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  • Bush’s Promises? Oh, Never Mind
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Promises? Oh, Never Mind Clarence Page January 19, 2005 WASHINGTON - If Washington gave out honors in the way that Hollywood gives out Oscars, President Bush would deserve an Emily Litella Award for political U-turns.
    If you don’t recall why Ms. Litella’s name rings a bell, she was the grumpy old editorial-reply lady played by the late Gilda Radner in the early days of "Saturday Night Live."
    Ms. Litella would weekly launch into a tirade over some outrage that she inevitably had (…)

  • Why Condolezza Rice Should Not Be Confirmed
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concluded confirmation hearings for the office of Secretary of State, the presumptive appointee, Dr. Condolezza Rice, put on a display of the abrasive, uninformed style and lack of substance we can expect from her if she is confirmed.
    Rice sailed through most of the questions without providing substantive answers for the main part - much like her colleague, Alberto Gonzalez, in his confirmation hearing for Attorney General - and at one point, in a (…)

  • Coronation of Corruption : celebration of Exploitation
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    At the apex of the highest mountain stand the facilitators of human corruption, in proud self-adulation, glorification and ego-driven debasement readying themselves with a forty million dollar celebration of pomp and circumstance, enjoying the comforts of luxury and unfettered power spun by the web of exploitation, for victorious do they see each other, this power-addicted and profit-hungry cabal of corporatist and elitist vermin, extolling both the virtues of (…)

  • Rule Bratannia
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RULE BRATANNIA Jan 20 2005
    See their disgust for democracy
    TONIGHT America exports a sight more obscene, costly and unnecessary than Jackie Stallone’s face.
    The lavish $40million presidential coronation of a thick little rich kid is guaranteed to trawl the depths of bad taste, giving us cynical Brits another chance to look down on an emotionally-deficient nation celebrating the re-election of a mentally-deficient primate.
    Well laugh until you fall off your high horses, folks, (…)

  • Bush’s Choice for Energy Secretary Was One of Texas’ Top Five Worst Polluters
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays-literally-to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to fill the vacancies in Bush’s second-term cabinet.
    But one of the President’s most outrageous decisions (besides naming Alberto Gonzales, who concocted a legal case for torturing foreign prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Attorney (…)

  • Firings At CBS Don’t Vindicate Bush
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Firings At CBS Don’t Vindicate Bush Dave Zweifel January 17, 2005 The headlines in the newspapers and the 10-second snippets on radio and TV were similar to the one that appeared in the Chicago Tribune last week: "CBS News fires 4 in erroneous Bush story."
    Unfortunately, the headlines and summaries were wrong.
    Yes, CBS did fire four of its top news people after a two-person independent investigation concluded that the news network failed basic journalistic standards in putting (…)

  • Bush’s Insult to Tsunami Victims
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Strings attached to Washington’s disaster relief Bush’s insult to tsunami victims By Alan Maass | January 14, 2005 |
    WHAT THEY give with one hand, they take away with the other. U.S. government aid to the desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis is finally arriving. But it has strings attached.
    As badly as the money is needed to keep people alive and rebuild, Washington’s conditions for disaster relief will make people’s lives worse in these countries—while helping to expand U.S. (…)

  • What Bush Said About Iraq’s So-Called WMD
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Bush Said About Iraq’s So-Called WMD Staff and Wire Reports Jan 13, 2005 Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs:
    BEFORE THE WAR
    "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." - Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002.
    "The problem here is that (…)

  • Christian Nation: Bush and the Bible
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    address given by Dr. Meyers at Oklahoma University Peace Rally
    As some of you know, I am minister of Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City, an Open and Affirming, Peace and Justice church in northwest Oklahoma City, and professor of Rhetoric at Oklahoma City University.
    But you would most likely have encountered me on the pages of the Oklahoma Gazette, where I have been a columnist for six years, and hold the record for the most number of angry letters to the editor. (…)

  • In CBS Memos Coverage, Media Ignored - Or Even Denied - Credible Evidence That Bush Failed To Fulfil
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In CBS Memos Coverage, Media Ignored - Or Even Denied - Credible Evidence That Bush Failed To Fulfill National Guard Duty January 12, 2005 The media is allowing conservatives to use the release of the Independent Review Panel report examining CBS News’ 60 Minutes Wednesday’s September 8 broadcast of questionable memos to claim that the report disposed of all remaining questions that have been raised about President Bush’s service in the National Guard. In fact, substantial evidence exists, (…)