Tag: bush
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US embassy in yemen attacked, 16 killed
attack against embassy blamed on al-CIAda from danger room: “A car bomb and rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen has killed at least 16 people, including civilians and Yemeni security guards,” the AP reports. “Yemen has long been viewed as a haven for jihadists,” the Times notes. “It became a special concern for…
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9/11 + 7: down the memorial hole
survivors of attack find consolation in march to pentagonfrom washington post: Each year for the past four, Aline Tyler registered to participate in the annual America Supports You Freedom Walk to commemorate the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, and to honor the country’s veterans. But when the day came, the 50-year-old Army secretary couldn’t…
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selection ’08: obama/biden herd the sheep
dems endorse ‘global war on terror’; obama ‘goes after’ osamafrom michel chossudovsky: Obama’s “American Promise” is War. Barack Obama has embraced the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT). The Obama-Biden campaign has endorsed the very foundations of the Bush administration’s foreign policy agenda: “Go after Osama bin Laden, take him out”. The rhetoric is softer but…
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clip from oliver stone’s bush film released
from raw replay: A clip from Oliver Stone’s latest film W, about President George W Bush, has been released. This video is from ITN, broadcast September 4, 2008.
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putin: america, you’re provoking wars for political gain
from times online: Vladimir Putin accused President Bush tonight of orchestrating the war in Georgia in a plot to get John McCain elected to the White House.
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olbermann: bush creating ‘embryonic police state’
from raw replay: The Justice Department wants to revise the federal government’s rules for intelligence-gathering by state and local police making it easier to share anything they find about U.S. citizens with the federal government and then letting them retain that information for a decade. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast August 18, 2008.…
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russia seizes US weapons in georgia amidst ‘aid’ shipment
russia seizes arsenal of US weapons in georgiafrom nasdaq: Russian forces have seized a “large arsenal” of U.S.-made weapons in the western Georgian city of Senaki including hundreds of assault rifles, a military spokesman said Friday. “In Senaki, we seized a large arsenal of weapons including 664 U.S.-made M-16 rifles” and a number of M-40…
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7th anniversary of osama ‘determined to strike’ memo
from thinkprogress: Today marks seven years since the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (See the pdf memo here.) At the time, Bush was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, TX and stayed on vacation the rest of August 2001. Here’s how the administration reacted,…
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bush centralizes control of intelligence agencies as the police state agenda marches onward
from washington post: The Bush administration unveiled new operating guidelines for the nation’s intelligence community yesterday in a move that boosted the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) while triggering protests from lawmakers who complained that they weren’t properly consulted. The changes affirmed the DNI’s role as head of the…
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the enemy is us!
from existentialist cowboy: The very word ‘Frankenstein’ has come to mean ‘monsters of our own creation’ but more generally, monsters beyond our control. ‘Frankenstein’ has come to symbolize the Faustian bargain made by man with his own technology. The ’50’s Sci-Fi classic, Forbidden Planet, echoed Shakespeare’s The Tempest which, likewise, dealt with the same theme.…
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bohemian grove 2008 guestlist revealed
from 9/11 blogger: Activists from truthaction.org have obtained the official guest list for Bohemian Grove’s 2008 midsummer encampment along with a map of the Grove’s facilities. According to the guest list, this year’s attendees include George H. W. Bush, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and several former CIA directors. Also attending are…
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crying girl runs away from bush at tee-ball game
from raw replay: MSNBC’s Hardball played video of a girl who cried during her opportunity to me President Bush during the White House tee-ball game… “She probably thought she was meeting Dick Cheney. There she is, going, going, gone. Man, Bush really hit that one out of the park. Proof he’s having a hard time…
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is dubya an agent of the new world order?
“out of these troubled times, our…objective can emerge – a new world order.” – poppy bush on 9/11/90 from people’s voice: When you mention the word “conspiracy” to explain a situation, most people tune you right out. They think you’re a whack-oh. Yet, the U.S. Congress, as dumb as it is, subscribes to the proposition…
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bush called ‘fascist’ ‘war criminal’ on 4th of july
from raw story: President Bush delivered a July 4th address before a naturalization ceremony for new citizens at Thomas Jefferson’s home of Monticello that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters who called out “war criminal” and “impeach Bush.” … “Protesters made it hard to hear President Bush Friday,” Fox News reported. According to Virginia’s News Leader,…
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Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
President Bush will seek to comfort victims of his presidency as they try to make sense of the destruction he has caused.