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  • Lessons From Hell. Amid Death And Destruction, Bush Not As Nero, But As Caligula’s Horse Incitatus
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lessons From Hell Amid Death And Destruction, Bush Not As Nero, But As Caligula’s Horse Incitatus John Chuckman September 08, 2005 If he is alive, Osama bin Laden surely is enjoying some hearty laughter. Nothing he could imagine, short of the virtually-impossible task of obtaining a tactical nuclear weapon and detonating it in an American city, compares to the damage just inflicted upon the United States by its own President. Ten thousand dead is the estimate of New Orleans’ mayor. A (…)

  • US The New Saddam
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US The New Saddam Eric Margolis September 04, 2005 The most important news from Iraq last week was not the much ballyhooed constitutional pact by Shias and Kurds, nor the tragic stampede deaths of nearly 1,000 pilgrims in Baghdad.
    The U.S. Air Force’s senior officer, Gen. John Jumper, stated U.S. warplanes would remain in Iraq to fight resistance forces and protect the American-installed regime "more or less indefinitely." Jumper’s bombshell went largely unnoticed due to Hurricane (…)

  • How Bush Blew It
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.
    A woman walks in the flooded streets of the 9th Ward of New Orleans
    By Evan Thomas Newsweek
    Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It’s a standing joke among the president’s top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, (…)

  • Senate committee wants input on NOLA reconstruction
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Take the power and money out of the hands of FEMA and Halliburton/Bectel and give the money to the PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS to decide how to rebuild and who will rebuild!!
    Urgent! Senate committee wants Katrina input - deadline TODAY 9/11
    The Senate H.E.L.P. Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) has been requesting input on Katrina reconstruction. The deadline was changed from Friday 9/9 to Monday, 9/12 (but presume 9/11, by the end of today) to allow more input. . It’s a great (…)

  • Pelosi Supports Anti-Fraud Commission on Katrina
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For Immediate Release Sept. 11, 2005
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced today that she supports forming an anti-fraud commission to oversee government contracts issued in response to Hurricane Katrina:
    "Congress is rightly spending billions of dollars to help the people and businesses of the Gulf Coast who have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. To ensure taxpayers’ money goes to those in need, not to fraudulent contractors, we must establish an (…)

  • Lehigh Valley PA extension of March in Washington 9/24, 2-4pm
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lehigh Valley PA extension of March in Washington
    September 24th, 2-4pm, Cedar Beach, Allentown, southeast corner, Hamilton & Ott Sts.
    While it is important for all concerned citizens to attend the March in Washington, September 24th, for various reasons many cannot do so. For this reason, a rally has been organized at Cedar Beach, Allentown PA, the southeast corner, Hamilton & Ott Sts., for September 24th, from 2-4pm, giving you an opportunity to take part locally!
    Whatever (…)

  • Can we wait even a SECOND longer?!!
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’ve taken the advice of a few people and I have submitted this image to
    Cafe Press.
    Perfect for the September 24th protest
    in Washington, D.C.!!!
    A Memorable Souvenir For
    Here’s a larger image to make your own poster. (There’s an even larger one at Cafe Press!)
    Here are some 60 or so items available there:

  • 25th Amendment Can Be Used to Remove George Bush from Office
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com
    Many Americans would like to see George Bush impeached, but the U.S. Constitution also provides other machinery for removing him from office. That would be the 25th Amendment, proposed by Congress and enacted after the Kennedy assassination. It provides for the orderly removal of a President if he becomes disabled to the degree that he cannot fulfull his responsiblities. Go here for the text of the Amendment and annotations: (…)

  • Open Letter to Howard Dean: Now is the Time
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dr. Dean: Now it the time. Commander Bunny pants has shown his gross incompetence racism and cronyism clearly and publicly. Now is the time for REAL DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION to stand up and speak clearly.
    When the fascist corporatists sign bills removing wage protection from relief efforts Where is the Democratic Response?
    When the cronies are exposed as the embezzlers and frauds that they are WHERE IS THE DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE?
    When the Radical Rights’s policies run their course and FEMA (…)

  • The time to act is now. Bush Administration must be prosecuted
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Viggo Mortensen
    In the often and rightly quoted words of Bill Clinton, "There’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed by what’s right with America." We see now how individuals and groups around the country continue to act in any way they can to help their fellow citizens in Louisiana, Mississippi and other devastated places near the Gulf of Mexico. They refuse to stand idly by and wait for President Bush and his morally-bankrupt, pirate administration to respond in an (…)