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  • Senate Panel Decides Against Eavesdropping Inquiry, for Now
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID STOUT
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 - The Senate Intelligence Committee decided today not to investigate President Bush’s domestic surveillance program, at least for the time being.
    "I believe that such an investigation is currently unwarranted and would be detrimental to this highly classified program," Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas and chairman of the panel, said this afternoon following a closed session.
    While Mr. Roberts’s announcement signaled that the administration’s (…)

  • Special report: America’s Long War
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US introduces radical new strategy
    de Simon Tisdall, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
    Concern is growing in Europe about US plans to involve governments in an expanded, all-out campaign against Islamist extremism from north Africa to south-east Asia, using beefed-up special forces, hi-tech weaponry and more intrusive surveillance and intelligence gathering.
    The Pentagon plan, designed to fight what it describes as "The Long War", envisages "long-duration, complex operations (…)

  • Judge’s anger at US torture
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stinging comments come as America dismisses UN report on Guantánamo
    de Richard Norton-Taylor and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
    A high court judge yesterday delivered a stinging attack on America, saying its idea of what constituted torture was out of step with that of "most civilised nations".
    The criticism, directed at the Bush administration’s approach to human rights, was made by Mr Justice Collins during a hearing over the refusal by ministers to request the release of three (…)

  • 25 US Reps for Bush Impeachment Probe
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Cardinale
    (APN) ATLANTA-25 US Representatives-including two members of the Georgia delegation-have now signed on as co-sponsors of H. Res 635, demanding a probe which could recommend Bush’s impeachment, including the initial sponsor, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
    If the Democratic Party is able to retake the US House of Representatives, Rep. Conyers would become Chairman Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee, whereas he is currently (…)

  • Australian TV airs more photos of US torture at Abu Ghraib
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bill Van Auken
    Pictures of Iraqi prisoners-naked, wounded, covered with blood, women’s underwear draped over their heads, bound in painful and degrading “stress positions”-were broadcast on Australian television Wednesday, further exposing the horrors inflicted at the US military’s prison camp at Abu Ghraib and similar facilities across the globe.
    The photographs, which also included images of battered and bloodied corpses, were apparently taken about the same time as those that (…)

  • Heal The Money System Heal Society
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Suzanne Phillips
    How a cleverly devised banking system robs the average person of the right to a decent life while providing enormous wealth for its corporate owners and stockholders
    On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, conspiracy, fraud, unlawful (…)

  • - The Dead Parrot Sketch - (the 2006 version)
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Dead Parrot Sketch - ( the 2006 version )
    Dick Cheney’s Ranch
    Karl Rove walks in.
    Karl Rove: Hey, Dick. I want to ask you a question.
    (Cheney does not respond.)
    KR: Hello........Dick?
    Dick Cheney: What do you mean by "Dick"?
    KR: That’s your name, isn’t it?! I wish to ask you a question!
    DC: I’m eating dinner.
    KR: Never mind that, Dick. I wish to ask a question...about...you shooting a man in the face today.
    DC: Oh yes, the, uh, the shooting (…)

  • HANGING BY A THREAD
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    HANGING BY A THREAD
    By Peter Fredson
    February 17, 2006
    Yesterday I wrote a blog about the possibility of administration printing presses “counterfeiting” money. What happens when a nation keeps printing paper money without a backing in gold, silver or platinum reserves?
    I pointed out that Germany once printed postage stamps which sold for thousands or hundreds of thousands of Deutschmarks, and that people to buy bread would take a wheelbarrow full of paper money to the store.
    I (…)

  • HEY DICK! WAS HE FLYING ’R WAS HE WEARIN’ FEATHERS?
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Les Blough, Editor Feb 13, 2006, 22:55
    C’mon Dick just set it out - give me some believable ideas here. Don’t worry, we don’t have to ... you know ... tell the truth about this. Hey! OK, OKaay - I won’t use that word again. I’m sorry, I’m sorrrry, I know that word makes you edgy.
    But we have to come up with a story that sounds like ... you know ... the T word. Okay? Good. But we’ve gotta fill out this accident report and then face the press.
    What? Your image? Ah c’mon Dick ... heh, (…)

  • Wis. Referendums Call for Troop Withdrawal
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT IMRIE, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
    KEWAUNEE, Wis. - Peace activist Jill Bussiere wants the United States to bring its troops home from Iraq immediately, so she went door-to-door in this community in the hopes of getting others to join her cause.
    Bussiere helped organize a petition drive that resulted in a referendum on Iraq being put on the ballot during Kewaunee’s upcoming spring election. It asks whether the city’s leaders should urge the U.S. to begin (…)