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  • Hostility Greets Katrina Recovery Plan. Residents Assail Eminent Domain and Other Facets of New Orleans Proposal
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Manuel Roig-Franzia
    NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11 — Angry homeowners screamed and City Council members seethed Wednesday as this city’s recovery commission recommended imposing a four-month building moratorium on most of New Orleans and creating a powerful new authority that could use eminent domain to seize homes in neighborhoods that will not be rebuilt.
    Hundreds of residents packed into a hotel ballroom interrupted the presentation of the long-awaited proposal with shouts and taunts, booed (…)

  • We Will Educate Our Colleagues, the Policy Community, the Media, and Our Patients
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Physicians for a National Health Program Meet in Philadelphia
    by Andy Coates
    Physicians for a National Health Program held its annual meeting on December 10, 2005. Originally planned for New Orleans, it was relocated to Philadelphia after Hurricane Katrina. Founded in 1987, the organization has over 14,000 members nationally. PNHP advocates and educates for a single national health insurance plan: in the words of PNHP National Coordinator Quentin Young, MD, "everybody in, nobody out." (…)

  • Losing the War on Terrorism : our Incompetent Commander-in-Chief
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael T. Klare
    President Bush has lost the support of most Americans when it comes to the economy, the environment, and the war in Iraq, but he continues to enjoy majority support in one key area: his handling of the war on terrorism. Indeed, many analysts believe that Bush won the 2004 election largely because swing voters concluded that he would do a better job at this than John Kerry. In fact, with his overall opinion-poll approval ratings so low, Bush’s purported proficiency in (…)

  • A Disastrous Appointment
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michelle Goldberg
    Bush’s backdoor choice of unqualified right-winger Ellen Sauerbrey to head the US refugee-response team raises the specter of Michael Brown.
    One of the Bush administration’s favorite ways of rewarding its Christian right base is to seed the foreign policy bureaucracy with its allies. Because appointments to international delegations or deputy- level State Department posts get little mainstream attention, there wasn’t much uproar when Bush made Christian radio host (…)

  • Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    – Economists say official estimates are far too low New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers
    by Jamie Wilson in Washington
    The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
    The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and (…)

  • American Terrorists Strike Again
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    18 innocent people killed in air strike
    ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — (OfficialWire) — 01/14/06 — Acting on local intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) targeted and killed at least 18 innocent civilians including women and as many as five children.
    While American TV channels reported that Ayman al-Zawahiri was the target of a CIA air strike Friday in Pakistan Bajur tribal region and may have been among those killed, the reality is quite the opposite.
    What really happened is that (…)

  • PNAC WAR MONGERS FRAMING IRAN WITH AID OF COMPLICIT MEDIA
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Here we go again . The war drums are beating . The New York Times is spewing forth yet more baloney . Judith Miller is gone but James Risen has taken her place as Chief Correspondent for the Neocon War Party and it’s The Toilet Paper of Record .
    Risen claims that Iran has been pursuing the dreaded nuke for the past twenty years . Oh Really? Where are they hiding this programme? For the past three years , The International Atomic Energy Association has scowered the country from one (…)

  • US bribes to recruits reach new high: $40,000 sign-up, $90,000 re-enlistment bonuses
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Army cited incentives approved by Congress for the current budget year that may help further. New recruits now can receive up to $40,000 as sign-up bonus and up to $90,000 for re-enlisting.
    This is the last paragraph of a long and winding article, unrelated to recruitment.
    – http://www.washtimes.com/national/2...
    or here
    – http://www.infowars.com/articles/ww...

  • BUSH CRUISE MISSILES MURDER PAKISTANI CIVILIANS
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Cruise Missiles Murder Pakistani Civilians
    By Peter Fredson
    January 14, 2006
    Emperor George I, by grace of the Supreme God of the Universe, and the Republican Senate, murdered at least 17 to 35 civilians today, in Pakistan, by launching multiple cruise missiles, which destroyed their homes and lives. By Bush terms, so few deaths are negligible, hardly worth mentioning.
    He would be willing to murder many more times that number to achieve his objective in combating “terrorism” (…)

  • Why the Democrats should impeach Bush/Cheney today
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yes, Martha, I understand that US Representative John Conyers (D-NY) has filed an “impeachment resolution” (HR 635), plus two mentions for censure (HR 636 and 637) in the House Judiciary Committee. The impeachment resolution lays the foundation for bipartisan impeachment proceedings, which by the way is my first problem with it. Asking the Republicans to impeach Bush/Cheney is like asking the chickens to swallow a two-headed fox. But it’s more than that . . .
    The editor of Online Journal, (…)