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  • GTech Lottery Influence Taints Miers Nomination
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’m not saying Harriet Miers has taken a penny from GTECH, Guy Snowden or anybody else. Let me make that clear. But she, and the whole cabal from Texas, absolutely reek of
    Ms. Miers’ time on the Texas Lottery Commission has been well reported, usually with Ms. Miers as the driving force who rooted out corruption and helped the Texas Lottery turn over a new leaf. “In other circles, the Texas Lottery Commission is known as the incident that permanently sealed Bush’s Texas Air National (…)

  • Gangs of DC: The Bush bureaucracy has invaded America’s turf & what can we do?
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater While commuting to my law office temp job in San Francisco the other day, I met a gang member on the BART train. I could tell he was a gang member. He had gang tattoos and gang insignia and a gang Survivor buff. So I started asking him about gangs and turfs and stuff.
    "In Oakland," he told me, "in the Twenties" — that’s Twentieth Avenue through Twenty-Ninth Avenue — "you got the Murder Dubs. In West Berkeley, you got the Nortes and the H2o. Then in North Oakland (…)

  • BUSH’S ’HOLY’ CRONIES HAVE FEET OF CLAY
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill Gallagher DETROIT — Deception, arrogance, greed, hubris, corruption, incompetence and isolation — the seven deadly sins of political life — snared President George W. Bush and his cronies long ago. That’s how they gained and maintain power.
    While praying and thumbing their Bibles, loudly proclaiming their virtue and righteousness, the faith-based Busheviks claim to be the chosen and anointed, carrying out God’s work on earth. In fact and in deed, they behave like the devil’s (…)

  • Fiasco uncovers Bush administration as fool’s paradise
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted on Sun, Oct. 02, 2005
    MICHAEL BROWN
    Fiasco uncovers Bush administration as fool’s paradise
    It is said that if someone thinks you’re a fool, better to keep your mouth shut than open it and remove all doubt. Speaking of Michael Brown...
    The ex-FEMA chief testified on Capitol Hill last week about what went wrong with the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Even House Republicans shook their heads in disbelief.
    GOP Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut was beside himself (…)

  • Iraqi Unions Defy Privatization
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Bacon
    On April 9, 2003, U.S. tanks pulled up to Basra’s huge, dilapidated oil refinery. “We were coming out early, at the end of our shift, and there was the American army,” recalls Faraj Arbat, one of the plant’s firemen. The soldiers trained their guns on the oil workers. The head of the fire department made the mistake of questioning the troops, and he was ordered to lie facedown on the ground.
    “He did as he was ordered,” Arbat recalls. “But then an American put his foot on (…)

  • Clueless Americans on Democracy
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 2nd, 2005
    “The U.S. public is deeply skeptical about the priority President George W. Bush has put on promoting democracy abroad, and its experience in Iraq has made it more so, according to a detailed new survey released Thursday by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR) and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) of the University of Maryland,” writes Jim Lobe. “Only 35 percent of the 808 randomly selected respondents said they favored the use of military (…)

  • Texas grand jury today indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oct. 3, 2005, 5:34PM
    DeLay indicted on money laundering charge Associated Press
    AUSTIN - A Texas grand jury today indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
    A different grand jury whose six-month term ended last week indicted him on a conspiracy charge, forcing DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader.
    Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban on corporate campaign contributions by (…)

  • FEMA, Capitalism, and Karl Marx’s Crystal Ball
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mike Whitney
    October 3, 2005
    The Bush administration began the dismantling FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) as one of the first orders of business when they reorganized the government under the Homeland Security Bill. What masquerades now as FEMA is a public relations smokescreen which disguises the fact that the government will no longer assist in major natural catastrophes. The "free market" approach to disaster requires that FEMA chieftains use their power and influence (…)

  • For No Good Reason
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    You never want to say that brave troops in Iraq died for the mindless fantasies spun by a gang of inept politicians. But what else did they die for?
    For No Good Reason By Bob Herbert
    Monday 03 October 2005
    "You can keep the flowers blooming on their graves forever. It won’t change the fact that they died for nothing." Anti-war protester, circa 1969 It’s finally becoming clear on Capitol Hill, and maybe even in the White House, that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. The (…)

  • In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Torture
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 3, 2005 In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Abuses By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - James J. Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, says in a new book that military authorities knowingly created an atmosphere in which guards would feel free to abuse prisoners.
    Mr. Yee, 37, is a former Army captain and a West Point graduate who was arrested and imprisoned in 2003 on suspicion of espionage. It was a case that, in the end, proved (…)