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  • Land of “Murka”: Part II of II
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    – Part I Here
    By Manuel Valenzuela
    "Information Clearing House"
    The Fundamentalist Threat
    To live in Murka is to see firsthand its degeneration into an emerging Christian theocracy, with its collection of televangelists, cult leaders, mullahs and Taliban, nothing more than corruption-filled, hypocrite-behaving, masterminds of pervasive ignorance, false prophets and preachers drunk off the liquor of fundamentalist thought misguiding tens of millions of lost souls through the chalice (…)

  • America’s False Memories
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
    by Anna Salleh
    Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
    Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science.
    Lewandowsky says the study, which was conducted in 2003 during the closing (…)

  • Halliburton Whistleblowers Highlight Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spoils of War
    By MICHAEL SHNAYERSON
    Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney-linked company’s profits of war
    This time, she was sure, they were going to get her.
    Bunnatine Greenhouse had been a huge nuisance since the buildup to the war in Iraq-questioning contracts, (…)

  • An interview with the mother and widow of a former contractor in Iraq
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Kelly
    Tim Eysselinck worked for RONCO Consulting Corp. in Iraq between August 2003 and February 2004. He headed a de-mining team that was responsible for the clearance of land mines, cluster bombs and other ordinance.
    Tim developed post-traumatic stress disorder, and his experiences in Iraq left him disillusioned with the war that he had previously supported. On April 21, 2004, he committed suicide at his home in Windhoek, Namibia, two months after he had resigned from RONCO. He (…)

  • Report Documents Republican Abuse of Power: With This Congress, Democracy is Dead
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    Broken Promises: The Death of Deliberative Democracy
    A Congressional Report (pdf) on the Unprecedented Erosion of the Democratic Process in the 108th Congress.
    Compiled by the House Rules Committee Minority Office The Honorable Louise M. Slaughter, Ranking Member
    Cliff notes by Ben Frank
    How Modern Congress works: Lobbyists write the bill and Republicans force it through Congress before anyone has even had a chance to read it. The textbook cases of corruption (…)

  • Teresa Heinz Kerry - Hacking the "Mother Machine"?
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States," Teresa Heinz Kerry told a group of Seattle guests at a March 7, 2005 lunch for Representative Adam Smith, according to reporter Joel Connelly in an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Connelly noted Heinz Kerry added that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."
    The two brothers Mrs. Kerry is referencing are, according to voting machine expert (and founder of www.BanVotingMachines.org Lynn (…)

  • Open, Despairing, Letter to Senator Reid
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Senator Reid,
    Since the election, most days, I feel determined. I have become more involved, more passionate, more informed. There is no other choice—because to accept the defeat I felt the day John Kerry made his concession speech is to admit more blackness into my life than I can handle.
    I don’t do hopelessness and depression well. I’m a take-action person. Show me where to aim, and I’ll fire. I’ve been proud of the work I’ve done since the election and I’ve been proud of the (…)

  • Reflections on Orwell 2005
    10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the end the party would announce that 2 plus 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim, sooner or later, the logic of their position demanded it. — George Orwell, in 1984
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    Robert Kane Pappas is the director of the mass media-critiquing documentary, beloved by BuzzFlash readers, "Orwell Rolls in His Grave." This week he agreed to revisit George Orwell’s prophetic anti-utopian novel, 1984, and to reflect on recent events in terms (…)

  • Bushman and Gannon, the boys wonder?
    10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Americablog has been pounding away at this and points to the BBC in this brief: TIME mag White House correspondent tells BBC that GannonGuckert story has "sex, national security, intrigue" - but then Time doesn’t cover it. Bravo.
    According to Matthew Cooper, the White House correspondent for Time Magazine, Washington has been lapping up this case of sex and subterfuge in the city.
    "It’s got everything that gets gossip going. It’s got sex, it’s got national security, how did he get so (…)

  • Protest against an international NATO conference in Sweden
    10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    An international NATO conference with all its members and its partners will be held in the north of Sweden on May the 24-25. Among other participants we can see the USA foreign minister Condoleezza Rice and UKs Jack Straw.
    It will be held in the part of the country there we act and we and a big number of organisations in Sweden will cooperate to protest loudly against any participation of Sweden in this partnership. We are living in a democratic country and can’t accept an organisation (…)