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Bush Sparred With Canadians On Missile Defence In Tense Meeting, Says Report Canadian Press January 23, 2005 WASHINGTON (CP) - President George W. Bush tried to bully Canadian officials on missile defence during his visit last month by linking Canada’s participation to future protection from the U.S., the Washington Post reported Sunday.
The newspaper quoted an unidentified Canadian official who was in the room as saying Bush waved off their attempts to explain how contentious the issue (…)

Gonzales: Did He Help Keep George W. Bush’s DUI Quiet? Michael Isikoff, Newsweek Jan. 31 issue - Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales’s nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners. But Gonzales’s most surprising answer may have come on a different subject: his role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an (…)

Air America Now In 45 Markets Radio’s Bush-Bashing Air America Is Back In Fighting Form Julia Angwin and Sarah McBride January 20, 2005 Today’s inauguration of President George W. Bush may depress many Democrats, who had hoped to take back the White House this year. But at Air America, the upstart liberal radio network, there’s at least some cause for celebration.
Coinciding with the presidential ceremonies, Air America will launch its brash Bush-bashing talk-radio format onto the (…)

Richard Hayes Phillips 1 hour radio interview Monday 1/24
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., statistician who’s been researching and documenting election fraud and other anomalies on a precinct-by-precinct basis will be interviewed tomorrow, Monday, January 23 on Radio Inside Scoop.
Time: 3pm EST streaming online at: http://www.radioinsidescoop.com
The Last(?) Word on the Ohio Recount of Presidential Votes Guest: Statistician Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., whose expert documentation and (…)

By Timothy Heritage
PARIS - Some 210,000 public sector workers marched through French cities on Thursday in widening protests over pay, reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to President Jacques Chirac’s conservative government.
On the third day of protests, some schools closed because of a one-day strike by teachers, and a stoppage by air traffic controllers grounded flights at Bordeaux in western France.
The protests followed a warning strike by rail workers that (…)

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by Vincent Fischer
Wednesday, January 19, 7 PM at the HalfKing, a Chelsea restaurant and bar, co-owner and author Journalist Scott Anderson talked about his article, “Gaza’s Apocalypse Zone” which appears in this month’s Vanity Fair. Accompanying the talk, comprised mostly of reading selected passages from the fifteen page article, was a slide show presentation of black and white photos recently taken in the Gaza Strip. (…)

it’s Time To Ignore Michael Ruppert Comment By Paul Fassa Internet Trailer Park Trash 1-23-5
In my opinion, Mike Ruppert is at best a blowhard gatekeeper who only cares that he is the ultimate mouthpiece of the alternative and Internet media, cashing in big time, or at worst, he is is a disinformation agent for one or more of our international alphabet soup intel agencies. When he first came to my attention, I bought his early 9/11 video. I was impressed, though a little bothered over (…)

Iraq: Water Disappears As Election Nears posted by river Saturday, January 22, 2005 It’s the third day of Eid. Eid is the Islamic holiday and usually it’s a time for families to get together, eat, drink and celebrate. Not this Eid. This Eid is unbearable. We managed a feeble gathering on the first day and no one was in a celebratory mood. There have been several explosions- some far and some near but even those aren’t as worrisome as the tension that seems to be growing on a daily basis. (…)

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Police Hunt Poo Protesters
January 22, 2005
Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature US flags into piles of dog poo in public parks.
Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth, said: "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that time."
The series of incidents was originally thought to be some sort of protest against the (…)

By HOWARD ZINN
We must withdraw our military from Iraq, the sooner the better. The reason is simple: Our presence there is a disaster for the American people and an even bigger disaster for the Iraqi people.
It is a strange logic to declare, as so many in Washington do, that it was wrong for us to invade Iraq but right for us to remain. A recent New York Times editorial sums up the situation accurately: Some 21 months after the American invasion, United States military forces remain (…)