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  • Protest plans force Bush to curtail Ottawa visit
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Levon Sevunts
    TORONTO - President Bush won’t have to rescue his Secret Service bodyguards during his upcoming visit to Canada as he did recently in Chile, Canadian security officials said. But with thousands of protesters expected to demonstrate against Mr. Bush, the White House decided to cut short his visit to Ottawa and travel to Halifax instead. Mr. Bush is expected to be in Canada on Tuesday and Wednesday on his first official visit to the country since his re-election. (…)

  • Canada : protesters get ready for Bush visit
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rick Grant
    Despite U.S. President George W. Bush’s efforts to avoid booing by giving a speech in Halifax and not in Parliament, protesters are preparing to yank the welcome mat from underneath his feet when he arrives in Nova Scotia next week.
    The venue change has not kept protesters from mobilizing to rally against Bush in Halifax.
    Tamara Lorincz, a spokeswoman for the Halifax Peace Coalition told The Canadian Press that her group is promising a peaceful but "very bold and creative (…)

  • Bush the butcher not welcome in Ottawa
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Judi McLeod
    abble rousers, heading for Ottawa to boo Bush in a fever pitch, should be handed a world map.
    They are touting their November 30-December 1 mass protest against Bush’s state visit to Canada as "his first international trip since his re-election."
    Latin America’s Chile and Colombia are countries where a re-elected Bush was visiting when activists were getting ready to converge on Ottawa.
    "Emergency" meetings have been called, paint pots and cardboard being dragged out (…)

  • CNN: Chile calls off Bush banquet after security dispute
    21 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sunday, November 21, 2004 Posted: 12:57 PM EST (1757 GMT)
    SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN) — Plans for a state dinner for President Bush at Chile’s presidential palace were scratched Sunday after the United States insisted on security measures that Chile called unacceptable.
    The change came a day after Chilean security guards temporarily blocked one of Bush’s Secret Service agents from entering an official dinner.
    For the Sunday event, the Secret Service insisted all guests — totaling more than (…)

  • Life in the Second Bush Administration
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Charles Shaw
    Featuring: "The Four Horsemen of the Average Fixed Cost"
    by Poet-in-Residence Ronnie Pontiac
    Throughout the last forty years a legitimate Revolution was taking place in this country. It was quieter and more clandestine than the Socialist revolutions of the 60’s, growing from within, from the grassroots upward. It was by the Right, and they now have control of the nation. Orwell may be spinning in his grave, but Barry Goldwater is cackling like a madman in his.
    In (…)

  • France’s ’Watergate’ trial opens
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Caroline Wyatt
    In France, 12 people have gone on trial for running a phone-tapping operation used by the late President Francois Mitterrand to monitor his opponents.
    The defendants were almost all civil servants and they include current Renault chief Louis Schweitzer.
    The case has taken 22 years to come to court, because of state secrecy orders that prevented the judge gaining access to key documents.
    It has been described as France’s own Watergate scandal.
    All the defendants in (…)

  • Death, Delusion and Democracy
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    So the death of Yasser Arafat is a great new opportunity for the Palestinians, is it? The man who personified the Palestinian struggle - "Mr Palestine" - is dead. So things can only get better for the Palestinians. Death means democracy. Death means statehood. That the final demise of the corrupt old guerrilla leader should be a sign of optimism demonstrates just how catastrophic the conflict in the Middle East has now become. It’s a bit like Fallujah. The more we destroy (…)

  • Powell Movement
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    That’s what Jon Stewart’s Daily Show called the resignation of Colin Powell. A Powell movement. (They didn’t even touch the possible pun on Colin.)
    That’s how bad it has become. The Bush national security team is now so bad that it is a joke. The Daily Show noted that Powell was the administration’s “most influential moderate.” He was, at the same time, Stewart noted, also its “least influential moderate.” (See Letterman’s Top 10 comments on Powell below.)
    It’s clear to me that the (…)

  • THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2004, Issue No. 100
    THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
    Last month, Helen Chenoweth-Hage attempted to board a United Airlines flight from Boise to Reno when she was pulled aside by airline personnel for additional screening, including a pat-down search for weapons or unauthorized materials.
    Chenoweth-Hage, an ultra-conservative former Congresswoman (R-ID), requested a copy of the regulation that authorizes such pat-downs.
    "She said (…)

  • Conspiracy theories: Republican delusions
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conspiracy theories seem to be the talk of the town lately. One theory that is overlooked however, is the republican conspiracy theory...talk about wearing tin foil hats. Let’s review...
    Confirmed drug addict by his own admission, Rush Limbaugh, with his policy of scaring his listeners with conspiracy theories about the liberal left media. What’s next for Rush? Alien autopsies...republicans can do better then that. We believe in you. Try again.
    Ok, how about Coulter and her new book? (…)