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  • The NeoCon Agenda and Tsunami Relief
    10 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although the U.S. relief aid to tsunami-stricken Indonesia is undoubtedly saving untold lives, there is a dark side to it that will have a much longer-lasting effect on that nation than the devastation wrought by the killer waves. After a slow, seemingly reluctant start, with a paltry pledge of $15 million, George W. Bush did a complete turnaround and upped the number to $350 million. He also sent the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and a growing flotilla of other naval (…)

  • The January 7th Problem (News Article with Commentary)
    10 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    January 7th print and other media were quite subdued in regards to the historical significance of the electors challenge on January 6th, 2005. As this was the third time in U.S. history that such an electors challenge has ever taken place, I thought it would be interesting to see what happened after the second, over thirty five years ago. I went to the local library and printed a copy of the front page of our local paper dated Tuesday, January 7th, 1969. Low and behold on the front page was (…)

  • Republican Rep. Coble agrees with Rep. Kucinich- Bring the troops home
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Rep. Coble says Iraq pullout should be considered
    By Stan Swofford
    GREENSBORO, N.C. - U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, a Greensboro Republican and close ally of President Bush, says the United States should consider pulling out of war-ravaged Iraq.
    Coble is one of the first members of Congress to suggest a withdrawal publicly.
    The 10-term congressman said in an interview with the News & Record of Greensboro that he’s "fed up with picking up the newspaper and reading that we’ve lost (…)

  • Targeting teens for troops
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every day, squads of recruiters in impressively crisp uniforms cozy up to kids as young as 14 and 15 at schools, malls, pizza joints, bowling alleys and other teen hangouts, letting them know about the program, which allows anyone 17 or older to join and be paid monthly before they do a single push-up or hear a grizzled drill sergeant yell "double time."
    The Georgia Guard has about 80 recruiters who operate out of 77 locations, targeting every high school in the state.
    ATLANTA - Sprawled (…)

  • US drops bomb on wrong house killing 14 and injuring 6- AP lies in headline to coverup atrocity
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why does AP lie in their headlines?
    U.S. Says Airstrike on Iraq House Kills 5
    By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States military acknowledged dropping a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. But the man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people - including seven children.
    The strike in the town of Aitha, 30 miles south of Mosul, came hours before a senior U.S. Embassy official (…)

  • Grassroots Internet Activists Move Mountains to Expose Vote Fraud
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
    Together, grassroots/Internet activists have just moved three major American mountains.
    On January 6, we forced an angry Republican-dominated Congress into an unprecedented confrontation with the Truth about Ohio’s stolen election, about dubious vote counts nationwide, and ultimately about an electoral process worthy of zero public trust.
    America’s progressive grassroots further showed it could prompt the "democratic wing" of the (…)

  • Bush insists Iraq Election will bring peace
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ... the elections could deepen the conflict by leading to greater alienation of the Sunni minority from the Shia and Kurds.
    Asked if he shared that view, Mr Bush replied: “Quite the opposite. I think elections will be such an incredibly hopeful experience for the Iraqi people.
    ... “I think we’re making great progress,” Mr Bush said, making no reference to the rapidly mounting death toll among US troops and Iraqi security forces.
    Reiterating what he has referred to before as his (…)

  • The Triumvirate of Evil
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson A rather ignorant speechwriter for the intellectually challenged President of the USA, with little respect for the meaning of words, whose name I understand to be David Frum, invented the expression "Axis of Evil" without thinking very deeply as to either what an axis was or for that matter how one can define evil. However, the world can now see a triumvirate of evil on course towards its aim to hand over all power to its corporate sponsors. Each of the two pillars (…)

  • Social Security not broke- yet: Bush’s Plan will cost $2 Trillion while reducing benefits
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Johnson says Bush’s Social Security plan is a crap shoot
    1/6/2005 4:39:17 PM
    Cindy Davis
    The outline of the President’s plan to reform Social Security is already causing a South Dakota senator some concern.
    Democratic Senator Tim Johnson says he sees several problems with changing the formula for Social Security benefits.
    He says the President’s outline includes borrowing from foreign nations to make up for a $2 trillion dollar deficit.
    He also claims it would lower (…)

  • Spineless Kerry should have embraced evidence of election fraud, supported protests
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    John Kerry, like Al Gore before him, does not deserve the presidency of the United States.
    This is not because they are incompetent politicians. This is not because they lost their elections. No. It’s because despite winning, Gore and Kerry refused to claim what was rightfully theirs.
    Yesterday, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), along with a dozen other House members, formally objected to the choice of Ohio’s electors. There is ample evidence that this election was just as crooked as (…)