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The Salvation Army case is the boldest initiative in the Justice Department's recent emphasis on religious rights. And the stakes go well beyond the old-line Christian charitable organization.The department's position in the case — that religious groups should be able to hire or fire people based on their religious views, even when administering publicly funded programs — is a cornerstone of

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''For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?''- Jesus

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By James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys.The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who argued the case raised important issues about the scope of the constitutional right to

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By STEVEN GREENHOUSEA developer has dropped its plans to include a Wal-Mart store in a Queens shopping complex, thwarting Wal-Mart's plan to open its first store in New York City.In the great tradition of that character on the Simpsons - HA! HA!

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Last duly elected American president - President William Jefferson Clinton

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by Green DayDon't wanna be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new mania. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind fuck America.Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alien nation. Everything isn't meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow. We're not the ones who're meant to follow. For that's enough to argue.Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm

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by Media MattersMSNBC host Keith Olbermann recognized Media Matters for America for documenting FOX News Washington managing editor Brit Hume and other pundits distorting a quote by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in order to claim that the former president would have supported privatizing Social Security. Olbermann described the initial distortion by Hume -- which prompted Air America Radio

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by Dave Zirin"Stop the Threats, Stop the Lies; New Republic Apologize" and "New Republic YOU can go Kill and Die for Texaco", their quivering editorial team remained holed upstairs, refusing to address our demands, defend Frank's rant, or even leave the office. While their staff shook in the newly christened "New Republic Panic Room," we handed out hundreds of leaflets to passers-by outlining

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Cheney appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sept 14, 2003, and said, "And as vice president, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the federal government."And remember when he was asked whether he had known about Halliburton's noncompetitive contract, and he said, "I don't know any of

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Ordinary People. Extraordinary Stories.*

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Overall, do you approve or disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president? • Disapprove, 54 % • Approve, 45 % • Not sure, 1 %Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the right direction or are they off on

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"There were people who testified at the 9/11 hearings that there were no warnings, but now we know there were. We need another investigation into the failures of 9/11. Obviously, someone at the FAA should be held accountable." Doyle said he received 253 e-mails yesterday from victim's families expressing anger over the declassified report.Chicago Tribune - The Bush administration came under

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.- George Orwell

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Previously undisclosed report from the 9/11 commission is now being reviewed and reported on. Guess what? There's more indisputable evidence that this administration was well warned (over 52 specific warnings) that mentioned Bin Laden or Al Qaeda from April to Sept. 10, 2001. No surprises here. We've known that the responsibility for 9/11 has rested squarely on Bush jr.'s narrow shoulders, all

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The other day I was at the supermarket, and the bagger was old enough to be my grandmother. She was definitely over 80. And she offered to carry my groceries out to my car for me! I was flustered and I said "ma'am, I should be carrying YOUR groceries", and then we were both embarrassed. In what kind of effing country is this considered acceptable? post by laikamichal

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Jeff Gannon came under lefty scrutiny after revelations that the administration was paying conservative pundits to talk up Bush's proposals. By examining Internet records, online sleuths at DailyKos.com figured out that his real name was Jim Guckert and he owned various Web sites, including HotMilitaryStud.com, MilitaryEscorts.com and MilitaryEscortsM4M.com. But I thought Bush was a "family

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Time to get serious, sign the petition please.

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Get the axe!

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"I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." - George W. Bush Is this only Bush lying or does he need lithium?

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By Dave Zweifel All those giant American corporations that in recent years have cleverly shifted their profit centers to overseas locations so they could avoid paying U.S. income taxes were offered a "tax holiday" if they would bring those profits back home. In exchange for doing so, they would have to pay just 5.25 percent of those profits in taxes, compared to the normal corporate rate of 35

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Mercury poisoning hurts quality of life. Why is a known toxic substance STILL in vaccines? Why is it STILL used in fillings? Ask your Legislator!

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AP Photo Sexual performance drugs such as Viagra will be covered in Medicare's new prescription drug program, a lifestyle rather than lifesaving medication. "Asking Uncle Sam to pay for the romance of 76 million baby boomers will quicken the impending collapse of Medicare," said Tom Schatz, president of a taxpayer watchdog group, Citizens Against Government Waste. "These bureaucrats defend

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(Associated Press) CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. university in Wisconsin has blocked an attempt by Republican students to raise money for a group called "Adopt a Sniper" that raises money for U.S. sharp-shooters in Iraq and Afghanistan. The students were selling bracelets bearing the motto "1 Shot 1 Kill No Remorse I Decide." "Clearly the rhetoric of that organization raised some questions and

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Empty hall at Manual High School in Indianapolis Students and administrators at Manual High School got much more than they bargained for during a sit-in Thursday afternoon. A protest about time periods turned into a pepper-spraying incident. "We like to feel our students can come to us and talk to us when there are issues,” said Rebecca Bibbs, IPS spokesperson. Apparently not this time.

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Hate-monger Coulter exposed as moronic loudmouth by CBC. Ann Coutler was berating Canada for not sending troops to Iraq when she displayed her empty-headedness in the following exchange: Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?" McKeown interrupts: "

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President Bush will propose a 2006 budget Monday that, despite record spending of about $2.5 trillion, will call for billions of dollars in cuts that will touch people on food stamps and farmers on price supports, children under Medicaid and adults in public housing. War on the poor! It's started. Who will you fight for?

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Social Security is America's promise that those who work hard and play by the rules will retire with dignity. Even the most pessimistic of economists agree it will remain solvent for decades. There is no crisis.

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The Bush Administration recently ordered V.A. medical centers to stop publicizing available benefits to veterans seeking assistance. This follows discontinued enrollments of some eligible veterans for healthcare benefits as of January, 2003. Bush Administration funding cuts will also prevent veterans from receiving their disability pensions. Administration officials said the president's

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In the six months he spent in combat in Iraq in 2003, Benderman said, he was badly shaken by what he witnessed. He saw a young Iraqi girl with her arm horribly burned and blackened, standing helplessly on a roadside as Benderman's convoy rushed past. He saw dogs feasting on civilian corpses that had been dumped into pits. He saw young U.S. soldiers treat war like a video game, he said, with few

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Tedy Bruschi gets ready to tackle son T.J. while playing on the field before Super Bowl XXXIX. The Eagles only wish Bruschi was as gentle with them. (David J. Phillip / AP)

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For generations, small farmers in Iraq operated in an essentially unregulated, informal seed supply system. Farm-saved seed and the free innovation with and exchange of planting materials among farming communities has long been the basis of agricultural practice. This has been made illegal under the new law. The seeds farmers are now allowed to plant --- "protected" crop varieties brought into

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"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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Neo-con Plan

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Lieutenant General James Mattis of the US Marines Corps The Pentagon defended Mattis after he was quoted as telling an audience this week that it was 'fun to shoot some people'. The decorated Marine Corps general said, "It's fun to shoot some people" and poked fun at the manhood of Afghans as he described the wars US troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. What a fucking sick bastard!!!

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Senator Nelson was on Air America expressing his concern over "sharp" language used in a letter sent by fellow Democrats criticizing Bush. He sounded more concerned about keeping tax cuts for the wealthy than about lowering the deficit or protecting Social Security. I called his office in D.C. and received the run around from an intern. I'd like to encourage all those concerned with the

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City Commissioner Linda Coates says she was shocked to learn she and her husband were among more than 40 area residents on a list of people barred from attending President Bush's speech here Thursday. The list was supplied to workers at the two Fargo distribution sites, along with tickets and other forms citizens were asked to fill out, The Forum reported. The list includes critics of Bush or

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Order Today!

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The Neocon organization, Project for a New American Century , sent a letter to congress requesting a large increase of military. Veterans for common sense feature excerpts from the letter, as well as a link to the original document. Dear Senator Frist, Senator Reid, Speaker Hastert, and Representative Pelosi: The United States military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to

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LSD for the masses

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screencap from rising-hegemon.blogspot.com This is an insult to all Iraqis who risked their lives to vote. Corrupt, stupid sheeple saluting their fellow criminal Bush Junior.

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AFET advocates that instead of repealing the tax on multi-million-dollar estates, Congress should reform the estate tax to ensure that family farms and small businesses are not unfairly taxed while keeping 98 percent of taxpayers exempt and safeguarding Medicare, Social Security, education, charities and other key national priorities that would be threatened by a complete repeal. We are working

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American Odyssey, a novel set in the not-too-distant future, is the chilling story of a totalitarian America that has plummeted to a nation set on world domination.

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Everyone is talking about privatizing Social Security, and how young people are really supporting the idea. What nobody is telling you is that it will be the younger workers who wind up with the bill for funding this risky scheme. You see, the way it works now is that the Social Security taxes paid today go directly to the people who currently get Social Security checks. Since nobody is going

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Dylan Malone tells his story. My son Ian was left severely brain damaged by medical errors. He died before his fifth birthday. The insurance companies didn't even want to pay for his care. Now President Bush is siding with the insurance, HMO, and drug companies, trying to end what they call "frivolous lawsuits," while 100,000 Americans like Ian die each year because of medical errors. Mr.

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The People's Email Network exists to give you an avenue to more effectively communicate with your legislative representatives. Get involved. Let your congressmen/women hear from you.

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Compassionate Conservatism shows it's face.

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Bush to give State of the Union Address tonight.

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By Mark Morford Is Bush's thuggish and illegal pre-emptive attack strategy justified? Are Iraq's first-ever elections a defining moment in American political history? Are we all righteous and good and holy, despite all the dead bodies and the hatred? Should Bush get some credit for all the cheering Iraqis who are now breathing sort of free? Well, no. Not even close. While it's always

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Gannon, another White House Tool

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"I look forward to serving as the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Tsunami-affected Countries beginning next month, and I will have more to say about that when a formal announcement is made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in March. In the meantime, I continue to focus on my work with former President Bush to urge people to contribute to this cause, and the two of

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Still not my president!

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Cuban leader Castro calls Bush 'deranged' The Cuban leader, wearing his olive green military uniform, linked Bush's government to corruption and torture. He said he closely watched the U.S. leader's inauguration speech Jan. 20 and saw "the face of a deranged person."

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By Paul Farhi of The Washington Post Reporters who cover the White House are accustomed to being spun by administration officials. The modern presidential toolbox includes carefully rationed news conferences, say-nothing spokesmen, dead-of-night releases of unfavorable news and phony "town hall" meetings composed solely of sycophantic supporters. But now the art of press handling has evolved

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Click here to read more!

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Much to the ire of the town’s 5,500 residents, Habecker refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance before each meeting of the town Board of Trustees. His stance has earned him a recall attempt that could cost him his seat. Habecker said he objects to the phrase “under God” in the Pledge, claiming it illegally injects religion into government. He adds he’ll stay seated during the Pledge’s

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"If we could succeed in getting some form of tort reform passed — medical malpractice reform or any of part of that — it would go a long ways toward … taking away the muscle, the financial muscle that they have," said Sen. John Thune (Republican -S.D.). My fellow Americans, ask yourselves why no limits are spoke of regarding corporations leveling lawsuits, only individuals!

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"Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it." -Mark Twain

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Progressives need to tell America what we believe — and why we believe it. The Principles Project is a four-week online discussion to help create a one-page Statement of Progressive Principles: a clear vision of a just society and a progressive politics. The starting point of our discussion is a draft statement that has been prepared with the assistance of 2020 Democrats' 3,500 members. Its

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I felt this question from Phil merited it's own post. He's touched on an excellent point, the reason religion still flourishes. Here's what I've learned. - For many individuals the notion of their own mortality is too painful and difficult to accept. They'd rather believe there's something...anything, no matter how illogical or silly it is. Their need to alleviate their fear of death and give

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With new White House salary figures leaked to The Washington Post and an Excel spreadsheet, crack researcher Margot Williams determined that men in the Bush White House earn an average of $76,624 a year. Women earn $59,917 on average. That means Bush women earn about 78 percent of what Bush men earn. I guess "W" wasn't for women after all.

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PBS's Buster Bush Administration panders to its homophobe base with micro-initiatives, like this: This week, the new US secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, denounced PBS for spending public funds to tape an episode of a children's program that features [Karen] Pike, a lesbian, her partner, Gillian Pieper, and their 11-year-old daughter, Emma. The installment of ''Postcards From

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"The doctrines of modern religions are no more tenable than those which, for lack of adherents, were cast upon the scrap heap of mythology millenia ago; for there is no more evidence to justify a belief in the literal existance of Yaweh and Satan than there was to keep Zeus perched upon his mountain throne or Poseidon churning the seas." -Sam Harris

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Recent Zogby poll shows a higher percentage of Americans saying that they are ashamed that Mr. Bush is their president; three-in-ten (31%) Americans now hold that view, as compared to one-in-four (26%) a month ago. Those numbers sound pretty damn low to me. It's more like one out of two Americans, not that one in three is good.

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Oink if you listen to Rush Support Representive Slaughter who's currently working to restore the Fairness Doctrine. Since these attempts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, media ownership has passed into fewer and fewer hands. Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Film and Media Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, has written extensively on the media and the increasing concentration of

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Turner introduces bill to ban 'credit scoring' If OK'd, electric companies would not be able to deny service over a poor financial history by Jane Elliot Electricity providers would not be allowed to deny service or charge higher rates to customers with poor credit history under legislation proposed by a Houston lawmaker. Rep. Sylvester Turner said he is not aware of any providers using "

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Senators joining the Boxer Rebellion Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and other Democrats assailed President Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq Tuesday and declared they would oppose Condoleezza Rice's nomination as secretary of state as a principal architect of a failed policy. And Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., charged she concealed the Central Intelligence Agency's skepticism that Iraq was trying to

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The White House has scrapped its list of Iraq allies known as the 45-member "coalition of the willing," which Washington used to back its argument that the 2003 invasion was a multilateral action, an official said on Friday. The official could not say when or why the administration did away with the list of the coalition of the willing. How will the Repigs spin this?

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The Supreme Court yesterday expanded police power to conduct searches, ruling that an officer who stops a motorist for a routine traffic violation can use a drug-sniffing dog to detect narcotics in the vehicle, even if the officer had no reason to suspect the car would contain drugs. The decision, in an Illinois case, gives law enforcement the authority to use drug-detecting dogs in the course

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Say no to Bush's wars! Not In Our Name Youth and Students are launching a campaign to get the military recruiters out of our schools and their ads off of BET and MTV. A generation is taking to the streets, standing with the people of the world against the US's unjust war on the world! Youth refusing recruitment

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I really enjoy Jericho's 'poignant quote of the day' feature so I'd like to incorporate something similar into my own blog. Courtesy of Freedom From Religion Foundation, I now present the Free Thought of the Day. “I read the Book of Job last night--I don't think God comes well out of it.” -- Virginia Woolf

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Demonstrators chanted "Impeach Bush" as the presidential motorcade passed.

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During fiscal year 2004, 19,301 regular soldiers were kept on active duty involuntarily, some up to 18 months past their contractual obligations through "stop-loss" orders. The intensifying personnel crunch, plus the unique requirements of occupation duty, has forced the Army into something it swore it would never do: send women into combat as combatants. The "ground combat exclusion rule" has

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Anti-abortionists thrilled by Bush’s rally speech By Nicole Colson GEORGE W. BUSH just couldn’t resist the urge to insult women across the country last week. On January 22--the 29th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that gave women the legal right to abortion--Bush spoke via telephone to a rally of thousands of anti-choice fanatics in Washington, D.C. "You’re working and

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He’s the one He likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means Knows not what it means....

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Salon takes a look at the inauguration by the numbers: $40 million: Cost of Bush inaugural ball festivities, not counting security costs. $20,000: Cost of yellow roses purchased for inaugural festivities by D.C.'s Ritz Carlton. 200: Number of Humvees outfitted with top-of-the-line armor for troops in Iraq that could have been purchased with the amount of money blown on the inauguration. $10,000:

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The people who detest America take a look at this odd conjunction and assume the materialistic America is the real America; the ideals are a sham. The real America, they insist, is the money-grubbing, resource-wasting, TV-drenched, unreflective bimbo of the earth. The high-toned language, the anti-Americans say, is just a cover for the quest for oil, or the desire for riches, dominion and war.

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Girls sent to die too Why are our soldiers there? There were no "weapons of mass destruction", no threat from Iraq. Is this war merely to assert U.S. dominance? Or for oil... Or maybe just for Bush's Glory? Regardlesss, it's obscene, blood shed needlessly... suffering heaped upon the helpless. Who are we??? What happened to our ideals? When did working toward a better America get thrown into

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Boys sent to die for a threat that didn't exist in Iraq, WMD

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Bush style

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Message to Bush

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No weapons of mass destruction were ever found. Bush lied; they died. For oil, and for global Wall Street hegemony.Bush's Inaugural address reputedly went through fourteen editings, and yet it emerged as a completely insipid mishmash of contrivance and cliches. Its poisonous centerpiece was an Orwellian deceit involving repeatedly substituting the word "freedom" for U.S. imperialism's

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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cancelled a planned visit to Germany after a US human rights organisation asked German authorities to prosecute him for war crimes, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) has learned. Rumsfeld has informed the German government via the US embassy that he will not take part in the Munich Security Conference in February, conference head Horst Teltschik told dpa on

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Photo from Democracy Now! What else did you witness at Abu Ghraib? I worked in the radio headquarters of Abu Ghraib for a while. They were once again trying to punish me by putting me in an undesirable job. While I was there, I ended up reviewing the prisoner records and looking over the offenses of the people who were in Abu Ghraib prison. I found out that most of them were actually not there

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thanks to rising-hegemon.blogspot.com for the coverage and this pic

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Demonstrators gather for a protest denouncing President George W. Bush's inauguration on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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A protester burns an American Flag to protest President Bush's second inauguration during a march in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Monterey County Herald / Vern Fisher via AP

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Never has a president been sworn in with such low approval ratings. Polls have Bush's numbers circling the drain at a mere 48% while President Clinton's held firm at 63% before second term. Approval rating -- Bush's approval rating has slipped to a combined 48%, while his disapproval rating has climbed to a combined 50%. When broken down by degree of approval and disapproval, a plurality (38%) "

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Protests can be watched live on C-Span 2 on cable tv OR online at http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan2_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2 LOCAL ACTIONS NATIONWIDE Over 125 local protest events around the country are scheduled for January 20 (view a complete list).

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Counter-Inaugural 2005 has begun!

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Bill Thomas (R-CALIFORNIA), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said lawmakers should debate whether Social Security benefits should differ for men and women, because women live longer. "We never have debated gender-adjusting Social Security," he said. A House leadership official said that not even Republicans on Thomas's committee would vote for that idea. - Washington Post I'm not

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America in the slaughterhouse Read the book online for free http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle/ Pure, unfettered capitalism allows the rich to become predators feeding off of the working poor. Greed is intrinsic to human nature and needs to be kept in check. Democratic governments are granted their power from the masses. We trust them to rein in the powerful and to make

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Order direct from the publisher - 40% discount

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"George W. Bush; you have asked us to 'bring it on'. And so help me, (we will) like you never expected. Do you have another challenge?," asked the narrator before the video showed explosions around a U.S. military Humvee vehicle. Threats intended to demoralise and frighten in the tense build up to elections at the end of the month were tempered with invitations to desert and escape retribution.

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Defending Dishonesty Despite her inability to answer most of the senators' questions in a straightforward manner, it appears Condi-incompetent will be confirmed. Senator Joe Biden, the top Democrat on the committee, took issue with Ms. Rice's estimate that more than 120,000 Iraqi security forces have been trained, saying he was told by U.S. officials in Iraq that the figure is closer to 4,000.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A state-of-the-art rehabilitation center opening next year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center seeks to return more amputee soldiers to a place once thought impossible: the battlefield. Wow, now that's compassionate! (sarcasm font needed)

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CBS purge does not vindicate Bush No one bothered to check, for example, how closely connected to Bush and the Republican Party were the "experts" who immediately claimed the papers were forgeries. Indeed, it hasn't been proved that the papers are authentic. But, then again, it hasn't been proved that they aren't. Nor did that investigation find that the Bush story was "erroneous."

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by Kevin Danaher and Tony Newman A major part of the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq is that we are liberating the Iraqi people from a cruel government. That is precisely what U.S. leaders said about liberating the Vietnamese people from the communists led by Ho Chi Minh. Here is what King had to say about ``strange liberators'': "They watch as we poison their water, as we

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First Screenings Yield Disturbing Results, Whistleblower Vindicated January 17 -- The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is finding that a significant percentage of its inspectors have become sensitized by exposure to beryllium, an extremely toxic metal that can cause an often-fatal lung disease, according to a report in today’s Chicago Tribune. OSHA acted to screen inspectors

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By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff January 17, 2005 The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, sparked an uproar at an academic conference Friday when he said that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Summers also questioned how much of a role discrimination plays in the dearth of female professors in

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