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  • Buying of News by Bush’s Aides Is Ruled Illegal
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT PEAR
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush’s education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
    In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert (…)

  • Historical quotes to live by (these should be read to Bush)
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I ran across these quotes and believe everyone should really read and think about them. The problem is the ones who should really be reading them and be warned of future outcomes of their actions by these are too busy building up their war chests and private accounts. This applies to Republicans as well as Democrats. We really have to ask ourselves when sanity will reign again, if ever.
    The other problem I see is that it is widely known that Georgie does not like to read. He never has and (…)

  • Larry Franklin to testify against two former AIPAC officials
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Shmuel Rosner
    WASHINGTON - Former Pentagon employee Larry Franklin has struck a deal with prosecutors, and plans to plead guilty next week to a number of charges against him.
    Franklin was indicted in June on charges of leaking classified material - including data about potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq - to two members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and an Israeli official.
    Franklin will testify against former AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith (…)

  • Rumsfeld Refuses To Pay Back Military Families For Lifesaving Body Armor
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Traitor Defies Congress:
    "How Many Of Those Killed Could Have Been Saved With The Proper Equipment?"
    Families Still Forced To Buy Their Own Protection
    "The administration is either showing complete incompetence or utter indifference," "Rumsfeld is violating the law," he said.
    September 29, 2005 By Rick Maze, Army Times staff writer & The Associated Press.
    Soldiers and their parents are still spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for armor they say the (…)

  • Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Bush is Cooking Up Two New Wars
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Mired in interminable conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is moving toward initiating two more wars, one with Iran and one with North Korea. With no US troops available, the Bush administration is revamping US war doctrine to allow for "preventative nuclear attack." In short, the Bush administration is planning to make the US the first country in history to initiate war with nuclear weapons. The Pentagon document, "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear (…)

  • Cronies at the Helm
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It took the mighty blows of Hurricane Katrina to expose the failure of the United States government in protecting and saving its citizens from a natural disaster. As horrific as a terrorist attack, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ‘shocked and awed’ the world for days, depicting the misery and desperation of thousands of stranded victims on rooftops crying for help, the dead floating in the fetid floodwaters, and two hundred thousands more trapped in the Superdome in sunken New Orleans. (…)

  • Permanent Occupation
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you are inclined to believe the president, we will be in Iraq, in his words “as long as necessary, and not a day longer.” Members of the Bush administration, including the president, have been at pains to dispel any notion that they have plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq.
    On April 13, 2004, President Bush said, “As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation and neither does America.”
    On February 17, 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald (…)

  • Flashback: Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Plame-gate Leaker
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Plame-gate Leaker: Flashback
    Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-gate Leaker by Justin Raimondo October 2, 2003
    MSNBC’S Buchanan & Press scored a major scoop on Wednesday, all but unmasking the high government official who "outed" a CIA operative via a July 14 column by Robert Novak. Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who worked with Valerie Plame, the reported agent, all but identified "Scooter" Libby as the government official who outed her – and (…)

  • America Today: Crisis? What Crisis?
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
    He sold all his stock in HCA, which his father helped found, just days before the stock plunged. Two years ago, Mr. Frist claimed that he did not even know if he owned HCA stock.
    According to a new U.S. government index, the effect of greenhouse gases is up 20 percent since 1990.
    Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a 33-year-old Wall Street insider with little experience in regulation but close (…)

  • AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell
    September 30, 2005 AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell Pentagon analyst plea bargains, threatens to expose Israel’s Washington cabal by Justin Raimondo
    The plea bargain struck by former Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin – charged with five counts of handing over classified information to officials of a pro-Israel lobbying group, who passed it on to Israeli diplomatic personnel – has delivered a body blow to the defense of the two (…)