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Hate speech claim laughable, but there’s a more serious issue
NEW YORK, NY — (OfficialWire) — 02/14/06 — As a Jew (my mother was Jewish and so ’am I) I am expected to automatically detest those who might speak against the popular belief associated with the "H" word. We are expected to speak in hushed tones in observance of ’The Holocaust’, praise and support those among us who have sought or seek to hunt down and kill anyone with direct knowledge of the horrid events of the Second World (…)

But He Didn’t Shoot the Deputy
By Peter Fredson
February 14, 2006
I just finished my daily review of news and blogs, and paid special attention to the Dick Cheney shotgun blast incident. Actually there is a ton of news, joking, and commentary on this topic, so I will limit my comments to something I saw which may not have been reported. At least I didn’t see any comments.
Yesterday, when eating supper and watching TV, I saw a report on the Cheney shooting. On the screen appeared the (…)

By JOHN SOLOMON and PETE YOST
Three former associates of Jack Abramoff say the now-convicted lobbyist frequently told them he had strong ties to the White House through presidential confidant Karl Rove.
The White House said Monday night that Rove remembers meeting Abramoff at a 1990s political meeting and considered the lobbyist a "casual acquaintance" since President Bush took office in 2001.
New questions have arisen about Abramoff’s ties to the White House since a photo emerged over (…)

February 12, 2006 — Bush homeland security and terrorism adviser’s qualifications: she’s married to Bush’s Yale classmate. Frances Fragos Townsend, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism and the point person for the White House’s newly-released information on "Al Qaeda" terrorist plots (including a 2002 "West Coast plot" to crash an airplane into the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles (formerly the Library Tower, which Bush erroneously referred to as the (…)

9/11 Rescuer Saw Explosions Inside WTC 6 Lobby http://killtown.blogspot.com February 10, 2006
In an exclusive Killtown interview, Ground Zero EMT Patricia Ondrovic talks about her harrowing day at the WTC on 9/11. Within minutes after the South Tower collapses, she witnessed the WTC 5 blowing up, cars exploding, and explosions inside the lobby of the WTC 6, all the while narrowly escaping with her own life. Patricia can be reached at: fieldangel911@yahoo.com
9/11 Rescuer Saw Explosions (…)

February 13, 2006 — Click here to read a letter from the parents of wrongfully-convicted former NSA intern-analyst Kenneth Ford, the author of a signals intelligence report that questioned Iraqi nuclear WMD components, which ultimately brought down the wrath of the neo-con apparatus in the Bush administration.
This editor will be present at the March 1 sentencing at the US District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland in a show of support for Ken Ford and his parents. How many among the (…)

February 13, 2006 — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot fellow hunter, 78-year old Austin attorney Harry Whittington, while quail hunting on the south Texas ranch of Anne Armstrong, a former U.S. ambassador to Britain and an adviser to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush I. The incident occurred during the late afternoon of February 11 but the news was not revealed until February 12 after being confirmed by the White House after the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported the story. The (…)

The UN Volker Report (2005) has disclosed that the monopoly Australian Wheat Board (AWB) was responsible for kickbacks totalling US$225 million out of an estimated US$1.8 billion of illicit payments to Saddam Hussein’s régime during the UN Oil For Food program in 1999-2003. The kickback mechanism involved excessive trucking fees paid to a Jordanian company half-owned by the Iraqi Government. The Australian Government has repeatedly said "we knew nothing" but expert whistleblowers have said (…)

Monday, February 13, 2006 4:13 PM GI SPECIAL 4B12: 13/2/06 thomasfbarton@earthlink.net Print it out: color best. Pass it on. SOWING THE WIND: 2003 REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: 2006
Former Iraqi Army soldiers shout anti-American slogans during a protest outside of the Republican Palace in Baghdad June 2, 2003. Hundreds of former Iraqi soldiers protested outside the office compound of Iraq’s U.S. occupiers, demanding pay for all troops dismissed when the American civil administrator (…)

Stuff to Do to Stop the War STAN GOFF, CounterPunch
June 18, 2005
The war in Iraq is degenerating ... a lot. For American troops, Iraqi police, and Iraqi civilians, the last two months have been filled with dread, death, and disfigurement. In spite of around-the-clock spin by the administration and show-dog obedience by the bouzhie-press, the reality of the war is filtering into the public’s consciousness. Certain phrases are haunting us: "weapons of mass destruction"... "yellow-cake (…)