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  • The $3 Trillion Scam: An Economic 9-11?
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Economic 9-11?
    An interesting story appeared briefly a few days ago. Two men were arrested with three trillion (with a "t") in fake US Federal Reserve Negotiable Certificates, sometimes called "bearer bonds". What is interesting about the story is how the US Mainstream media pretty much ignored the whole thing. Considering the non-stop coverage given the Michael Jackson molestation trial, the avoidence of a story of a three trillion dollar crime called attention to itself.
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  • Vote Fraud Theorists Battle Over Plausibility
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Terry M. Neal
    After my recent column on President Bush’s popularity woes, a torrent of e-mail flooded in from angry Democrats insisting that Bush’s relative lack of popularity only reinforced their belief that the 2004 election was stolen.
    Regular readers are well aware that I’m not a conspiracy theorist. My natural journalistic skepticism applies not just to politicians and people in power, but to wild-eyed theories as well. The Talking Points column that followed the polling piece (…)

  • One Sided CLASS WAR
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Working harder for less while business lines its pockets
    THREE YEARS into an economic recovery, workers are losing ground—so much so that the mainstream media are finally having to take notice.
    Once inflation is taken into account, compensation for nonsupervisory workers in the private sector—about 80 percent of the workforce—dropped 0.4 percent in 2004. Analyses in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times blamed the usual suspects: globalization and the outsourcing of jobs overseas, a (…)

  • Company E’s deadly ride through Iraq
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On May 29, 2004, a station wagon that Iraqi insurgents had packed with C-4 explosives blew up on a highway in Ramadi, killing four American marines who died for lack of a few inches of steel. The four were returning to camp in an unarmored Humvee that their unit had rigged with scrap metal, but the makeshift shields rose only as high as the marines’ shoulders, photographs of the stricken Humvee show, and the shrapnel from the bomb shot over the top. "The steel was not high enough," said (…)

  • UN investigator who exposed US army abuse forced out of his job
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The UN’s top human rights investigator in Afghanistan has been forced out under American pressure just days after he presented a report criticising the US military for detaining suspects without trial and holding them in secret prisons.
    Cherif Bassiouni had needled the US military since his appointment a year ago, repeatedly trying, without success, to interview alleged Taliban and al-Qa’ida prisoners at the two biggest US bases in Afghanistan, Kandahar and Bagram.
    Mr Bassiouni’s report (…)

  • House passes two Kucinich Amendments on Biofuel "We can grow our way out of this energy crisis"
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Requesting Feasability Study of Mustard Seed Biodiesel
    "Mr. Chairman, this is a noncontroversial amendment which authorizes a National Academy of Science study on the feasibility of mustard seed as a feedstock for biodiesel.
    "Now, mustard seed has many advantages over other feedstocks, including higher oil content, it is easier to grow in colder and drier climates of the U.S., and the conversion process leaves behind an organic pesticide and herbicide. Initial research studies by the (…)

  • Secret Service records raise new questions about discredited conservative reporter
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In what is unlikely to stem the controversy surrounding disgraced White House correspondent James Guckert, the Secret Service has furnished logs of the writer’s access to the White House after requests by two Democratic congressmembers.
    The documents, obtained by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) through a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal Guckert had remarkable access to the White House. Though he wrote under the name Jeff Gannon, the records show that he (…)

  • JEALOUS KERRY FUMES AS DEM BOOSTS HILL
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president - suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival.
    The flap was touched off two weeks ago when Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the United States."
    Two days later, Kerry came over to Dayton on the Senate floor "with daggers in his (…)

  • The United States of No-More-ica
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States of No-More-ica
    Largely, my opinions in the great political debates of America don’t matter. And equally largely, I don’t care. I’ve voted once in the last twenty years, and I can’t even remember when it was or for whom I voted. I make more than my fair share of political noise, but that’s simply my free choice. There are things I like about the United States, things I don’t particularly care for, and some things that I absolutely abhor. I still, to some degree, have the (…)

  • Bush Buddies Iraq Thieving Total Nears $2 BILLION
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ”That money could have been used to take care of soldiers”
    The Halliburton corporation, already the Iraq war’s poster child for ”waste, fraud and abuse”, has been hit with a new double-whammy.
    A report from the U.S. State Department accuses the company of ”poor performance” in its 1.2-billion-dollar contract to repair Iraq’s vital southern oil fields.
    And a powerful California congressman is charging that Defence Department audits showing additional overcharges totaling 212 million (…)