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  • A WIN FOR SCIENCE!
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    Hooray, a win for science!
    At last, there is something nice I can say about John H. Marburger III, President Bush’s science advisor.
    It’s about time. I have usually found myself being critical of Dr. Marburger for either being complicit or remaining silent as the Bush White House adopts anti-science policies or spins science to pander to the President’s base of right wing religious fanatics.
    I have disagreed with him on issues ranging from sex education (sex (…)

  • Bush Refuses To Meet With Sheehan
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Aides say ’Bush really cares’ [about avoiding her]
    CRAWFORD, TX - Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004, met with two Bush administration aides Saturday after president George W. Bush refused to come out to meet her.
    Sheehan, 48 (shown here), traveled to the president’s Crawford ranch after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a ’noble cause’ and that the mission must be completed.
    "I want to ask the president, ’Why did you kill my (…)

  • WHAT ELSE DID THE BASTARDS LIE ABOUT?
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The evidence for the US Government having deliberately lied to the people of this nation to trick them into supporting a war of conquest is now overwhelming. The Downing Street Memos, the "Dodgy Dossier", the forged Nigerian "Yellow Cake" papers, Colin Powell’s fraudulent presentation to the UN, .etc .etc .etc all establish a clear pattern of intentional deception.
    The government lied to us all. The mainstream media helped them do it. So did Israel. Yes, all those necessary hundreds of (…)

  • Netanyahu announces his resignation from gov’t
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Yossi Verter
    In a dramatic step following cabinet ratification of the first phase of the disengagement plan, Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday announced his resignation from the government, citing his opposition to the pullout.
    "We have reached the moment of truth today," Netanyahu wrote in a letter he placed on the cabinet table before abruptly leaving the ministers’ weekly session. "There is a way to achieve peace and security, but a unilateral withdrawal under fire and (…)

  • Israeli Finance Minister Netanyahu Quits
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned from his post Sunday to protest next week’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, a ministry spokesman said.
    Netanyahu, seen as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s biggest political rival within the Likud Party, submitted a letter of resignation during the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, said the Finance Ministry spokesman, Eli Yosef. The resignation will take effect within 48 hours.
    After Netanyahu (…)

  • Bush Plans to Fire Prosecuter
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Plans to Fire Prosecuter by Tom Flocco - August 7, 2005 TomFlocco.com
    Sunday morning online editions of Newsweek and Time are reporting that the President is planning to fire Chicago’s U.S. Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and replace him with a Bush classmate/Skull and Bonesman from Yale.
    Following on the heels of these reports, we have learned from U.S. intelligence sources that federal agents are prepared to immediately arrest Mr. Bush if he fires Fitzgerald and seeks to (…)

  • IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED."
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Palast
    Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
    The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." (…)

  • Urgent: Woodstock 2005 Bands Needed NOW- Crawford, Texas- Drop your sched and GO
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    To all who want peace in America, now is the time to expose the corruption. We urge everyone to drop their schedules and go to Crawford, Texas right now. It’s time to stage the Party to end all parties, camping out in the heat of texas will make for great tv ;-)
    The truth has emerged, it’s just a matter of getting it to the masses. They all Deliberately lied, they Used 9/11 as a pretext for war.
    Now Bush, Cheney and all those dopes in Congress are on Vacation! While more (…)

  • Cook’s contribution will be missed
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Assinder
    The death of Robin Cook not only deprives the Labour Party of one of its greatest figures, it will also diminish the House of Commons.
    The former foreign secretary was one of the very few MPs - on either the back or front benches - who demanded attention when he spoke in the chamber.
    His piercing intellect and ability to go to the very core of an issue, combined with a devastating ability to take his enemies to pieces was never better displayed than during the debate (…)

  • The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lack of Election Reform Threatens to Make All Progress Irrelevant.
    by Anthony Wade
    August 6, 2005
    The good fight has been fought for some years now. Progress has indeed been made. There are rumblings of indictments from the Valerie Plame incident, that may exceed Karl Rove. With each passing death in Iraq a nation begins to realize that this is just not worth it, despite the bravado of Bush, a man who knows nothing about sacrifice. The Downing Street Memos are still out there, waiting (…)