I haven’t posted an update for a while, but I plan to make this more regular (at least once a week, when there is news, which I guess is almost assured with this administration!). The below includes some dated material (unfortunately):
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Inexperienced 28-year old for Homeland Security Hoelscher has no management experience, a review of his professional credentials shows. He came to government in 2001 as a low-level White House staffer, arranging presidential travel, according to news reports. He earned $30,000 a year, salary documents show. |
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Corp crony replaces Corp crony at Interior Kempthorne has very close ties to the same industries he would oversee in the Interior Department. In his last reelection campaign, he raised $86,000 from timber, mining and energy industries that wanted greater access to national forests in his state. |
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Bush knew of Katrina, after all The US president, George Bush, was warned before Hurricane Katrina struck that it could cause huge devastation, according to leaked video footage. |
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Feb 23: 47 dead, 90 mosques attacked Dozens of factory workers were pulled off buses and gunned down in northeast Baghdad, leaving 47 dead, and at least 90 Sunni mosques have been attacked. |
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US torture buddies stay mum in Europe Five European countries have not given information about allegations of covert CIA prison transport flights, Europe’s human rights watchdog has said. |
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Almost 100 prisoners died in US custody Almost 100 prisoners have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to US group Human Rights First. |
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Operation Iraqi Propaganda alive and functioning Donald Rumsfeld is backing off his claim last week that the Pentagon had stopped paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media. |
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TP: Department of Disenfranchisement The Department of Justice recently approved Georgias plan to force voters to show a state-issued ID that can be obtained in only 59 of the states 159 counties, none of which are in the six counties with the highest percentage of African Americans. |
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More Abu Ghraib pictures released February 15, 2006 by Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service TV |
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Ex-CIA dude says Iraq data was distorted CIA veteran Paul Pillar charges the administration with the selective use of intelligence about Iraq’s unconventional weapons and the chances of postwar chaos in Iraq. |
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Republicans save butt blasting Bush for Katrina Republican report says the Bush administration delayed the evacuation of thousands of New Orleans residents by failing to act quickly on early reports that the levees had broken during Hurricane Katrina. |
More coming up I am sure!
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