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  • Corrupt Congress: Virtually all of the $40 Billion in spending cuts affect the Poor and Young
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A new year brings new hope. And in this year it would be nice to see in Washington a new commitment to fiscal restraint and a resolve to bequeath a solvent government and robust economy to future generations.
    To listen to many Republican lawmakers, a move in that direction is underway. In the final hours before it wrapped up on Dec. 21, the Senate approved a five-year, $40 billion deficit reduction package. The measure, set to pass the House of Representatives early this year, would cut (…)

  • Clevelanders to Conduct "Spy-In" to Bring Attention to Illegal Domestic Spying
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In response to the news that the Pentagon has illegally spied on the Northeastern Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC), Clevelanders will gather outside the Federal Building at 1240 East Ninth Street on Monday, January 30 at 7:30 AM to conduct a spoof "spy-in" on the U.S. government. Participants will dress in Hollywood-inspired spy outfits and pretend to spy on the Federal Building with cameras, binoculars and other gear often associated with espionage activities.
    A partial database from the (…)

  • My Latest Fax to Bush
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To President Bush,
    I find it very interesting that whenever you need a distraction such as the illegal eaves-dropping issue, up pops Osama bin Laden. While you once said of him that you would capture him “dead or alive” which turned into, “I do not know where he is, he is not important and is not our priority” he has become your ally, that is if he is still alive and where Americans will run around as if the sky is falling. Me, I just shrug my shoulders since I feel that this government (…)

  • Bush picks Abramoff prosecutor for federal judgeship, removed from case
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington — The investigation into Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a provocative new turn Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by President Bush.
    The prosecutor, Noel Hillman, is chief of the department’s Office of Public Integrity, and the move ends his involvement in an investigation that has reached into the administration as well as into the (…)

  • 9/10/01 : ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    1) The Northern Alliance Leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud , is buried - paving the way for installation of an oil company company executive , Hamid Karzai. The likey perps : British intelligence and Pakistan’s ISI
    2) The head of Pakistani intelligence arrives in Washington on this day , after wiring 100k to Mohamed Atta. An asset of British intelligence , Omar Saeed Sheikh, facilitates the transaction.
    3) Sir David Manning ,Tony Blair’s top foreign policy advisor, meets with Deputy Sec. of (…)

  • Financial Times/LA Times - 57% Americans support military action in Iran
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
    The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of Americans favor military intervention if Iran’s Islamic government pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms.
    Support for military (…)

  • Tainted treasures in Malibu: The glory of Rome (and the smell of scandal)
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Getty Villa, home to thousands of antiquities, reopens to the public in California this weekend after a $275m renovation. But the unveiling has been overshadowed by a series of allegations involving art theft and corruption.
    Andrew Gumbel reports from Los Angeles
    Under other circumstances, the reopening of the original J Paul Getty museum in Los Angeles - a painstakingly reproduced ancient Roman villa on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean - might have been cause for universal (…)

  • A watched America is not a free America
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Doug Thompson
    I stopped for gas on my way home last night, inserting my credit card into the reader at the gas pump at the Exxon station on North Main Street in Floyd, Virginia. It cost just under $40 to fill the 19-gallon gas tank on my Jeep Wrangler.
    With the tank filled, I retrieved the receipt and climbed back into the Jeep but before I could start the engine a bank of high speed computers operated by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at 3801 Fairfax Drive in (…)

  • Documenting a Lie by George Tenet Before the 9/11 Commission
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com In this post I list five important lies, related to the 9/11 attack, which have been told by officials. Then I give links to other posts which document the fact that these are lies:
    One of the five lies was by George Tenet. It is on video, and was told during a March 2005 speech at the University of Oklahoma, where his mentor David Boren is president. In response to a question from me he disputed a TIME magazine article (…)

  • BUSH TAKES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION : A SUMMONS TO GREATNESS?
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    George’s Curious Appointments .
    Examples Abound
    1) Viveca Novak of Time Magazine , no relation to Bob , proffers allegedly exculpatory testimony that pundits speculate will aid Karl Rove in his so far successful life long attempt to avoid the dreaded indictment. Viv’s hubby is nominated by President Bush for a term on the Federal Election Commission.
    2) Catherine Martin’s husband Kevin Martin , replaced Colin Powell’s son , Michael, as Chmn. of the FCC. Ms. Martin was (…)