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The man named Viktor Bout ( pronounced "Butt" ) is frequently referred to "Viktor B". Given the multiplicity of media reports that Viktor Bout is currently a US Defence contractor selling arms to our freedom fighters in Iraq and that his "cousin", "George B. ", has granted him sovereign unitary immunity from international arrest , would it not be more appropriate for Viktor Bout to be called "Viktor Bush". Hey the guy supplied arms to warring factions in the Congo that (…)

These people did everything but slip me cash under the table to get me to hire them.
They showed me references out the wa-zoo
They said they knew how to DO the job.. in fact had lots of experience
They knew that the job required some researching and involved a learning curve
They assured me they were willing to do what it took to do the work
They knew that I would be watching how they progressed, and now they act all pissed off whenever I mention something to them that would help (…)

FBI stages violent raids in Puerto Rico By Bill Van Auken 14 February 2006 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/fbi-f14.shtml Heavily armed US agents backed by helicopters raided five homes and an office in Puerto Rico last Friday in what federal officials claimed was an operation aimed at foiling a “potential terrorist attack.” The raids, which come five months after federal agents assassinated the fugitive leader of a pro-independence group, are another indication that (…)

Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) has read the text of the U.S. constitution to the U.S. Senate after the body voted 95-4 approving 3 amendments to 16 controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, set for renewal.
Feingold spent 34 minutes sharing the document with his fellow Senators, stopping to repeat the Fourth Amendment, which he feels the law violates.
The Fourth Amendment reads:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against (…)

Written question (E-0675/06) 10 February 2006, by Marco Pannella to the European Commission:
On 29 November 2005 26 adolescents, Christians belonging to the Hmong ethnic group, who were seeking asylum and living in a refugee camp in north-east Thailand under the protection of the local office of the UNHCR, were separated from their families and sent to Laos by Thai police forces. UNHCR sources in Thailand and independent sources in Laos have confirmed that the 26 refugees were in Laos in (…)

Back in the late 70’s when the Ayatollah Khomeni was the "Evil Arab tyrant" of the day, burning the American flag was like the national pastime for Iran. I say this facetiously of course, but still I do recall many images from my childhood of crowds burning American flags.
There are two major differences today.
1. It’s not just Iran that’s seething with anger, it’s the whole world. 2. Clearly they don’t hate America- they just Hate Bush
They hate Bush’s illegal war.
They hate the (…)

This is an article from the Counter Punch site. Will make you consider Diane Feinstein in a whole new light no matter which side of the aisle you are on. I am VERY much a progressive but this is ridiculous in every way you can imagine!!
February 28, 2006 The Mansion the War Bought The Palazzo Feinstein
By JOSHUA FRANK
It happens all the time. If the antiwar movement takes on the Democrats for their bitter shortcomings a few liberals are bound to criticize us for not hounding Bush (…)

why not solve 2 birds with one stone , if the oceans invariably are going to rise due to carbon emmissions or whatever are making the glaciers melt rapidly, why not start bulldozing transportation routes for boatfaring vehicles and use the excess ocean waters that would otherwize flood the lands ready to carve out the entry points when the ocean got high and have a whole transportation system that could be controlled by controlling the waterboats would need no fuel if you could keep the (…)

WASHINGTON - Nearly three out of four American troops serving in Iraq think U.S. forces should withdraw within a year, and more than one in four say the United States should leave immediately, according to a new poll published Tuesday.
The poll, conducted by Zogby International and the Center for Peace and Global Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., was a rare effort to determine the views of American troops serving in a ground war.
Twenty-nine percent of the troops surveyed (…)

March 1, 2006 — Dubai — the emirate has the smoking gun evidence tying the Bush criminal cartel to arms trafficking, Viktor Bout, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda.
Internal documents from the UAE Central Bank in Dubai detail huge money laundering operations in the UAE according to financial industry insiders. Moreover, the Sharjah branch of HSBC Holdings PLC was tied to international arms trafficker Victor Bout, indicted in Belgium for money laundering and named in various UN reports as a chief (…)