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  • Pablo Paredes And The Culture Of Life
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pablo Paredes is a soft-spoken, humble, gentle young man who has a very calm and intelligent demeanor. Pablo is also one of the most courageous young men I have ever met.
    Last year, Pablo, a Navy Petty Officer, refused to board his ship which was bound for the Persian Gulf and transporting a group of Marines to fight in Iraq. He said at the time, I dont want to be part of a ship thats taking 3000 Marines over there knowing a hundred or more of them wont come back. He stood on the dock (…)

  • Why we’ll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matt Welch
    The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys." (…)

  • Taser Nation: A shock to the system
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A shock to the system The increased use of Tasers by police spurs questions weighing a purported safety benefit against alleged overuse, including, against children and the elderly, and debate regarding its role in several deaths
    TOLEDO, Ohio — On Jan. 31, Jeffrey Turner, 41, was spotted loitering on the grounds of the art museum here. When Toledo police approached him, he resisted a search. He was taller than 6 feet and more than 200 pounds, so they subdued him with five 50,000-volt (…)

  • Interview with Congressman Kucinich
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    After logging,uh,some frequent-flyer miles in a run for President,Congressman Dennis Kucinich is back in his district working on issues of concern to Clevelanders.It’s been a while since he’s had time to sit down with us but he’s here now and I’m glad you are.Welcome back,it’s been a long time since we’ve talked
    Kucinich:It’s good to be here.
    Feagler:I don’t know exactly where to start this,but let me start with perhaps,some words about the pope who apparently is in his last and fatal (…)

  • Kerry & Clinton must stop their support of Bush’s War on (some) Terrorism
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Continued support for this war of domination and greed goes beyond politics into a world of moral relativism where politicians who call themselves leaders and men/women of faith destroy and kill in the name of democracy and freedom.
    Kerry & the Clintons (Bill and Hillary) should be leading the way in exposing the lies and treason of the Bush administration instead of supporting what the whole world knows is an unjust, unprovoked and illegal attack and occupation of Iraq. They should (…)

  • Science proves that vote fraud is real!
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Vote fraud confirmed: US Count Votes has come out with a remarkable paper authored by a committee of twelve, most of them highly-qualified mathematicians and statisticians from major universities. This study highlights the serious ramifications of the exit poll discrepancy while demolishing the "chatty Dem" theory (more properly known as the "reluctant responder" theory), which remains the official explanation for that incongruity.
    The only possibility left is vote alteration.
    Alas, this (…)

  • TRUTH LEFT OUT: Data Indicates a Massive 2004 Exit Poll Whitewash
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Back in January, 2005, I emailed Dr. Steven Freeman about the Mitofsky anaylsis of the 2004 Presidential election exit poll. In that email, I made an observation about a particular detail in the Mitofsky analysis that had not been noticed by any researcher or critic of the report at that time. You may see the original observation I made here.
    The Mitofsky hypothesis proposes that "within precinct error" (WPE) is the reason for the exit poll discrepancy that we’ve all heard about. In his (…)

  • Operation (Un)Truth: A Trojan Jackass for the Anti-War Movement
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fayetteville, North Carolina
    "To mark the second anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq on March 19, various anti-war groups are planning to protest in Fayetteville, N.C., the home of Fort Bragg. It’s not the protest, but the location that has some people upset.
    "An organization representing veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said demonstrators are ’wrong and insensitive’ to take their complaints to Fort Bragg, because it blames the warriors for the war.
    "’The decision (…)

  • Iraq Reconstruction Fund Invested on Wall Street-No Comment from Pentagon Officials
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    april 4th
    April Fools Day Edition, 2005 HOAX for the april fool day !!!! http://www.counterpunch.com/cox04012005.html
    Salina, Kansas
    Of the $18.4 billion that Congess appropriated 16 months ago for postwar reconstruction in Iraq, only $3.6 billion has been spent to date. There has been much head-scratching over this uncharacteristic failure of the Pentagon to spend money promptly.
    A recently unearthed portion of a Defense Department memo sheds some light on the issue, suggesting that (…)

  • Army reservist witnesses war crimes
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 1, 2005-Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1, 2003 through April 1, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq, he spent six months helping to run the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad. The handsome 23-year-old mechanic was a witness to widespread, almost daily, U.S. war crimes in Iraq. His story contains new revelations about ongoing brutality at Abu Ghraib, information yet to be reported (…)