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Bush's Social Security Sleight of Hand |
by Allan Sloan
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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10 Feb 2006
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On page 321 of the budget proposal, you see the privatization costs. $712 billion is the seven-year total (from 2010). There are plenty of ways to fix social security besides offering private accounts as a substitute for part of the basic benefit. |
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News :: Crime & Police : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Nukes : Regime |
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Whitehouse Lie Machine: Libby Said Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says |
by Neil A. Lewis
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10 Feb 2006
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The document shows that Mr. Libby, known as Scooter, was actively engaged in the Bush administration's public relations effort to rebut complaints that there was little evidence to support the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed or sought weapons of mass destruction, which was used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Mr. Fitzgerald said that Mr. Libby's testimony showed how Ms. Wilson's status was disclosed. "Our anticipated basis for offering such evidence is that such facts are inextricably intertwined with the narrative of the events of spring, 2003, as Libby's testimony itself makes plain," he wrote. |
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Cartoon controversy hits U. of I. |
by Jodi S. Cohen, repost Chicago Tribune
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10 Feb 2006
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The University of Illinois student newspaper Thursday published six caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent protests in the Middle East and Asia. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Environment : Government Secrecy : Regime |
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Latest Bush Lie To Kill the Innocent: White House Knew of Levee's Failure on Night of Storm |
by Eric Lipton
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10 Feb 2006
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Congressional investigators have now learned that an eyewitness account of the flooding from a federal emergency official reached the Homeland Security Department's headquarters starting at 9:27 p.m. the day before, and the White House itself at midnight.
Conditions, the message said, "are far more serious than media reports are currently reflecting. Finding extensive flooding and more stranded people than they had thought — also a number of fires."
Even the next morning, President Bush, on vacation in Texas, was feeling relieved that New Orleans had "dodged the bullet..."
The federal government let out a sigh of relief when in fact it should have been sounding an "all hands on deck" alarm, the investigators have found.
-- Geesh, this guy couldn't manage a Wendy's if his dad did all the work... |
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News :: International Relations : Media |
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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/10/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! |
by Dan Roberts
outfarpress (nospam) saber.net (verified) |
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09 Feb 2006
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A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, Spain, and Russia. |
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BTL:Critics Concerned Over Possible White House Plan to Resume Dangerous... |
by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (verified) |
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09 Feb 2006
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...Plutonium Reprocessing. ~ Interview with Ed Lyman, senior staff scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus |
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Analysis of why Enio Carrion was shot |
by Charles Joseph Smith
charlessmith702210 (nospam) sbcglobal.net (unverified) |
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08 Feb 2006
Modified: 05:43:28 PM |
You may have seen the graphic tape of Enio
Carrion being confronted--and shot--by police officers in Chino, California. There are
pre-conceived rumors that this is police
brutality, but I believe this is not the case. |
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