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Congressman Robert Brady, (D., PA), who represents portions of Philadelphia, on Tuesday signed on as a cosponsor of House Resolution 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. More >>
Sludge Report #178: Let The Squealing Begin Official Cash Rate Hiked by (yet another!) 25 Basis Points Would include full audio of today's RBNZ Governor's press conference if there was one. But doesn't because he is saying nothing today. By C.D. Sludge ... More >>
VCs turn up the heat on reform, Cullen gives lesson on academic freedom New Zealand vice-chancellors yesterday turned up the heat on the Government’s proposed tertiary-education reforms, telling Parliament’s Science and Education Select Committee that universities ... More >>
The unequal relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico is perceived by some as an anachronistic remnant of the colonial era. The current status of Puerto Rico allows the U.S. federal government to unilaterally impose a range of measures on the island. More >>
Today’s testimony by still U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary provides a major clue as to the direction future impeachment charges might take, should they be brought. More >>
Meet Ryan Brown, father of three, construction worker, and now homeowner and ratepayer. Up until now Ryan hasn't paid rates directly - he paid rent and the landlord took care of everything. More >>
As Néstor Kirchner wraps up his term as president of Argentina, First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is waiting in the wings to take over his roost in the upcoming October 28 presidential elections. On July 1, she officially announced ... More >>
Mostly it is found that political leaders don't transfer the powers to the opposition in a gay mood. Specially in many of the Asian countries, it has been seen that many foul tricks are played just to keep themselves in power. For example, to declare ... More >>
By Harvey Wasserman , http://freepress.org http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2007/1573 More >>
A topical question indeed at this time of year… With 200 people poised to deliver our first city-wide pamphlet of the campaign, each will be confronted with the sign “No Junk Mail” on many letterboxes. More >>
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs Report: Another in a Series of Reports on Drugs, Terror and Criminality in Latin America and the Caribbean. More >>
Dr. James Dobson and Dr. John MacArthur, two influential evangelical family counselors, 'blame' battered women for their plight, says Christian evangelical author Jocelyn Andersen. More >>
As Bush&Co. isolate themselves even further in the White House Bunker with their lies, scandals, coverups and unending wars, they're becoming even more reckless and dangerous to America and its citizens. That behavior shouldn't be all that surprising: ... More >>
On July 27, 2007 the Bush's Big Pharma friendly CDC issued a press release clearly aimed at increasing the sale of SSRIs to pregnant women. "Use of certain antidepressants, selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors most commonly known as SSRIs, during pregnancy ... More >>
About 47 of us spent 8 or 9 hours yesterday in jail for protesting a man who, at least when he woke up yesterday morning, only thought of himself as on the side of those who protest power. More >>
On some days, a glance at the leading stories in the Western media strongly suggests that Muslims everywhere, of all stripes, have gone berserk. It appears that Muslims have lost their minds. In any week, we are confronted with reports of Islamic suicide ... More >>
Just Say No | Jul 23, 2007 15:36 David Slack on his own account Who Commits Setchell Harassment? The majority of people who commit Setchell harassment are Ministers and/or their staff. People who commit Setchell harassment are usually in a position of extreme ... More >>
In the past, matters of U.S. concern with the Caribbean have been related to stepped up flows of illegal northbound immigration as well as the region’s ominous role as an emerging major portal for incoming narcotics from South America and Mexico. ... More >>
The Fourth Estate is a term given to the media in recognition of the fact that it is an active participant or branch in our democratic processes. More >>
WHO: Peace activists Cindy Sheehan, President of the Hip-Hop Caucus Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and activists from around the country that have been traveling on a 29 day "Journey for Humanity" caravan from Crawford. More >>
A federal judge has dismissed the civil lawsuit filed against top Bush administration officials by former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. The judge, John Bates of the US District Court in Washington, DC is ... More >>
In-depth investigation shows how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001. In March 2001, while California's ... More >>
The New Jersey Institute of Technology has just released the results of testing done by their Center for Information Age Technology on voter verified paper audit trail printers provided by Sequoia and Avante International. The printers from Sequoia ... More >>
Stephen Harper has been making much of himself lately, promoting his version of how to achieve global peace and prosperity, with talks and presentations on Afghanistan and Columbia. The central tenet of his global approach is apparently to support those ... More >>
Living in Hong Kong, it is interesting to watch New Zealand through the window, so to say. With the high dollar, Kiwis has an opportunity of their lifetime to go out and compete and sell their products. It makes it cheap to travel, sell and promote. More >>
MP Judith Collins today revealed National's welfare policy as copying Australia's work-for-the- dole scheme. Collins says, it is time to stop telling people what they can't do, and start challenging them to consider what they can. Labour aren't doing ... More >>
To the critics of Ahmed Zaoui, his convictions in Europe are a knock-down argument. The man has been convicted in Belgium and France - and that’s the end of it. More >>
Bush and Cheney Make the Novel and Totalitarian Assertion that the Department of Justice is Prohibited from Investigating a Congressional Contempt Citation Over Anyone (Even if They are No Longer Working for the Government) Asserting Executive Privilege More >>
Rivers of ink have flowed on the control of Gaza by Hamas and with them analysis to suit every taste, depending on each one's ideological viewpoint : from those who see the beginnings of an Islamic Caliphate to those who think, with much greater ... More >>
According to census figures, just under 13 percent of the US population lives in poverty. The American middle class is vastly larger and middle-class Americans, unlike poor Americans, have time and money to give to political campaigns - which is why ... More >>
The massive earthquake that shook Japan this week nearly killed millions in a nuclear apocalypse. It also produced one of the most terrifying sentences ever buried in a newspaper. As reported deep in the New York Times, the Tokyo Electric Company has ... More >>
Is dividing the world between ‘them’ and ‘us’ an unchangeable feature of human nature? Is the world as it’s always been, and will always be? Is there any such thing as human progress, except technologically? More >>
Defense memo leak says virtually no reserves left. "Intense tempo of life" due to Iraq and Afghan fighting. More >>
Editor's Note: Posted below is the recently dispatched Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq, and notice to Congress of its issuance. It is a remarkably broad assumption of power taken unto ... More >>
Washington - This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that's rooted in - and could increase - the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress. More >>
The Justice Department's Inspector General and the FBI are investigating an office that sent fake, emergency letters to telecoms requesting phone records, according to the Inspector General's office. That office lacked the authority to request the ... More >>
In the Marx Brothers movie "Duck Soup" which was a dark spoof of pre-war Germany, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) who is the Prime Minister of Fredonia, is asking his cabinet, "Any old business?" Someone says, "Yes, about the taxes ... More >>
Recently, the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives staunchly denounced the previously initialed free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, while postponing (at least for several months) the ratification of a comparable trade measure with ... More >>
With a focus primarily placed on notorious Mexican and South American drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), and the Caribbean’s role as an essential transit mechanism for drugs moving north to market, trade issues often are moved around and made to ... More >>
Ban Ki Moon, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General will receive concerns of over a million youth from around the world, including New Zealand, voicing concern on health issues in September 2007. More >>
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush spent most of their time at the “lobster summit” at Kennebunkport, Maine, discussing how to prevent the growing tensions between their two countries from getting out of hand. More >>
The news of recent weeks emanating from Washington and Baghdad point to one clear, if not final, conclusion: The Bush administration's adventures in Iraq have been a complete failure. More >>
IN A classical American western, the difference is as glaring as the midday sun in Colorado: there are Good Guys and Bad Guys. The good ones are the settlers, who are making the prairie bloom. The bad ones are the Indians, who are blood-thirsty savages. ... More >>
Did you know you stand a better chance of either being eaten by a shark (in your bed) or hearing George W. Bush use proper subject-verb agreement than you do of being the victim of a terrorist attack? From where does this information emanate? Well, ... More >>
The Zaoui hearing is now in recess, for the entire week. Last week, SIS Inspector-General Paul Neazor heard from the two most important Zaoui defence witnesses. Namely, Professor George Joffe, the leading expert in North Africa studies from Cambridge University ... More >>
Visitors to U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve's 12th floor courtroom in Chicago's Dirksen Federal Building for the Conrad Black trial found several surprises. More >>
A lot of important decisions are nearing completion. Members of Congress are deciding whether they are happy with HR-811 as it came out of committee. Many members have said they are no longer in support of the bill. Riverside Co. California supervisors ... More >>
Death Spiral! | Jul 19, 2007 11:19 Russell Brown's Hard News Amid the hue and cry at Michael Cullen's very pointed musing about over-riding the Reserve Bank's inflation targets, and Cato Institute economist Steve Henke declaring New Zealand to be in ... More >>
The failed amendment to the Senate version of the defense authorization bill (HR 1585) has been the centerpiece of a Democratic strategy to force President Bush to change course on Iraq. It would require Bush to begin a drawdown of U.S. forces within ... More >>
This morning 20 years ago, I left my squat in the Elephant and Castle for an unremarkable train journey of great importance. I was travelling to Reading to uplift my first computer: an Amstrad 512k SD. A small discount on the purchase was a perk of a job ... More >>
I was having a yarn to Don McGlashan after last night's SJD show, and he reckons that Auckland's music scene is becoming more like Wellington's: meaning it has become more fluid and collegial. The topic arose when I observed that everyone in the SJD ... More >>
Harriet Miers, former White House counsel, said on Tuesday she would not comply with Congressional orders. Congress has issued subpoenas for Miers's testimony and any documents in her possession related to the US attorney purge. Her refusal could ... More >>
“Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq.” This was how the BBC reported Nelson’s July 5 comments to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ... More >>
The Democrats rhetoric against enacting the free trade pact entered into by the Bush administration with Colombia represents a striking setback against President Alvaro Uribe and the U.S. president. Nevertheless, it is a victory for probity, a blow against ... More >>
March from Arlington National Cemetery to the Capitol Hill Office of Congressman John Conyers to ask him to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney or President George W. Bush or both. Participants hope to meet with Congressman ... More >>
Anyone who has traveled through Ben Gurion airport in Israel knows that it is a unique experience. For most Israeli Jews, the experience is comforting, a quick and accommodating entry into a nation created and developed for the Jewish people. For Palestinian-Americans ... More >>
New Weekly Podcast on Impeachment -- Link that will stay good and always link to the latest podcast: http://www.anationdeceived.org/category/swanson More >>
Cindy Sheehan has announced that if Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not put impeachment “on the table,” Sheehan will run against Pelosi in 2008 as an independent. More >>
No Inquest into the Death of Dr. David Kelly The Elephant in the Living Room of the United Kingdom by Dr. C. Stephen Frost and Dr. David Halpin Global Research , July 15, 2007 GlobalResearch.ca More >>
Today was the day of congressional announcements. It’s funny how things all seem to happen on the same day. First, on the Senate side, it was announced that Feinstein’s democracy-busting S-1487 will be heard in the Senate Rules Committee on July 25. ... More >>
August is a poor month for viewing the planets. Jupiter and Mars will be visible for all of August. Venus will be visible in the evening sky at the start and in the morning sky at the end of the month. Saturn will be visible in the evening sky for ... More >>
Yesterday saw Justice Minister Mark Burton oversee the defeat of a minority Labour Government attempt to reduce victims' rights to appear before Parole Boards when the criminals who offended against them come up for parole. More >>
Victor Ludorum; Successful prisoner reintegration – what works; Local Government reform; The diddle kingdom; India Trade Exhibition Auckland - 10 & 11 August 2007; Political Quote of the Week More >>
RE: Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 19 July 2007 This is an automated message. Your message contained Harry Potter-associated language. Until such time as I finish reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", such language is being characterised by my computer ... More >>
Blogging blurs the information lines Unpopular schools feel the pinch Obama flirts with the masses More >>
How much would you pay to see The Police live at Western Springs? The sky’s now the limit, according to the latest email from Ticketmaster, who have announced Ticketmaster Auctions for their Auckland concert. More >>
A Weekly Report from the Keyboard of Murray McCully MP for East Coast Bays More >>
EU Food Colouring Not Permitted In NZ; Pay Rises For AgResearch Scientists; Youth Parliament Broken Up by Police; Locked out workers to picket Spotless HQ; The Ahmed Zaoui Case – The Gordon Campbell Series; Petrol fuels the CPI; Therapeutics Products ... More >>
Legislation must recognise role of staff and students, says AUS Representatives of the Association of University Staff appeared before Parliament’s Science and Education Select Committee yesterday morning to speak to the union’s submission on the Education ... More >>
“South Auckland” received another full frontal media assault this week - this time through the international media outlet, TIME magazine. TV1 news took their lead from TIME and produced an investigation piece over two nights. If you saw the coverage ... More >>
Late last week, I drove all over the north, and had my staff do a big ring around as well to see how all our marae fared during the floods. Heaps of places reported problems with slips, surface flooding, and problems with access, but damage to marae ... More >>
Remember the last NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) that made really big news? Remember how it helped defraud a nation into an aggressive war and occupation that has left nearly a million Iraqis and 4,000 Americans dead? Remember how the declassified ... More >>
The Americans think it is ridiculous and libelous to accuse them of acting like Nazis - and then they do. The planned attack on Iran, a people we know no better than we knew the Iraqis, will be a slaughter for which the world will hold the American people ... More >>
As many as five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A quarter million or so have perished in Darfur, western Sudan. Both are abominations, genocides, crimes against humanity, but only Darfur rates coverage in the U.S. corporate media, ... More >>
Leo TV | Jul 18, 2007 09:44 Russell Brown's Hard News Dad's too busy to blog properly today, so he asked Leo to recommend some YouTube for Public Address readers. This is how your TV might look if it was programmed by an unusual 12 year-old who can't ... More >>
It was just after 2:00 p.m. Monday afternoon when blogger Bob Geiger broke the story. "Forcing his Republican colleagues to put up or shut up on the notion of an up-or-down vote," wrote Geiger, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) just moments ago ... More >>
WHEN the editor invited me to write a piece on Australian Jews, I thought it would be easy. Not so. On the other hand, I imagine it would be equally difficult for a Jew to write of his experiences with other Australians. I believe that my invitation ... More >>
Union calling for donations to hotline - 0900 LOCKOUT: The Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota has launched an national 0900 line for public donations to locked-out cleaners, kitchen workers and orderlies in our public hospitals. More >>
Naing Ko Ko Writes: Since New Zealand departed from the ANZUS security framework in the 1980s, NZ's foreign policy has played a useful role on the global stage, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Can it do more? More >>
Remember the last NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) that made really big news? Remember how it helped defraud a nation into an aggressive war and occupation that has left nearly a million Iraqis and 4,000 Americans dead? Remember how the declassified ... More >>
If the Democrats really want to prevail over George W. Bush on the Iraq War and on his authoritarian vision of presidential powers, they would put back on the table two options that their leaders have removed: a cut-off of war funding and impeachment. More >>
Even though every day is a battle -- my enemies are always attacking me -- I think we'll make it to the January 2009 finishing line. Once the Dems announced that impeachment was "off the table," I knew everything would be OK. More >>
Council On Hemispheric Affairs MONITORING POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND DIPLOMATIC ISSUES AFFECTING THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Monday, May 14th, 2007 Uncategorized , Press Releases , Venezuela , Front Page , Opinion More >>
My turn to rant: Over five months ago Florida State University put out their report on what they found when inspecting the Sarasota Co. voting system that had not recorded over 18,000 votes for congress. FSU researchers found a serious security vulnerability ... More >>
t r u t h o u t | Report http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071707J.shtml By Jason Leopold More >>
Dad's too busy to blog properly today, so he asked Leo to recommend some YouTube for Public Address readers. This is how your TV might look if it was programmed by an unusual 12 year-old who can't go to school. More >>
Americans need to stop and consider how many consumers will be killed and injured by dangerous drugs by the time George Bush heads back to Texas at the end of his Presidency, as a direct result of his allowing the interests of the pharmaceutical ... More >>
President Bush has been quietly inviting philosophers and theologians to the White House lately to discuss the ultimate questions of life. Having just returned from my probing conversation with The Decider, as he likes to be called, what follows ... More >>
It seems a lifetime ago, but Helen Clark came to power in 1999 armed with a fresh new vision for Defence, based on Derek Quigley’s “ Defence Beyond 2000” document. In brief, that new framework envisaged a New Zealand stance that would be less subservient ... More >>
Benny Ziffer is the Culture and Literature Editor of Haaretz who also has an outspoken blog on the paper. But it is his occasional TV review columns which often tell us more about Israeli alternative thinking than more formal writing. Naturally they ... More >>
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S claim that this is the tenth anniversary of the blog - as well as some of the critical reaction to the story - led us to our archives to find what we could about our role in this tale. More >>
All white jury sitting before white judge agrees with white prosecutor and all white witnesses and convicts black youth in racially charged high school criminal case. More >>
Transtasman is a subscriber newsletter published weekly and read widely in New Zealand and abroad. The following is a summary of this week's edition. To subscribe and read the full newsletter see.. http://Transtasman.co.nz More >>
A little while back I wrote about a rite of passage for my eldest son detailing some of the lump in the throat emotion that goes with each disappearing phase of childhood. I believe I got quite maudlin on the subject. More >>
The 2008 presidential campaign has already revealed the slim odds that anyone elected to the White House from either party will help bring America back to life, back to its constitution, back to its ideals, back to sanity and back to reasons for enthusiasm ... More >>
Middle East News Service comments: Another one of those seemingly small news items that carry a much bigger punch than their heavyweight cousins. Run a Googlenews search on Israel’s new president and you will find that just under half the references ... More >>
Cindy Sheehan is leading a march/drive from Crawford, Texas, to New York City. Participants in this Journey for Humanity share the goals of ending the occupation of Iraq, impeaching Cheney and Bush, restoring New Orleans, and funding human needs at home and in Iraq ... More >>
Our Founding Fathers created three separate but co-equal branches of government to check and balance each other so no one branch would become all powerful. Indeed, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, "The preservation of liberty requires ... More >>
By Matt Renner t r u t h o u t | Report http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071707A.shtml More >>
No Bills | Jul 17, 2007 10:06 Russell Brown's Hard News When Tony Ryall and Sue Kedgley have finished gloating about the shelving of the Therapeutics Products and Medicines Bill perhaps they might care to think about how they will now approach ... More >>
ACTION Congress chieftain and Rivers State governorship candidate, Prince Tonye Princewill, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and the immediate past governors of the country's oil and gas-producing states, are to be collectively blamed for the current ... More >>
At the time of its announced closure, Antioch College, perhaps America’s most progressive and well-known peace college, had a few visible capitalist hawks on its Board of Trustees. More >>
June 2007 amid the stranglehold Choking Gaza the blotting out Of the economy ensuring No goods, no food, no medicine No help is on the way Israel managed to secure The relative calm By carrying out some 2380 Attacks sources close To the dead and dying ... More >>
The first time I tasted a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, I could barely believe that a grape variety could pack such an intense array of tropical fruits into each mouthful. I remember my tongue, classically trained on the great Sauvignons of the Loire Valley, ... More >>
Karen Thurman is the current Chairman of the Florida Democratic Party. Al Cardenas is the former Chairman of the Florida Republican Party and a major player in Republican politics in Florida. Al pays Karen $3,500 a month to lobby Democrats in Washington ... More >>
I n the last days a military action to oust the terrorists from Lal Masjid in Pakistan was propagated as 'Operation Silence' by the media but according to the Pak military sources, it was a name given by the media whereas the Pak military had given it the ... More >>
THE United Kingdom (UK) Government has again advised their citizens against all travel to the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region that has been a centre of low intensity war for months now. More >>
State assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) has moved for a statewide vote to allow new nuclear power plants to be built in the Golden State. He wants to repeal the 1976 law requiring a solution to the nuke waste problem before new reactors are built. ... More >>
It is little wonder, given the ongoing surge in property prices. Many people, elderly folk in particular, on low or fixed incomes but living in expensive properties are struggling to pay the rates bill. More >>
As New Zealanders we are quite rightly proud of our track record as a global leader in women's rights. Our status as the first country in the world to grant women the vote is part of our identity as a natio More >>
According to some observers, the phoenix of Jordanian-Palestinian confederation seems to have risen from the ashes. Discussion of this issue has revived following the crisis in the Palestinian Authority which peaked with the violent takeover of the ... More >>
Military solution back in favour as Rice loses out. President "not prepared to leave conflict unresolved." The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office ... More >>
In August 2005, Cindy Sheehan began her 26 days in the ditch in Crawford, Texas by announcing in Dallas at the national Veterans for Peace conference she was going to challenge Bush's characterization of the Iraq War as a "noble cause" by going ... More >>
Europe full of interesting lessons; Someone needs to tell the U.S. that al-Qaeda is a serious threat; Climate Change is a huge issue in Europe, Greens not relevant; Conservative Party in France is triumphant; Vote National? Get an instant rise in ... More >>
Len Brown writes Manukau Council will soon receive a report on whether its rates rebate scheme should apply to water and waste water. I believe it most certainly should and also that it should apply in this financial year. More >>
(APN) ATLANTA "Nancy Pelosi had no business taking impeachment off the table. Because Article Two, Section Four of the Constitution says the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed in office on impeachment ... More >>
Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that he received the tacit blessing of Europe and the United States for an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. More >>
For those tracking the long train of abuses and usurpations of a modern-day George who would be King and his eminence grise behind the throne, July 14 has a resonance far beyond the fireworks of Bastille Day. Four loosely related events on that same ... More >>
The bulk of John Edwards' wealth is invested in, his recent income derives from, and his biggest contributors are employed by Fortress Investment Group. Fortress, which paid Edwards almost half a million dollars to advise them, deals in hedge funds ... More >>
Here's the situation Nancy Pelosi finds herself in. A full 54% of Americans and 76% of Democrats want Dick Cheney impeached. Cheney's 13% favorability makes him the least popular president or vice president ever. The Washington Post reports that ... More >>
I've decided to drop my advocacy for the impeachment of Cheney or Bush and focus on something more realistic: making Senator Hillary Clinton our next emperor. After all, when the candidate is someone good, you should want them to have as much power ... More >>
On Friday, 13 July, Governor Deval Patrick showed his skills at working with the Massachusetts Legislature by passing all but $40 million of a $28.4 billion legislative budget for fiscal year 2008, which starts on 1 July 2007. More >>
The Nepalis always ruled by feudalistic monarchy historically rose up against it in April 2006. Their uprising was unprecedented. It was unique in the sense that the majority of grassroot rural masses took out to the streets continuously for 19 ... More >>
A large majority of the news is still about California. The tentative ruling by the judge in Alameda County, the report from the ‘Blue Ribbon” Committee in Riverside County and the ruling from the state supremes that they won’t hear the complaint ... More >>
Rebecca Mercuri, in an article on OpEdNews, reminds us that Avante International has a lawsuit against Sequoia, Diebold and ES&S for patent infringement. “This case grinds merrily along and trial has been scheduled for May 2008. Should Avante ... More >>
Who can forget the incredible scandal that erupted back in May of 2002? Around about the middle of that month, details began to emerge about the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing that specifically warned Bush about Osama bin Laden's determination ... More >>
John Edwards has reported $29.5 million in personal assets to the FEC, of which his aides have told the Wall Street Journal $16.1 million is invested in Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund that invests in Humana, the health insurance company that comes ... More >>
Recently forced out as president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, one of the primary architects of U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq war, is heading back to familiar surroundings. And the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of ... More >>
Why does terror dominate our headlines and the attention of our governments going on six years after 9/11? The answer cannot be what George Bush says that it is: it is not the fault of people who hate democracy and freedom. More >>
I'm at a loss as to which internationally televised statement is more absurd and irresponsible; that America needs "a little bit of fascism" a' la Giuliani or that Rudy Giuliani "owns 9/11." What is clear is MSNBC's total failure or refusal to bring ... More >>
More importantly perhaps in light of Sec. Chertoff's 'gut feeling' about the likelihood of a terrorist attack this Summer, you and most Americans might also be interested in what is not mentioned in my letter to MSNBC below. The 9/11 Commission glossed ... More >>
On the 5th Anniversary of the Downing Street Meeting and the same day as a Dem Prez candidates debate in the evening on CNN, Youtube, and Google, July 23, 2007, Cindy Sheehan plans to lead a delegation to Congressman John Conyers' office in DC to demand ... More >>
The religious place named Masjid or Mosque is recognised as the centre of prayer in the Islam religion. The meaning of Masjid is the place where prayer to God is done. As the Islam religion doesn't allow praying before anything except the formless ... More >>
Can somebody hook a brother up with some Twiglets? | Jul 16, 2007 09:20 Russell Brown's Hard News I've had Michael Moore's Sicko (friends in America version) for nearly two weeks and hadn't found the right time to watch it -- it's not exactly ... More >>
By Matt Renner t r u t h o u t | Report See original at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071207J.shtml More >>
In an excellent article posted at OpEdNews, Andi Novick has this to say, ““Comply with the law, or take your business elsewhere” is an excellent response to a vendor who essentially said to New York - take my business on my terms or we vendors may ... More >>
To speak of an alternative media is to acknowledge the deficiency of the prevailing media, the mainstream, in addressing the issues, catering to the concerns, and responding to the woes of the general public, the overwhelming majority of people who are almost ... More >>
There are three words that strike fear into the hearts of modern-day politicians. They are not obscene or distasteful to any ethnic group but saying any one of them in the context of the day's news will cause an instant and infectious breathing spasm ... More >>
I’m sick of lefties snidely comparing the grim totalitarian society of George Orwell’s 1984 to today’s freedom-spewing United States, a country few Americans would dare call dystopian, even if they could define it. The following analysis exposes these ... More >>
John Key coming to Clevedon A fundraising dinner will be held by the Clevedon National Party with John Key as our guest on Friday 27 July at 6:30pm. The venue is the Whitford Park Golf Club in Whitford. Tickets are selling fast and there are limited numbers. ... More >>
"Order of the Phoenix" flies into philosophy, civics, religion, ethics; transporting Potter to new ethereal realms . More >>
At conference on future of Jewish people, delegates ask why peace is off the agenda More >>
Since the creation of Pakistan, the state has been failing to secure a political direction of the country. The country which was created on the name of protecting the civic and religious rights of the then Indian Muslims could not develop a strong ... More >>
Why does terror dominate our headlines and the attention of our governments going on six years after 9/11? The answer cannot be what George Bush says that it is: it is not the fault of people who hate democracy and freedom. More >>
If I could have just a few moments of your time to provide you with a lead to a stunning but little known and seriously disturbing chapter in the life of Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff. The ATF/FBI's Operation Diamondback targeted HMO owner Dr. Magdy ... More >>
The use of the county’s new DRE voting machines means that this year’s municipal elections will cost Salt Lake Co Utah three times more than past elections. New technology has increased the amount of training and wages for election workers. Palm Beach and ... More >>
Just some links, really | Jul 12, 2007 10:49 Russell Brown's Hard News Colin Espiner blogs the Labour caucus's annual press drinks, and includes the following tidbits: Prime Minister Helen Clark was there, too, circulating around the room. It's always ... More >>
According to some observers, the phoenix of Jordanian-Palestinian confederation seems to have risen from the ashes. Discussion of this issue has revived following the crisis in the Palestinian Authority which peaked with the violent takeover of the ... More >>
While Giuliani and McCain register 'morally repugnant' on the religious right's traditional-values meter, Romney has a bigger problem: many conservative Christian evangelical leaders don't believe his religion measures up More >>
The developing dynamic of events in Latin America through 2007 and into 2008 is very different from 2006, a year noteworthy for its dramatic presidential elections. But the underlying issues driving the dynamic remain unchanged. In its 2007 report on ... More >>
On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear whether Guantanamo detainees may use habeas corpus to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a right they heretofore have been denied. In Canada, this has spawned speculation that the case of Omar Khadr, ... More >>
Friends, because HR 811 may come up for a vote within the next two weeks,it's most important that you read the following, right through to the shocker at the end. More >>
Congressman Sam Farr (D., Calif.) is the latest member of Congress to respond to intense pressure from his constituents and co-sponsor H Res 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. The official list of co-sponsors at thomas.loc.gov ... More >>
So we didn’t get the America’s Cup back. What’s your reaction? Mine was the usual mixture of denial – it wasn’t that big a deal anyway; defiance, well it was really about which bunch of Kiwis won the cup; defeatism - well it’s hard to ... More >>
According to the group, devastating but preventable food crises will hit the world's poorest countries yet again because of a failure to address the root causes of the problem. More >>
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Defending Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge leaders at an international tribunal may include arguing about genocide and the lack of a "smoking gun," despite the deaths of up to three million Cambodians, according to U.N. Principal ... More >>
Senator David Vitter, the family values politician from Louisiana, admitted that he’d committed “a serious sin” and strayed from his marriage. There are always consequences. Vitter may be sleeping lightly with good reason More >>
Consider an extreme and unlikely example, but nonetheless illustrative: Suppose the Supremes were to rule (five to four, of course), that “The United States is a Christian nation,” and that henceforth, only confessing Christians could hold public office. ... More >>
Russell Brown's Hard News Just when you think Fox News can't surprise you any more, they come up with National Healthcare: Breeding Ground for Terror? The interview at that link, in which National Review Online's Jerry Bowyer explains to Fox's Neil ... More >>
The two nations that occupy the island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti, have experienced an alarming surge in drug trafficking traversing their borders en route to North American and European markets. The entire Caribbean region ... More >>
Its extraordinary how skewed the Left can be in this country. For years the Northern Territory of Australia has been plagued by the most appalling abuses visited upon the aborigines. Rampant sexual child abuse with the accompanying spread of disease; More >>
A Weekly Report from the Keyboard of Murray McCully MP for East Coast Bays More >>
A vote too far Britain breaks through Groups seek local government funding IN THE NEWS Submission on Prostitution Reform Act High Court considers Field case Juveniles to be treated as juveniles in Connecticut courts More >>
Early July Round-Up - More Funding for the Management of Didymo and Saltmarsh Mosquito and a Ban on Bzp & Party Pills. More >>
Police were dispatched today to disperse a large gathering at a Molesworth Street address. The mob of between 119 and 500 youths had formed repeatedly over consecutive days before police finally intervened. More >>
It was impossible to watch this programme without feeling queasy, as if we'd taken the wrong path. Ever wondered what happened to the long form interview on telly? Or how you could watch two people have an intelligent conversation on prime time ... More >>
In the last week of June I had a very useful trip to North America with National's Trade and Foreign Affairs spokesmen, Tim Groser and Murray McCully. More >>
New NZCTU President emerges from AUS ranks In a further departure of key players from the tertiary-education sector, Helen Kelly, General Secretary of the Association of University Staff, is poised to become the first-ever woman elected as President ... More >>
OK, so you’re a pacifist who believes that killing is never justified, someone once asked Joan Baez. But what if you and the kids were driving in a car at speed around the corner on a narrow mountain road, and what if an old lady who couldn’t ... More >>
"Our Aboriginal communities are being squeezed further into dysfunction and disenfranchisement by carefully targeted political engineering, the systemic and ruthless roll-out of a planned agenda. It is no accident that Howard's scheme to ... More >>
So there we were last week hanging out on the banks of the pristine Eagle River, just north of Juneau, awed by the bald eagles right over our heads, feeling the clean Alaskan wind on our faces, looking out at the snow-capped mountains beyond -- and ... More >>
It’s about 45 degrees Celsius; I sit in deep shade with my feet in the creek. Some kids throw rocks at the iron footbridge a couple hundred meters upstream, but despite the heat and noise, meditation ignites. More >>
WHAT: Rally for peace, justice, and impeachment, part of Cindy Sheehan's "Journey for Humanity" march/drive from Crawford, Texas, to New York City. More >>
Describing extracts from the - just published - diaries of Alistair Campbell, Blair's director of communications: More >>
The way the SIS portrays the world in their annual reports, al Qaeda are not the micro-managers of world terrorism any more – they’re more like its aspirational brand leaders. Terrorist strikes are no longer being directed from some cave in the ... More >>
On Monday, Scoop’s David McLellan and some of his flat mates took the opportunity, guaranteed to them by weather forecasts, that Mt Hutt was going to be inundated with sunshine. More >>
Nepal's interim eight-party coalition government, consisting of the Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists, has fixed Nov. 22 as the new date for the nation's crucial Constituent Assembly elections. However, violence and abuses by the Maoists' militant Young Communist ... More >>
Another election official has jumped into the revolving door and joined the vendors. In this case ex-Commissioner and Chairman of the EAC Paul DeGregorio has become COO of internet voting software company, Everyone Counts. Also charging that Congressman ... More >>
Seung-Hui Cho's bullets haven't stopped NRA agenda--and the politicians who serve it More >>
Transmogrithingy | Jul 10, 2007 10:08 Russell Brown's Hard News The Princeton WordNet search defines transmogrification as "the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one) 'the transmogrification of ... More >>
"The American military has done its job. Look what they accomplished. They got rid of Saddam Hussein. They gave the Iraqis a chance for free and fair elections. They gave the Iraqi government the chance to begin to demonstrate that it understood its ... More >>
Thanks to Al Gore's global concert, the major media are finally filling with coverage of the climate crisis. It all comes with a dire dual realization: our economy will collapse, and we could all die, if something drastic is not done. More >>
The Joint Revolutionary Council of the rebel groups in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, say the current peace initiative by the N igerian government will not succeed. More >>
They Thought They Were Gods -- A BuzzFlash Editorial http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/145 In mythology, the Greek Gods dealt harshly with those who thought that they had the power of Gods. That’s what we learned in high school, isn’t it? We were reminded ... More >>
GOVERNOR Celestine Omehia's administration in Rivers State, one of the key oil and gas-producing states in Nigeria, which appears to be standing on a feet of clay since the outcome of the largely disputed April 14 elections that brought him to power, ... More >>
Want to Impeach Cheney? Think July 23rd http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/24450 By David Swanson More >>
PA Radio: Mr Brown on Mr Brown Russell Brown talks to Singapore's blogfather Mr Brown (aka Lee Kin Mun) about politics, podcasting and satire. Note: contains food metaphors. http://www.publicaddress.net/system/topic,560,pa_radio_mr_brown_on_mr_brown.sm More >>
Karzai, Bush, Pledges To Reduce Afghan Poppy Crop Turns Out To Be Just One More Pipedream More >>
Yawn! It's almost time for the next episode of The Ken And Barbie Show. You know, the new television extravaganza where a bunch of very affluent, carefully groomed, coiffed, and made-up rich folks get on a stage and try to convince us that they "feel ... More >>
A February 22, 2006 internal FDA memorandum, obtained by staffers of the Senate Finance Committee, proves that safety officials within the agency recommended that GlaxoSmithKline add a black box warning about congestive heart failure to the label of the diabetes ... More >>
Peek behind the smoke and mirrors of the Bush Administration and you will see the smoke and mirrors of a Democratic Congress. Strategically, the Bush plan is to spin out self-inflicted and tragic disasters, leaving for others to clean up the barn. ... More >>
Two years ago, on July 7, our friend and fellow election integrity activist, Andy Stephenson lost his fight against pancreatic cancer. Andy was an outspoken supporter of paper ballots and worked as hard as any of us for the integrity of our elections. ... More >>
The "Jordanian Option" gave up its ghost almost twenty years ago. Even before that, it never was very healthy. But in 1988, some time after the outbreak of the first intifada, it was officially buried by none other than His Majesty, King Hussein, ... More >>
When Hamas members were elected as the majority bloc of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and as it became apparent that a US-led international embargo would be an adjoining price to that victory, I contacted many intellectuals and writers in Palestine, ... More >>
"I’m calling to confirm my cosponsorship of H Res 333 to impeach Bush and Cheney," US Rep. Filner (D-CA) told Atlanta Progressive News in a phone interview. More >>
On July 5th, an article in the Boston Globe by Carey Goldberg gave us some frightening information. Although the title, With rise in autism, programs strained , didn't seem too alarming, the facts presented should have gotten everyone's attention. We ... More >>
In all the hand-wringing about George Bush's ghastly commutation for Scooter Libby, the name that should resonate most is that of Leonard Peltier. More >>
A group of guys are swimming in the creek at my sitting spot, so I walk a couple hundred meters upstream and put my pad down across the stream from a picnic site. There is a lone cyclist there, and the minute he leaves, a family descends on the ... More >>
The insight of a Global Polity of world citizens in the evolutionary birthplace of humankind began with a correspondence with the late Kenyan philosopher Odera Oruka. In 1992, we agreed that the UN framework would prove increasingly inadequate, and ... More >>
In a move that could set a disastrous precedent, the Republican Governor and Democratic Secretary of State of Mississippi have come together to ask that a federal judge rule that the state legislature must enact a voter ID law. Also, Florida activists ... More >>
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