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He Cares All Right !!!!
… about how thickly his and his friends pockets will be padded when it’s all over. The White House assures us that Bush cares I’m not a historian, but doesn’t the recurring insistence that the president “feels” the losses in … Continue reading
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The Naked Truth? Or Something Else Altogether …
Invasion of the Body ScannersNew airport X-Rays may be a useful way to detect hidden explosives—but officials will have to keep a tight rein on their useby David H. Holtzman Phoenix flyers will soon be the first travelers digitally stripped … Continue reading
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Further Distortion of the Constitution
Next big test of power to seize property?The US Supreme Court will examine whether a private company can demand payment in exchange for not seizing private property.By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Bart Didden wanted … Continue reading
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Extremist Twenty-First Century Jacobins
Predatory Capitalism, Corruption and Militarism: What Lies Ahead in An Age of Neocon Rule?by Stephen LendmanGlobal Research, January 2, 2007 Borrowing the opening line from Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities – “It was the best of times, it was the … Continue reading
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Apocalypse II in Samarra – Juan Cole
Apocalypse II in SamarraUS Kills 6 at National Dialogue Front Office CBS/AP report that an angry crowd of Sunni Arab demonstrators in the northern city of Samarra, protesting Saddam’s execution, broke “broke the locks off the badly damaged Shiite Golden … Continue reading
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Paul Spencer for President in 2008
I am running for the office of President of the United States of America in the election of 2008. I should say that I am running on a program for an administration to implement, starting in 2009. There is, of … Continue reading
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Assessing the Human Cost
And of course, since we are arrogant Amerikans, we ignore the cost in Iraqi lives (dead, maimed, injured) for our permanent military bases in the Middle East. How much Blood for Oil?Published on Monday, January 01, 2007.By Michael Munk To … Continue reading
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Another Monday Movie – Al Qaeda is a Myth, Too
There’s no such thing as al Qaeda, or al Qaida, or however you want to spell it. It’s a fraud perpetrated on the American people by our own government to scare us into submission. This is a clip from the … Continue reading
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Unreasonable Search and Seizure Is Now Reality
US ‘licence to snoop’ on British air travellersBy David Millward, Transport CorrespondentLast Updated: 1:35am GMT 01/01/2007 Britons flying to America could have their credit card and email accounts inspected by the United States authorities following a deal struck by Brussels … Continue reading
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Riverbend Is Indignant
And she recognizes George Bush for what he is – a cheap, tawdry, ‘all hat, no cattle’ brand of Texas cowboy, where lynching is standard practise. A Lynching… It’s official. Maliki and his people are psychopaths. This really is a … Continue reading
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