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Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay.
What struck people at the time was the choice of country. Paraguay, of course, has gained a certain Club Med status among the world's villains and criminal elements as the place to go when the law's on your tail. The country, ruled for six decades by the dictatorial and fascist Colorado Party of Gen. Alfredo Stroesser, an almost cartoon charicature of a Latin American dictator, has no extradition treaty with any nation.
That's why it has long harbored aging Nazis, bank robbers, and a string of ousted or retired Latin American dictators and their assistants over the years.
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Washington, D.C. -- The First Family Security Bubble was nearly pried open for a moment last Friday; but in the end Disneyland remained blessedly undisturbed.
On a particularly warm spring evening, Laura and Jenna Bush alighted from a squadron of black SUVs at the Borders book store in downtown Washington, D.C., right on schedule at 7:00 pm. Flanked by Secret Service agents, they went inside to an area set up for authors to sign books -- yes, sign books. The two Bush women have co-authored a 32-page children's book, "Read All About It," the story of Tyrone, a youngster who is good at everything in school but reading.
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I’ve been thinking about couples. Actually I’ve been thinking about the 2008 Presidential Election, spouses, financial disclosures, money, power, the cult of celebrity, and “two-fers.” The American public is being treated to a temporary hiatus in the media blitz of the 2008 Presidential campaign. It’s not that the race for the oval office is over – far from it. Because of the gap in the timing of the remaining primary elections and caucuses before the political conventions are held this summer and the “real campaigns” begin in earnest after Labor Day, we are getting a breather. Please read on...
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In an unscheduled rally appearance at the University of California-Los Angeles' (UCLA) Pauley Pavillion, California's First Lady, Maria Shirver, surrounded by her cousin Caroline Kennedy, best friend Oprah Winfrey, and co-political spouse, Michelle Obama, publicly announced her endorsement of Barack Obama for President of the United States. With today's endorsement, Shriver now joins a long list of her Kennedy relatives who are endorsing Barack Obama.
Shriver, niece of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and powerful Massachusetts Senator, Ted Kennedy, is an enormously popular figure in California. She assisted in resurrecting her husband, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career, after his early missteps in challenging union members and his failure to pass his self-absorbed ballot propositions in a special election he mandated on November 8, 2005. Indeed, after being badly defeated by the California electorate, Schwarzenegger pronounced publicly that he had learned his lessons and should have listened to his wife when she told him not to push for the special election or challenge the unions.
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The story that's buried on CNN's Political Ticker, instead of on the front page is hard to believe if you read it carefully, and also the response from the Republican Committee:
Please note the areas in italics:
Bill Clinton: George H.W. Bush will help President Hillary
ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (CNN) – Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that the first thing his wife Hillary will do when she reaches the White House is dispatch him and his predecessor, President George H.W. Bush, on an around-the-world mission to repair the damage done to America's reputation by the current president — Bush's son, George W. Bush.
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— from the Niagara Falls Reporter
Making money from government service and war, and lining the pockets of family and friends is a sacred creed in the Bush family. The Corleone family in "The Godfather" showed more restraint and was less inclined toward violence than the greedy gangsters the Bush crime family unleashed on the world.
Using public office and influence to make millions is so ingrained in the Bushevik regime that they don't even think twice when they raid the public treasury to take care of themselves.
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This is a video commentary and means to which the American people can bring back accountability to government, and most of all, a way to return our country to it's Constitutional principles and the Rule of Law.
Only You can help to save America
NOTE: These numbers are from a previous article I published with the appropriate link as to where the information came from. It speaks of other issues, however is reproduced here today to again publish those White House numbers and extensions that will help to maximize your calling.
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The Vatican's recent snub of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is only the latest salvo in the battle between Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush. This tug of war has profound implications for both U.S. foreign policy and the critical Catholic vote in 2008's presidential race.
Overlapping Agendas
Things haven't always been tense between Bush and Benedict. They share similar views regarding abortion, gay marriage, and other hot-button conservative issues. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (as Benedict was known before becoming Pope in April 2005) even helped Bush secure the White House for a second term.
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One thing I do believe in is keeping the President's children out of the controversy - and respecting his wish that his children be left alone. President Clinton felt the same way, and I concur. I also strongly believe that a President's sexual business is his own, just as it is with Corporate CEO's who run Fortune 500 Corporations; Investors could care less what the CEO does in his free time, but are only concerned with the bottom-line, and I believe this concept should be applied to sitting President's as well. Run our country and keep the nation prosperous and free from danger, and I personally don't care what they do in their spare time.
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I don't know why I bother reminding people about these kind of things. Its never done any good before, and it won't make a bit of difference this time either.
But I must, if for no other reason, so my own head doesn't explode.
So here we go again -- more proof that America has become a land with two sets of rules. One set for "them" and one for the rest of us.
One of "them" -- George W. Bush -- commented last week on the nation's mounting mortgage mess. He noted that lots of innocent folk bought houses with mortgages that should never have been made and now over 2.5 million face foreclosure. He offered to help 80,000 of them. (The other other 2.49 odd million are on their own.)
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
-- George W Bush
Much in the same way that US investors were “steered†into rip-off mortgage loans, the entire country has been “steered†into an economic crisis. The question is how to get out of it.
In the subprime loan scandal, unscrupulous brokers conned home buyers with poor credit histories into deals designed to profit lenders and bleed borrowers. Contract “teasers†hid ballooning monthly payments while a lack of regulation allowed the scam to continue unabated. Millions more Americans now face losing their homes.
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Slowly but surely, America is waking-up to the fact that President Bush and Dick Cheney are supporting Alberto Gonzales for only one reason – if Gonzo is impeached, resigns, or is otherwise removed from office, the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney is almost a certainty. Time Magazine, in a recent article, stunned me with their honesty and assessment of the current situation – and all of us should take heed and concentrate on getting Gonzales out of office by any and all legal means at our disposal! Get rid of Gonzales, and we have a chance at saving our Democratic Republic; allow him to stay and say good-bye to Democracy and freedom.
article tools: email | print | read more David Swanson
It's remarkably common for a grandson to take up his grandfather's major project. This occurred to me when I read recently of Thor Heyerdahl's grandson taking up his mission to cross the Pacific on a raft. But what really struck me was the BBC story aired on July 23rd documenting President George W. Bush's grandfather's involvement in a 1933 plot to overthrow the U.S. government and install a fascist dictatorship. I knew the story, but had not considered the possibility that the grandson was trying to accomplish what his grandfather had failed to achieve.
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What if on November 22, 1963 there was a coup d’E’tat in the United States led by rogue elements of the CIA that had been involved in organizing the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba? We know the CIA operatives were enraged that President Kennedy had not backed the Bay of Pigs invasion by launching an all out military assault on Castro’s Cuba.
What if, by assassinating John F. Kennedy, these powers felt they’d dramatically changed the course of events?
We know that Kennedy was not nearly as willing to expand the Viet Nam War as Lyndon Johnson was.
What if these elements then continued to change the course of the United States from behind the scenes for the next four and a half decades ignoring the rule of law as they shaped society for the benefit of their elitist agenda?
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Why why why why why why?
Can somebody explain to me WHY we are STILL treating Bush like a person who is worthy of respect?
I don't mean that tiny fraction of people who still believe what he says: I am talking about the vast majority of people who know he's a liar and a bad president.
Why does this lying, deceitful criminal deserve respect? What's he done to earn respect?
I haven't seen one goddamned thing that he has done in his entire wasted life that has not been an abject failure other than sending people to their deaths. And that's not really an accomplishment.
The days of people kissing Bush’s ass JUST because he is the president should end ASAP. This is a very important thing. I am very serious.
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During recent visit, President’s brother describes the country as a 'kind of tribal democracy'
In late February, only a few days after Saudi Arabia beheaded four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh, Neil Bush, for the fourth time in the past six years, showed up for the country's Jeddah Economic Forum. The Guardian reported that Human Rights Watch "said the four men had no lawyers during their trial and sentencing, and were denied other basic legal rights." In an interview with Arab News, the Saudi English language paper, Bush described the country as "a kind of tribal democracy."
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It seems like a hundred lifetimes ago now but, sure enough, over there in the not-yet-dusty corner of my memory are the still-razor sharp etchings of sitting in a bar on the then-seedy corner of Hennepin Avenue and 9th Street in Minneapolis after work one Saturday night, tossing back a few scotches with Dave Moore, when in flew a very young Molly Ivins.
Well, we were all very young; after all, it was only the mid or late 1960s. Molly had just graduated from Smith College and was covering the cops for the Minneapolis Tribune, I was in my last year at university and working part-time in the newsroom at WCCO-TV, and Dave was still building his reputation as the Upper Midwest’s younger yet nevertheless trustworthy version of an avuncular Walter Cronkite, just on a smaller stage.
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Toward the end of Travels With Charley Steinbeck makes this observation: “My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned. I know exactly where and when it was over. Near Abingdon, in the dog-leg of Virginia , at four o’clock of a windy afternoon, without warning or good-by or kiss my foot, my journey went away and left me stranded far from home. I tried to call it back, to catch it up—a foolish and hopeless matter, because it was definitely and permanently over and finished.” Anyone who’s taken a long journey knows what Steinbeck is talking about. It isn’t always the end point of a journey that determines its end, nor is it ever the person who takes the journey who determines it. The same can be said of presidencies. Some of them begin long before inauguration day. Bill Clinton’s began sometime in late summer, about the time when Maureen Dowd noticed that the elder Bush just wasn’t interested anymore. “This,” she wrote in a Sept. 6, 1992 dispatch co-written with Thomas Friedman, “may be the first Administration in history that is scrambling for its first-100-days plan in its last 60 days before facing the voters.” Johnson’s presidency ended in February 1968, Jimmy Carter’s on April 24, 1980, when eight servicemen were killed in the Iranian desert as an attempt to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Teheran disintegrated in a sand storm, and Reagan’s ended in Reykjavik in 1987, when he was about to sign away the American nuclear weapons arsenal in an abolitionist deal with Gorbachev. His aides stepped in and ensured that he’d be nothing more than the acting president for the remainder of his scandal-ridden term.
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A Real News Exclusive
Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed
By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen | The Real News Project
January 8, 2007
NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer.
Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a 'real shocker.'
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Here’s no surprise: A new academic report rating the IQs of presidents back to FDR puts George W. Bush at the bottom of the barrel.
A report published last week by the Lovenstein Institute (www.lovenstein.org) of Scranton, Pennsylvania, detailed its findings of a four month study into the intelligence quotient of President George W. Bush.
Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has been publishing its research to the educational community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others. After establishing and testing its methodology, the institute studied presidents dating back to Franklin Roosevelt. There have been 12 presidents over the past 50 years, beginning with FDR up to George W. Bush. Each was ranked based on scholarly achievements. The criteria includes:
