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OpEdNews; Besides FOx, 75% want to start Cheney Hearings that

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By David Swanson

Poll: Bush Lied About Iraq, Has No Right To Attack Iran

A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania by Zogby International and

commissioned by OpEdNews.com asked some of the questions the corporate

media has failed to ask. The answers are surprising. One revelation is

this: the single greatest predictor of an American's political views

is whether she or he watches Fox News.

 

By Steven Leser

NSA Domestic Spying Program Also Developing Database Of All Phone

Calls Made In The US

Already Scary, What Else is the NSA and other Government Intelligence

Agencies Doing that We Still Do Not Know About?

 

By Rob Kall

Pennacchio Rising, Casey Falling In Stats Based On Sample Of Millions

The PA senate race from a Web Stats perspective

 

By Jonathan Springston

Great Speckled Memories

It's difficult to talk about the leftist scene in Atlanta in the

1960's and 70's without someone bringing up The Great Speckled Bird,

the leftist alternative newspaper which influenced so many minds of

the time. But what was The Bird? Who ran it and how did it operate?

 

By Robert Soloway

Atlanta Backs US Department Of Peace

The City Council of Atlanta has voted 12-2 to support a resolution

calling for a US Department of Peace, The Georgia Alliance for a US

Department of Peace announced at a press conference today on the steps

of the Georgia State Capitol.

 

By Sam Vaknin

The Madman And The Iraqi War

It is the war of the sated against the famished, the obese against the

emaciated, the affluent against the impoverished, the democracies

against tyranny, perhaps Christianity against Islam and definitely the

West against the Orient.

 

By Teresa Simon-noble

The WOW Syndrome Of The Bush White House

How interesting, and yet, how not at all surprising, that George

Herbert Walker Bush happened to be in Washington, enjoying the perks

of the White House, which he often does, as if to fulfill some

megalomaniacal dream of power and control of his, on the same weekend

that the Kafkaesque Bush White House kicked Porter Goss out of the CIA

 

By Mark A. Goldman

The Lone Protestor

This article was published 5/10/06 in my local paper, The Vashon Loop.

 

By Sunsara Taylor

Meet The Shock Troops Of The Christian Youth

Battle Cry for Theocracy! If you've been waiting until the Christian

fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping

them up to do battle in " God's army " to get alarmed, wait no longer.

 

 

 

Best News Links from the Web

 

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" Wires And Lights In A Box " : Murrow's Prophetic Warning

Unlike our present " leaders " who have exploited and debased the term,

Edward R. Murrow made of Democracy an ideal! Murrow did immeasurably

more for the cause of " freedom " than all the GOP/right wing hate and

fear mongering would ever do. One Murrow is worth one thousand Bushes;

one Murrow might not undo the harm done by Bush in Iraq —but his

memory might awaken a lost American dream of freedom.

 

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Stop The Fiscal Insanity

" Budgetary dishonesty, distributional unfairness, fiscal

irresponsibility -- by now the words are so familiar, it can be hard

to appreciate how damaging this fiscal course will be. " (Had enough?

The Center for American Progress has a plan for a fair, responsible,

simple tax system.)

 

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New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive - Satire:

Pro-life advocates celebrated approval of the new anti-abortion drug

UR-86 by the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday, calling it a " safe

and effective method " for terminating pregnant women while leaving

their unborn children unharmed.

 

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US Rejects Calls For Guantánamo Closure

The US state department today rejected Lord Goldsmith's calls for the

Guantánamo Bay detention camp to be closed down...again

 

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Ann Coulter Facing 5 Years Jail For 3rd Degree Felony & May Be Thrown

Off Voter Rolls!

GOP Propagandist May Also Be Guilty of Tax Code Fraud for Taking

$25,000 'Homestead Exemption' if She Doesn't Actually Live in Palm Beach

 

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Number Of Federal Jobs Opened To Contractors To Jump This Year

Agencies anticipate that 26,591 full-time equivalent positions will be

listed for public-private competition in fiscal 2006, according to a

report on competitive sourcing released Thursday by the Office of

Management and Budget.

 

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NSA Doubled Procurement Spending In Four Years For Domestic Wire Taps

The National Security Agency has doubled procurement spending since

2000 and will do so again by the end of this decade, according to

Harry Gatanas, the organization's senior acquisition executive.

 

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Another GOP Rep. Lewis (R-CA) Surfaces In Probe Of Cunningham

It is not clear where the investigation is headed or what evidence the

government has. But the probe suggests that investigators are looking

past Cunningham to other legislators and, perhaps, the " earmarking "

system that members of Congress use to allocate funds.

 

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Hayden Enabled The Breaking Of The Law:

Tyranny Creeps in on the Feet of Fog... nothing is more egregious and

dangerous to our Constitution than that Hayden oversaw the Bush

Administration's illegal foreign and domestic spying while head of the

NSA. In short, Hayden is a lawbreaker.

 

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Ex-NSA Chief Assails Bush Illegal WireTaps

Former National Security Agency director Bobby Ray Inman lashed out at

the Bush administration Monday night over its continued use of

warrantless domestic wiretaps, making him one of the highest-ranking

former intelligence officials to criticize the program in public,

 

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Bush, GOP Congress Losing Core Supporters

Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives

to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a

rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush's approval ratings to record

lows and presenting a new threat to the GOP's 12-year reign on Capitol

Hill...About time!

 

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Olbermann & Turley - Bush Disregard For Constitution

Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley discusses blatent dismissal of

constitution by Bush. " Frankly, I'm not too sure of what he thought he

was swearing to when he took the oath of office to uphold the

Constitution and our laws. "

 

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GOP Tax Cuts - $20 Per Family Middle Class; $42,000 For Wealthy Upper

Class Per Family

Critics maintain that those tax cuts have overwhelmingly benefited the

wealthy, while budget cuts target programs for the poor to close a

deficit created largely by tax cuts totaling nearly $2 trillion since

Bush took office.

 

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Anger Toward US Boosts Latin America's Leftist Leaders

The graffiti splashed all over the Venezuelan capital leaves no room

for misinterpretation of people's view of the US president: ''Bush:

Killer. " That slogan reflects a sentiment that is spreading throughout

Latin America. The anger is a boon for the growing ranks of leftist

leaders in the region. Some are challenging US government policies on

immigration and Iraq, while others, openly hostile to the Bush

administration.

 

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Sudan Blocks UN Darfur Force Delaying Aid For 6 Months

Urgent planning for the deployment of a large-scale UN peacekeeping

force in Darfur is being blocked by Sudan and there will be a minimum

six-months delay before the force arrives in the country, British and

UN officials said yesterday.

 

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The Welfare Kings

The GOP's latest round of tax cuts confirms the nanny state has been

turned on its head: the poor now subsidize the rich.

 

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Prisoners Offer Deal On Israel

Senior jailed members of Hamas and Fatah have forged a joint platform,

including acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, Mahmoud

Abbas says.

 

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Senate Readies To Vote On $70B Tax Cut

An $8.367 Trillion Natl. Debt and these bozos want to further reduce

US Treasury income? Idiots

 

 

 

 

 

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