Madrid Fire Re-opens 9/11 Questions
Prior to 9/11, no steel building had ever collapsed due to fire. Here is a photo of the smoking buildings. wtc2, was on fire for less than an hour when it collapsed.
Isn’t it odd, the wtc collapsed after an hour, and the black smoke indicates that fire wasn’t even burning hot. Now compare- this is the Madrid Fire, it burned for 10 hours and still has not collapsed.
Why did wtc2 only last an hour before collapse while the Madrid building burned (…)
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Madrid Fire Re-opens 9/11 Questions: Why did the twin towers fall so fast?
14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Bush Broke his Promise on Social Security
14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBush 2001 vs. Bush 2005, when and why did he change his mind?
Bush in the 2001 State of the Union: "To make sure the retirement savings of America’s seniors are not diverted to any other program, my budget protects all $2.6 trillion of the Social Security surplus for Social Security, and for Social Security alone."
Bush Feb 9, 2005 - "The money-payroll taxes going into the Social Security are spent. They’re spent on benefits and they’re spent on government programs. There is no (…) -
Chalabi vying for Iraq PM post
14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWASHINGTON, Feb 13 (AFP) - Iraq’s Ahmed Chalabi, once supported by the United States only to fall from favor, said Sunday that he is vying to become his country’s prime minister, following the formal announcement of election results there.
"I am nominated for position of prime minister. And I will work with my colleagues to win this position," Chalabi, a Shia, told CNN television.
To the anger of anti-Iran hardliners within the government, Chalabi — the leading Iraqi cheerleader for the (…) -
Bush’s Budget: Cut education, services for needy, add new tax cuts for the wealthy
13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentAT THE Detroit Economic Club last week, President Bush boasted that his latest budget is "the most disciplined proposal since Ronald Reagan." And, yes, his proposed cuts — in food stamps, Medicaid, housing and child care — are stunning, mainly for their targeting of low-income workers and families.
But even President Reagan never displayed such a taste for tax cuts, though he tried at first. Faced with mounting deficits, Mr. Reagan reversed himself, raising taxes. Mr. Bush’s father did the (…) -
Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld Only a Temporary Setback
13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsCenter for Constitutional Rights Blasts Ruling of German Prosecutor Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld.
Attorneys in the Case Say Decision Is Politically Motivated, Timed For Rumsfeld’s Visit and Only a Temporary Setback. NEW YORK, NY - The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today expressed dismay at the erroneous ruling by German courts concluding that the United States is not unwilling to prosecute high-ranking officials for the abuses at Abu Ghraib (…) -
My Husband Means What He Says: "War is Wrong"
13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Monica Benderman
HINESVILLE, GEORGIA, February 6, 2005—As the wife of a soldier who has sworn to "defend his country and its constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and as the mother of an 18 year old son who has recently had to register with Selective Service, I have thought about these comments to a great degree.
In keeping with professional and "military" bearing, I realize that I must be aware that while I do not endorse this general’s opinion, nor do I understand (…) -
Bush Administration - Money, Politics & Drugs
13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsA new plan by the Bush administration to test thenation’s public school population for mental disorders and treat them with controversial drugs has raised an alarm among some medical science watchdogs and members of the mental health community, according to the June 27, 2004, New Standard.
Bush wants to launch a mental health and disability initiative that recommends the screening and treatment for students K-12 in public schools. The plan is based on a Texas program known as the "Texas (…) -
Bush and Condi Failed US on 9/11-The Security of our Country is Severely in Danger
13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsWith the news that President Bush and his administration knew of impending suicidal airplane attacks on American soil and did nothing about it directly indicates a dangerous ineffectiveness and incompetence to protect America.
The failure to implement internal security for our country compounds our inability to secure America. After 911, few safe guards were implemented to protect our national security. Our boarders are not protected, our nuclear and chemical plants are not adequately (…) -
Bush Says Social Security Trust Fund Doesn’t Exist
12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsPresident Bush slipped something new into his Social Security pitch on Wednesday. And it was there again twice yesterday.
He says Social Security’s $1.8 trillion trust fund doesn’t really exist. Even in Washington, that’s a lot of money to go missing.
Here is Bush, from the transcript of his talk at the Commerce Department on Wednesday:
"Some in our country think that Social Security is a trust fund — in other words, there’s a pile of money being accumulated. That’s just simply not (…) -
Sorry George, but Iraq has given you the purple finger
12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsThe party likely to win the election opposes the US presence and policies
by Naomi Klein
’The Iraqi people gave America the biggest thank you in the best way we could have hoped for." Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I found myself thinking about my late grandmother.
Half blind and a menace behind the wheel of her Chevrolet, she adamantly refused to surrender her car keys. She was convinced that everywhere she drove (…)