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  • My Fax to Bush After Reading: A SOLDIER OF TRUTH HAS FALLEN: In Memory of Specialist Doug Barber
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To President Bush,
    Every single day, I pray that we make it through the next three years with you ruling this country. I have serious doubts that this republic will survive. There are so many indications that it will indeed fall. But, I pray anyway.
    But tonight, my prayers are with Specialist Douglas Barber who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom although, I do not see signs of a free Iraq. Why are my prayers with him? It is because he took his own life while suffering from PTSD after (…)

  • Study Finds Rich-Poor Income Gap Growing
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MARK JOHNSON
    The disparity between rich and poor is growing in America as the federal minimum wage has remained flat for years, union membership has declined and industries have faced global competition, according to a study released Thursday.
    The report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute, both liberal-leaning think tanks, found the incomes of the poorest 20 percent of families nationally grew by an average of $2,660, or 19 percent, over (…)

  • Internet serves as ’social glue’
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The internet has played an important role in the life decisions of 60 million Americans, research shows.
    Whether it be career advice, helping people through an illness or finding a new house, 45% of Americans turn to the web for help, a survey by US-based Pew Internet think-tank has found.
    It set out to find out whether the web and e-mail strengthen social ties.
    The answer seems to be yes, especially in times of crisis when people use it to mobilise their social networks.
    New (…)

  • Iran’s Oil Exchange Threatens the Greenback
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration will never allow the Iranian government to open an oil exchange (bourse) that trades petroleum in euros. If that were to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars would come flooding back to the United States crushing the greenback and destroying the economy. This is why Bush and Co. is planning to lead the nation to war against Iran. It is straightforward defense of the current global system and the continuing dominance of the reserve currency, the dollar.
    The claim (…)

  • Houston & Texas City Police Running Nuclear Disaster Drills
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Houston PD Running Nuclear Disaster Drills As Build-Up Of Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies Seen In Nearby Texas City
    Army Intel Capt. Eric May warns Bush cabal days away from a nuclear strike. Texas City resident "opens up a hornet’s nest" as he warns local law enforcement about the possibility of nuclear strike.
    By Greg Szymanski
    Sources inside the Houston Police Department (HPD) have confirmed officers in recent weeks have been taking part in nuclear disaster drills, adding more (…)

  • Bush commits US to defence of Israel in face of Iran threat
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Bush yesterday committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be "blackmailed" by an Iranian nuclear weapon.
    The US president’s warning, issued in an exchange with students in Kansas, came at a tense time in relations with Iran, after Tehran vowed to restart nuclear research. The US is leading a diplomatic attempt to persuade other countries to refer Iran to the UN security council for failure to cooperate with United (…)

  • My Fax to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Concerning a Comment Made by Her in the SF Gate
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
    Washington, D.C. Office
    2371 Rayburn HOB
    Washington, DC 20515
    Phone: (202) 225-4965
    Fax: (202) 225-8259
    Email: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
    To Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, January 18, 2006
    I was more than surprised to hear your comment concerning any impeachment of President Bush as I read this column in the (January 15th, 2006) edition of the San (…)

  • Veterans-Turned-Candidates Have New PAC
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A new political action committee to put veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Congress is getting under way.
    There is not one policymaker debating this war who has actually fought this war,’’ Jon Soltz, the executive director of the PAC and an Iraq war veteran, said in an interview Wednesday.
    Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, is heading the advisory board of the group, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (…)

  • Bush the Incompetent
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it’s hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president’s defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina and his Medicare drug plan, will have to grapple with how one president could so cosmically botch so many big things — particularly when most of them were the president’s own (…)

  • RIGHT-TO-WORK, PREVAILING WAGE FIGHT MAY STIR ALL CAMPAIGNS
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Labor becomes election issue
    By Ryan Alessi
    FRANKFORT — Regardless of whether it was intended, Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s forceful push for legislation targeted at organized labor is morphing into more of an election issue than a legislative one.
    Fletcher’s aggressive support for the repeal of the prevailing wage law and enactment of so-called "right to work" legislation has pleased many business leaders, who often show appreciation through campaign donations.
    Some Democrats have said (…)