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  • AFL-CIO calls for Dec. 10 Mobilization: Largest-Ever for Workers’ Rights
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Working families and their allies are gearing up for the nation’s largest-ever mobilization to support workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. Throughout the week of Dec. 5-10, thousands of workers in 63 cities—and the number is growing daily—will take the fight to restore workers’ freedom to form unions to the White House, statehouses and front doors of employers that deny workers’ rights.
    The nationwide events are part of a massive global mobilization on Dec. 10, (…)

  • Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PFAW will wage massive national effort to defeat nominee who would dramatically shift balance of Court WASHINGTON - October 31 - President Bush put the demands of his far-right political base above Americans’ constitutional rights and legal protections by nominating federal appeals court Judge Samuel Alito to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, said People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas. “Right-wing leaders vetoed Miers because she failed their (…)

  • Bush Planned Iraq before he became President
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure ’regime change’ even before he took power in January 2001. The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a ’global Pax Americana’ was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld’s deputy), George W Bush’s younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (…)

  • Bush’s Mental State Raises Serious Questions
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Diana Lee
    October 31, 2005
    George W. Bush With his job-approval ratings drastically dropping for handling domestic woes and the increasingly unpopular Iraq war, President Bush nevertheless persists on “staying the course” - disconnected from reality. Mr. Bush’s display of inconsistencies, indifference, and denial to the deteriorating circumstances of America - domestically and internationally - raises serious questions about his mental state and his abilities to continue as a (…)

  • AOL Hires Cheney Daughter
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Yuki Noguchi
    America Online Inc. hired Mary Cheney, the 36-year-old daughter of Vice President Cheney, to offer advice on building up Web site businesses, a company spokesman said yesterday.
    Cheney starts the job later this year and will work primarily with longtime AOL executive Ted Leonsis, who as president of AOL’s Audience Business focuses on increasing viewership of its Web sites, said Nicholas Graham, a spokesman for the Dulles-based company. He declined to disclose additional (…)

  • MOUNTAIN VIEWS: FORCED INOCULATIONS BEGINNING OF BUSH’S BAD BIRD FLU PLAN
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Hanchette
    OLEAN — Last week’s column warned of imminent federal legislation that would toss powerful pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars and complete protection from liability suits in case untested and experimental bird flu vaccines damage American recipients. It drew heavy response.
    The bill (S. 1873) — a big congressional wet kiss to the drug industry — is dressed up in a noble-sounding title: "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act."
    In essence, (…)

  • Moral Dilemma
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tricky one... So where do you stand morally? This test only has one question, but it’s a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision.
    Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous. Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line. THE SITUATION You are in New Orleans to be specific. There is chaos all (…)

  • Bush’s Mental State Raises Serious Questions
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Diana Lee
    With his job-approval ratings drastically dropping for handling domestic woes and the increasingly unpopular Iraq war, President Bush nevertheless persists on “staying the course” - disconnected from reality. Mr. Bush’s display of inconsistencies, indifference, and denial to the deteriorating circumstances of America - domestically and internationally - raises serious questions about his mental state and his abilities to continue as a leader of a nation.
    According to his (…)

  • The White House Criminal Conspiracy
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Elizabeth de la Vega
    Legally, there are no significant differences between the investor fraud perpetrated by Enron CEO Ken Lay and the prewar intelligence fraud perpetrated by George W. Bush. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. There is, however, a practical difference: The presidential fraud is wider in scope and far graver in its consequences than the Enron fraud. Yet thus far the public seems (…)

  • Tokyo to step up self defence as US cuts military
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Pilling in Tokyo
    US / japanTokyo and Washington have agreed to cut the number of US marines stationed in Japan by 7,000 as part of wide-ranging plans under which Japan’s self-defence forces will play a bigger role in defending the country.
    The agreement, signed in Washington on Saturday, followed intense negotiations last week to wrap up ponderous discussions over the locations and functions of US bases. Failure to agree on details, part of the US’s global strategy to reduce the (…)