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  • Fixing roofs on Gulf Coast proves costly for taxpayers
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aaron C. Davis, Jay Root and Seth Borenstein
    NEW ORLEANS - Across the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast, thousands upon thousands of blue tarps are being nailed to wind-damaged roofs, a visible sign of government assistance.
    The blue sheeting - a godsend to residents whose homes are threatened by rain - is rapidly becoming the largest roofing project in the nation’s history.
    It isn’t coming cheap.
    Knight Ridder has found that a lack of oversight, generous contracting deals and poor (…)

  • Larry Franklin to testify against two former AIPAC officials
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Shmuel Rosner
    WASHINGTON - Former Pentagon employee Larry Franklin has struck a deal with prosecutors, and plans to plead guilty next week to a number of charges against him.
    Franklin was indicted in June on charges of leaking classified material - including data about potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq - to two members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and an Israeli official.
    Franklin will testify against former AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith (…)

  • WILL BLACK ABORTIONS SOLVE CRIME?
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    William Bennett, Republican hack politician, former Reagan administration Education Secretary, Director of Drug Control policy under George Bush the First, author of “The Book of Virtues” and someone who lost 8 million dollars on high-stakes gambling is back defending his party’s anti-abortion stance. He informed his radio program audience that if we aborted all black babies then the crime rate would reduce drastically.
    On his radio show Bennett told a caller, "If you (…)

  • Rumsfeld Refuses To Pay Back Military Families For Lifesaving Body Armor
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Traitor Defies Congress:
    "How Many Of Those Killed Could Have Been Saved With The Proper Equipment?"
    Families Still Forced To Buy Their Own Protection
    "The administration is either showing complete incompetence or utter indifference," "Rumsfeld is violating the law," he said.
    September 29, 2005 By Rick Maze, Army Times staff writer & The Associated Press.
    Soldiers and their parents are still spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for armor they say the (…)

  • Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Bush is Cooking Up Two New Wars
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Mired in interminable conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is moving toward initiating two more wars, one with Iran and one with North Korea. With no US troops available, the Bush administration is revamping US war doctrine to allow for "preventative nuclear attack." In short, the Bush administration is planning to make the US the first country in history to initiate war with nuclear weapons. The Pentagon document, "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear (…)

  • Cronies at the Helm
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It took the mighty blows of Hurricane Katrina to expose the failure of the United States government in protecting and saving its citizens from a natural disaster. As horrific as a terrorist attack, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ‘shocked and awed’ the world for days, depicting the misery and desperation of thousands of stranded victims on rooftops crying for help, the dead floating in the fetid floodwaters, and two hundred thousands more trapped in the Superdome in sunken New Orleans. (…)

  • Portrait of a neo-con
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the United States and the world look back over the events of the past three years, events triggered by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it is worth taking a close look at the under secretary of defense for policy, one of the architects of the "war on terror" and the invasion of Iraq.
    Douglas Feith is the No 3 civilian in the George W Bush administration’s Department of Defense (DoD), under Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Under Secretary for Policy Feith had previously (…)

  • Permanent Occupation
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you are inclined to believe the president, we will be in Iraq, in his words “as long as necessary, and not a day longer.” Members of the Bush administration, including the president, have been at pains to dispel any notion that they have plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq.
    On April 13, 2004, President Bush said, “As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation and neither does America.”
    On February 17, 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald (…)

  • Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ONE of al-Qaeda’s most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double agent working for MI5, raising criticism from European governments, which repeatedly called for his arrest.
    Britain ignored warnings - which began before the September 11 attacks - from half a dozen friendly governments about Abu Qatada’s links with terrorist groups and refused to arrest him. Intelligence chiefs hid from European allies their intention to use the cleric as a key informer against Islamic militants in (…)

  • $2,480 for less than two hours of work to cover each damaged roof in New Orleans
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW ORLEANS - Across the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast, thousands upon thousands of blue tarps are being nailed to wind-damaged roofs, a visible sign of government assistance.
    Construction crews working with TJC Defense, out of Alabama, install a blue tarp on a home in Kenner, Louisiana. Ian McVea, Fort Worth Star-Telegram The blue sheeting - a godsend to residents whose homes are threatened by rain - is rapidly becoming the largest roofing project in the nation’s history.
    It isn’t coming (…)