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  • GI dissent shakes up the Pentagon
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Catalinotto, New York
    A series of events in early December signaled a major shift in political consciousness within the U.S. Armed Forces. Together they struck fear in the hearts of the general staff.
    A sailor, a soldier, a Marine, and two National Guard soldiers committed acts of courage. They killed no Iraqis, nor did they rescue wounded comrades under fire. This kind of courage took a different form for each GI, from refusing to kill to confronting the unpopular secretary of (…)

  • Indiana Jones and the battle for Fallujah
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hollywood has joined the war. Universal Pictures announced on Thursday that it is to make The Battle for Fallujah. To prove it is serious, it has enlisted Indiana Jones himself, actor Harrison Ford, to help defeat the insurgency.
    The film — Hollywood’s first foray into the second Iraq conflict — is due to go into production next year and will be based on a yet-to-be-finished book, No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah by Bing West, a former marine, politician and now war correspondent. (…)

  • US military sees sharp fall in black recruits
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dolly Wilson’s father proudly served in the Second World War and her husband in Vietnam. But her children will not join the military if she has any say in it.
    "We don’t want our kids to go into no war for nothing," said Mrs Wilson, snatching a cigarette with colleagues outside her Washington office.
    "Bush has two daughters. Let them go over and fight," she added, to a chorus of "That’s not our war" from the others.
    James Golladay served in the US coastguard, but would discourage his (…)

  • Time names President Bush Person of the Year
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. President George W. Bush’s bold, uncompromising leadership and his clear-cut election victory made him Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2004, its managing editor said Sunday.
    Time chose Bush "for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years," Jim Kelly wrote in the magazine. (…)

  • Cover-Up using Mass Hypnosis Campaign:Vote Zealots UnderMine Confidence
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lead editorial from Cleveland Plain Dealer NewsElites progamming efforts to ’tenderize’ the populace with insidious perception management & reality control campaign. The 4-man team piously SPEWS deceptive, ignorant, crude reasoning in a blatant, though, pathetic attempt to marginalize and ridicule the inteGRITy of Americans valiantly Defending the Vote & Free, Fair and Honest Elections. What do you expect from the Oligarch’s wayward misinformation ministers? but to, in blind denial, (…)

  • Support Grows for January 20 Counter-Inaugural Protest
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders on C-Span 1 at 1 pm ET today to report on Jan. 20 CounterInaugural protests
    Leaders from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and others involved in the January 20 Counter-Inaugural Protest in Washington DC will be holding a press conference at 1 pm ET today (December 17). The press conference will be broadcast live on C-Span 1. Please check the C-Span website for when the press conference will be rebroadcast today and during this weekend. It is called "Inaugural Parade Protests (…)

  • If Ukrainians Can Demonstrate in the Streets Over a Stolen Election, So Can We
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Ukrainians Can Demonstrate in the Streets Over a Stolen Election, So Can We by Rob Kall
    http://baltimorechronicle.com/121704Kall.shtml
    Doesn’t our country deserve the same protest, the same raising of voices that the people of the Ukraine felt their country deserved? I’ve been feeling a bit of a disappointed malaise and dejection the last few days as the realization that the theft of the election is going pretty much unprotested has sunken in, that the 55 million Americans who voted (…)

  • Election Tampering is a Federal Crime- Rep. Conyers asks for FBI investigation into Ohio recount
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Detroit congressman asked the FBI on Wednesday to investigate an Ohio election worker’s concern that presidential election results could have been altered when a software company employee worked on machines before a ballot recount.
    The company, TRIAD Governmental Systems Inc., provides vote-counting software used in 41 of Ohio’s 88 counties.
    Rep. John Conyers, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to the FBI office in Cincinnati and Hocking County (…)

  • The Plot Against Sex in America
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Frank Rich
    When they start pushing the panic button over "moral values" at the bluest of TV channels, public broadcasting’s WNET, in the bluest of cities, New York, you know this country has entered a new cultural twilight zone.
    Just three weeks after the election, Channel 13 killed a spot for the acclaimed movie "Kinsey," in which Liam Neeson stars as the pioneering Indiana University sex researcher who first let Americans know that nonmarital sex is a national pastime, that women (…)

  • Jan. 20: Line the inaugural route in DC by 9:00 am!
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Line the Inaugural Route on January 20 Be there by 9:00 am!
    Update on CounterInaugural Demonstration permits
    Four years ago as George W. Bush rode in his limousine along the Inaugural parade route, he was met by a sea of vocal protestors and anti-Bush signs. Vividly captured in a dramatic scene from the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, the anti-Bush demonstrators lining the inaugural route on Pennsylvania Avenue became the dominant feature of the inauguration, his first day in office.
    On January (…)