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  • Left Margin : BUSH’S ENTOURAGE
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Carl Bloice
    My good friend - who’s usually right about such things - insists that in this case what is apparent is probably real. The Bush Administration really did appoint Karen Hughes to conduct a campaign to improve the image of our country in the Islamic world. There is no hidden agenda. She’s supposed to go around publicly holding court in places like Saudi Arabia and Turkey, ’listening’ and saying good things about the good people back here at home. Hughes is not carrying secret (…)

  • U.S. Threatens to Shun Nicaraguan Business if President Is Ousted
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOEL BRINKLEY Published: October 6, 2005
    MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 5 - Robert B. Zoellick, the deputy secretary of state, warned business leaders here on Wednesday that they should not continue supporting the political parties that are trying unseat Nicaragua’s president if they hoped to continue doing business with the United States.
    "Your opportunities will be lost," Mr. Zoellick said he told the businessmen.
    On the second day of a visit here, Mr. Zoellick also met with politicians (…)

  • Harriet Miers: Bush’s Pit Bull
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marjorie Cohn
    Bush has nominated his Texas crony as a stealth appointment to the Supreme Court. Although the Senate will be hard-pressed to discover Harriet Miers’s positions on the critical issues, she does have a long record of loyalty to Bush, whom she calls "the most brilliant man I ever met." Bush undoubtedly knows where she stands - and it doesn’t appear to be on the side of civil liberties.
    Miers represented a string of large corporations, including Walt Disney Co., (…)

  • Italy : electoral reforms undergo revision
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Government revises bill after objections from Ciampi
    The governing coalition considered revisions to a controversial electoral reform bill on Friday in response to criticism from President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi .
    A quintet of ’wise men’ representing the four parties in Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right alliance met for almost three hours to discuss possible solutions to points raised by Ciampi’s office earlier this week .
    The government is pushing ahead with plans to switch to (…)

  • Eased out of the Big Easy
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY JESSE JACKSON
    After his administration’s incompetence and indifference had lethal consequences in Katrina’s wake, President Bush has been scrambling to regain his footing. He’s called for an "unprecedented response to an unprecedented crisis." In religious services at the National Cathedral, he called on America to "erase this legacy of racism" exposed by those abandoned in Katrina’s wake. He’s called on Congress to appropriate more than $60 billion in emergency relief and outlined a (…)

  • Poll: Key Groups in Bush’s Political Coalition Grow Worried About Direction of Nation
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Will Lester WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush’s political coalition are increasingly worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
    The growing unease could be a troubling sign for a White House already struggling to keep the Republican Party base from slipping over Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Gulf Coast spending projects, immigration and other (…)

  • Political Leaders Announce Support for Re-Election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jesse Jackson and Dennis Kucinich were joined by actors, historians and others in sending their support to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, just days before he faces a historic vote on the future of his administration.
    Noting the accomplishments of the Chavez administration to improve the lives of Venezuela’s impoverished majority, the joint letter expressed the signers’ "hope and expectation that, on August 15, you will once again win an electoral mandate from the Venezuelan people to be (…)

  • GOD WHISPERS IN BUSH’S EAR
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GOD TELLS BUSH WHAT TO DO
    By Peter Fredson
    October 7, 2005
    This country is reported to be under the direct administrative control of the Christian Biblical God. It is reliably stated that God has relayed instructions to the President of the United State, George W. Bush, on invasion plans and killing Muslims, although he may not be available for the national economy, environment, medicine, floods, terrorist disasters or other national preoccupations, judging from the failures of Bush (…)

  • DC Observations of 9/24/05
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’ve had a history of staying out of politics. I’ve had a past of not reading the newspaper, of not watching the news, and also of not paying any mind at all to history and how it affects us today. My views have currently been changing, when it struck me as to how selfish and ignorant a stand such as this can be. Our government has been hard at work, not protecting our freedoms, but infringing on them, causing us to lose our rights and liberty’s bit by bit, law after ever restricting law. (…)

  • My Little Talk With God
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The President says he talks to God, so I thought I’d give it a try.
    God’s a pretty busy guy, being omnipotent, omniscient and all, but he does answer all calls, just like it says in the Bible (ask and you shall receive). So, I dialed up 1-877-CALLGOD and after going through the prompts (press 1 for saints, 2 for confessions, etc.) and listening to the hymns and chants while I was on hold for about 12 minutes (I liked the occasional voice of St. Peter breaking in and saying, "we know it (…)