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  • The DeLay Defense
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The troubled speaker attacks the prosecutor, then signs up a defense dream team.
    by Molly Ivins
    Jeez, that was quite a hissy fit Tom DeLay had, calling Ronnie Earle a rogue prosecutor, a partisan fanatic and an unabashed partisan zealot out for personal revenge.
    Ronnie Earle? Our very own mild-mannered — well, let’s be honest, bland as toast, eternally unexciting, Mr. Understatement, Old Vanilla — Ronnie Earle? If the rest of Tom DeLay’s defense is as accurate as his description of (…)

  • Eased out of the Big Easy
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY JESSE JACKSON
    After his administration’s incompetence and indifference had lethal consequences in Katrina’s wake, President Bush has been scrambling to regain his footing. He’s called for an "unprecedented response to an unprecedented crisis." In religious services at the National Cathedral, he called on America to "erase this legacy of racism" exposed by those abandoned in Katrina’s wake. He’s called on Congress to appropriate more than $60 billion in emergency relief and outlined a (…)

  • Poll: Key Groups in Bush’s Political Coalition Grow Worried About Direction of Nation
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Will Lester WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush’s political coalition are increasingly worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
    The growing unease could be a troubling sign for a White House already struggling to keep the Republican Party base from slipping over Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Gulf Coast spending projects, immigration and other (…)

  • Political Leaders Announce Support for Re-Election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jesse Jackson and Dennis Kucinich were joined by actors, historians and others in sending their support to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, just days before he faces a historic vote on the future of his administration.
    Noting the accomplishments of the Chavez administration to improve the lives of Venezuela’s impoverished majority, the joint letter expressed the signers’ "hope and expectation that, on August 15, you will once again win an electoral mandate from the Venezuelan people to be (…)

  • U.S. ’Intercepts’ Terrorist Correspondence-Convenient Timing and Rhetoric Suggest Gov’t Propaganda
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday October 7, 2005 1:31 PM
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has obtained a letter from one terrorist leader to another that discusses plans to force a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, create an Islamic state there and then spread war to neighboring countries, Pentagon officials said.
    Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman would only broadly characterize the intercepted letter, which he said was written by Osama bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahri to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab (…)

  • OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following. Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.
    ...In [Joint Chief’s chair] Lemnitzer’s view, the country would be far better off if the generals could take over. [JFK assassination legend has it some general presided over the fudgy JFK autopsy. —Mk]
    For those military officers who were sitting on the fence, the Kennedy administration’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion was the last straw. "The Bay of Pigs fiasco broke the (…)

  • GOD WHISPERS IN BUSH’S EAR
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GOD TELLS BUSH WHAT TO DO
    By Peter Fredson
    October 7, 2005
    This country is reported to be under the direct administrative control of the Christian Biblical God. It is reliably stated that God has relayed instructions to the President of the United State, George W. Bush, on invasion plans and killing Muslims, although he may not be available for the national economy, environment, medicine, floods, terrorist disasters or other national preoccupations, judging from the failures of Bush (…)

  • DC Observations of 9/24/05
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’ve had a history of staying out of politics. I’ve had a past of not reading the newspaper, of not watching the news, and also of not paying any mind at all to history and how it affects us today. My views have currently been changing, when it struck me as to how selfish and ignorant a stand such as this can be. Our government has been hard at work, not protecting our freedoms, but infringing on them, causing us to lose our rights and liberty’s bit by bit, law after ever restricting law. (…)

  • In case we forget.Reed and weep.
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the councils of government,we must guard against the acquasition of unwarranted influence,whether sought or unsought,by the military industrial complex The potential for the disasterous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
    Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defence with our peaceful methods and goals.(Dwight D.Eisenhower).
    (JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TO THINK ABOUT).

  • My Little Talk With God
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The President says he talks to God, so I thought I’d give it a try.
    God’s a pretty busy guy, being omnipotent, omniscient and all, but he does answer all calls, just like it says in the Bible (ask and you shall receive). So, I dialed up 1-877-CALLGOD and after going through the prompts (press 1 for saints, 2 for confessions, etc.) and listening to the hymns and chants while I was on hold for about 12 minutes (I liked the occasional voice of St. Peter breaking in and saying, "we know it (…)