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  • Chavez nails US again-Chickens in Cuba get better treatment than US residents
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suggested on Sunday that chickens in Cuba get better treatment from authorities than black residents of the hurricane-ravaged US city of New Orleans.
    "In Cuba, when they know a hurricane is coming, chickens, hens and people are all evacuated," Chavez said in an interview with The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, stepping up his rhetoric against the US government.
    "A hurricane recently destroyed many towns in Cuba but not a single person (…)

  • Bush Clears Way For More Buggering By Saudis
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Waives trafficking sanctions
    by Brian Richards
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 09/25/05 — George W. Bush and his religious Right administration decided Wednesday to waive all financial sanctions against Saudi Arabia-Washington’s closest Arab ally in the war on terrorism and a major owner of the United States-for failing to do enough to stop the slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers. Go figure.
    Last June, U.S. State Department officials singled out 14 (…)

  • Estimated a crowd of about 200,000. Antiwar Protests Commence in Washington
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Miranda S. Spivack and Petula Dvorak
    Thousands of protesters against the war in Iraq rallied today in Washington and other U.S. and European cities to demand the return of U.S. troops in what organizers hope will be the largest gathering since the war began more than two years ago.
    Protest organizers estimated a crowd of about 200,000 rallied at the Ellipse, then marched around the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue. Police downgraded the count to about 150,000. The crowd (…)

  • Global warming? You better believe it
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    AS THE MEDIA screams about the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the question becomes how many more times does America need to be knocked to the canvas before we answer the bell on global warming.
    The only talk from our leaders is about rebuilding. In his address to the nation from a ghostly New Orleans, President Bush said, ’’When one resident of this city who lost his home was asked by a reporter if he would relocate, he said, ’Naw, I will rebuild but (…)

  • I love the smell of Patriotic Dissent in the afternoon!
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan "My Speech" (from the Sept 24 anti-war rally)
    Ahhhh, I love the smell of Patriotic Dissent in the afternoon!
    As we stand here on the grounds of a monument that is dedicated to the Father of our Country, George Washington, we are reminded that he was well known for the apocryphal stories of never being able to tell a lie. I find it so ironic that there is another man here named George who stays in this town between vacations and he seems to never be able to tell the truth. (…)

  • Opponents of the war in Iraq are marching by the tens of thousands Saturday
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - Opponents of the war in Iraq are marching by the tens of thousands Saturday in a clamorous day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead, some showing surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home.
    The surging crowd, shouting “Bush out now” and “Peace now,” marched in front of the White House and then toward the Washington Monument in an 11-hour marathon of dissent.
    They were young people with green hair, nuns (…)

  • Country is hurtling towards disintegration, Saudis warn
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
    The Saudi government yesterday warned that Iraq is hurtling towards disintegration and that an election planned for December is unlikely to make any difference. The government said it was delivering this bleak assessment to both the US and British administrations as a matter of urgency.
    Saudi fears of a break-up were voiced by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, in an interview with Associated Press published yesterday, and at a meeting on (…)

  • FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majority of Votes There
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to a May 19 story in the Washington Post that quoted DHS sources.
    “Some Homeland Security sources said (…)

  • Letter to President Hugo Chavez
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Roraima Albornoz Press Attaché VHEADLINE.COM
    Dear Mr. Roraima Albornoz. I would like to send a big thank you to President Hugo Chavez, and the people of Venezuela, for the kindness and good will they have offered the citizens of the US who have suffered so much from Hurricane Katrina. I am from the City of Berkeley in California, known as the only city in the United States with its own foreign policy. We have adopted sister cities all over the world where US imperialism and foreign (…)

  • DO YOU FEEL SAFE NOW?
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DO YOU FEEL SAFE?
    By Peter Fredson
    September 24, 2005
    George Bush has been running a propaganda scam for years now, basically telling us that he will keep us safe while scaring the Hell out of us. Well, we have spent several billion dollars on airport security and what do we have to show for it: several bushel baskets full of nail clippers, manicure scissors, pocket knives and assorted sharp instruments for practical applications. How many terrorists has Bush caught with all that (…)