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  • Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown
    October 3, 2005 — Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown. The Kabuki dance between George W. Bush and Special Prosecutor on the CIA leak case Patrick Fitzgerald continues with Bush’s nomination of his one-time personal lawyer and current White House Counsel Harriet Miers, a person who has never served on the bench, as the replacement for outgoing Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day (…)

  • Army moves to recruit more high school dropouts
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Mon, Oct. 03, 2005
    By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
    Knight Ridder Newspapers
    WASHINGTON - Army Secretary Noel Harvey and vice chief of staff Gen. Richard Cody said Monday that the Army was using looser Defense Department rules that permitted it to sign up more high school dropouts and people who score lower on mental-qualification tests, but they denied that this meant it was lowering standards.
    Until Army recruiters began having trouble signing up enough recruits earlier this year, (…)

  • HOW MANY MORE FOR BUSH’S WAR?
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!
    Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder, left, and Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, far right, and unidentified Marines patrol through the city of Kubaysah in 2005 in western Iraq.
    Dyer and Schroder, members of 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, were killed, along with nine other members of 1st Squad, in a roadside bombing near the city of Haditha on Aug. 3, 2005. This picture was provided by Capt. Christopher Toland, 3rd platoon (…)

  • Sir! No Sir! : A Film about the GI Movement against the War in Vietnam
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.sirnosir.com/
    Trailer: Cable/DSL
    http://www.sirnosir.com/film/trailer/largertrailer_480_360.mov

  • We Will Not Be Intimidated
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We Will Not Be Intimidated
    First they came for the communists,
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a communist.
    When they came for the social democrats,
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a social democrat.
    When they came for the trade unionists
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a trade unionist.
    When they came for the Jews
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a Jew;
    And when they came for me,
    there was no one left to speak out.
    (poem by Pastor Martin (…)

  • 21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent:
    Karl Rove I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Condoleezza Rice Stephen Hadley Andrew Card Alberto Gonzales Mary Matalin Ari Fleischer Susan Ralston Israel Hernandez John Hannah Scott McClellan Dan Bartlett Claire Buchan Catherine Martin Colin Powell Karen Hughes Adam Levine Bob Joseph Vice President Dick Cheney President George W. Bush
    (Comment on this page here.)
    Karl Rove Senior Advisor to (…)

  • Reporter finks on Fox
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing"
    by Mike Leonard
    David Shuster has spent most of the past month covering hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And the Bloomington native and television correspondent admits he’s really not that fond of catastrophe reporting.
    "I’d rather get slugged by an angry politician than hit over the head (…)

  • Bill Would Give Cover to Pentagon Spies in U.S.
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In an effort to thwart domestic terror, some privacy protections would be rolled back.
    By Greg Miller Times Staff Writer
    October 1, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Pentagon intelligence operatives would be allowed to collect information from U.S. citizens without revealing their status as government spies under legislation approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and publicly released this week.
    The bill would end a long-standing requirement that military intelligence officers disclose their (…)

  • Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    In the high stakes game of Supreme Court Hold ’Em, Dubya has made a decisive and bold, yet defensive move. Has has gone "all in" and nominated his former personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, for the Supreme Court. What better way to avoid jail for war crimes, profiteering and conspiracy. Appoint your own lawyer to the bench. A truly brilliant maneouver even if Alberto’s really disappointed. Bush’s cronies can stop sweating now.
    ABC News: Who Is Harriet Miers? (…)

  • Sibel Edmonds: Translator caught in web
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Sibel Edmonds was a young girl, her father, a physician in Iran, was asked to falsify an autopsy finding. Angrily, he refused, daring the authorities to retaliate.
    At home, he told his family: "Things like this do not happen in truly democratic civil societies - like America."
    Sibel still clings to her father’s words, but her Kafka-esque encounter with the U.S. government is challenging her faith.
    She wanders a wonderland of classified documents and covert hearings, waiting to see (…)