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BUSH, CHENEY, ROVE, RIDGE, ASHCROFT, RUMSFELD

PRESIDENT BUSH: Good morning, Gentlemen.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Hello, George.

The Green Party is looking for progressives to run for elected office.

Across the US a 177 Green office holders in 24 states are hard at work. They are creating public policy on important issues including civil rights, a living wage, affordable housing, alternative voting systems, and peace. They are advocating for peace and opposing urban sprawl and expansion of corporate power. Green office holders ran to make an immediate impact on their communities as town council members, county commissioners, school board members etc. These Greens reached out to voters of diverse backgrounds, brought together coalitions of community organizations and individuals to begin to reclaim their local governments.

The growth and movement of the Green Party continues in 2003 and toward 2004. All across the country hundreds of Green Party candidates will be challenging the two establishment parties. Here in Ohio this year all kinds of local offices are up for election, from city councils to school boards to township trustees. * In 2004 one of our US Senate seats, seats in the US Congress, the Ohio State Senate and House of Representatives
The Green Party of Ohio is proud to announce the Making Democracy REAL! campaign, a major statewide, 18-month effort to get the people of Ohio involved in the democratic process. Part of the freedom in the democratic process is for people to be able to participate in government which daily makes decisions that affects their lives. There is a disconnect between most Ohioans and their government at the local, state and national levels. Our Making Democracy REAL! campaign aims to address this issue on several fronts: To 1) Get more people to run for office 2) Create a coalition of groups to work towards changing Ohio's undemocratic electoral laws 3) Initiate a major voter registration drive 4) Hold a series of local events across Ohio for communities to discuss these issues 5) Gain Ballot Access for the Green Party of Ohio.

One of the most intense ways to become involved in one's democracy is to stand for elected office. Currently we are governed by a "professional politician" class that is often very insulated from the people they are supposed to represent. We are seeking everyday Ohioans to be candidates to
Here we go again. While postwar Iraq continues to crumble, the Bush administration is now setting its sights on a new target—Iran—in its so-called effort to reshape most of the Middle East and bring democracy to countries ruled by vicious dictators. But the Bush administration is again relying on flimsy evidence and thin intelligence information in claiming that the Iran poses an immediate threat to the United States.

The U.S. still hasn’t uncovered any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which was the prime reason for launching an attack against the country. Rumsfeld said in an interview reported by CNN Tuesday that it’s possible the WMD in Iraq may have been destroyed prior to the war. So right now, the Bush administration doesn’t have much credibility here or with countries that rightfully opposed the war in Iraq.

Ari Fleischer, Bush’s press secretary, said during his daily press briefing Tuesday that Iran hasn’t taken the appropriate steps to round up al Qaeda terrorists allegedly hiding out within its borders. Moreover, Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons puts the U.S. in grave danger. Therefore, regime change is in order.

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President “W” has the insight and intelligence of the average small town letter-to-the-editor writer: simple understandings of complex problems; simple explanations of causes; simple remedies; unassailable notions of who is to blame, and unbounded faith in the righteousness of his own simplistic position.

If the Freedom of Information act would allow access to “W’s” school records, I would expect his IQ to be “low average” ; I’ve read an estimate of 91. Having taught school for thirty-one years, I concur with the estimate.

That is not to say that the brilliant vampires surrounding our president are not bright bulbs; they know exactly what they are doing! It is a marriage made in hell ( with Carl Rove playing Lucifer).

Bush is the perfect shill for the nastiness of the neo-cons. The dark forces of the Empire (Darth Cheney, Grand Marshall Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol, et. al.) can hide their sneers behind the scenes while Skeletor Rumsfeld works his petulant humor on the venal press corps. Knowing all the while that the idiot-boy-presidential front man will make everything OK.

As religious leaders and organizations from the United States of America, we join the global call for the timely establishment of an international tribunal for East Timor.

We remember the tragedies endured by the people of East Timor and have heard their cries for justice. We agree that an international tribunal is necessary to hold accountable those most responsible for the war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed throughout the 24 years of brutal Indonesian military occupation.

The initial years of Indonesia's illegal occupation saw the deaths of more than one-third of East Timor's pre-1975 population. The occupation ended in 1999 amid a wave of terror and violence unleashed upon civilians countrywide. The Indonesian military committed countless atrocities in East Timor, including torture, rape, forced sterilization, disappearance and murder. Justice for such egregious crimes cannot be denied without serious repercussions. Indeed, peace in East Timor and the rule-of-law in Indonesia have already been seriously compromised.

During the occupation, Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo was among the
STOMP is a hell of a kick.  It's the Oltatunji of the Ashcans.  The Kodo Drumming of the Alleyways.  It is offbeat, imaginative, relentlessly unique in its working-class creativity, and, at its best, downright inspirational.

Gotta admit---it starts slow.  You have to adjust to a set cobbled together from trashcans and hubcaps, discard signs and scrap metal.  There's no orchestra and no lyrics.  Marcel Marceau would get mugged in this neighborhood.

Festivities open with a guy pushing a broom.  Soon there's a chorus line of broomsters, somehow making it all musical.  And from there it goes...

Other "instruments" range from paperbags and daily newspapers to bottleopeners and kitchen utensils, from actual basketballs to apparently random trash.

Slowly, the cast establishes their characters.  The sad sack.  The macho muscle man.  The Earth Mother.  The firefly.

They're all young and profoundly athletic.  They play a very good game of fast-break  run-and-shoot.  Not much defense.  The pace quickens.  The stunts grow more demanding.  The music gets better.  The jumps and turns get more impressive.  

NEW YORK CITY -- Much as I hate to interrupt what is apparently a deeply felt triumphalism on the American right, now that it's over, does anyone see any reason for our having invaded Iraq?

I realize that's what we all kept trying to figure out before the invasion, but don't you think it should at least be visible in hindsight? Good thing we won the war, because the peace sure looks like a quagmire.

These are early days, certainly, to attempt a full historical evaluation. Could be a case of the forest and the trees. Perhaps we're well along the road to having everything work out magnificently, and I'm just missing it. Still, I can't see anything that's going right.

Iraq is in chaos, and apparently the only way we'll be able to stop it will be to kill a lot of Iraqis. Just what Saddam used to do. The other day, we announced we were going to shoot looters, and when that produced nightmare scenarios of children dead for stealing bread, we had to cancel that plan. Now we're going to try gun control -- that should have the enthusiastic support of the NRA. Meanwhile, the chaos in Iraq seems to be
AUSTIN, Texas -- This is a gross scandal. The Center for Public Integrity has a stunning study out on the concentration of ownership in telecommunications. The even more stunning news is that the Federal Communications Commission, which theoretically represents you and me, is about to make all of it even worse. And behind this betrayal of the public trust is nothing but rotten, old-fashioned corruption. It's the old free-trip-to-Vegas ploy, on a grand scale.

The Public Integrity people examined the travel records of FCC employees and found that they have accepted 2,500 trips, costing nearly $2.8 million over the past eight years, paid for by the telecommunications and broadcast industries, which are, theoretically, "regulated" by the FCC. The industry-paid travel is on top of about $2 million a year in official travel paid for by taxpayers.

According to the center, FCC commissioners and agency staffers attended hundreds of conventions, conferences and other events all over the world, including Paris, Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. They were put up at luxury hotels such as the Bellagio in Las Vegas and ferried about by limo.

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