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• Facing Movement for Democracy, SEIU Gives Massachusetts Members to Teachers Union
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  by Ferd Wulkan
  More than 2,000 SEIU members who work for the University of Massachusetts (UMass) left SEIU in late 2005, just as SEIU was leaving the AFL-CIO. What’s most surprising is that SEIU preferred to lose these workers, rather than let them have a democratic local.
  Members on four UMass campuses, in 10 bargaining units, were represented by four different SEIU locals until 2003. Through a top-down reorganization of locals under SEIU’s New Strength Unity Plan, all these units were (…)

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• The Catastrophe Is Not Over
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  By Jennifer Moses
  BATON ROUGE, La. — While the rest of the country wakes up in the morning to read about the latest round of Washington scandals, the misery in Louisiana continues unabated. Except for a few older, historical neighborhoods on "high ground," New Orleans is uninhabitable, and Cameron Parish, in the southwest corner of the state, basically no longer exists, having been wiped out by Hurricane Rita.
  Meanwhile, though Congress passed a $29 billion aid package for the Gulf Coast (…)

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• Government by Giveaway
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  By Michael Parenti
  In December 2005, the reactionaries who are running the government and ruining the country decided to cut about $42 billion from the human services budget over the next few years. Most of the cuts will come out of the hides of the very poorest among us. The victims include persons afflicted with disabling diseases who already have trouble trying to live on a monthly federal pittance.
  But there is another side to this Scrooge story. There are others among us who are (…)

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• Gorilla Empire? A Global State of Disunion
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  By Tom Engelhardt
  This Tuesday, the presidential State of the Union Address rolls around yet again. Only four Januaries have passed since the President used a State of the Union Address to brand Iran, Iraq, and North Korea — the first two then bitter enemies, the third completely unrelated to either of them and on the other side of the planet — as a World-War-II-style "axis of evil." It was the first great State of Disunion deception of the Bush administration’s regal reign of error. Only (…)

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• Corporate Wealth Share Rises for Top-Income Americans
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON Published: January 29, 2006
  New government data indicate that the concentration of corporate wealth among the highest-income Americans grew significantly in 2003, as a trend that began in 1991 accelerated in the first year that President Bush and Congress cut taxes on capital.
  In 2003 the top 1 percent of households owned 57.5 percent of corporate wealth, up from 53.4 percent the year before, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the latest income (…)

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• PSYOPS Blowback & the Imperial Arrogance of the DeceptoCons
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Pentagon Document Shows ’PSYOP’ Messages Boomerang to U.S.
  By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer January 27, 2006
  WASHINGTON (AP) A Pentagon "road map" to more effective use of information as a weapon says psychological warfare messages targeted at foreign audiences are increasingly finding their way into the United States.
  The 78-page document, released Thursday by the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research group, spells out the Pentagon’s reasoning for putting greater emphasis (…)

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• Bush Regime at War with the Earth: Top NASA Scientist Says So
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Top NASA Scientist Warns Global Warming Is Here, Claims Censorship by Bush Regime Jan-29 2006
  NASA’s top climatologist accused officials President Bush’s administration of trying to keep secret a warning he issued about potentially catastrophic changes in Earth’s climate caused by rapidly rising levels of greenhouse gases. Do you think global warming is a real and present danger?
  Dr. James Hansen, 63, of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University’s Earth (…)

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• Fax the Articles of Impeachment into Every Single Elected Official’s Office and Demand Bush’s Head!
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  by Mary MacElveen
  Dear Folks,
  Many of us have just read: Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst It is incumbent upon all of us and I do mean all of us to start faxing the articles of impeachment into every single elected official’s office. Republicans and Democrats alike must impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld in order to save this republic. Go to your library or your local convenience store to fax the articles of impeachment. To find your elected official’s fax (…)

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• America Is Being Plundered by the Global Elite
  31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  by The August Review
  America is For Sale. The sale is "under the table" in that the American people don’t have a clue that it’s being slowly sold out from under their feet, one piece at a time. The sale is deceptive because as the red ink grows larger and larger, we are told by these same globalists that trade and budget deficits don’t really matter that much.
  The sale is dishonest because it was planned from the beginning by elitist groups like the Trilateral Commission, to twist and (…)

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• Impeach Bush/Cheney Campaign in U.S. Capital
  30 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Starting Tuesday, a huge truck sporting this billboard on the side will begin driving around the U.S. Capitol.
  Bush, Cheney Impeached, evicted and convicted - don’t settle for less.
  On the other side of the truck will be this:
  Spying on Americans + lying to Congress + waging an illegal war + torturing prisoners + operating secret prisons + ignoring pre-9/11 warnings
  The Velvet Revolution is ready to roll! They’ve got a new billboard truck, and beginning next Tuesday (State of the (…)

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