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  • If Corporations Could Laugh
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ralph Nader If only corporations could laugh. If only corporations could laugh during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Judge John Roberts’ nomination for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, they would head for the nearest champagne closet in their executive suites.
    What a triumph for the most dominant powers in and around our nation. Judge Roberts got away without having important questions asked regarding the interface between corporations, the Constitution, the election (…)

  • Report: Sharon raised illegal campaign funds in New York
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon raised illegal campaign funds during his just-completed trip to New York, Channel Ten reported Monday.
    Sharon returned home Monday afternoon, and Channel 10 quoted his office as saying that the prime minister was not aware of the fund-raising.
    Sharon was in New York to attend the annual General Assembly session.
    Channel 10 showed footage of the entrance to a swanky Fifth Avenue apartment building in Manhattan, where Sharon met (…)

  • HATRED OR UNDYING LOVE?
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HATRED OR UNDYING LOVE?
    By Peter Fredson
    September 13, 2005
    I spend much time reviewing my computer files, which now occupy about 5 gigabytes of space, to see how things started and to try and prognosticate how they might end. While looking at the Bill Clinton years I am impressed at the hatred expressed against him by Republicans, certainly tantamount to their hatred toward Franklyn Delano Roosevelt. Intense, bitter, vicious, nasty, seething and immensely personal. All the Bush (…)

  • Leftists win elections in Norway
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OSLO, NORWAY — Norway was poised for a power shift after the left-leaning opposition won a majority of seats in parliament with pledges to spend more of the nation’s oil wealth on welfare, official election results showed early today.
    With more than 96 percent of votes counted, a three-party coalition led by the Labor Party had won 88 seats in the 169-seat assembly, enough to oust the center-right government.
    Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, 58, a Christian Democrat who campaigned on (…)

  • It’s time for the Democrats to rise up and stop doing business as usual
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Incompetence, cronyism, accountability, corruption, leveling with the American people, honesty and integrity are all words that we expect get a "hot button" response in political focus groups. In fact, these were words used by Bush in the disputed 2000 race that got him within 540,000 votes of beating Al Gore.
    So why then are the Democrats always so timid about using them in relation to Bush? Because he is incompetent; engages in rampant cronyism and corporate campaign contributor (…)

  • I Lost My Chance To Have Dinner With President Bush
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congressman’s gavel was tempting...but
    by Greg Lloyd Smith
    NEW YORK, NY — (OfficialWire) — 09/12/05 — I got a call Friday from a representative of the Business Advisory Council on behalf of Representative Thomas M. Reynolds (shown here), 26th District of New York. To say the least, I was surprised. Anyone who knows me, knows that these are not my people. So why were they calling me?
    Anyway, today, I returned the call and spoke to someone who played a recorded message from Congressman (…)

  • Republicans block efforts to amend relief bill, hold vote without providing copy of bill
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Byrne
    In the wake of what the Wall Street Journal projected may be the most expensive natural disaster in American history, the Republican Leadership in the House of Representatives limited floor consideration of the $52 billion Katrina relief bill proposed by President Bush and voted to reject any Democratic efforts to amend the bill to include a wider array of relief measures, RAW STORY has learned.
    Democrats said no one had even seen a copy of the legislation.
    Voting along (…)

  • New left strikes chord in disillusioned east
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Luke Harding in Cottbus
    Sixteen years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Ellen Müller looks back with nostalgia at her life in the then communist East Germany.
    "I didn’t have to worry whether we had enough to eat," she says. "Brötchen [bread rolls] cost five pfennigs. People cared more about children. And if you were ill you didn’t have to wait to see a doctor. It was all free."
    Far from enjoying the "blooming landscapes" promised by the then chancellor, Helmut Kohl, when the wall (…)

  • Now, Democratic Senators, will you please draft articles of impeachment?
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To all U.S. citizens in the bellaciao community:
    I urge each and every American citizen reading these pages to write, email, phone, meet face-to-face, use the Goodyear Blimp, whatever it takes, to ask your senators, in the strongest tones possible, to write articles of impeachment of the President of the U.S.
    We have more than enough evidence that this president has deliberately committed acts of treason, willful neglect of a planning and recovery, and depleting the funding of the Gulf (…)

  • The Catastrophic Success of the Republican Party
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from November 2004 archives at www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Parts of this article say it all about the GOP.....
    Republican Leadership, Corporatist Owned
    In America’s case, it is the Republican leadership, those evildoers extraordinaire, exploiters of fear and insecurity, usurpers of patriotism, pilferers of freedoms and rights, enemies of free speech and assembly, those hypocrites espousing the cross yet holding the gun, preaching poverty yet seeking wealth, espousing (…)