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By Chris Hedges
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From aoqz76.dsl.pipex.com
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The House just voted down an amendment that would have provided $1.25 billion for port inspections and disaster preparedness. Meanwhile, as Think Progress points out, the Bush budget contains an increase of $1.7 billion for a Star Wars-esque missile defense program—which doesn’t even work.
May the Force be with us.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
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From mundanesounds.com
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OK, OK, it’s not time to get hysterical yet. This one doesn’t look likely to pass, but…
Four senators have introduced a bill that would allow the NSA to eavesdrop, sans warrant, for up to 45 days. GOP Sen. Arlen Specter objected, saying the law would allow government to “do whatever the hell it wants.”
Oh. Right. What a departure that would be.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
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Congress just raised our debt ceiling—the amount we’re allow to borrow—by $781 billion. It was either that or default on our treasury notes. This is the fourth debt-ceiling increase since Bush took office—some $3 trillion in total. Dick Cheney may have said that deficits don’t matter, but try telling that to the next generation of Americans, who are going to have one helluva credit card bill to pay off.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
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Yahya Ahmed / AP
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Remember Kurdistan, that semiautonomous northern part of Iraq that the U.S. always points to as a model of stable, quasi-democratic governance? Well, corruption up there is so systemic that thousands of people vented their anger by burning down a government museum. The horrible irony: The museum commemorates the thousands of Kurds who died in Saddam Hussein’s 1988 gas attack. It had become an emblem of government greed.
Another front just opened up in the Iraqi civil war that the Pentagon claims doesn’t exist.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
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From Nic Paget-Clarke / inmotionmagazine.com
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The Republican senator stunned both Democrats and the GOP alike by introducing an immigration bill that bypasses others now being debated. Bighearted guy that he is, Frist left out a guest-worker provision—which many conservatives view as amnesty for undocumented workers. (But which even Bush supported….)
Check out Truthdig’s Marc Cooper to strip away the myths surrounding this hotly debated issue.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
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In an updated version of his national security strategy, the president gives no ground on the policy that led us into Iraq, and identifies Iran as being the country that poses the biggest challenge to the U.S.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
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From pravda.ru
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As part of Bush & Co.‘s campaign to turn Iran into the next imminent threat, Condoleezza Rice calls Tehran a “central banker for terrorism.”
So, just to get this straight: Iran is the new Iraq, which was the new Afghanistan, which was the new Russia?
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
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Jacob Silberberg / AP
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In his first formal testimony in his trial, the deposed Iraqi leader called on Iraqis to cease the sectarian violence and join forces against the Americans—while insisting that he is still the rightful leader of Iraq.
The judge trying the case, quarreling with Hussein several times during his 40-minute speech, ended by closing the session to the public.
Posted on Mar 15, 2006
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From www.jeffsweather.com
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Ozone, which had been considered a minor player in global climate change, is actually a major factor in the dramatic warming of the Arctic zone, according to NASA.
Worse, scientists are reporting that climate change is “irreversible,” as Arctic sea ice has failed to re-form for the second year in a row.
Posted on Mar 15, 2006
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In the wake of the Jack Abramoff meltdown, House GOP leaders claim that they want at least a temporary ban on privately funded travel for lawmakers, plus some restrictions on lobbyists.
It shouldn’t have taken a scandal the magnitude of the Abramoff case to convince these lawmakers to do the right thing. This latest move seems a cynical ploy destined to “sunset” as soon as public attention is turned elsewhere.
Posted on Mar 15, 2006
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A population expert, writing in USA Today, highlights a little-known demographic trend: Progressives are much less likely to have children than conservatives. This “augers a far more conservative future,” he writes, “one in which patriarchy and other traditional values make a comeback, if only by default.”
Posted on Mar 15, 2006
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Congress convened this bipartisan group of 10 prominent Americans—which includes former Secretary of State James Baker and former CIA Director William Casey—to assess Bush’s policies in Iraq.
We can’t decide whether adults are finally being brought in to clean up the president’s mess or this is a way of ignoring an issue by appointing a blue-ribbon panel to study it. Thoughts, anyone?
Posted on Mar 15, 2006
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From Helene C. Stikkel / U.S. DoD
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Remember how Bush claimed on Monday that Iran was providing many of the roadside bombs killing U.S. troops in Iraq? Well, the U.S.’ top military commander just told the Pentagon that there is no proof for such a claim.
Usually it’s someone opposed to Bush’s policies who makes him look so foolish—not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Truthdig’s Juan Cole was all over this apparently bogus claim yesterday.
Posted on Mar 15, 2006
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The American Prospect’s Greg Sargent calls Bush “truly despicable” for saying in a speech— disingenuously —that an L.A. Times article had tipped off Iraqi enemies to some of our anti-insurgent technology.
Posted on Mar 14, 2006
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