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SMIRKING HIS WAY TO PARADISE
By Peter Fredson
October 11, 2005
We are all familiar with the Bush Cabinet trade-mark facial expressions: Bush’s preppy smirk, Cheney’s sneer, Condi Rice’s scowl and Rumsfeld’s dead-pan way of spouting horrible news. Most people want to know why Bush smirks in his self-satisfied way when he has just done something atrocious. It is a trade-mark smirk, identifying Bush.
For instance, when he appointed John Bolton as America’s diplomatic representative to (…)

Appeals Clauses of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005
by bellaciao GB
Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is anxious to inform affected agencies and individuals about the changes to immigration appeals in the latest immigration legislation, the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005, which is currently being considered by Parliament.
The government gave no hint of their intention to make the proposed changes. They have not explained the full (…)

Venezuelan authorities denied with indignation an accusation by US Rev. Pat Robertson that Venezuela is preparing a nuclear attack against the United States.
Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel asserted Venezuela is willing to launch "love, affection, and appreciation" to the US people, but the true atomic bomb threatening the United States is President George W. Bush.
Speaking at Monday’s celebration of Venezuelan Soldier’s Day, Rangel said the significance of the new (…)

WASHINGTON - Green Party leaders urged Congress and all Americans to reject the White House’s intention to turn New Orleans and all disaster areas into zones of military control, weakened human rights protections and oversight of federal agencies, and corporate profiteering similar to occupied Iraq.
"The treatment of New Orleans’ poorest, especially African Americans, has already been widely reported and is now a national shame, as is the ineptitude of Mayor Nagin’s office, FEMA, and other (…)

We invite all italians to partecipate to primary election the 16th of October and vote for Fausto BERTINOTTI.
There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
The poll will take place on Sunday 16 October from 9am til 10pm in a place TBC. All Italian citizens currently living in every countries in the world, even temporarily (i.e. students to, for (…)

by Mike Whitney
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government." Declaration of Independence, July4, 1776
President Bush has made it clear that he will veto the $435 billion Pentagon appropriations bill because it restricts his ability to abuse prisoners in the war on terror. The bill, which forbids the "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" of prisoners in US custody, was (…)

Two experts face-off in lively lectures and discussion about the utility of exit polls when compared to official counts, the potential for election fraud and the role of statistics in adjudicating critical issues of public importance. The University of Pennsylvania’s departments of Center for Organizational Dynamics and Political Science and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASAP) will host the debate.
Like most politically savvy Americans, Steve Freeman (…)

By Paul Craig Roberts
George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his October 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine, the National Endowment for Democracy, the President of the United States said: "Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces."
Eighty Iraqi battalions makes it sound like the US is just lending Iraq a helping hand. I wonder what Congress and (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
Summary of Events:
On the evening of Saturday, October 1, while a football game was in progress at the nearby stadium, Joel Hinrichs, a University of Oklahoma engineering student, was packed with explosives and seated on a bench near a sidewalk in front of the microbiology building. He knew that within a few minutes the sidewalk would be full of people during the halftime break. The west gate of the stadium was a two-minute (…)

An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the last year, RAW STORY can reveal.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney’s options — worth $241,498 a year ago — are now valued at more than $8 million. The former CEO of the oil and gas services juggernaut, Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity.
The above graph released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) charts the value of the (…)