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  • NON TO FRENCH WINE, OUI TO FRENCH AD AGENCY
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When France refused to join in the "coalition of the willing," the right-wing propaganda machine rolled out the "Hate-Everything-French" campaign. Conservative media mouthpieces like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh led the Franco phobic charge, exhorting their benighted minions to boycott everything French. There was even an effort to change French fries to "freedom fries." French bashing could be heard and read, in varying degrees of ferocity, across the nation as the Bush (…)

  • George W. Bush, The "ACTIVIST PRESIDENT"
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’m going to make this one short and sweet so I don’t confuse the pollyannas out there. Last time out, we took a look at the corporate recruiting arm of the US military(one of them), AKA Blockbuster Video. What’s behind door number 2? Step right up as I pull back the curtain to give you a "behind the scenes" look at conservative hypocricy, nothing like pouring salt on a wound to get you going.
    You might not expect the Critical Bastard to have once belonged to what is now known as the (…)

  • "Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Related: Democratic Senators reportedly getting cold feet on investigating Gannon/Plame link.
    "Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats by Carol Rawle, Unknown News
    Over the weekend, while pursuing information that might lead to uncovering connections between the Bush White House and the ’non-reporter’ Jeff Gannon, aka James Guckert, a blogger may have stumbled onto information that could begin to uncover a possible alliance between the (…)

  • Damning 9/11 Report Exposes Bush Adminstration as Woefully Incompetent if not Criminally Negligent
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What We Don’t Know About 9/11 Hurts Us Robert Scheer
    February 15, 2005
    Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
    The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. (…)

  • A Corrupted Election: Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right
    15 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1970/
    Recall the Election Day exit polls that suggested John Kerry had won a convincing victory? The media readily dismissed those polls and little has been heard about them since.
    Many Americans, however, were suspicious. Although President Bush prevailed by 3 million votes in the official, tallied vote count, exit polls had projected a margin of victory of 5 million votes for Kerry. This unexplained 8 million vote discrepancy between the (…)

  • Secrecy, Torture, Propaganda Mark New American Politburo Practices
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Secrecy, Torture, Propaganda Mark New American Politburo Practices Bill Gallagher February 15, 2005 Detroit - Like their Soviet predecessors, the top leaders of the American politburo — Dick Cheney and George W. Bush — never admit their mistakes or acknowledge their authoritarian policies and police-state oppression. The very thought of apologizing for failures and injustice — no matter how disastrous and obvious — is repugnant to such regimes. Comrades Cheney and Bush get away with (…)

  • We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself Paul Craig Roberts February 12, 2005
    Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression.
    What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the moronic Bush administration, you blame (…)

  • Bush Broke his Promise on Social Security
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush 2001 vs. Bush 2005, when and why did he change his mind?
    Bush in the 2001 State of the Union: "To make sure the retirement savings of America’s seniors are not diverted to any other program, my budget protects all $2.6 trillion of the Social Security surplus for Social Security, and for Social Security alone."
    Bush Feb 9, 2005 - "The money-payroll taxes going into the Social Security are spent. They’re spent on benefits and they’re spent on government programs. There is no (…)

  • Bush’s Budget: Cut education, services for needy, add new tax cuts for the wealthy
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AT THE Detroit Economic Club last week, President Bush boasted that his latest budget is "the most disciplined proposal since Ronald Reagan." And, yes, his proposed cuts — in food stamps, Medicaid, housing and child care — are stunning, mainly for their targeting of low-income workers and families.
    But even President Reagan never displayed such a taste for tax cuts, though he tried at first. Faced with mounting deficits, Mr. Reagan reversed himself, raising taxes. Mr. Bush’s father did the (…)

  • Bush Administration - Money, Politics & Drugs
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A new plan by the Bush administration to test thenation’s public school population for mental disorders and treat them with controversial drugs has raised an alarm among some medical science watchdogs and members of the mental health community, according to the June 27, 2004, New Standard.
    Bush wants to launch a mental health and disability initiative that recommends the screening and treatment for students K-12 in public schools. The plan is based on a Texas program known as the "Texas (…)