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  • Markets, Climate And Katrina
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joseph Stiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is professor of economics at Columbia University and was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice- president at the World Bank. His most recent book is The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade.
    The world has been horrified at America’s response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans. Four years after the (…)

  • ASK A CREATION SCIENTIST ANYTHING
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ASK MR. CREATION SCIENTIST
    By Peter Fredson, Ph.M, LLDDD, SCr, NM, Esq.
    In the public interest, we started a write-in to creation scientists to help explain things that the ordinary layman may find mystifying. You may direct your query to Mr. Creation Scientist
    Some of his answers may seem prosaic, but that is the nature of scientific endeavor. Here are some of the questions and the logical answers of Mr. Creation Scientist. Enjoy!
    ++++++++++++++++++++
    Dear Mr. Creation (…)

  • A True American Hero
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Ellen DeGeneres strode up to the stage as this year’s Emmy host with the Herculean task of brightening the nation’s somber mood following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
    "New Orleans is my hometown, and I have family in Mississippi," Ellen said, striking the right note at the awards ceremony. "It’s times like this we really, really need laughter."
    Ellen could just have easily been talking about her career, which was derailed by the storm of controversy that (…)

  • BREAKING: Cindy Sheehan arrested in Manhattan
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    . by Five of Diamonds Mon Sep 19th, 2005 at 12:42:39 PDT I witnessed this with my own eyes. Here is my account.
    Cindy Sheehan was arrested moments ago in Union Square, Manhattan for allegedly speaking in the square without the proper permit.
    A small group of police began to congregate around 2:00 on the south east corner of Union Square. Cindy and her peace entourage were slightly late to the event, contending with public transportation.
    Upon her arrival, applause and cheers filled (…)

  • Bush Katrina Ratings Fall After Speech
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Katrina Ratings Fall After Speech Survey of 1,000 Adults
    September 16-17, 2005
    President Bush Response to
    Hurricane Katrina Excellent 17% Good 18% Fair 23% Poor 41% RasmussenReports.com Favor Federal Funding for $200 Billion New Orleans Reconstruction? Favor 50% Oppos 27% RasmussenReports.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    September 18, 2005—Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans now say that President Bush (…)

  • Report: Sharon raised illegal campaign funds in New York
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon raised illegal campaign funds during his just-completed trip to New York, Channel Ten reported Monday.
    Sharon returned home Monday afternoon, and Channel 10 quoted his office as saying that the prime minister was not aware of the fund-raising.
    Sharon was in New York to attend the annual General Assembly session.
    Channel 10 showed footage of the entrance to a swanky Fifth Avenue apartment building in Manhattan, where Sharon met (…)

  • Storm Rescuers Overwhelmed by Toxic Waste & A Miraculous Molecular Solution
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rescuers awed by ruin revealed as water recedes By MARJORIE HERNANDEZ Scripps Howard News Service
    NEW ORLEANS - The putrid smell of toxic, mud-caked debris baking in the humid Southern heat wafted almost 200 feet above the ground.
    Trees that were once green and lush are now brown and in pieces, many bending to the awesome power of a Category 4 hurricane that pounced on this city and its surrounding parishes more than two weeks ago. Murky water as black as tar in some places and dull (…)

  • See You in D.C.
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. (MLK, Jr. Aug. 28, 1963, I Have a Dream speech)
    What Bush’s Katrina shows once again is that my son died for nothing. If you listen to Bush - and fewer and fewer are, thank (…)

  • Looting money in Iraq.......
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This article is from the online edition of The Daily Independent.
    What has happened to Iraq’s missing $1bn? By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad Published: 19 September 2005
    One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq’s defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country’s army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.
    The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army capable of bringing security to a country (…)

  • Access Denied!
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    People often marvel at the Bolivarian revolution that put President Hugo Chavez Frias into power where he did so based upon the philosophies of Simon Bolivar. They marvel that ordinary people but people of great strength can take their country back from the elite. Then-candidate Gov. Howard Dean’s message was take back your country and those primary voters could have by making him our candidate in this past election.
    I want to remind the American people that they too (…)