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  • FROM THE IRAQI FRONT
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Iraq “is failing, or perhaps already failed”, says an American contactor who continues to carry out economic development work there as the country descends into “expanded gang warfare” and “the saddest story since Vietnam”.
    The contractor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described some of the missteps of U.S. and Iraqi authorities and of the daily power struggles among and between factions.
    “The problem is the government and the country, which is failing, or (…)

  • The President’s Priorities: State of Marriage Took Precedence over State of Louisiana
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Why is President Bush more concerned with the state of marriage than the state of Louisiana?
    That’s what the New Orleans City Business paper asked in early February, a couple of weeks after Bush’s State of the Union address, in which the president called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, upon learning that Bush’s budget proposal recommended slashing $34 million from the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, leaving the city (…)

  • QUEEN OF HEARTS : The Nnabagereka Charms all with visit to Boston school
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    SALEM, U.S.A. ­ Four-year old Brandon Marrero awoke early and opened his eyes wide. “Is today Queen’s Day?” he asked his mom?
    The preschooler at the Greenhouse School in Salem, Massachusetts (north of Boston) had been excited for weeks, and the day had finally arrived. He and his schoolmates at the small alternative school on Boston’s north shore were going to see a real, live Queen. The Nnabagereka, Her Highness the Queen of Buganda, was to visit the school. (…)

  • What Happens to a Race Deferred
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JASON DePARLE
    WASHINGTON
    THE white people got out. Most of them, anyway. If television and newspaper images can be deemed a statistical sample, it was mostly black people who were left behind. Poor black people, growing more hungry, sick and frightened by the hour as faraway officials counseled patience and warned that rescues take time.
    What a shocked world saw exposed in New Orleans last week wasn’t just a broken levee. It was a cleavage of race and class, at once familiar and (…)

  • SPINNING IN CIRCLES
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SPINNING IN CIRCLES
    By Peter Fredson
    A minor rant in the aftermath of Katrina
    September 4, 2005
    Coincidence? Just before the Twin Towers attack George W. Bush was on vacation, getting on with his life, cutting brush on his ranch. After the attack Bush was reading a kid’s book, got on a plane, headed for a bunker, then later stood on rubble with his arm around a fireman. For the next 2 years he made speeches about his heroic action in failing to recognize that terrorists would strike (…)

  • Citizens Stranded in New Orleans: “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever”
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, Aaron Broussard, just issued an emotional appeal on NBC’s Meet the Press. By the end, he was completely broken down, sobbing uncontrollably:
    [Crooks and Liars, as always, has the video.]
    RUSSERT: You just heard the director of homeland security’s explanation of what has happened this last week. What is your reaction?
    BROUSSARD: We have been abandoned by our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst (…)

  • We need a sense of urgency ... before Venezuela becomes another Iraq..
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I just got this urgent message in my e-mail.
    We need a sense of urgency ... before Venezuela becomes another Iraq...
    VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar Heck writes: This is an update regarding the urgency of implementing a Venezuelan government-run English-language campaign to spread the truth about Venezuela to the English-speaking world, most particularly, to the People of the USA...
    ... before it is too late!!!
    Below are excerpts from some letters I have received recently from (…)

  • Venezuela ’prepares for US invasion’
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sydney Morning Herald (Australia): Venezuela ’prepares for US invasion’
    Venezuela has uncovered plans for a US-led invasion and is preparing to defend the country against invading forces, President Hugo Chavez said in a report carried by the state-run news agency.
    The Bolivarian News Agency reported late on Friday that Chavez made the comments during an interview with CNN. It was unclear when the interview was to be aired.
    "If it occurs to the United States to invade our country — (…)

  • The Catastrophic Success of the Republican Party
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from November 2004 archives at www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Parts of this article say it all about the GOP.....
    Republican Leadership, Corporatist Owned
    In America’s case, it is the Republican leadership, those evildoers extraordinaire, exploiters of fear and insecurity, usurpers of patriotism, pilferers of freedoms and rights, enemies of free speech and assembly, those hypocrites espousing the cross yet holding the gun, preaching poverty yet seeking wealth, espousing (…)

  • George Bush PROOF of Intelligent Design
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "...also, the seas will lose their salt and become oceans of lemonade." conjecture from poster at Redstate.org concerning ID definition Intelligent design or ID is in the news recently after President Bush gave proof that he thought that ID deserved debate. Intelligent design is an argument looking for an argument and the proof of ID influence is in the Presidents desire to introduce the ID debate into schools. Support for ID can be found on red state web pages, people convinced that (…)