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  • Get to Know Ben Marble, an Interview with the Guy Who Told Dick Cheney to Go Fuc* Himself
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rob Kall
    On September 22, I did an almost 90 minute interview with Dr. Ben Marble, the 35 year old ER physician, rock musician, father, husband, and the guy who told Dick Cheney to Go Fuck Himself. This is an edited transcript of the first 50 minutes of the interview.
    If you haven’t read it yet, here’s a great article telling you the story of Ben’s “dialogue with Vice President Cheney.
    Rob Kall: What went through your head before you spoke to Cheney.
    Rage, I guess rage, somewhat. (…)

  • Amid Many Fights Over Qualifications, a Bush Nomination Stalls in the Senate "NY Times"
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and STEPHEN LABATON
    Published: September 24, 2005
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Faced with accusations that the Bush administration is stocking the government with unqualified cronies, the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding up the nomination of a lawyer with little background in immigration or customs to head the law enforcement agency in charge of those issues.
    Democrats have seized on the political fury (…)

  • Revolt American Style: Take Back the Country from Criminals: Troops Speak Out
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pass On * Repost * Worldwide * Hit Reply, Copy/Paste Soldier’s Open Letter to George W. Bush
    by Michelle J. d’Entremont 2LT, US Army Reserves Engineer Corps
    If you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention.
    George Bush is going to go down in history as the President Who Destroyed America.
    Oh sure, there were problems before he ever took office. Every nation has problems. But in the year 2000, the USA was at a fairly high point. The economy was growing. Science was moving (…)

  • President George W. Bush is now Impeachable
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President George W. Bush is now impeachable
    by Joseph Hillier
    June 21, 2005
    GlobalResearch.ca
    Brothers and sisters for peace, I had thought my years of political and anti-war activism were over. I am quite old now and dying of cancer, but events of the recent past require I at least try to offer some useful advice on how to achieve the glorious goals of those opposed to war and militarism. The cruel grasping hand of capitalism has never before been so effectively poised to place (…)

  • Entire Text of President Chavez’ speech at UN General Assembly, Thursday September 15, 2005 (in Span
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Entire Text of President Chavez’ speech at UN General Assembly, Thursday September 15, 2005 (in Spanish and English) By President Hugo Chavez Frias Sep 16, 2005, 20:52
    Spanish Text from Agencia Bolivaria de Noticias followed by English Translation from VHeadline
    English Translated at in the middle of the page Discurso del Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, en la Sexagésima Asamblea General de la Organización de Naciones Unidas ABN /2005
    Enrique (…)

  • Bush Drinking Again
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pressures of Office and falling polls knock President off the wagon
    by OfficialWire NewsDesk
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 09/23/05 — According to the National Enquirer George W. Bush is sneaking shots behind his wife’s back, while many of his staff know he’s drinking again.
    Enquirer reporters, Jennifer Luce and Don Gentile, quoting ’family sources’ detail how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, (…)

  • Bush Is Insane
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President compares hurricane and terrorism
    by Jennifer Monroe
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 09/22/05 — Well, it was bound to happen. In the face of incoming Hurricane Rita, George W. Bush on Wednesday linked the American response to terrorism and its response to Hurricane Katrina, declaring that the United States is emerging a stronger nation from both challenges, and saying that terrorists look at the storm’s devastation "and wish they had caused it."
    Congress MUST invoke (…)

  • Scandal Visits the White House
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dan Froomkin
    The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House yesterday, picking off President Bush’s top procurement official — who just barely had time to resign before being arrested.
    The federal charges against David Safavian stem from his tenure as chief of staff of the General Services Administration, predating his arrival at the White House a year ago. But his arrest nonetheless draws renewed attention to the ongoing corruption and influence-peddling inquiry (…)

  • BUSH ARROGANCE AND BARBARISM
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    We wonder by what right American soldiers are walking around in Iraq with weapons in hand, far from Brooklyn or Crawford, Texas, shooting at the inhabitants of Iraq, destroying their homes, knocking down their businesses, destroying their infrastructure, lobbing grenades into rooms, pointing automatic weapons ceaselessly at people? We know they didn’t go to Iraq as tourists to look at one of the earliest civilizations in the world.
    We know they were commanded, as (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton The anti-war activist has plenty to say-and it’s not all about Bush
    by Kristen Lombardi Cindy Sheehan, the rising star of the anti-war movement, remembers when people used to think of her as one of those crazy activists, speaking out for a cause, inconveniencing all who stumbled onto her path. She remembers, from her days camped outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas, how some drivers would shout out at her, “Get a job!”
    Her (…)