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  • $9 Billion is ’Missing’, and Republicans Refuse to Investigate
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in action.
    What has emerged recently is that the corruption is beyond the scope that anyone could have possibly imagined:
    A British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council claimed that officials in the CPA were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for (…)

  • Embedded In The Spin Cycle...
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Embedded In The Spin Cycle... Isaac Backer NEW YORK, Feb 15 (IPS) - An incisive new documentary is taking aim at the U.S. media’s one-sided coverage of the war in Iraq, arguing that its collective complicity deceived the populace and made the war possible.
    "WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception", which cost just 200,000 dollars to produce, points to a wide array of failures in the accuracy of the reporting, as well as an unwillingness to question the George W. Bush administration’s claims and (…)

  • Soldier’s Letter to Senator re: Lack of health care for Vets
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Senator Cornyn,
    I have been a member of the U.S. military since I was 17 years old, both as an enlisted soldier and now as an officer. I deployed to Iraq with Army Civil Affairs from April 2003 to March 2004, where I served in the Sadr City.
    Since my return to Dallas, I have concluded that the health care systems for the military and veterans are utterly broken. Additionally, our leadership is ignoring the psychological and physical problems faced by returning veterans.
    The (…)

  • Damning 9/11 Report Exposes Bush Adminstration as Woefully Incompetent if not Criminally Negligent
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What We Don’t Know About 9/11 Hurts Us Robert Scheer
    February 15, 2005
    Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
    The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. (…)

  • How to Talk to a Conservative About Social Security
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The White House and their deep-pocketed allies have launched a $35 million public relations effort
    to spread misinformation about President Bush’s Social Security privatization scheme. This fact sheet will arm you with all the facts you’ll need to take them on.
    Fiscal Outlook
    Claim: “By the year 2042, the entire system would be exhausted and bankrupt.” [President Bush, 2/2/05]
    Fact: In 2042, enough new money will be coming in to pay between 73-80 percent of promised benefits. Even (…)

  • Democrats Want More Accountability for Iraq Spending- Propose War Funding Accountability Act
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush’s request to Congress for $82 billion dollars in additional funding for military and reconstruction needs in Iraq and Afghanistan is receiving scrutiny on Capitol Hill. This comes amid growing concern among lawmakers about examples of waste, fraud and abuse in how funds were spent in Iraq.
    There is little if any disagreement between Democrats and Republicans about the need for the extra money needed to support U.S. troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Republicans in (…)

  • A Corrupted Election: Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right
    15 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1970/
    Recall the Election Day exit polls that suggested John Kerry had won a convincing victory? The media readily dismissed those polls and little has been heard about them since.
    Many Americans, however, were suspicious. Although President Bush prevailed by 3 million votes in the official, tallied vote count, exit polls had projected a margin of victory of 5 million votes for Kerry. This unexplained 8 million vote discrepancy between the (…)

  • Whistleblowers Detail Corruption and Fraud at Halliburton during Senate Hearing
    15 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Byron Dorgan convened a hearing to shed light on the recent revelations of contractor corruption in Iraq. Democratic Senators were fired up about the blatant fraud and theft from the American taxpayers. And since Bush’s new budget cuts education again, it is truly a theft from our children. No Republicans attended the hearing.
    Senator Dorgan: "To see this kind of waste and this kind of corporate culture say, ’What the hell, it’s just the American taxpayer- stick it to ’em...’ Shame (…)

  • US Grabs 81-Year-Old’s Lipitor Sent Via Canada
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Grabs 81-Year-Old’s Lipitor Sent Via Canada The Capital Times Monday, February 07, 2005 Milwaukee(AP) - Charles Netzow is upset that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confiscated a drug that was being mailed to him from a pharmacy in Canada to help keep his cholesterol under control. "I’m angry because it’s nonsense," the 81-year-old suburban Fox Point man told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel after receiving a notice from the FDA indicating that his 90 tablets of Lipitor were (…)

  • How Canada Stunned Bush. Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How Canada Stunned Bush Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US Tim Harper February 09, 2005 WASHINGTON-Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Washington revealed for the first time yesterday the shock and disbelief in the Bush administration when prime minister Jean Chrétien kept Canadian troops out of Iraq.
    Michael Kergin said in an interview yesterday that administration insiders had all but ignored the diplomatic signals from Ottawa in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
    Despite all the signs (…)