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Archive for the Month of February, 2006.
Viewing Government / The Elite NEWS articles 1 through 57 of 57.


February 1, 2006

Proof That Bush's Removal of the Abramoff Prosecutor was a Political Deal to Scuttle the Investigation - We now know there was a political deal between the Bush Administration and New Jersey Democrats to get rid of the Abramoff prosecutor, Noel Hillman, by offering him a federal judgeship in New Jersey.
(4050 views)

State of the Union speech: Bush declares war on the world - The State of the Union speech given by George W. Bush Tuesday night was among the most menacing and belligerent in American history. The US president outlined a program of limitless and perpetual warfare, on every continent, and against any regime that stands in the way of the rapacious American ruling class.
(2170 views)


February 2, 2006

The Pestilent Presidency: A Nation Conditioned - The America born in 2001, first with the ascension of Bush and later with the psychological war on Americans begun on 9/11, has degenerated according to plan, methodically and perniciously engineered by entities intent on corporatist control, molded into an immovable ship on a collision course with a giant iceberg. In order for America to sink its people had to be molded to one day accept the fate awaiting us. Our brains had to be programmed and altered, our minds controlled and conditioned, our beliefs brainwashed and engineered.
(2476 views)

Big Pimp Baby Daddy Addicted to Oil - G.W. Bush, a man whose family made their fortunes from banks, oil, CIA deceptions and war profiteering had the gall to spin an "addicted to oil" story line in his state of the union speech last night. In yet another Orwellian spin job to distract and manipulate his listeners he introduces the concept of throwing a few scientists at a problem from which he and his have greatly profited.
(2411 views)

Hellfire and Damnation: The Washington Consensus for Murder - Last month, President George W. Bush murdered four children. This is not a controversial statement. There is no dispute about the facts. Indeed, Bush's own minions fully acknowledge – even celebrate – the deed. Nor has the political opposition or the national media offered the slightest objection to the principle of presidential murder.
(2286 views)

Key White House records in Plame probe disappear - Key White House email records in the investigation of the leak of a covert CIA operative's name to the press are missing.
(2105 views)

Congress’ cushy pension plan - What they have that you don’t
(2278 views)


February 5, 2006

Democrats on Iran - While the Democratic leadership competes with George Bush to see who can be tougher on Iran, it would be comforting to think that the more progressive Democratic base had learned a bit more from the invasion of Iraq than the leadership. Would that that were true. Unfortunately...
(1941 views)


February 6, 2006

Prepare for Perpetual War: The real State of the Union - The megalomaniacs who rule us have no compunctions about the brazenness of their lies: they don't care how it looks, how it sounds, or even, in the end, how it sells. They know what they want, and they are single-minded in going after it. The message came through loud and clear in the president's State of the Union speech: prepare for perpetual war.
(2024 views)

Prof. Strauss and the neocon takeover - Who are the crazies? A militant, anti-communist group of mainly Jewish intellectuals who studied the Trotskyite, Machiavellian political philosophy of Prof. Strauss at the University of Chicago. Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Perle, Abrams, Chalabi, Bennett, Ho, Shulsky, Khalilzad, Schmitt, Kristol, are a few of the invasion architects, intelligence crafters, torture lawyers, Iraq ambassadors and U.S. puppets who studied under Strauss.
(2061 views)

Connect the Dots: Alberto Gonzales Should be Under Investigation, Not Overseeing Them - Many moons ago, when George W. Bush, was governor of Texas, Alberto Gonzales replaced James Baker as the Bush family consigliere.
(2089 views)

International Commission Delivers Verdicts on Bush Administration: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! - The findings were based on five days of public testimony in New York in October and January. The work of the Commission brought together a unique combination of former government officials, experts in international law, human rights monitors in the relevant areas, and victims of the crimes under investigation. It was a Commission of great legal, ethical, and moral credibility based on its integrity, its rigor in the presentation of evidence, and the stature of its participants.
(1889 views)


February 7, 2006

Hillary Clinton and the Neolib Gender Game - According to CBS, Americans don’t care what gender their neolib rulers are. No doubt millions of Americans will feel a tad better—at least in the short term—about taking their marching orders down the thorny road toward slavery from a woman.
(1995 views)

Hillary and Wal-Mart: A Love Story - ...Clinton served on Wal-Mart’s board for six years prior to her husband’s run for the presidency. She recently received $5,000 from Wal-Mart...it speaks to the incumbent’s close ties to abusive corporate power: her large corporate financial contributions, her support for so-called "free trade" (which is simply trade to benefit corporations) and her unwillingness to confront corporate power that denies every American, among other things, universal health insurance.
(2664 views)


February 8, 2006

Outing Cardinal Egan - A priest's lawsuit alleges the Catholic Church is hiding pedophile clergy—and offers a stunning reason why.
(2061 views)

Bush Gets Deserved Dressing Down at King Funeral - It says something about our "democracy" when Bush can only face criticism in public as a side effect of his attendance at a funeral.
(1875 views)

Addicted to Empire, Not Middle Eastern Oil - When it comes to America, Iraq, oil, war, and world geography, the really honest and relevant point regarding U.S. policy is that Uncle Sam is addicted to global dominance and empire.
(1826 views)

Jack Abramoff and the Republican Black Hand - by Daniel Hopsicker - Millions of words have been written decrying Abramoff’s ruthless greed and utter corruption. But what has gone almost unmentioned...is the looming presence hovering on the fringes of all three major story lines in the Abramoff Scandal—the Indian gambling, the Republican slave plantations in the Mariana’s, and the completely unregulated and therefore to-die-for (literally!)casino cruises in Florida--of Organized Crime, or, as it is referred to colloquially, The Mob.
(3129 views)

Ground Hog Day - State Department sees exodus of weapons experts - Looks like they are working from the same playbook. Replace the people with actual knowledge with hacks who will produce the data to support the policy, which is to bomb Iran.
(2073 views)


February 9, 2006

Who's the Bigger Hawk, George or Hillary? - So there you have it. Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush, leaders of their parties, see eye-to-eye on the most pressing concerns facing the U.S. and the Middle East today.
(2608 views)

200 Insiders Against the World: Inside the Global Dominance Group - The leadership class in the US is now dominated by a neo-conservative group of some 200 people who have the shared goal of asserting US military power worldwide. This Global Dominance Group, in cooperation with major military contractors, has become a powerful force in military unilateralism and US political processes.
(1942 views)


February 10, 2006

Report: Cheney linked to CIA leak - A US weekly magazine says Dick Cheney, the US vice president, directed his aide Lewis Libby to use classified material to discredit a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq war effort.
(2110 views)

Is Bush The Lifetime President? - Everyone knows that Bush is supposed to leave office in January of 2009. No mystery. No uncertainty. The 22nd Amendment makes it so. It's the law. No gray area. Or is there?
(2794 views)

Richard Perle Tells More Obvious Lies - ...Perle does not "hope" mass murder and possibly the nuking of Iran "can be avoided," for the Straussian neocons are all about killing Muslims with impudence, as the Israelis are all about killing Palestinians, including defenseless children, with impudence.
(1987 views)


February 12, 2006

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - From the "You Can't Make It Up" Department
(2115 views)


February 13, 2006

Goss's "Contraband Import Agency" (CIA) and its "program." - CIA: "Christians In Action" "missionaries" reportedly involved in Afghan heroin smuggling under Porter Goss's direction.
(2141 views)

Bush homeland security and terrorism adviser's qualifications: she's married to Bush's Yale classmate. - Hallmark of the Bush administration: screw up and get promoted.
(2731 views)

Drug Smuggling Air Marshals? - The arrest of a pair of agents on possible cocaine charges raises new concerns about the aviation security program.
(1902 views)


February 14, 2006

Bush PR costs taxpayers $1.6 billion - The Bush administration spent at least $1.6 billion on public relations and advertising campaigns over 30 months, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
(1770 views)

Congresswoman Says America Run By Criminal Syndicate - McKinney: American citizens could be put in forced labor camps
(1883 views)

Oil and Water: Life in the Bush Imperium - Two stories, same front page of the New York Times, that tell you just about all you need to know about the priorities of American society under the Bush Imperium...
(1845 views)

Secret Service stalls and delays for Cheney - Saturday night at least one deputy showed up at the ranch's front gate and asked to speak to Cheney but was turned away by the Secret Service...This sort of delaying tactic is indicative of drunk-driving hit and runs by rich kids allowing the necessary time to sober up, contact your attorney and get your story straight.
(1956 views)


February 15, 2006

The Perazzi Shotgun - Some of them go for as high as $41,000.00!!
(2045 views)

Able Danger witness cut deal with Bush White House - Chickenhawk Congressman Curt Weldon has been using the Able Danger story as a pretext for the reestablishement of a strong, permanent, legally-acknowledged "data-mining" program to use supercomputers to spy on America and Americans.
(1974 views)

Shooting Whittington: the Least of Cheney’s Crimes - I don’t care if the war criminal Dick Cheney shot one of his rich Republican friends.
(1895 views)

Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq - Although Lincoln Group's work in Iraq is now under scrutiny in two Pentagon investigations, the firm is hunting for more government work. Last month, Mr. Bailey attended a going-away reception at the Virginia condominium of a mid-level government employee on her way to a new job at the American Embassy in Baghdad. Her job: overseeing contracts.
(1921 views)

Bush appointees censor scientists at government agencies - Corporate interests that support the Bush government, such as the coal and oil industries, are hostile to any research that could obstruct their drive for profits—in particular, evidence that emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the current rate will lead to an environmental and ecological disaster in the coming decades.
(2199 views)

Alito Hires as a Clerk Former Ashcroft Aide - With the future of the Internet in danger its comforting to know a vice president at AOL-Time Warner Inc. is working with Justice Alito. I have faith that he will be help Alito to maintain a completely unbiased outlook form his close workings with John Ashcroft. The good news keeps on coming in.
(1871 views)

Before lobbying scandals, Abramoff group had hand in apartheid wars - This early period in Abramoff's career has been largely ignored in most of the American media. It was the period in which he began building relations with tribal people, a practice he would parlay into serving as a very well-compensated lobbyist for American Indian tribes in the lucrative gambling industry.
(2572 views)

Michael Chertoff: The Master of Disaster - He was...the New Jersey attorney who guided the investigation and criminal trial of the Arabs involved in the first "terror" attack on the World Trade Center of 1993. This "false flag" operation was designed to form the impression in the minds of Americans that Arabs were targeting the WTC twin towers, so that when 9-11 happened it would be assumed by the world that Arabs were behind the terror attacks.
(3910 views)


February 16, 2006

What Cheney's blast revealed: A new White House lobbying scandal - Her name is Katharine Armstrong -- whose family owns the Texas ranch where Cheney shot his 78-year-old friend, Harry Whittington, on Saturday. What has received virtually no attention in all the shooting hoopla is that the wealthy ranch heiress is also a lobbyist -- a lobbyist who goes quail hunting with the vice president and spends leisurely summer days with the leader of the free world at his ranch in Crawford.
(2080 views)

Senate Aide's Spouse Gets a Windfall - Sen. Arlen Specter helped direct almost $50 million in Pentagon spending during the past four years to clients of the husband of one of his top aides, records show.
(1853 views)

Cheney out, Condi in? - The ascension of Rice to the Vice-Presidency would be the perfect way for the Bush Crime Family to set up their longtime cronies, the Clintons, for a return trip to the White House.
(1987 views)


February 17, 2006

Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle: Our leader über alles - The Bush regime is asserting the Fuhrer Principle, and Americans are buying it, even as Bush declares that America is at war in order to bring democracy to the Middle East.
(2280 views)

Flamethrowers - ...a militarist state must have war: to justify its draconian rule (and those $550 billion "defense" budgets), to find new fields for dominion and swag, and to seal with blood its illegitimate compact with the people, seeking to make them complicit in its crimes, which are committed in their name, for their "security." Fortunately for the militarists, Bush has promised war in abundance.
(2005 views)


February 18, 2006

Traitorous bitches and bastards - ...freedom died this week and just about every one of the bitches and bastards who "serve" in Congress should take a long, hard look at the blood on their hands. They stand guilty of high crimes and treason against the United States of America. They are traitors and should be treated as such.
(2092 views)

Behind the White House's Billion-Dollar Propaganda Push - In two years, the Bush administration spent $1.6 billion to paint a prettier picture of its failing policies, even as it cut away the social safety net.
(1839 views)


February 20, 2006

At Spy Agencies, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished - Find illegal activity in the U.S. national security agency you work for. Report it to your superiors. Get rewarded by being demoted or having your security clearance revoked -- tantamount to losing your career -- while those whose conduct you've reported get promoted.
(1746 views)

Arab Port Deal Distorted for Political Gain - Recently, 8,600 U.S. companies have been taken over by foreign ownership... The politicians were silent. Now, a United Arab Emirates’ enterprise will soon be operating stevedoring companies in six U.S. ports, including Baltimore’s. Its Mayor...almost broke a blood vessel complaining. However, he didn’t say a word while the preceding British outfit was doing the work.
(1951 views)


February 21, 2006

Chasing Cheney in the Ambulance: Deadeye Dick's Life Support System - How many of us knew that the country's vice president--a man that most politically aware citizens know is the country's real leader behind the scenes--is so health-impaired that he always travels with a fully staffed ambulance--including heart specialist--in tow?
(2268 views)

The Houses of Bush, Sabah, and Maktoum - How many people died so Poppy Bush could be awarded Kuwait's Order of Mubarak the Great?
(4884 views)


February 22, 2006

Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer - A written report from Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago says Cheney was "clearly inebriated" at the time of the shooting.
(2451 views)


February 23, 2006

Accused British murderer of wife and child receives "special treatment" from U.S. intelligence agency - Entwistle's firm, Embedded New Technologies (ENT), reportedly had connections to the Braintree, Massachusetts-based firm P-Tech, which was investigated subsequent to 911...
(1918 views)


February 26, 2006

"'Public Court" Holds Bush Guilty of Perpetrating Terrorism - Bush, who is scheduled to visit the Andhra Pradesh capital March 3, the last day of his three-day visit to India, faced charges ranging from war mongering and mass killings to violation of all international charters and aggression against sovereign countries.
(1964 views)


February 27, 2006

US leader crashed by trying to "pedal, wave and speak at same time" - He may be the most powerful man in the world, but proof has emerged that President George Bush cannot ride a bike, wave and speak at the same time.
(2039 views)


February 28, 2006

Senator Feinstein's War-Profiteering - This is Dianne "War-Profiteer" Feinstein's new pad in San Fran. Not bad on a senator's salary.
(3061 views)

This just in: President Bush more popular than Vlad the Impaler! - All is not lost, though — the New York Times can't help but find the silver lining in Bush's free-fall...
(2073 views)


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