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  • The CIA-leak case: From a notepad to jail and back
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DON VAN NATTA JR, ADAM LIPTAK and CLIFFORD J. LEVY
    In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame." ADVERTISEMENT
    Miller should have written Valerie Plame. That name is at the core of a federal grand jury investigation that has reached deep into the White House. At issue is whether Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Plame, an undercover CIA operative, (…)

  • Bush’s flim-flam on faith
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    BY THE TIME our holy-roller-in-chief leaves office, we will really be confused about the role of religion. That is how President Bush wants it, starting with his faith-based initiatives that were merely an excuse for gutting government programs. In recent weeks, this blessed agenda has bumped up against unavoidable hypocrisy.
    The most obvious is the Supreme Court. Bush named John Roberts to the court under a massive smokescreen. In July, White House spokesman Scott (…)

  • Miers expected to be president’s terror ally
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Caroline Daniel and Patti Waldmeir
    US social conservatives have one big objection to Harriet Miers, President George W. Bush’s beleaguerednominee to the Supreme Court:they cannot trust her to shift America’s highest court to the right on the issue of abortion.
    But when it comes to defending the power of the president to wage the war on terror - even if that means making unpopular choices about the civil liberties of Americans and foreigners alike - conservatives think Ms Miers will be (…)

  • Schwarzenegger veto spurs wide opposition
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rosalio Muñoz
    LOS ANGELES - Latino immigrant rights leaders are responding to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto of SB 60 with a joint mobilization to defeat all Schwarzenegger-backed propositions in the Nov. 8 election. The bill would provide driver’s licenses for over 2 million undocumented workers here.
    Shortly after Schwarzenegger vetoed the license measure on Oct. 7, Los Angeles Democratic leaders, state Sen. Gil Cedillo and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez called on immigrant rights (…)

  • Personal Debts and US Capitalism
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rick Wolff
    There is no precedent in US — or any other — history for the level of personal debt now carried by the American people. Consider the raw numbers. In 1974, Federal Reserve data show that US mortgage plus other consumer debt totaled $627 billion. By 1994, the total debt had risen to $4,206 billion, and by 2004, it reached $9,709 billion. For the second quarter of 2005, the Fed announced that the nation’s debt service ratio (debt payments as a percentage of after-tax income) (…)

  • Our Employers, Ourselves
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Eric Hellweg
    IBM once set one of its Linux commercials on a basketball court. But other than that, the worlds of Big Blue and professional basketball have rarely crossed lanes. This month, though, they were linked by what promises to become one of the most volatile workplace issues of the next decade: genetic testing.
    After it was revealed that Chicago Bulls star center Eddie Curry had a heart arrhythmia, the Bulls said he’d have to take a DNA test before the organization would tender (…)

  • Bush And Big Oil May Be Making A Killing This Winter
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    Earlier this year President Bush enacted an energy bill into law that gave $85 billion dollars to big oil and gas companies, and this month the Republican controlled House of Representatives gave billions more in tax breaks to the oil industry while doing nothing to lower gas prices.
    Despite this windfall for the already rich stockholders and their friends, President Bush has proposed cutting funds to help the poor heat their homes this winter. The nation’s 37 million (…)

  • If George and Dick come out of this unscathed, Mr. Fitzgerald may as well have stayed in Chicago.
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
    - Richard M. Nixon
    In a New York Times article published on Sunday, columnist Frank Rich buried the dart right in the center-black. "What matters most in this case," wrote Rich, "is not whether Mr. Rove and Lewis Libby engaged in a petty conspiracy to seek revenge on a whistle-blower, Joseph Wilson, by unmasking his wife, Valerie, a covert C.I.A. officer. What makes Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is (…)

  • Cars stolen in US,Suicide bombers ’forced’,US/Brits caught smuggling arms: Who are the terrorists?
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cars stolen in US used in suicide attacks
    The FBI’s counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.
    The FBI’s deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, Inspector John Lewis, said the investigation did not prove the vehicles were stolen (…)

  • US Hired military killers are in Venezuela to kill Chavez
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mon, 10 17 2005, 16:08 Djokhar Time ???????Englishtürkçe
    US "private military contractors" already in-country to "deal with" Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias...
    Intelligence agencies are revealing that US private military contractors, active in Colombia "under various contract umbrellas, including counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency" are building up to yet another attempted coup d’etat against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.
    Carefully described as "private military (…)