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  • Death of America’s pre-eminent playwright
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brenda Payton writes for ANG newspapers.
    IT was probably predictable that the obituaries of August Wilson would describe him as the preeminent African-American playwright. It’s not that it’s an incorrect description, it just isn’t broad enough. Given the scope of his body of work and the remarkable accomplishments of his career, he is arguably the preeminent American playwright.
    Paradoxically, one of his major themes was addressing that discrepancy, making the point eloquently that (…)

  • We Can’t Let It Happen Here
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What is beyond the looking glass?
    "And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist. In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room."
    Over a year ago, the comfort of my world severely diminished as I took my journey through the looking glass and discerned the ugly truths about the nation of my birth, the United States of America. “Logic and proportion” certainly seemed to have “fallen softly dead” (…)

  • Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Norman Dombey
    President Bush’s principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart work at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pentagon official Larry Franklin pleads guilty to passing on classified information to Israel. Just a normal week in politics. But there is a thread linking these events and (…)

  • Hollywood Studios must walk the Plank
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The top 6 studios in Hollywood have received a green light from the US Govt. to engage in mob style tactics.
    Engaging in the outright theft of scripts and pitched movies by up and coming artists.
    Then making movies from those ideas without compensating the original artists.
    Then sending the federal agencies after anyone who they deem guilty of lifting $4.00 worth of video/music off the internet of these already pirated works.
    Then determining their own booty to be collected.
    As (…)

  • News Video About David Boren and the University of Oklahoma Bombing
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    On the evening of Saturday, October 1, while a football game was in progress at the nearby stadium, a University of Oklahoma engineering student, packed with explosives, was seated on a bench near a sidewalk in front of the microbiology building. He knew that within a few minutes the sidewalk would be full of people during the halftime break. The bench was only a two-minute walk from the west stadium gate. Three minutes before (…)

  • Bush/Condi Dictatorship
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Condoleezza Rice’s Blueprint for a Repressive State Preamble to Bush’s Speech at the National Endowment for Democracy On 10/6/05: by teresa simon-noble
    “In a world where evil is still very real,democratic principles must also be backed with power in al its forms:Political and economic, cultural and moral, and yes, sometimes military.” Condoleezza Rice, PrincetonUniversity NJ 9/30/05
    What an amazing quote!
    I read it and I said, “that is exactly what Fidel Castro did in Cuba after (…)

  • RUMOR: 22 Indictments in Plame Case — Rove is a Target
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Edwards
    The D.C. Rumor mill is thrumming with whispers that 22 indictments are about to be handed down on the outed-CIA agent Valerie Plame case. The last time the wires buzzed this loud - that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House - the scuttlebutters got it right.
    Can it be a coincidence that the White House appears to be distancing President Bush from embattled aide Karl Rove? “He’s been missing in action at more than one major (…)

  • FAA Believed Second 9/11 Plane Heading Towards NY for Landing
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com
    This document is posted at the George Washington University website:
    It states:
    "Ten minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controllers in New York saw United Airlines Flight 175 heading "right towards the city," [p.13] but thought it was aiming for an emergency landing at a New York airport, according to FAA (…)

  • RIAA sued by victim
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RIAA sued by victim
    By Nick Farrell: Monday 03 October 2005, 06:21
    A WOMAN who was sued by the Recording Industry of America for file-sharing has countersued the outfit for hacking. Tanya Andersen, a 41-year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation. She is claiming hurt feelings and (…)

  • Free speech - A thing of the past!!
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just became aware of these incidences and felt an obligation to let others see it in case they too had missed them. Just as "they" treated Cindy Sheehan with all the disrepect and disruption and plain nastiness available to the "powers that be", now it is all coming to rest on college campuses. Free speech will soon be a thing of the past!!!
    We Will Not Be Intimidated by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field October 03, 2005 The antiwar movement is back. The quarter-million marching past the (…)