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  • Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    In the high stakes game of Supreme Court Hold ’Em, Dubya has made a decisive and bold, yet defensive move. Has has gone "all in" and nominated his former personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, for the Supreme Court. What better way to avoid jail for war crimes, profiteering and conspiracy. Appoint your own lawyer to the bench. A truly brilliant maneouver even if Alberto’s really disappointed. Bush’s cronies can stop sweating now.
    ABC News: Who Is Harriet Miers? (…)

  • Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Harriet Miers nominated for Supreme Court By President Bush
    Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
    In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn’t a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That’s right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the (…)

  • The usual suspects
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    The usual suspects
    October 3, 2005
    The Bush administration hesitantly walked another step closer to collapse last week with the admission that Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby was the second senior administration official to have disclosed the identity of Valerie Plame, former CIA officer involved in a covert operation to provide intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, to the press, in this case Judith Miller of the New York Times. Libby now joins White House (…)

  • Flash Video: George W. Bush: Pretender-and-Thief
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." — Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany.
    http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html

  • GTech Lottery Influence Taints Miers Nomination
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’m not saying Harriet Miers has taken a penny from GTECH, Guy Snowden or anybody else. Let me make that clear. But she, and the whole cabal from Texas, absolutely reek of
    Ms. Miers’ time on the Texas Lottery Commission has been well reported, usually with Ms. Miers as the driving force who rooted out corruption and helped the Texas Lottery turn over a new leaf. “In other circles, the Texas Lottery Commission is known as the incident that permanently sealed Bush’s Texas Air National (…)

  • Gangs of DC: The Bush bureaucracy has invaded America’s turf & what can we do?
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater While commuting to my law office temp job in San Francisco the other day, I met a gang member on the BART train. I could tell he was a gang member. He had gang tattoos and gang insignia and a gang Survivor buff. So I started asking him about gangs and turfs and stuff.
    "In Oakland," he told me, "in the Twenties" — that’s Twentieth Avenue through Twenty-Ninth Avenue — "you got the Murder Dubs. In West Berkeley, you got the Nortes and the H2o. Then in North Oakland (…)

  • BUSH’S ’HOLY’ CRONIES HAVE FEET OF CLAY
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill Gallagher DETROIT — Deception, arrogance, greed, hubris, corruption, incompetence and isolation — the seven deadly sins of political life — snared President George W. Bush and his cronies long ago. That’s how they gained and maintain power.
    While praying and thumbing their Bibles, loudly proclaiming their virtue and righteousness, the faith-based Busheviks claim to be the chosen and anointed, carrying out God’s work on earth. In fact and in deed, they behave like the devil’s (…)

  • Video: The debacle of the federal governemts response to the Katrina hurricane
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video: The debacle of the federal governemts response to the Katrina hurricane
    WINDOWS
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  • Iraq’s President Calls for PM to Step Down
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s Kurdish president called on the country’s Shiite prime minister to step down, the president’s spokesman said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.
    President Jalal Talabani has accused the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance, which holds the majority in parliament, of monopolizing power in the government and refusing to move ahead on a key issue for Kurds, the resettlement of Kurds in the northern city of Kirkuk.
    The time has come (…)

  • Clueless Americans on Democracy
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 2nd, 2005
    “The U.S. public is deeply skeptical about the priority President George W. Bush has put on promoting democracy abroad, and its experience in Iraq has made it more so, according to a detailed new survey released Thursday by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR) and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) of the University of Maryland,” writes Jim Lobe. “Only 35 percent of the 808 randomly selected respondents said they favored the use of military (…)