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  • Giving Democracy The Bird: Bush Asks Congress for Martial Law
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Soldiers brandishing automatic weapons, a defining characteristic of life in Third World dictatorships, have become commonplace at airports, bus and train stations, government offices and highway checkpoints since 9/11. Now troops are becoming our first responders to situations, such as natural disasters and flu outbreaks, which normally fall under civilian jurisdiction.
    Everything’s gone topsy-turvy: The National Guard, charged with keeping order here at home and legally under the control (…)

  • WHY BUSH SMIRKS
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SMIRKING HIS WAY TO PARADISE
    By Peter Fredson
    October 11, 2005
    We are all familiar with the Bush Cabinet trade-mark facial expressions: Bush’s preppy smirk, Cheney’s sneer, Condi Rice’s scowl and Rumsfeld’s dead-pan way of spouting horrible news. Most people want to know why Bush smirks in his self-satisfied way when he has just done something atrocious. It is a trade-mark smirk, identifying Bush.
    For instance, when he appointed John Bolton as America’s diplomatic representative to (…)

  • Venezuela Warns: Bush Is the True Atomic Threat
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan authorities denied with indignation an accusation by US Rev. Pat Robertson that Venezuela is preparing a nuclear attack against the United States.
    Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel asserted Venezuela is willing to launch "love, affection, and appreciation" to the US people, but the true atomic bomb threatening the United States is President George W. Bush.
    Speaking at Monday’s celebration of Venezuelan Soldier’s Day, Rangel said the significance of the new (…)

  • Greens Warn of Growing ’Iraqification’ of New Orleans
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Green Party leaders urged Congress and all Americans to reject the White House’s intention to turn New Orleans and all disaster areas into zones of military control, weakened human rights protections and oversight of federal agencies, and corporate profiteering similar to occupied Iraq.
    "The treatment of New Orleans’ poorest, especially African Americans, has already been widely reported and is now a national shame, as is the ineptitude of Mayor Nagin’s office, FEMA, and other (…)

  • When Torture becomes Policy
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government." Declaration of Independence, July4, 1776
    President Bush has made it clear that he will veto the $435 billion Pentagon appropriations bill because it restricts his ability to abuse prisoners in the war on terror. The bill, which forbids the "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" of prisoners in US custody, was (…)

  • Exit Polls vs Official Counts: Dr. Freeman and Mr. Mitofsky Face-Off in Election Fraud Debate
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two experts face-off in lively lectures and discussion about the utility of exit polls when compared to official counts, the potential for election fraud and the role of statistics in adjudicating critical issues of public importance. The University of Pennsylvania’s departments of Center for Organizational Dynamics and Political Science and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASAP) will host the debate.
    Like most politically savvy Americans, Steve Freeman (…)

  • How To End The War-Boot Out Bush or Pay Dearly in Blood and Money
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Paul Craig Roberts
    George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his October 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine, the National Endowment for Democracy, the President of the United States said: "Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces."
    Eighty Iraqi battalions makes it sound like the US is just lending Iraq a helping hand. I wonder what Congress and (…)

  • Cheney’s Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the last year, RAW STORY can reveal.
    Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney’s options — worth $241,498 a year ago — are now valued at more than $8 million. The former CEO of the oil and gas services juggernaut, Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity.
    The above graph released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) charts the value of the (…)

  • Poll: Americans Want Bush Impeached
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Poll: Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq
    By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans say that President Bush should be impeached if he lied about the war in Iraq, 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 Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. (…)

  • BUSH wins
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    —Saddam didn’t kick the UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq.
    http://www.fair.org/activism/...
    But bush did.
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/-03-17-insp...
    — Saddam targeted extremist Shite al-Sadr & his militia
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.htm...
    So did bush.
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/portrait_...
    — Saddam wouldn’t let human rights groups into all prisons;
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.htm...
    Neither will (…)