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  • AN OPERATION KINDA SLEAZY : NEOCON THREATS AGAINST NORWAY ,OTHERS CARRIED OUT
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ON January 12, 2006 in an article entitled, "USA THREATS AFTER BOYCOOT SUPPORT" , the following passage can be found : " US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Foreign Minister and Socialist leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods. (Aftenposten 1/2/06) What were the promised (…)

  • The Cowboy Way: A Neocon Myth
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yee Ha!, Yippy Kiyay! Remember the old B Westerns? The basic theme was often purely simplistic; the universal fight between good and evil. On the good side was a handsome WHITE cowpoke decked out in custom fitted attire and astride a WHITE horse (behold a pale horse?), and often assisted by a lamebrained but clownish sidekick.
    The story usually went somethin like this: The wild western town was under the thumb of an evil, black-suied, moustashio’d villian who usually owns most of the (…)

  • De la Vega on Why Rove Will Fall
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tomgram
    The President passed through his State of the Union address — ill-digested chunks of so many other speeches he’s given ("We’re writing a new chapter in the story of self-government — with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan, and millions of Iraqis marking their liberty with purple ink...) — largely untouched by the media. His two Supreme Court-changing appointments, Roberts and Alito, were triumphantly in the front row of the audience. Undoubtedly, it wasn’t a bad way for a (…)

  • Migden bill raises health care ante for biggest state firms
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    SACRAMENTO
    Requires 8% payout for worker benefits, or Medi-Cal funding
    by Greg Lucas
    Sacramento — California’s largest employers would be required to prop up the state’s medical insurance program for the poor if they don’t offer their workers generous enough health benefits under a bill set for introduction in the Senate.
    Modeled after a law passed earlier this month in Maryland that only affected mega-retailer Wal-Mart, the California legislation would require employers of more than (…)

  • What Really Happened
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Cindy Sheehan Dear Friends,
    As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight.
    I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country.
    There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is what really happened:
    This afternoon at the People’s State of the Union Address in DC where I was joined by Congresspersons Lynn Woolsey and John Conyers, Ann Wright, Malik (…)

  • Fitzgerald Focuses on Missing White House Emails
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    More than two dozen emails sent to various senior Bush administration officials between May 2003 and early July 2003 related to covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, are missing, and the special prosecutor investigating the case suspects that the communications may have been destroyed, according to high level sources close to the two-year old probe.
    The sources, who are knowledgeable about Special Prosecutor Patrick (…)

  • A Boehner in the Henhouse
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Nichols
    Newly-selected House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is getting some remarkably good press, considering his remarkably sordid political pedigree.
    ABC News referred to the grizzled veteran of Capitol Hill, who was elected to the House when George Bush the Dad was president and Democrat Tom Foley was the Speaker of the House, as a "fresh face." The network’s report on the House Republican Caucus vote to select a replacement for the indicted Tom DeLay was headlined: (…)

  • Super Bowl City on the Brink
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seahawks vs. Steelers in Detroit will display football’s best teams and America’s worst social malaise: the glaring disparity in wealth.
    By Dave Zirin
    "A celebration of concentrated wealth." That’s what Washington Post sportswriter Tony Kornheiser called the National Football League’s two-week long pre-Super Bowl party binge. Every Super Bowl Sunday, corporate executives and politicians exchange besotted, sodden backslaps, amidst an atmosphere that would shame Jack Abramoff. Only this (…)

  • Black Republicans Coming Home?
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ron Walters
    Among the big meetings that are being held in Washington to signal the opening of the new Congress is one planned for mid-January by Black conservatives. The meeting will be led by Conservative Washington, D.C., media personality Armstrong Williams, who was at the dinner for retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond, where Trent Lott made his comments in apparent support of Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential campaign.
    Black Republicans, to their credit, voiced strong (…)

  • Blair-Bush deal before Iraq war revealed in secret memo
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PM promised to be ’solidly behind’ US invasion with or without UN backing
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today.
    A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the (…)