... to AMERICA! WAKE UP, for cryin’ out loud! as wonderful as sen byrd’s words ring in their true form, i am apt to believe they will do little to change people’s minds about what is right and wrong. i’m certain that somehow one of bush’s henchmen will find a way to bastardize these sincere words, and turn them on their head, resulting in byrd’s seeming an ”unpatriotic liberal”, although he clearly stated that he supports the troops, and, if anything, sees bush’s display of up-one-manship as inappropriate and disrespectful, as well as his speech being outright misleading. sadly, 61% of th ...
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but you’re right - bush will never allow it to see the light of day in this country. i’m going to france in a few weeks - i’ll let you know if i see it there.   [End]
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i’m far from a native - i recently moved out here because i loved the beautiful scenery, and because, during past visits, i had received the impression that people were more open-minded than back east. you know, what with the allowance of medical marijuana and euthanasia. i still believe it’s one of the more ”liberal” states, and it certainly IS pretty. i don’t live in eugene. lapis, i’m so sorry to hear about your medical predicaments. was this work-related? if so, i hope you, in the very least, made them hurt. i don’t have much faith in the legal system, but sometimes it does work to the ...
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Oppose Tyranny ’03 ”If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” * George W. Bush, 12/18/2000, CNN http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Many on the side of democracy, morality and the law of nations are facing dark times these days. Morale is waning. Bush has achieved what the media endlessly tells us is a ”victory.” Perhaps. By ”liberating” Iraq’s vast oil reserves, and billions (trillions?) of U.S. taxpayer dollars, ShrubCo is in position for some good old fashioned exploitation at the moment. * U.S. ...
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May my prayers aid you in your journey... bon chance.   [End]
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May my prayers aid you in your journey... bon chance.   [End]
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Published on Tuesday, May 6, 2003 by CommonDreams.org ’A Troubling Speech’ Remarks by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd US Senate Chamber May 6, 2003 In my 50 years as a member of Congress, I have had the privilege to witness the defining rhetorical moments of a number of American presidents. I have listened spellbound to the soaring oratory of John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. I have listened grimly to the painful soul-searching of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. ...
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One of my goals was to ride my bike from Northern California to Vancouver and enjoy the coastal beauty of your picturesue state along the way. I was training for that and triathalons and I was in the best shape of my life physically, emotionally and mentally until a strange stream of several chemical injuries occured... then *POOF* severe MSC with autoimmune dysfunction which billowed into a host of other maladies. Life is full of suprises. Now I’m on a healing quest and finding much truth along the way. Different journey than I had in mind. Oh I’ll do my ”other” ride at some point ...
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That creepy, crawling psychopath could haunt a house. And he gets all of the face time on Fox that he wants! You decide!   [End]
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- A shocking French ad campaign that portrays famous French journalists as murder victims to drive home the dangers journalists face and the importance of defending press freedom may be adapted to run in the U.S. and around the world. ”As soon as I saw it, I thought ’We’ve got to make it travel,’ ” said Bob Isherwood, worldwide creative director at Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi. Saatchi’s Paris office created three graphic print and poster ads, one featuring leading TV journalist Christine Ockrent with a bullet hole in her forehead. The other two ads s ... [Image Embedded Here]
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- A shocking French ad campaign that portrays famous French journalists as murder victims to drive home the dangers journalists face and the importance of defending press freedom may be adapted to run in the U.S. and around the world. ”As soon as I saw it, I thought ’We’ve got to make it travel,’ ” said Bob Isherwood, worldwide creative director at Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi. Saatchi’s Paris office created three graphic print and poster ads, one featuring leading TV journalist Christine Ockrent with a bullet hole in her forehead. The other two ads s ... [Image Embedded Here]
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What a beautiful state - rode the ”Coast Starlight” through it many times. Eugene is a great city... perhaps a bit damp at times! :-)   [End]
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but i guess as long as i don’t grow pot, i’ll be okay. ooops, that’s right - NEITHER HAD THEY! this is worse than the SS.   [End]
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thanking the sailors? how about not cutting their vet benefits when they retire? personally, i would be insulted. but then again, i just don’t get this guy. apparently, the sailors did, because i’m sure the majority of them will vote for him again, even if it means losing their lives next time bush feels like playing the war games he so eloquently avoided in the 60’s. how embarrassing! will someone PLEASE put an end to this brain washing? i can hardly take it anymore!   [End]
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Democrats Question Cost of Bush’s Sea Landing Reuters Wednesday, May 7, 2003; 6:47 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in Congress on Wednesday demanded to know the costs of President Bush’s jet landing on an aircraft carrier last week that they branded a costly political stunt. The Bush administration disclosed on Tuesday that Bush insisted on landing on the USS Lincoln in a S-3B Viking jet even though the carrier was within helicopter range ...
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If you were locked in a room with Sadam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Karl Rove and you had a gun with just two (2) bullets, whom would you shoot? Answer: Karl Rove... Twice.   [End]
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What, in God’s name, should we expect? The ”war on drugs” has opened much of the U.S. military arsenal to local PDs for pennies on the dollar. PDs recruit from the multitude of ex-military policemen and the infantry (ground pounders.) Now, whom do you think scores ”lowest” on the military entrance exams... Missile techs and radar repairmen? Now, add to this mass of intellect, the confiscatory laws related to illegal drug distribution. Talk about a prize winning recipe for anarchy!   [End]
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Eugene Police Illegally Raid Homes with Tank; Prompts Federal Lawsuit author: Lauren Regan In the pre-dawn of October 17, 2002, approximately 50 police officers from multiple police agencies swarmed a residential neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, USA, armed with automatic assault rifles and accompanied by a National Guard military Light Armored Vehicle, which looks like a tank. Now a lawsuit has been filed against all the police agencies involved in this gestapo action. For Immediate Release: April 30, 2003 Contact Lauren Regan, AAL (541) 687-9180 PRESS RELEASE Eugene Po ... [Image Embedded Here]
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Here comes that old ”National Security” ploy again. Can anyone say incriminating evidence. ***************************************************************** White House refuses to release Sept. 11 info By FRANK DAVIES Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and the nation’s intelligence agencies are blocking the release of sensitive information about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, delaying publication of a 900-page congressional report on how the terrorist assault happened. Intelligence officials insist the inform ...
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Associated Press Puts Violent Words in Iraqi Protesters’ Mouths © 2003 Associated Press On 30 April 2003, the Associated Press newswire carried the photo above and a related article headlined, ”U.S. Troops Fire on Iraq Protesters Again.” The story concerned the second time US forces had shot Iraqis engaged in anti-US protests, this time killing two of them and wounding 18. Funny thing is, this article misreported the banner pictured above. As you can see, AP’s own photograph shows the sentence: ”Sooner or later US killers we’ll kick you out.” But this is how AP reported it: ... [Image Embedded Here]
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Pearle told investors they could profit from war May 7, 2003, 06:01 Pentagon adviser Richard Perle briefed an investment seminar on ways to profit from conflicts in Iraq and North Korea just weeks after he received a top-secret government briefing on the crises in the two countries. Perle, who until March was chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a group of outside advisers to the Pentagon, also serves on the board of several defense contractors. His actions raise concerns about conflicts of interest. Perle attended a Defense Intelligence Agency briefing in February and ...
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i’m down with it. i voted. we’ll see what good it does. lately, i have been having a dream where cheney, bush, rove, ashcroft, rumsfeld, et. al. walk into a court room with their hands cuffed (and not by Armani...), in orange jump suits (and not because they work for a flight rescue team...), facing the judge, who, instead of a gavel brandishes a small world globe in his hand, calling the World Court to an order. one can dream...   [End]
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i’m considering posting this very exerpt on every lamp post, building, empty wall, bill board, stall room door, bus stop, and fence around the city. although i’d probably be arrested for ”vandalism” and kept incarcerated indefinitely for being a ”threat” and a ”terrorist”. after all, what can be more dangerous than the truth? wheelslip, thanks for the post; and bill chickering, thanks for making it ”postable”.   [End]
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May 7, 2003 CONTRIBUTOR ARCHIVES Wrap It In The Flag A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY by Bill Chickering George W. Bush has a simple public relations plan. First, box up all the lies, the disdain for working Americans, and the sneering contempt for anything or anyone who is not utterly white, utterly straight, and utterly Christian. Speak of freedom abroad while you strip it away at home. Rule your country by executive fiat rather than the con ...
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By James C. Moore Karl Rove led the nation to war to improve the political prospects of George W. Bush. I know how surreal that sounds. But I also know it is true. As the president’s chief political advisor, Rove is involved in every decision coming out of the Oval Office. In fact, he flat out makes some of them. He is co-president of the United States, just as he was co-candidate for that office and co-governor of Texas. His relationship with the president is the most profound and complex ...
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IF I WAS A PALESTINIAN MILITANT (OR CIVILIAN) I’LD BE VERY QUIET ’TILL AFTER THE 2004 ELECTION! Some see Jewish shift toward GOP By Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff, 5/7/2003 ASHINGTON -- The Jewish community responded enthusiastically when Senator Joseph I. Lieberman joined the presidential ticket in 2000, a move many saw as recognition of their long support for the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. As they had for every election in decades, Jewish voters overwhelmingly cast ...
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John! There you go again giving people outlandish suggestions. Use your whole brain. Geesh! What are you trying to start here? A ”thinking revolution? Careful what ideas you plant. You wouldn’t want to be responsible for causing mass synapsial overload due to firing up old rusty cicuitry, now would you? Besides the Corpus Callosum would never take the sudden demand of such ”balanced” brainflow. Most people are quite content using what little of their brain they find they need to, to function in our society. In fact from what I’ve seen, many don’t use their brain at all. Brains do h ... [Image Embedded Here]
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John! There you go again giving people outlandish suggestions. Use your whole brain. Geesh! What are you trying to start here? A ”thinking revolution? Careful what ideas you plant. You wouldn’t want to be responsible for causing mass synapsial overload due to firing up old rusty cicuitry, now would you? Besides the Corpus Callosum would never take the sudden demand of such ”balanced” brainflow. Most people are quite content using what little of their brain they find they need to, to function in our society. In fact from what I’ve seen, many don’t use their brain at all. Brains do h ... [Image Embedded Here]
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netav - like you, whenever i have dared ”speak out against” this country, i have been told many times that i can ”go home” if i don’t like it. this is nothing new to me. I’ve always been a foreigner, wherever i’ve gone, and having grown up ”never belonging” anywhere has taught me one thing - people are intolerant. kids, adults, foreigners. as for america, let’s face it - no one, except for a handful of natives which have managed to survive, has any more right to be here than the next guy. we are ALL entitled to our opinions. one thing i’ve found that usually shuts people up is saying somet ...
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... as long as your speech agrees with mine! Muahahahahahahaha!!! The terrible things they were doing in that classroom! Oh, the horrors! Bush forbid we should teach our children anything less than total conformity and obedience! =-John-=   [End]
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”Well, that explains a lot...” -- Shrek I prefer to use my whole brain, thanks. Well, when I deign to use it at all... *grin* =-John-=   [End]
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New Powers to Snoop Sought Domestic access for CIA, Army By Tom Brune WASHINGTON BUREAU May 3, 2003 Washington - The Bush administration is secretly trying to expand the investigative powers of the CIA and military, allowing them to demand personal and business records of people in this country, government officials confirmed yesterday. If enacted, the new powers would broaden the scope under which the CIA and Defense Department could legally gather sensitive records from businesses and other organizations in the pursuit of foreign intelligence and terrorism investigations, civ ...
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...By American troops led by the globalists/military complex. Pictures Say It Best: Pictures of massacre at Fallujah, Iraq by pictures Thursday May 01, 2003 at 12:01 AM   [End]
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Oh, wait til the latest military crew is back for a while and they realize that they too have been duped by the powers that be. Vaacine anyone? You can trust the evil one’s who have hijacked your governmnet..can’t you? ***************************************************************** Ruling links injections to Gulf War Syndrome PAUL GALLAGHER CALLS for a public inquiry into Gulf war syndrome were gathering pace last night after a landmark ruling found a link between one of the main symptoms of the illness and injections given to soldiers. Alex Izett, 33, who was a Lan ...
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When the Army Owns the Weather By Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Alive February 5, 2002 Humans have long sought to control the weather. Early people learned how to make fire and modify their micro-environments; rain dances and other rituals to alleviate droughts are part of our folklore. So news that the government is engaged in secret experiments to control the weather should come as no surprise – especially after a long history of ”cloud seeding,” ”atom splitting” and cloning revelations. In fact, a vast majority of people would be shocked to learn that this orphan of the cold war i ...
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By Associated Press May 5, 2003, 7:18 PM EDT BARRE, Vt. -- A uniformed police officer persuaded a custodian to open a school in the middle of the night so he could photograph class projects he found objectionable as an American and as a military veteran. The projects that Barre Town Police Officer John Mott photographed included a poster of President Bush with duct tape over his mouth and a large papier-mache combat boot with the American flag stuffed inside stepping on a doll. ”I wanted everybody else to see what was in that room,” said Mott, who convinced a custodian to u ...
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DEPT. OF CONNECTIONS THE CONTRACTORS Issue of 2003-05-05 Posted 2003-04-28 Back when Americans were still debating whether there was just cause for a preëmptive strike against Iraq, few arguments were scrutinized more closely than the Bush Administration’s contention that there were covert links between Al Qaeda and Iraq. At the C.I.A., analysts pored over aerial satellite photographs. At the Treasury Department, experts sifted through financial records. At the National Security Agency, Arab-speaking linguists eavesdropped on phone conversations. But, even after Secretary of State Coli ...
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Must be a left brain-right brain thing wheelslip. While many people were being indoctrinated into the mind cult, some of us were daydreaming and missed vital programming. Thus, we’re missing software vital for the purpose of submission. Well...it could be true. *wink*   [End]
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Two excellent posts, JD... Perhaps we’re nuts and Pinkos, but it’s good to see ”a few good people” not acting like sheep. I’ve always wondered why educators, artists, actors, etc., are always the subversives and traitors. And why, most of all, do these neo-nazis keep sending their kids to the colleges that teach such subversion. Hmmm...   [End]
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This comes from Smedley D. Butler, a Major General of the United States Marine Corps in the... 1920’s & 1930’s?: ”War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. ”I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets rest ...
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”Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.” ”I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” ”War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” ”Information is the currency of democracy.” ”The success and progress of any country can easily be judged by the size of its government. America’s success and progress is declining rapidly. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ...
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This link has probably been posted before, but I think it’s still useful if you fancy getting the wanker... http://www.votetoimpeach.org/   [End]
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Living, here, in America, is beginning to seem like one continuous scene from Alice In Wonderland. Lynch - I had read much the same as the preceding in a news brief shortly after the incident. Why has Lynch never been interviewed? Perhaps, as with the rest of the spokesmen, she doesn’t lie well enough yet. In time, she will confirm the official accounts and, yes, we will locate WMD and Nukes. St. George of Crawford - Flys to carrier when it was a short chopper ride away. Delayed ship’s arrival by, at least one day. Costs taxpayer $100’s of thousands if not millions. Not ” ...
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I brought up this article to people at my work. I’m a little bit skeptical about it since I was not there and don’t know what to believe. However, when I brought this up to my worker friends, I was quite sickened to hear their reponses. two people said if it is true (I also brought up that statue tearing down lie)they said they would prefer to not believe our government was responsible for the lies, they would like to think the media lied and that the government had nothing to do with it. Then one person said I can always leave the country. So let me get this straight, every person ...
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May 6, 2003 Man on Horseback By PAUL KRUGMAN Gen. Georges Boulanger cut a fine figure; he looked splendid in uniform, and magnificent on horseback. So his handlers made sure that he appeared in uniform, astride a horse, as often as possible. It worked: Boulanger became immensely popular. If he hadn’t lost his nerve on the night of the attempted putsch, French democracy might have ended in 1889. We do things differently here — or we used to. Has ”man on horseback” politics come to America? Some background: the Constitution declares the president commander in chief ...
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Looking to election, Democrats change views on war By Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES Two of the Democratic presidential candidates and the party’s Senate leader suddenly are abandoning or softening their criticism of the Iraq war in a move to strengthen their national security postures in the 2004 elections. With the approval percentage for President Bush’s handling of the war agai ...
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So he thinks it’s all over... When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, “they see strength and kindness and goodwill”. Untrue, Mr Bush. They see occupation 05/05/03: (Independent) by Robert Fisk So, it’s the end of the war in Iraq, is it? If anyone thinks George Bush Jnr could pass that one off aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln last week – “major combat operations have ended” was the expression he used on Thursday night – they should take a closer look at Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld’s cosy, sinister ...
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So he thinks it’s all over... When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, “they see strength and kindness and goodwill”. Untrue, Mr Bush. They see occupation 05/05/03: (Independent) by Robert Fisk So, it’s the end of the war in Iraq, is it? If anyone thinks George Bush Jnr could pass that one off aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln last week – “major combat operations have ended” was the expression he used on Thursday night – they should take a closer look at Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld’s cosy, sinister ...
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So he thinks it’s all over... When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, “they see strength and kindness and goodwill”. Untrue, Mr Bush. They see occupation 05/05/03: (Independent) by Robert Fisk So, it’s the end of the war in Iraq, is it? If anyone thinks George Bush Jnr could pass that one off aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln last week – “major combat operations have ended” was the expression he used on Thursday night – they should take a closer look at Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld’s cosy, sinister ...
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”And if people overseas don’t like the more imperious America, the neocon response is basically: So what? Boot said: ”Being number one will always elicit a certain amount of resentment; lots of people outside New York hate the Yankees, just as lots of people outside Dallas have always hated the Cowboys. That doesn’t mean the Yankees and Cowboys can’t go on winning.” Contempt for America is not limited to a few Islamic states - we are hated by the entire universe. We have the gold and military power, but neither attribute creates the trust and support defined by ...
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The real ’Saving Pte. Lynch’ Iraqi medical staff tell a different story than U.S. military ’We all became friends with her, we liked her so much’ MITCH POTTER MIDDLE EAST BUREAU NASIRIYA, Iraq—The fog of war comes sometimes with a certain odour, and cutting through its layers, like cutting through an onion, can bring tears to the eyes. Such is the case with what is far and away the most oft-told story of the Persian Gulf War II — the saga of Saving Private Lynch. Branded on to our consciousness by media frenzy, the flawless midnight rescue of 19-year-old Private First Clas ...
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Firm in Florida election fiasco earns millions from files on foreigners Oliver Burkeman in Washington and Jo Tuckman in Mexico City Monday May 5, 2003 The Guardian A data-gathering company that was embroiled in the Florida 2000 election fiasco is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained. US government purchasing documents show that the company, ChoicePoint, received at least $11m (£6.86m) from the de ...
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Neoconservatives push for a new world order By DICK POLMAN Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - For seven long years, Bill Kristol agitated for a U.S. coup against Saddam Hussein, and argued that America should remake the world to serve its own interests. Few bothered to listen at the time. So how does he feel now? In his office the other day, he grinned without smirking. That’s how most of the hawkish defense intellectuals - better known as neoconservatives - are behaving these days. Although they’re sitting pretty in wartime Washington, they’re trying not to preen. Kristol re ...
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