but you really must listen, he’s that good ;-)
    Col. Robert Bowman:
    As other speakers have said, they knew the American people wouldn’t stand for it, and they said so in their documents, and they said, unless (…)

  • Prosecutor secures indictment in CIA outing case, lawyers say
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    The prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson has secured at least one indictment in the case from a majority of the 23 grand jurors, lawyers and intelligence officials close to the case said Wednesday.
    The final outcome of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s 22-month federal probe is expected to end Friday with indictments of White House officials. The situation remains fluid, however, and several new scenarios have developed (…)

  • HEY, HARKAVY!
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sheila Samples
    Remember the "Hey, Mikey" TV commercial with two brothers refusing to eat Quaker Oats’ new Life cereal until their little brother, Mikey, who supposedly "hates everything" tried it first? Well, I’m not saying I get up every morning and yell, "Hey, Harkavy!" to see what’s really happening in the news without all the commercial spin — but I’m not saying I don’t either...
    Either way, there’s no better place to start your morning than with the peerless Ward Harkavy (…)

  • Resolution of Inquiry to demand information on White House Iraq Group(WHIG) to be voted on by Nov 9
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Expose the WHIG
    Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced a Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, emails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).
    "This group, comprised of the President and Vice President’s top aides, was critical in selling the Administration’s case for war," Kucinich said. "We now know that the Administration hyped intelligence and misled the American public and Congress in their effort (…)

  • IS GEORGE BUSH A DOG OR A TAIL?
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WAGGING THE DOG
    By Peter Fredson
    October 28, 2005
    There is an old refrain about “the tail wagging the dog.” For years it seemed that George Bush was in firm control of his power base. Anything George wanted George got. The entire Republican Congress took any request George made of them, did it with applause, and practically kissed his royal butt. Their incestuous union brought up another refrain about “They must hang together or they will hang separately.”
    The Republican Party itself (…)

  • ROVE, Libby CIA-leak Charges Mean: GET OUT OF PHONY WAR NOW
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Clayton Hallmark
    Rove/Libby/Bush/Cheney got and used forgeries (shown) on Niger uranium to start the Iraq war — WHICH LED TO A COVERUP AND THE PRESENT CHARGES. The point isn’t their fate but (A) the administration is corrupt, (B) the war is based on forgeries can end now, and (C) foreign governments that aided the culprits must be exposed. The Washington grand jury of US Attorney Fitzgerald will obtain indictments in the outing of CIA’s Valerie Plame on Friday, sources say, and could (…)

  • Indictment Hot Air: The Phony Left’s Monica Lewinsky
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mammoth crimes go unpunished as personal squabbles distract attention from real issues
    by Paul Joseph Watson
    The rumor mill tells us indictments are going to be handed down on Thursday but the constant guessing game should be brushed aside in favor of a serious consideration about whether we are being sold on a story that in reality has no significant consequences.
    While the left are transfixed by the issue, the lunatic fringe of the Internet have seized on this story, like they do (…)

  • Why I’m Getting Arrested at the White House Today
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson, October 26, 2005
    The first reason I’m going to lie down, refuse to move, and wait to be arrested outside the White House today is my belief that massive civil disobedience is needed if we are going to end the war and forestall the next war. The power of nonviolent sacrifice has been tried and tested. It may not work this time, but nothing else seems remotely likely to do the job, not even my most extravagant hopes for indictments. I’m being as practical as I know how to (…)

  • BC Teachers Go Back to Work — Who Won the Battle?
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bob Rosen
    For the first time in two weeks, public schools in British Columbia were open for business yesterday. Teachers had voted over the weekend by a 77% margin to accept a mediated settlement to the dispute recommended by arbitrator Vince Ready. In the wake of the decision, there is much public debate and discussion, including among the ranks of teachers, about what was achieved in the struggle.
    Last Thursday, Ready released his proposed settlement. It included an award of $40 (…)