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By Walter Wolfgang
My case is not important. But what happened to me when I was ejected from the Labour conference - simply for a one-word protest during Jack Straw’s speech this week - tells us there is something deeply wrong with the culture of our Government under Tony Blair.
We have been lied to about the war. But not only that. The party has been manipulated so that it has not been allowed to discuss the issue properly.
Indeed, the Labour leaders have got so nervous of criticism (…)

Thursday September 29, 2005 8:38pm Washington (AP) - After nearly three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of a covert CIA officer, two people familiar with the case said.Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria (website - news) , Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Legal sources said she would appear before a (…)

Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
Abortion rights under serious threat and civil liberties on the chopping block, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
New Orleans, just drying out from (…)

It’s anti-war quiz time.
Who made the following statement: "I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now."
Was it: A. Cindy Sheehan? B. Phil Donahue? C. Michael Moore? D. A prominent politician who was not afraid to dissent in a time of war?
Answer: D.
Defenders of the occupation of Iraq have responded to last weekend’s large anti-war demonstrations - which saw (…)

Here’s the 22 Democrats who just minutes ago voted to confirm John Roberts Jr. to be the next Chief Justice on the United States Supreme Court:
Max Baucus (D - MT)
Jeff Bingaman (D - NM)
Robert Byrd (D - WV)
Thomas Carper (D - DE)
Kent Conrad (D - ND)
Christopher Dodd (D - CT)
Byron Dorgan (D - ND)
Russell Feingold (D - WI)
Tim Johnson (D - SD)
Herb Kohl (D - WI)
Mary Landrieu (D - LA)
Patrick Leahy (D - VT)
Carl Levin (D - MI)
Joseph Lieberman (D - CT)
Blanche (…)

I posted this several weeks ago. Time for a reprise -js
(sung to God Bless America) 1. Wake Up America It’s time to act Work for peace now Release now Mr. Bush from his post let’s send him back From the Heartland To the Coastlines ANd on Main Street Watch it grow Wake Up America For don’t you know Wake up America George Bush must go! 2. Wake Up America It’s time to act Stop polluting And shooting As the rich keep getting richer that’s a fact From the board rooms To the White House (…)

by Mary MacElveen
This following sentence caught my attention in that “Booze Crisis” article in the National Enquirer where it stated, “Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.”
I am of the opinion that his addiction to alcohol and his use of it have always been problematic for him.
What leads me to say this is the picture that was released the morning after his alleged choking incident involving that (…)

Published by Crimes and Corruptions of the New World Order News, June 22, 2005
Bush Administration Psychological Warfare Against the U.S.? An Interview with (ret.) Colonel Sam Gardiner describes " what propaganda literature would refer to as the big lie."
By Kevin Zeese
Sam Gardiner has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College, Air War College and Naval War College. He was recently a visiting scholar at the Swedish Defence College. During Gulf II he was a (…)

If Karen Hughes is an American and supposedly a diplomatic envoy, Americans are in big trouble.
Salon Reports
"President Bush has no advisor more loyal and less self-serving than Karen Hughes. As governor of Texas he implicitly trusted the former Dallas television reporter turned press secretary with the tending of his image and words. She was mother hen of his persona. In the White House, Hughes devoted heart and soul to Bush as his communications director, until, suddenly, she returned (…)

September 28th, 2005
"President Bush yesterday sought to federalize hurricane-relief efforts, removing governors from the decision-making process," reports the Moonie Times, otherwise known as the Washington Times. "It wouldn’t be necessary to get a request from the governor or take other action,” declared White House press secretary Scott McClellan. "Mr. McClellan was referring to a new, direct line of authority that would allow the president to place the Pentagon in charge of responding (…)