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A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole By Southern Beale 08/30/2006 01:06:40 PM CST This week Defense Secy. Rumsfeld compared critics of the Iraq war to Nazi appeasers prior to WWII. He said we have not "learned the lessons of history." A yes, history. Such a funny thing:
Rumsfeld’s handshake deal with Saddam is indeed a history lesson more Americans need to remember.
Oh, and by the way: a message to President Bush, Karl Rove, and the rest of the Republicans who are (…)

An Exit Strategy For Iraq By The Veteran Voice 08/31/2006 07:39:05 PM CST One of my veteran buddies, U.S. Attorney Bob Coleman has proposed an exit strategy for Iraq that I personally wish I had thought of myself. But jealousy aside, I do think it is one worth considering. Bob, a Korean War Air Force vet, proposes that the United Nations send an peace-keeping force to Iraq composed of armed forces from moderate Islamic nations such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emerates, Jordan (…)

Impeaching George W. Bush Noel Gibeson Friday, September 01, 2006
Question: How can President George W. Bush be impeached? Answer: By a simple majority vote in the U.S. House of Representatives?
Question: How soon can that vote occur? Answer: Any time officially; but realistically right after the 2006 election as soon as the newly elected representatives are sworn in on January 3, 2007.
Question: What needs to happen for impeachment to occur? Answer: The Democrats need to win a (…)

For AK Scandal Company, Money Can’t Buy Happiness — But Influence? Perhaps. By Justin Rood - September 1, 2006, 12:16 PM
When FBI agents raided the offices of Alaska Senate President Ben Stevens and five other legislators, they were looking for evidence of improper ties between those state lawmakers and a company called VECO Corp.
That left some scratching their heads. What’s VECO?
Based in Alaska, the privately-owned, non-union company deals primarily in petroleum and (…)

The Interview That Wasn’t
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Hussain Rahhal, Hezbollah’s press liaison, has issued a written statement:
"Our secretary general Nasrallah has not given any interviews to any Turkish or other non-Lebanese journalist during the month of August. In the face of this imaginary interview that is untruthful, and hence does damage to journalism, credibility and objectivity, Hezbollah reserves its right to take legal action against those who have published it."
This is in (…)

President George W. Bush’s reply to a reporter’s question about whether Iraq had anything to do with 9/11: "Nothing!"
Washington, D.C. - On two consecutive days this week, the Israel Lobby, aka “The Lobby,” took direct hits from opponents. On Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, two distinguished scholars, authors of the “Harvard Study,” Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, showed up at the National Press Club, near the White House. (1) The Professors, who are both Jewish, ably demonstrated (…)

Heat, drought take rising toll on southwest China 01 Sep 2006 05:15:58 GMT
BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The worst drought to hit southwest China in more than a century is spreading to neighbouring provinces with temperatures reaching record highs, state media said on Friday.
The densely populated municipality of Chongqing and eastern parts of Sichuan province have been plagued by repeated heatwaves and have seen no significant rainfall since early July.
The drought is the worst (…)

From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
By GEORGE SALZMAN
Oaxaca, Mexico.
Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. These three bastions of extreme poverty, albeit among the richest states of Mexico in natural resources, lie along the Pacific coastline in southeastern Mexico. Oaxaca is flanked to its east by Chiapas and to its west by Guerrero. Its population, about 3.5 million (…)

PRESIDENT 31.08.06
Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated. Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration. But rather than a repeat of JFK’s shooting or Ronald Reagan’s attempted assassination, this shocking image is part of a new Channel Four show. The dramatic scene, which has (…)

When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge. "Analects" Confucius
Notice how many shows on the History Channel now promise to decode a given phenomenon? Here and there you see the term sprinkled into headlines. Hollywood jumped on board. Soon, no doubt, Calvin Klein will manufacture - Decode: a Mist for the Ages. Not since the Nazi Enigma system has decoding become so fashionable. Unlike (…)