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Sunday, January 4, 2009
The Economy Crumbled
(1 comments) Of all the economic earthquakes that racked the global economy in 2008, one temblor ranks supreme. Alan Greenspan's declaration to Congress on Oct. 23: "I made a mistake." In those four words can be heard the crumbling of at least three decades of "unfettered free market deregulating" conservative ideological dominance. We now know unfettered free market greed and self-interest will steer you into the ditch every time.

Friday, April 20, 2007
Ethanol: Energy Panacea or False Promise?
Ethanol, more commonly known as drinking alcohol, is touted by some as a viable alternative fuel for vehicles. New studies show ethanol guzzles more energy during its manufacture than it provides, and it strains valuable clean water resources. Recent findings also suggest fuels high in ethanol may pose an equal or greater risk to public health than regular gasoline.

Saturday, February 17, 2007
Scientists sound alarm over melting Antarctic ice sheets
(1 comments) Long-term stability of massive ice sheets in Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast-moving rivers of water beneath their base. Scientists analyzing satellite data are astonished to discover the extent of growing river systems flowing beneath the ice sheets, which accelerates their movement into the oceans surrounding Antarctica.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Obama rallies 4,000 in Ames Iowa day after announcing presidential candidacy
(1 comments) Illinois Sen. Barack Obama received a rock-star welcome during his campaign stop in Ames Sunday, encouraging the near 4,000 people in Iowa State University Hilton Coliseum to be active in the political process and help bring about a fundamental transformation in the United States. Obama asked for those people who have felt left out of the political process to speak up during the 2008 presidential election.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Time For CT Dems To Start Planning A Lieberman Recall
(3 comments) Lieberman Says: "I'm Not Ruling Out Becoming A Republican." Lieberman told NBC's "Meet the Press" he will return to Washington as an "Independent Democrat," but if Democrats do not "stay the course" in Iraq he might be forced to turn Republican and return control of the Senate back to the Republican party.

Saturday, October 21, 2006
Fearmongering Republican Strategy No Longer Works
(3 comments) Republicans again are trying to make the case that Democrats would endanger the country if they assumed control of the House and Senate after a dozen years of the GOP in power. Republicans set out to use a similar game plan this election year. However, political analysts say the public's overall dissatisfaction with the Republican-controlled Congress and the Bush administration is diluting the once-potent argument.

Saturday, October 14, 2006
ARPA Defends Dennis Hastert Cover-up
(3 comments) The American Republican Pervert Association (ARPA) has come out strongly defending the cover-up by House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., of predatory, "creepy" and sexually explicit emails to underage House pages by Representative Mark Foley since at least 2001. Satire

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Book Says Bush And Rove Use Christians, Then Call Them "Nuts" Behind Their Backs
(3 comments) Book "Tempting Faith's" by David Kuo says: "National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as 'ridiculous,' 'out of control,' and just plain 'goofy.'" The nation's most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as "the nuts."

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Brzezinski: Whether a Demagogue or Simply Ignorant, Bush Is Wrong on Terror
(3 comments) Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses errors committed by the Bush Administration in its war on terror, the disastrous campaign in Iraq, and the other global risks raised by Bush's policies.

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Afghans back in the arms of Taliban due to U.S. mis-steps
(3 comments) Sheer desperation is driving many Afghans back into the arms of the Taliban due to U.S. mis-steps. The Taliban have again taken control of entire regions and are seeking to ensnare the Western allies in a bloody guerilla war. American taxpayers would be stunned to hear how their tax dollars are wasted - beyond being wasted on failed projects, tax dollars help pay for "contractors' prostitutes and imported cheeses....

Sunday, October 1, 2006
After a bloody summer in Afghanistan, country faces a bloody autumn
(3 comments) Interview with US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann, 61, about the growing Taliban presence, the need for more international support, and how dangerous it would be to give up, "We Are Not Going to Evacuate. We Are Not Going Anywhere." Question - Mr. Ambassador, since January you have managed to escape two separate attacks uninjured. Did those personal experiences change your perception of the security situation?

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Security collapse in Iraq so dramatic Saudi Arabia to build 550-mile high-tech fence
(3 comments) Security in Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour. The huge project to build the barrier, which will be equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables and thousands of miles of barbed wire, will snake across the vast and remote desert frontier between the countries.

Friday, September 29, 2006
Bush White House "Brushoff" Chance To Stop 9/11 Attack
(3 comments) Bob Woodward's book "State of Denial" says - The CIA'S top counterterrorism officials felt they could have killed Osama Bin Laden in the months before 9/11, but got the "brushoff" when they went to the Bush White House seeking the money and authorization. The book claims that in the July 2001, Tenet told Richard Clarke, "It's my sixth sense, but I feel it coming. This is going to be the big one." Rice brushed off warning.

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Major Problems At Polls Feared, Voting Law Changes And New Technology Will Cause Trouble
(3 comments) In the Nov. 7 election, more than 80 percent of voters will use electronic voting machines, and a third of all precincts this year are using the technology for the first time. This change in how states and localities record votes and administer elections since the Florida recount battle six years ago has created conditions that could trigger a repeat -- this time on a national scale.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Air Force Secretary Says, High-Power Microwave Weapons Should Be Tested On American Citizens
(3 comments) Says Air Force Secretary, microwave devices should be tested on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield. "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Secretary Wynne.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Why 9/11 happened: Bush curtailed Operation CATCHERS MITT
(3 comments) The Bush Administration cancelled or cut back Operation CATCHERS MITT, the highly classified ongoing CIA and FBI operation that tracked al-Qaeda operatives known to be inside the U.S. during the summer of 2001. This was done without notifying the existing counter-terrorism policy board in Washington, then headed by Richard Clarke, a Clinton holdover. This was a fatal decision by Bush's national security staff...

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Bush Voters Now Have Buyer's Remorse and Say Bush Is Politicizing Terrorism
(3 comments) "I do have a bit of mistrust," said Mr. McBride, who twice voted for Mr. Bush, but is now disappointed - a sentiment he said is shared by many in his Bible study group. "The whole thing about W.M.D. and that Iraq is somehow tied to 9/11, I just don't believe it." Republicans, Democrats and independents now all express degrees of skepticism about Bush's motives for his high-profile speeches 2 months before Election day.

Friday, September 8, 2006
Senate Democratic Leadership Pressure Disney Over The Path to 9/11
(3 comments) The Senate Democratic Leadership to Disney President Robert Iger - We write with serious concerns about the planned upcoming broadcast of The Path to 9/11 mini-series on September 10 and 11. Countless reports from experts on 9/11 who have viewed the program indicate numerous and serious inaccuracies that will undoubtedly serve to misinform the American people about the tragic events surrounding the terrible attacks of that day

Friday, September 8, 2006
Under Fire, ABC Mulls Yanking "Path To 9/11" Altogether
(3 comments) "Sources close to the project say the network, which has been in a media maelstrom over the pic, is mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether"

Friday, September 8, 2006
Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception
(3 comments) "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a network of little-known right-wingers and a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood." Now, as discussion grows over the false character of The Path to 9/11, the right-wing network that brought it to fruition is ratcheting up its PR efforts.

Thursday, September 7, 2006
U.S Has Failed Strategy Say Top Army and Marine Corps Generals, Active-duty and Retired
(3 comments) President Bush's policy of "staying the course" in Iraq isn't likely to produce anything but more frustration, more and greater problems for the United States in a dangerous world, and more and bloodier surprises for the 135,000 American troops in Iraq. "Lack of security and lack of governance have pushed Iraq into the rise of a civil war," said one retired senior general. "The message is clear: We have a failed strategy.."

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Taliban Resurgence - U.S. Losing Afghanistan
(3 comments) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld initially opposed a request by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, and Afghanistan's new leaders, for a sizable peacekeeping force. The Bush Administration deployed only 8,000 American troops, in a purely in a combat role, as Bush shifted U.S. forces and the world's attention to Iraq. Now the U.S. is at real risk of losing Afghanistan to the people who really did attack the U.S. on 9/11.

Monday, September 4, 2006
Bush's War On Terror Unintended Blowback
(3 comments) Far from ending terrorism, George Bush's tactics of using overwhelming military might to fight extremism appear to have rebounded, spawning an epidemic of global terrorism that has claimed an estimated 72,265 lives since 2001, most of them Iraqi civilians. The rest, some 30,626, according to official US figures, have been killed in a combination of terror attacks and counter-insurgency actions by the US and its allies.

Monday, September 4, 2006
Another Black Day In The "War On Terror"
(3 comments) Across the Middle East, wave upon wave of violence engulfed the region five years on from 11 September. The reason for the rise of radical Islam is foreign occupation. Iraq had a secular tradition. Fanatical Islamic groups made little headway under Saddam Hussein not only because he persecuted them but because they had little popular support.

Monday, August 21, 2006
UK Labour MPs To Call For Blair's Resignation Over Support For Bush
(3 comments) An emergency resolution will be sent to all constituency Labour parties calling for Mr Blair to quit because of his "disgraceful" policy in Iraq, and for a leadership election within two months of the conference.

Monday, August 21, 2006
Tony Blair Privately Agrees With UK Deputy PM Statement That Bush Is Crap
(3 comments) A senior Downing Street source said that, privately, Mr Blair broadly agrees with UK Deputy PM John Prescott, who said Mr Bush is 'crap'. The source said: "We all feel badly let down by Bush. We thought we had persuaded him to take the Israel-Palestine situation seriously, but we were wrong. How can anyone have faith in a man of such low intellect?"

Monday, August 21, 2006
Taliban Gaining in Afghanistan as NATO forces pull back
(3 comments) Quietly admitting that operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have not gone as well as had been expected, the US military establishment has undertaken a complete review of its two war strategy as the Taliban are reconquering south-west Afghanistan from the government, American and Nato forces.

Saturday, August 19, 2006
UK Labour MP's Agree with Deputy PM: Bush is crap
(3 comments) UK Labour MP's say that Deputy PM John Prescott is to be commended for the quality of his "Bush is crap" political analysis. His comment on American policy is brief and accurate. Britain has got to ensure that it is no longer seen as simply being the glove puppet of the United States.

Saturday, August 19, 2006
Six Letters On The Relentless Tragedy Called Iraq
(3 comments) I'm a decent person - and a decent mother whose 19-year-old United States Marine son is being deployed to Iraq next month to face a deadly, targeted anti-American insurgency that has nothing to do with the "war on terror." Why should my son, or any other mother's son, be sacrificed in a mounting civil war because it's not politically advantageous for the Bush administration to admit that its Iraq policy has failed?

Friday, August 18, 2006
Federal Judge Rules Government's Warrantless Wiretapping Unconstitutional And Orders Immediate Halt
(3 comments) U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency's program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.

Thursday, August 17, 2006
Bombs Are Increasing Aimed at G.I.'s in Iraq
(3 comments) In July, 2,625 explosive devices were planted in Iraq, of which 1,666 exploded before discovery. Conditions in Iraq are going from bad to worse as Iraqi civilians deaths increased to 3,402 in the month of July even as bombs are increasingly aimed at U.S. troops.

Thursday, August 17, 2006
Democrats In America Have Utterly Failed To Counter Republicans Control Of The Language
(3 comments) Republican control of language has been utterly successful in demonising their political opposition. It flows out of Republican think tanks and press offices, down through a network of talk show hosts and columnists and out into the general public. They spouted the exact same phrases, often the exact same words. Democrats in America have utterly failed to counter this.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Republicans Casting Themselves As The Victims Of Lily-Livered Democrats
(3 comments) The disastrous turn of events in Iraq - and the wider state of the world - has little to do with Republican mis-steps since 2000. No, it is in fact the fault of the Democrats and their lily-livered ways.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Republican barrage aims to halt advance of Democrats
(3 comments) The Republican attack machine is well practised in taking apart Democratic candidates based on their perceived weakness on defence.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Bush is crap, says UK Deputy PM
(3 comments) Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning 'cowboy' President at private meeting, summing up George Bush's administration in a single word: crap.