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Archive for the Month of March, 2006.
Viewing Government / The Elite NEWS articles 1 through 41 of 41.
- Dubai -- the emirate has the smoking gun evidence tying the Bush criminal cartel to arms trafficking, Viktor Bout, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda.
- Former American Red Cross chief executive Marsha J. Evans received a severance package valued at about $780,000 after she was ousted from the organization in December... - A Convoluted, But Scandalous, Tale of Pentagon Pork
- A cynic might look at the Clintons and the Doles and say that what is involved is a form of family protection racket. The wives speak out publicly from the floor of the US Senate, warning of "security concerns" over the Dubai port deal, and thereby raising the cash value of the services their husbands perform privately for the emirs. - The American Red Cross has come under fire over payments to publicists who recruited stars to add lustre to its image, even as funds ran short for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- Oh, big surprise. Dick Cheney, according to a CBS poll, is less popular than the wife-beating murderer O.J. Simpson, convicted in civil court in 1997. In fact, Cheney is several times more murderous and infinitely more dangerous than Simpson, although Dick is careful to not get any blood spattered on his expensive suit. - As George Bush's poll numbers plummet to depths not seen in presidential polling since Watergate, it is noteworthy to point out Bush's other "numbers"
- He knows at least one hiding place in two different governors' mansions and the White House for liquor and, you know, whatever. - Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for years now.
- In a year or so the United Nations will be just another American NGO doing the bidding of the world’s multinational corporations. That’s good news for Bolton and his friends at the American Enterprise Institute, the ideological headquarters for America’s ongoing incursions into the third world.
- A number of observers suspect that the deal worked out for Dubai Ports World to transfer operations of U.S. ports to a U.S. firm involves Bush family business dealings. - In an unusual follow-up to a public event, the Defense Department has ordered that a transcript of an open hearing on aviation restrictions be yanked from the Web.
- Former Bush domestic policy czar Claude Allen (right) has been arrested in Maryland on charges of swindling at least $5000 out of Targets and Hecht's stores in a refund scam... - Money's Going to Talk in 2008
- Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. - The last few months has seen a unusual occurrence in the world of political punditry, that of the 'post conflict war monger soul search'. A process by which those in the media and political nerve centre can disown their foaming at the mouth pre-war scaremongering on the basis they were unaware people would die and a country would be left in ruins. It truly is a wondrous sight to behold. - In the perfect neocon world, the American people are completely militarized, indoctrinated, and have the "stomach" (as Robert Kagan deems it) to engage in endless, open-ended war against dehumanized others, a faceless horde of evil-doers.
- XXX movie actress who caused stir last summer eating dinner this week
- Russert dresses in drag, sings "rendition" song
- Al Gore Fires Up Crowd At West Palm Beach Fund-Raiser - Ask yourself what's wrong with this story?!
- The tall, lanky man who spawned George W. Bush may have been standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository on Nov. 22, 1963.
- Wilfully violates Constitution and places himself above the law again
- Democratic simpletons are falling into the ditch - yet again. The latest snake oil salesmen that has renderd them agag is Ill. junior Senator Barak "Obomba" Iran. - On any level, it makes absolutely no sense that Michael Brown should have been holding any major government post.
- American presidents, with few exceptions, are bullies and cowards. - A specialist in presidential rhetoric...views it as "a bizarre kind of double talk" that abuses the rules of legitimate discussion.
- Recently retired Gen. Richard Myers, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who led the Pentagon into war with Iraq, hasn't stayed out of work long. - If had the scummy old bastard's track record, I guess I'd trust the marketplace, too.
- ...the Pentagon's revolving door is an old story. Last year in his Washington Post blog, William Arkin went down a list of nine other, lesser-known retired generals and admirals who among them have landed 32 corporate board positions or vice presidencies. - Americans who tuned in for one of President George W. Bush’s rare press conferences saw a cornered animal trying to squirm his way out of trouble by doing what he has always done - evading the truth.
- Retired General Wesley Clark has once again enmeshed himself in the military-industrial complex. - White House insiders report that an influential group of extreme right-wing gay Latino power brokers has been given almost total control over U.S. foreign and business policy decisions affecting Latin America. - Former first lady's donation aids son - Katrina funds earmarked to pay for Neil Bush's software program - An SEC filing shows William H.T. Bush ("Uncle Bucky") collected about $1.9 million in cash, plus stock valued at $800,000, from the deal.
- The Democrats’ Athena only differs from Bush on the details.
- As Barbara Bush spent two hours championing her son's software company at a Houston middle school Thursday morning, a watchdog group questioned whether the former first lady should be allowed to channel a donation to Neil Bush's Ignite Learning company through Houston's Hurricane Katrina relief fund.
- Taking a tip from an old playbook—recall Al Capone ensconced at his South Florida mansion when the St. Valentines’ Day Massacre rocked Chicago— Bush slipped out of D.C. just as his erstwhile buddy Abramoff was facing the music (such as it was) in a Miami Federal courthouse. - The Capitol Hill police are rife with officers hired by the Republican leadership and the recently-departed and nepotism scandal-tainted police chief Terrance Gainer, who got his start as a rookie cop in Chicago in 1968 clubbing anti-Vietnam War protestors at the Democratic National Convention.
- The thrust of this document, reiterated by the party’s Congressional leaders, is that the Bush administration has bungled the war in Iraq and the overall "global war on terror," and that the Democrats can do a more competent job of waging both. - The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church -- especially the Archdiocese of Boston -- knows no bounds. When they're not defending child abusers, they're bashing gays. Now, they're defending and protecting Antonin Scalia. - Harvard study of Israeli lobby's influence costs the academic dean of the Kennedy School his job
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