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  • Bigotry on the loose
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    It wasn’t Copenhagen, it was Washington and something that transpired there recently was ugly and more than a little frightening. Bigotry was on the loose.
    It wasn’t covered much by the country’s major media, and those that did cover it seem to have missed a critical piece of the story which was reported by slate.com and the Financial Times.
    Michael Scherer wrote that of the attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (…)

  • "Support Our Troops": GOP Words v. Actions
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Linda Barney Burke
    America’s military strongly leans Republican, with President Bush winning a 57 to 41 percent majority of the veterans’ vote in 2004.
    But how well do Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress really support our troops, especially those returning from America’s wars?
    "We have a responsibility to our men and women in uniform, who deserve to know that once our politicians vote to send them into harm’s way, our support will be with them in good days and in bad days," (…)

  • Bush plans huge propaganda campaign in Iran
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    – Congress asked for $75m to fund programme Rice to visit Gulf states as nuclear crisis deepens
    Ewen MacAskill and Julian Borger in Washington
    The Bush administration made an emergency request to Congress yesterday for a seven-fold increase in funding to mount the biggest ever propaganda campaign against the Tehran government, in a further sign of the worsening crisis between Iran and the west.
    Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said the $75m (£43m) in extra funds, on top of (…)

  • Deadeye Dick Isn’t a Lone Gunman Democrats Shoot Their Own, Too
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVE LINDORFF
    Dick Cheney may have demonstrated his ability yet again to go after the wrong target when he bagged his hunting companion instead of his quarry, but the Democratic Party leadership is proving to be even more treacherous in the field than Deadeye Dick.
    Party leaders, including Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) recently pressured Cindy Sheehan not to mount a primary campaign against California Senator Diane Feinstein, a woman who has betrayed party principles, such as they (…)

  • THE REAL REASON FRIST WANTS TO PROTECT PHARMA
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The top two Republicans in Congress caught in an outright lie A Republican staffer has named Frist and Hastert as the two lawmakers that added the vaccine makers liability protection to the defense bill- after the committee had met several times that day, and Dems even asked Alaska Senator Ted Stevens if the language was in the bill, and he told them no. Frist and Stevens deny this charge saying the language was in the bill when the conferees voted on it- but if that’s so, why did (…)

  • While USA has thousands of nuclear and DU warheads, Venezuela has none
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    Most of you will have read Would Sumate stand by and allow their fellow citizens to be contaminated? and, if you have not, I strongly urge you to do so. In this piece I wrote in great detail concerning the effects of depleted uranium and the devastating effects it has on American soldiers as well as innocent civilians.
    I do not only mention Iraq, but other countries as well where this deadly weapon has been used.
    As tensions rise between Venezuela and the United (…)

  • Dr. Frist Immunizes Big Pharma
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dan Hamburg
    Hidden in the folds of the thickly pork-laden Department of Defense Appropriations bill that slid through Congress just before Christmas and was signed into law a day before New Year’s was a big slab of holiday cheer for the pharmaceutical industry. There were no press releases from congressional offices and no mention in the news - maybe no one wanted to take credit for this latest assault on the 14th amendment.
    The so-called “Frist provision” - named after the (…)

  • "Cheney’s Got A Gun" - Learn To Sing America’s New Favorite Tune
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    If you love how America makes fun of its serious issues (instead of actually doing something about them), then you’ll absolutely adore this song about Dick Cheney’s latest shooting incident.
    Most of us are idiots and we’re all fixing to die anyway so come on everybody - learn the words, join in together and let’s sing this song!
    CHENEY’S GOT A GUN!
    (sung to the tune of Aerosmith’s "Janie’s Got a Gun")
    Produced by The Bob Rivers Show
    Dick Cheney’s got a gun Dick Cheney’s got a gun (…)

  • Judge Orders Surveillance Info Released by Bush Admin
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thursday, February 16, 2006 WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance program or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the program under wraps.
    At the same time, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he had worked out an agreement with the White House to consider legislation and provide more information to Congress on the eavesdropping program. The (…)

  • An Arrogance of Power
    16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Ignatius Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Page A21
    There is a temptation that seeps into the souls of even the most righteous politicians and leads them to bend the rules, and eventually the truth, to suit the political needs of the moment. That arrogance of power is on display with the Bush administration.
    The most vivid example is the long delay in informing the country that Vice President Cheney had accidentally shot a man last Saturday while hunting in Texas. For a White House (…)