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RULE BRATANNIA Jan 20 2005
See their disgust for democracy
TONIGHT America exports a sight more obscene, costly and unnecessary than Jackie Stallone’s face.
The lavish $40million presidential coronation of a thick little rich kid is guaranteed to trawl the depths of bad taste, giving us cynical Brits another chance to look down on an emotionally-deficient nation celebrating the re-election of a mentally-deficient primate.
Well laugh until you fall off your high horses, folks, (…)

US official confirms Iragis PM Allawi shot six dead
A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year.
The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week’s issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad (…)

Ultimately we are going to have to get out of Iraq. It is only a question of how many people are going to die.
excerpts from an interview on cspan which can be viewed here
There are serious problems in this country and there is no money to solve them. There is no money for education, no money for health, no money for child care. While these problems are going on here, 40 million without health care, we are spending huge sums of money trying to conquer another country. Let’s face it, (…)

President George W. Bush will receive a bitter inauguration welcome on the Ithaca Commons this Thursday. A protest rally with speakers, music and an open mike is being held Jan. 20 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
"The umbrella reason we are doing this," organizer Fay Gougakis said,"is so we will unite people and point out the voting irregularities that happened in this election. I’m tired of the phrase ’conspiracy theory.’ There is legitimate concern that Bush (…)

A Vietnam veteran who froze to death alone beneath a railroad bridge on Christmas Eve is remembered in Covington. Joe Young died in single-digit cold a few blocks from a shelter where he had previously stayed and a few days before he was to move into an apartment that had been arranged for him. The Reverend Gregg Anderson of Highland Heights says friends and strangers contributed a total of $2,100 to make sure Young had a decent burial. Joe Young was 57-years old.
It is more than (…)

The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah," said one of my contacts in Fallujah who just returned. He was in his city checking on his home and just returned to Baghdad this evening.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, he continued, "In the center of the Julan Quarter they are removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were. Why are they doing this?"
According to him, this was also done in the Nazal, Mualmeen, (…)

Posted to the re-worked kucinich For President forum at http://www.kucinich.us , was the below post. This is now known as the Volunteers For Change forum and is still well-trafficked. "Several Progressive Democratic groups that I know of supported a calling campaign to ring the Dem senators phones off the hook on January 5th-6th. One of the people from PDA-IL was on Capitol Hill on the 5th, and reported that many of the Dem Senate office staffers were exhausted and some even in tears (…)

The world crisis of capitalism has hit Europe very hard. In all European countries we are witnessing budget cuts, privatisations, and social regression. There are officially 16 million unemployed in the EU-15, which is around 9 percent of the population. Poverty affects 70 million people, of which 17 million are children. Food insecurity affects 5 percent of the European population. These statistics in themselves illustrate the complete bankruptcy of the capitalist system. On a rich and (…)

By Jason Leopold
In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays-literally-to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to fill the vacancies in Bush’s second-term cabinet.
But one of the President’s most outrageous decisions (besides naming Alberto Gonzales, who concocted a legal case for torturing foreign prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Attorney (…)

Dear Sheila,
When I wrote to you concerning a position you took in one of your columns (Last Man To Concede ) and questioned you about your reasons for that stance, I must confess I had no idea of the depth of your Democratic fealty or passion, nor any understanding as to how you could defend the Democratic Party, especially given what they have become in recent years: cumulatively-servile and Republican-dominated toadies.
Sheila, I believe I ‘get it’, and with this increased (…)