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  • ’Bird Flu’: From psyOP and population control to "WW4"
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Bird Flu’: From psyOP and population control to "WW4" Notes compiled by ewing2001 October 22, 2005
    During 2004, on my old blog at 911skeptics.blogspot.com and in many online e-mail correspondences, i pointed out on the possibility, how to stage the easiest bogus pretext for "WW4" (WW4 is a definition labelled by neocons Eliot Cohen, Norman Podhoretz and James Woolsey. They personally skipped "WW3", which was in their mind already the Cold War):
    ...A fake Al-Quaeda terror cell in taiwan (…)

  • The Wal-Mart 22
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jonathan Tasini
    Jonathan Tasini is president of the Economic Future Group and writes his "Working In America" columns for TomPaine.com on an occasional basis. His blog Working Life chronicles the labor movement and other issues affecting American workers.
    Last week, I attended the screening of Robert Greenwald’s new film, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.” It is a great piece of investigative work that gives voice to the people and communities Wal-Mart has destroyed. You have to (…)

  • Congressinal version of Insider Trading?
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    They Say that the Fish Rots from the Head Down by Andrew Bard Schmookler
    http://www.opednews.com
    I get up from my seat at the computer to go out to the mailbox. I need a break from my work, writing for my website, involving as it does my delving continuously into the moral darkness that has overtaken America in recent years. I am weary of looking at the corruption and injustice that postures as righteousness among our present rulers.
    As I walk outside into the radiant autumn New (…)

  • Battle ahead at Americas summit
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leaders from 34 nations have begun arriving in Argentina for the fourth two-day Summit of the Americas.
    They are meeting in the coastal resort of Mar del Plata amid much uncertainty about what can be achieved on the summit’s main aim of job creation.
    There are deep divisions over free trade, with the US championing it as the best way to relieve poverty.
    President George W Bush is among those attending the talks. He is expected to be targeted by left-wing protesters.
    Thousands of (…)

  • Bush, Chávez clash over hemispheric trade accord
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Finlay Lewis
    MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - President Bush pressed his free trade agenda yesterday at the opening session of a hemispheric summit in the face of a challenge by Venezuela’s leftist leader Hugo Chávez and street violence by anti-American protesters.
    The disagreement between Bush and Chávez over trade unfolded against the backdrop of a peaceful demonstration that turned unruly by evening. About 1,000 rock-throwing protesters burned an American flag and threw a gasoline bomb (…)

  • Why Are Democrats Working For Wal-Mart?
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jonathan Tasini
    I’m going to spend a second day here on the Beast of Bentonville. If you want to know why the Democratic Party will continue to be the minority party in the country, look no further than the raft of Democratic operatives and elected representatives who do the bidding of Wal-Mart. At the end of this rant, I’ll propose a solution to cut off money to any of these Democrats who have ties to Wal-Mart.
    Yesterday, I attended the screening of Robert Greenwald’s new film, (…)

  • Bird flu panic spreads-among the beneficiaries: Donald Rumsfeld.
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A year ago Tamiflu was known, if at all, as an obscure remedy for influenza, which doctors typically treat with bed rest and chicken soup. Today, with panic mounting over a potential bird flu pandemic, it’s the most sought-after drug in the world, as everyone from suburban soccer moms in the U.S. to health officials in London and Taipei scramble to stockpile the pill. At the moment, it seems, virtually the entire world is on sick-chicken alert.
    "One dead parrot in the U.K. and four dead (…)

  • Feathering his nest?
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 31, 2005: 10:55 AM EST
    NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that’s now the most-sought after drug in the world.
    Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)’s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush (…)

  • Exxon Mobil Posts New Record for Profit
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Steve Quinn
    Exxon Mobil Corp. had a quarter for the record books. The world’s largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday high oil and natural-gas prices helped its third-quarter profit surge almost 75 percent to $9.92 billion, the largest quarterly profit for a U.S. company ever, and it was the first to ring up more than $100 billion in quarterly sales.
    Net income ballooned to $9.92 billion, or $1.58 per share, from $5.68 billion, or 88 cents per share, a year ago.
    Excluding (…)

  • Open Season On America’s Seniors
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert M. Hayes
    Robert M. Hayes, an attorney, is president of the Medicare Rights Center, the nation’s largest independent source of information and assistance on health care rights and benefits for older and disabled men and women. He led the national and New York Coalitions for the Homeless from 1979 to 1989, and has practiced law with firms in New York and Maine.
    Deer hunting season is just starting up in much of the northern United States.
    But the Bush administration has already (…)