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www.DukeEmployees.com - Duke Energy Employee Advocate News Links - Page 7IBM Freezing Pensions - "Unhappy workers sued the company over the cash-balance conversion" Medicare Misery - "Why would anyone have designed such an insane program?" Lobbying Reform - "Lobbying today is essentially legalized bribery." IRS Tracked Political Affiliation - "IRS officials acknowledged that party affiliation information was routinely collected" Medicare Officials Probed - "The Finance Committee began investigating the contractors last summer" 'DeLay Inc.' - "The firm has links to no fewer than three of the scandals convulsing the US capital." What Year Is This Anyway? - "Even the nation's chief executive is subject to the rule of law" Let Us Prey - "When you've spent a lifetime exploiting religion for profit and power" Corruption - "The arrogance that brought Republicans into power is arrogance that will take them out of power" War Cost - "The war...to cost the United States...one trillion dollars and potentially over $2 trillion." 'Fool Me Once...' - "The Bush team...demonstrated its contemp...for normative standards of truth." The Pimping of the Presidency - "Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration" The Opposite of Good Is Apathy - "Change will not happen until we make it happen." The Sago Mine Disaster - "If it'd been a union mine this never would have happened" Ties That Bind? - "Abramoff was a top fund-raiser for the Bush re-election effort, raising more than $100,000" Incoming - "The Center...does not have one Democrat...listed as having received a donation from Jack Abramoff" Lobbyist to Reveal All in Congress Bribes Scandal - "This is potentially the biggest congressional scandal in history" GOP's Lobbying Strategy - "This is the one thing that could result in a change in who controls the Congress" Lobbying America's Guilty Secret - "Others claim it is legalised bribery, even corruption." Lobbyist Pleads Guilty in Florida; Second Plea in 2 Days - "Abramoff directed favors to a senior DeLay staff member" Abramoff's 'Cesspool of Corruption' - "Top Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is set to sing" Bush to Give Away Abramoff Donations - "Abramoff raised at least $100,000 for President Bush's 2004 re-election effort" Love, Labor, Loss - "Frail but fearless - that was Cassie. And that was her gift to her father." Bush Could Bypass New Torture Ban - "Bush believes he can waive the restrictions" The Unrestrained President - "The President's fervor for unconstrained party as well as presidential power" 'Ignored Iraqi Weapons Evidence' - "Every one reported that the programs did not exist." Corporations Go Free - "The Rise of Deferred and Non Prosecution Agreements" Looks Like Bush Knew Wiretaps Were Wrong - "We're talking about getting a court order before we do so" Abramoff Pleads Guilty - "DeLay has taken three overseas trips with Abramoff" US Rep. Murtha Says He Wouldn't Join Military Now - "The shadow of those killings stay with you the rest of your life" Bush's Long War with the Truth - "Bush did not make a New Year's resolution to stop lying." Wal-Mart Workers Enforce Rights - "It's about Wal-Mart workers sticking together" NSA Gave Other US Agencies Information from Surveillance - "1,200 Americans citizens' calls were intercepted" Friends Don't Let Friends Commit War Crimes - "You're like an ambassador for peace" Letter from an Iraqi - "Because of you, we have witnessed horrible days and the future is a gloomy one." After the War - "Polls now show the country decisively against the war and the Bush Administration" War without End - "Can anyone claim today that they feel safer than they did a year ago?" Bush Says, Bring It On - "This...Administration...has tried to bypass courts...more than any since Richard Nixon" Willy Peter - "The U.S. used white phosphorous as an improved form of napalm, terrorizing enemies." Giving Employees What They Want - "People don't want to work for an organization that's run by a bunch of crooks." The Bush Family Coup - "The only explanation for the Bush domestic spying is that it's political." Ex-Envoy Goes Public on Torture - "The British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture" The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail - "'This is the way things work in Washington" Bush as the New Nixon - "Both Wiretapped Illegally, and Impeachably" Union's Success - "A pension reimbursement...will put more than $150 million in workers' pockets" 'Equal Money' Went to Republicans - "Bush calls indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff 'an equal money dispenser' " Freest Press Money Can Buy? - "The Pentagon is paying Iraqi journalists to write 'good news' stories" The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005 - "A handful of elected officials...bent the arc of history toward justice" Wear Hits Bush's Spokesman - "McClellan's public image is having some trouble recovering from it all" Bush-NSA Spying - "Bush circumvented the judicial process and secretly authorized the...Agency to spy on thousands" The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff - "The puppet master who pulled the strings of officials in key places" The Year in Politics - "Bush appears to have expended the turning points. Welcome to victory." Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination - "The government has alleged that Brown...discriminated against whites" Fear Destroys What bin Laden Could Not - "He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help" Government Spun News - "US military websites...pay journalists to write articles and commentary supporting military activities" Transit Workers - "If it took a strike to get it, so be it. I think this is an overwhelming success" Censuring Bush - "Committee would...make recommendations...for possible impeachment of Bush and Cheney" Clinton Jencks, Organizer - "He saw parallels between the repression...and the Bush administration's current policies" Ex-Enron Accountant Pleads Guilty - "Causey will serve seven years in prison and forfeit $1.25 million" CIA Probes Renditions - "Some 100 to 150 people have been snatched up" Illegal Interrogations - "After the Americans, the British?" Slowly, Cancer Genes Tender Their Secrets - "Individual cancers are going to fall one by one" The Crack-Up - "The...involvement of industry lobbyists in...the energy or bankruptcy bills, is far more troublesome" Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free - "Media...often act as nothing more than a conveyor belt for government propaganda" Over 10,000 March in Baghdad - "Calling for a rerun of the elections on the grounds of massive fraud" The Year the Chickenhawks Go Home - "Impeachment is not necessary for people who never were elected" The Hidden State - "Either the President must uphold the laws...or he must leave office" Impeachment Buzz - "Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-Ups in the war in Iraq" Some in UAW Seek a Recount - "Workers...had approved the deal by a 51 percent majority" Corrupted - "2006 is expected to be the year of congressional scandals" Veteran's Message - "We're still taking casualties from Vietnam...Is the same thing going to happen again?" Stress Disorder - "If...PTSD rates are low . . . that is convenient for the Bush administration." Called on Their Errors - "CIA agents' use of cell phones during mission lets police in Italy identify them" Citizen Babies - "The United States is among the relatively few wealthy nations that allow birthright citizenship" Spying on UN Diplomats - "The mainstream US media winked at Bush's illegal use of the NSA for his Iraq invasion agenda" Telling It Like It Isn't - "Television journalism has thus become a lethal adjunct to war." Wind Power - "Each Mag-Wind can generate 900 to 2,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month" Staying the course - "A great American erosion has occurred this year" Big Brother Bush Is Listening - " It is not just congresspersons who are outraged at Bush's secret surveillance" Bush Presses Editors on Security - "They accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff" Beyond the Imperial Presidency - "They expect our trust, but they can't be bothered to earn it" The Ultimate Quagmire - "Bush's new Iraq is pro-Iran. It will not recognize Israel. And it wants the Americans out" A Bad Year for Goliath - "People everywhere...won't let the official version go unchallenged anywhere" Bubble Burst by Troubled 2005 - "Bush has become 'bubble boy'...and his revolution seems to have popped" Eavesdropping Could Undermine Work - "We pay the price for doing what the White House tells us to do" Iraqis in the Dark - "The US paid...Bechtel Corp. $69 million for a natural-gas-fired plant that was never built" Dems - "The GOP is going to continue down its path, with no realization that they are in a downward spiral." Agency Could Be Big Brother - "If a dictator ever took over, the NSA 'could enable it to impose total tyranny' " Surge in Airstrikes - "I'm hard-pressed to provide a single definitive explanation for the increase" Bush's False Choices - " 'Whatever it takes' does not mean 'whatever the president says it takes' " Jury Awards $207 Million to Wal-Mart Workers - "The workers claimed they were owed more than $66 million plus interest" Power We Didn't Grant - "Congress should fully investigate these actions and the president's justification for them" US Allies in Iraq Want Out - "It makes even more of a mockery of what the administration likes to call a coalition" Cheney's Imperial Presidency - "It would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship" Congress Denied Bush War Powers - "Bush...requested...Congress rejected" Crypto Man - "He says the wiretapping is illegal." Arrest Warrant Issued for 22 CIA Operatives - "Suspects wanted for allegedly kidnapping Egyptian cleric" Iraqis March, Say Elections Were Rigged - "We refuse the cheating and forgery in the elections" New York Transit Strike Ends - "The authority's pension demands...have been significantly scaled back." 'Impeachment' - "Bush broke the law on a scale that could warrant his impeachment" Bush's Impeachable Offense - "Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans" Lobbyist Plea Deal - "Abramoff may testify against 'at least a dozen lawmakers...' " Bush Isn't Listening to the Constitution - "The president is not above the law; he is not King George." Uncivil Liberties - "Why won't the Bush administration obey the law?" Surveillance Hearings - "There may be legislation which will come out of it to restrict the president's power" 'I Am the Law' - "With Bush another week always means a new and more disturbing revelation" Patriot Act Is No Bush Win - "The White House - couldn't break the filibuster, couldn't break the bipartisan group" Transit Strike - "Other unions...watch to see how New York negotiates wages and key benefits." The Breaking Strain - "Calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush must be heeded, and the House must act." For Years, Bush Said Court Orders Required - "A wiretap requires a court order" Christmas Bush - "The President of the United States has publicly acknowledged it." Spy Court Judge Quits in Protest - "Jurist concerned Bush order tainted work of secret panel" Cheney Defends Domestic Spying - "Time for the president to tell the truth" Lobbyist Is Said to Discuss Plea - "Mr. Ney has said he was tricked by Mr. Scanlon and Mr. Abramoff" Bipartisan Call for Wiretapping Probe - "The dark days of President Nixon" Bush's Snoopgate - "Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story" Impeachment - "People...are waking up to the...lies, crimes, and abuses of power committed by this president" Probe of Bush - "Intelligence Committee called...for an immediate inquiry into his...spying on Americans." New York Hit by Transit Strike - "New York transit workers walked off the job for the first time in 25 years" Impeachable Offense - "Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans" UK Minister Lied over CIA Flights - "CIA rendition flights did pass through its territory" Bush's Illegal Spying - "The president acted unnecessarily...in direct violation of a criminal law" Senator Byrd: No President Is Above the Law - "Never have the freedoms we cherish seemed so imperiled." FBI Watched Activist Groups - "It's an abuse of power by the F.B.I." Medicaid Changes Could Hit the Poor - "Critics say it shreds the health safety net for the most vulnerable Americans" Bush Fundraisers Cash In - "Energy producers...dodged...cleanup costs after federal officials revised clean-air standards." Unforgettable - "The real costs of that day came from the leeway a frightened public, a feeble Congress, and a cowed media" Spending Bill Spares Major Weapons Programs - "A record $453.5 billion for the military in fiscal 2006" The Constitution in Crisis - "These charges clearly rise to the level of impeachable misconduct" Some Candor, but Not Enough - "60% of the public indicate they no longer trust the President to tell the truth." Sen. Reid Calls US Congress 'Most Corrupt in History' - "This is a Republican scandal" Congress Pushes Back, Hard, against Bush - "Blindsided by news of domestic spying, it is holding up a key bill" Workers Fear for Health and Their Jobs - "I didn't want to worry about work, but work was all I worried about" Response to Presidential Address - "I tried to watch President Bush's speech, but I couldn't - there was no electricity." The Business of Voting - "Diebold machines can be hacked to change vote totals" Secret Prison in Kabul - "I could hear people knocking their heads against the walls...screaming their heads off." Bush Proud of His Big Ears - "This is Big Brother run amok" Spending Cuts - "Bush came into office in 2001 with a budget surplus of $236 billion" Torture's Long Shadow - "Neither the doctor nor those guards could ever look me in the eye again." Big Brother Bush - "The President Took a Step toward a Police State" Radical Militant Librarians - "When the shepherd is a wolf, the flock becomes only so much meat." Frist's Charity Paid Consultants - "Paid nearly a half-million dollars...to members of his political inner circle" Bush's Fumbles Spur New Talk of Oversight - "We're not going to be stonewalled here" America's Anti-Torture Tradition - "I find the more of them are employed, the less they succeed." Bush Vows to Continue Spying on Americans - "I tell you, he's President George Bush, not King George Bush" Columnist Resigns - Lobbyist Paid Him - "He took payments from...Abramoff...for writing columns" Fun Bits About American Torture - "Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America that is, and we do it a lot" '78 Law Sought to Close Spy Loophole - "This is clearly in violation of FISA and a violation of the Constitution." Bush Spying Scandal Probe - "Shocking...ought to send a chill down the spine of every senator and every American" "Securing America without Destroying Liberties" - "Secret renditions should be stopped. Torture must be outlawed." Pentagon Mishandled Database - "Pentagon analysts appear not to have followed guidelines" Radiation Alert - "The radioactive cloud...may be responsible for 4,000 deaths" Rove's Moment of Truth? - "It is a felony to make a false statement to the FBI, which Rove very clearly did" Phone-Jamming Verdict - "A former top Republican Party official was convicted on telephone harassment charges" Illegal Immigration Could Be a Felony - "Republicans push legislation that defies Bush's guest-worker plan" House Defies Bush and Backs McCain - "An unusual bipartisan rebuke to the Bush administration" McCain Overpowers Lame Duck Bush - "Cheney had made an unusual appeal...to provide an exemption for the CIA." Doubts about Vote Machines - "It's possibly one person acting in secret changing thousands of votes in a second." Coca-Cola Abusive Practices - "Coca-Cola...rife with immorality, corruption, and complicity in murder" Senate Is Set to Require White House to Account for Secret Prisons - "No senator has publicly objected to the amendments" President Knows Leak Source - "He is confident that...Bush knows who leaked Plame's name." Enemies of the State? - "We've been moving from one nightmare to another." Pensions Deal - "Their bill makes Americans' pensions less secure" McCain, White House Deadlock on Torture Ban - "The goal is to make it very clear that the United States is a nation of laws" Police Seize Forged Ballots Headed to Iraq - "At least three other trucks filled with ballots had crossed" The Silence of the Doctors - "The doctor's presence did not restrain the interrogator's excesses" On Torture: A Defining Moment - "McCain...provided Congress a chance to redeem itself" Pentagon Rewrites Army Detainee Standards - "The Bush administration has taken its drive to permit torture to new depths." Judge Clears Way for Border Fence - "The final leg of the fence would cross steep, rugged canyons" US Paid for Media Firm Afghans Didn't Want - "Millions spent despite complaints deals were 'rip-off' to taxpayers" Swiss Lawmaker Cites CIA Prison Evidence - "There is a kind of legal black hole in the middle of Europe" 1000 Days of War - "From Shock and Awe to a country torn between insurrection and democracy" Byrd Warns Frist against "Nuclear Option" - "If the senator wants a fight, let him try it" Abuse Cited in 2nd Jail - "Official says 12 prisoners subjected to 'severe torture.' " French Told CIA of Bogus Iraq Intelligence - "No proof. No evidence. No indication. No sign." Government Men Who Terrorize Iraq - "The doctor says the Americans have helped bring in new Iran-backed terror." Class Warfare with Taxes - "No legislative choice...has so clearly pitted the super-rich against the suburban middle class." Incalculable pain - "The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq." Military's Information War - "We call our stuff information and the enemy's propaganda" US Denies Red Cross Access - "A central purpose of the Red Cross is to visit prisoners and protect their human rights" United States Needs Labor Law Reform - "December 10, is International Human Rights Day" Workers' Right to Join Unions - "The right to come together in a union is a fundamental freedom" Torture Administration - "In addition to murder and torture, humiliation and indignity have been widely used" US Military Probing Video of Road Violence - "But who gave those civilians the right to shoot?" Cunningham Probe - "The contractors' political activity came as they landed valuable government contracts" Murtha's Tough Stand Boosts His Profile - "John Murtha is the perfect storm of credibility and quotability" Bogus Qaeda-Iraq Link - "The Defense Intelligence Agency had identified Mr. Libi as a probable fabricator" Plea Deal - "Boulis was killed in a gangland-style hit in Fort Lauderdale on Feb. 6, 2001" Stay or Go? - "Surprisingly, a bipartisan consensus is emerging for bringing home our exhausted troops" Carrying the World - "I don't blame the people who killed Casey but the people who...lied and deceived the world" Cheney in Last Throes - "It was not a 'few bad apples' at the bottom. The bad apples were at the very top" Acts of Defiance against War - "The crucial question is whether to go to Iraq and the war itself is in fact unlawful" Rumsfeld's Deal with Saddam - "Washington and business interests combined to strengthen and arm Saddam Hussein" Court Rules against Evidence - "Evidence obtained through torture...not admissible in British courts." Rummy Exit - "Bush has told friends that Rumsfeld is a political liability" Condi's Trail of Lies - "Rice's credibility, at least in the German press, was left in tatters." Firestone Lawsuit - "Multinational corporations continue to undermine human rights and democracy." Republicans Have Lost High Moral Ground - "Call it Tonto's revenge" Iraq Reconstruction - "There are dozens of other criminal corruption cases being processed." Ex-GOP Official Faces Conspiracy Charge - "One federal count of conspiring against voters' rights in 2002" Delphi Attacks Workers - "Miller has told Delphi's hourly workers...that the American Dream is a thing of the past" An Exit Strategy - "Bush...should be shown the exit door...to never darken the Oval Office again." Protesters Greet Cheney - "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Dick Cheney Has To Go" Man Claims US Tortured Him - "In addition to torture, he claims his due process rights were violated" Drug Plan - "Seniors...are realizing that it was constructed to help the insurance industry...drug industry" Cash from Lobbyist - "The association paid Abramoff $460,000 that year to defeat the bill" Money Laundering Charges against DeLay - "Priest upheld the money laundering charges against DeLay" "F" on Homeland Security - "We believe that another attack will occur." Frist's Votes Found to Favor HCA - "Because he owned so much stock in HCA" Probe Could Extend to CIA - "There is one contractor with whom he enjoys a very, very, very close relationship." America Can't Take It Anymore - "Bush policies appear to have corrupted the CIA to an unprecedented degree" Anatomy of a Victory - "Bush's plan to privatize Social Security...is dead" Torture Makes Justice Impossible - "Evidence obtained through waterboarding would never be admissible in a court of law" CIA Charges - "The CIA may be illegally holding terror suspects at sites in Europe" Wrongful Imprisonment - "Arresting people, treating them inhumanly and less than that, and with no rights and no laws" Forged Prewar Intelligence - "The agency soon realized the documents were fake" Reservist Faces Graft Charges on Iraq - "Wheeler is also accused of smuggling $100,000 in stolen funds" Business as Usual: Corrupt - " It's not an easy question if you're talking about sending people to prison." Lobbyist's Role - "Mr. Safavian is accused of lying to investigators and of obstruction of justice" CIA Leak - "Rove...remains in legal jeopardy because his initial statements to investigators...were not accurate" Complicity in Torture - "Pressure is mounting on the White House to answer" Immediate Exit from Iraq - "Iraq is the worst place to fight a battle for regional stability" 'Secret Torture Flights' - "The United States was facing mounting embarrassment" Delphi Workers Protest - "If you work your 30 years...with the promise of a pension, it should be there" Medicare Drug Benefit - "Medicare has received thousands of complaints about its temporary drug discount card" Slouching toward Genocide - "Bush's 'victory' plan in Iraq is starting to look increasingly like an invitation to genocide" Withdrawal from Iraq - "That is what the American people and our troops deserve" Military Propaganda - "Military efforts to influence Iraqi news coverage covertly should not be tolerated" The Strange Case of Chaplain Yee - "An odd victory celebration for eight men who took down one prisoner" US Occupation Is Worse Than Hussein - "Authorities are doing the same as [in] Saddam's time and worse" Ethics Cloud Grows Wider - "Yet another corruption case involving prominent members of Congress" Bomb al-Jazeera? - "The American press is predictably ignoring the story." Unions Continue to Fight - "Bush administration's regulation to revamp workplace rules" Mystery Train - "I cannot support a mission that leads to corruption, human rights abuse and liars." VP Under Wraps - "Refused to disclose...executives...who attended meetings of...energy task force" Money in Politics - "Big-dollar dealings have come to dominate...lobbyists and lawmakers" Tactics of Medicare Insurers - "These steps are illegal, totally inappropriate and unacceptable" Congressman Admits Taking Bribes - "Cunningham admitted to receiving at least $2.4 million in bribes" Age of Anxiety - "Workers can no longer count on loyalty from their employers." Fitzgerald Targets Rove Again - "Rove has remained under intense scrutiny by Fitzgerald's office" Contractors Shooting Up Iraqi Drivers - "Security companies kill people they just drive away and nothing is done" Moyers Has His Say - "The administration turned its hit men loose on us." Union Makes a Clean Sweep in South - "It's the largest unionization campaign in the South in years" Adrift and No Substantive Debate - "The result: we're adrift in Iraq and the public knows it." Cut Our Losses - "This was a war done on the cheap and we're paying a heavy price for it" Official Secrets, Lies, and the Truth - "The decision was political, not military" Young War Victim - "He thinks Americans killed and wounded his children" Feds Probing SunCruz Links to GOP - "Scanlon...pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to bribe government officials" Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ... - "Cheney...is so radioactive that he vanished into his bunker for weeks at a time" Rallies Converge in Texas - "This is George Bush's exit strategy from Iraq" US Military Admits It Burned Bodies - "The soldiers implicated in the burning incident, would face disciplinary action" Lobbyist Probe - " 'Possible influence-peddling' by Abramoff with congressional Republicans" Probe Spreads to White House - "The US Justice Department's probe of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff" Al Jazeera Wants US Bomb Memo Answers - "Tony Blair had talked Bush out of bombing Al Jazeera's headquarters" He Now Sees War as a Mistake - "I don't think the American people will give eight to nine years, and I sure as heck won't." Wrongful War - "If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied." Strike Shuts Down Italy - "It's been a long time since there have been any increases to the pensions" Million-Year Health Standard - "Yucca Mountain in Nevada took a severe battering during a comment period" Political Donations, Bribery - "Underwriting political campaigns is often derided as legalized bribery." The Long March of Dick Cheney - "The hallmark of the Dick Cheney administration is its illegitimacy." News Revolution - "Had they challenged and exposed the lies...the invasion might not have happened" One Small Thanksgiving Story - "A US tank crew was randomly shelling the area" Spare Bush's Blushes - "Desire to placate President Bush and prevent him being embarrassed" Oil Fortune - "Iraq's oil should be for the benefit of the Iraqi people not foreign oil companies" Happy Thanksgiving, Jose Padilla - "What the Bush administration has done to you is un-American" Drug Benefit Questioned - "The prices offered by the Medicare drug plans are higher than all four benchmarks" Wal-Mart Hires More Lobbyists - "A dozen lobbyists...now represent Wal-Mart" Cheney's Trouble with the Truth - "Cheney...is the most bald-faced of the administration's war hustlers" Get Some - "Cheney…took five deferments to stay away from the war Murtha volunteered to fight" Bush-Blair War Row - "The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act" 'Chemical Weapon' - "When Saddam used WP it was a chemical weapon...when the Americans use it, it's a conventional weapon." 7-Year-Old War Victim - "These are kids who've been hurt as a result of US military assaults" Intelligence Kept From Panel - "No evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein" War Crimes within War Crimes - "A war crime within a war crime within a war crime" Bring Democracy to Congress - "We should cut the pork...not the poor." Bush Nominates Anti-Union Lawyer to NLRB - "Showing his contempt for workers yet again" Dread Takes a Toll on GIs - "Now we just want to go home" Capitalism Trapped by Its Own Greed - "Companies are pushed to withdraw wealth as rapidly as possible" Leaving Baghdad - "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Blair 'Convinced Bush' Not to Launch Strike - "It shows how dangerous his relationship with President Bush has been" Threat of Federal Charges against DeLay - "He faces up to five years in prison and agreed to pay nearly $20m" Corporate Excess Under Fire - "The public should be able to question the outrageous pay of CEOs" DeLay - "It's likely that Abramoff has lots of dirt on Tom DeLay" Protestors Halt Nuclear Convoy - "The radioactivity of these 12 containers is two and a half times higher than that of Chernobyl" White House Used 'Gossip' to Build Case for War - "No longer could President Bush "hide behind empty rhetoric" Getting Out of Iraq - "But the war has not gone wrong. It was always wrong." Three Defy Dick Cheney - "The senators would not budge." Police 'Killed Prisoners with Drills' - "The disclosure drags Britain firmly into the growing scandal of officially condoned killings" How Bush Got Spooked - "Fear is no longer on the Bush administration's side. No wonder they're now afraid - very, very afraid." Ending the Occupation - "I like guys who got five deferments and [have] never been there and send people to war" Corruption Inquiry - "The investigation could end up costing several lawmakers their careers, if not their freedom." Joking Around with Lives of Troops - "It is worse than meaningless. It is political clowning." Spell of 'Curveball' - "Keep in mind that this war is going to happen regardless of what Curve Ball said or didn't say" Congress Helps Self to $3,100 - "The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise" Democrats and the War - "The reasons the Bush Administration gave...were all falsehoods or deceptions" Ex-Aide to Plead Guilty - "The deal reveals a broadening corruption investigation involving top members of Congress." A Private Obsession - "Private drug plans will have much higher administrative costs" The Man Who Sold the War - "Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war." Back to Grand Jury - "Hopes of securing a criminal indictment against...senior officials in the Bush administration" The Greening of Italia Federici - "Abramoff's dealings have thrown ethical clouds over a number of Republican heavyweights" Fallout Unlikely to Fade - "Clearly, there's someone at a senior level who hasn't fully cooperated" Why John Murtha Is Right! - "The Bush chickenhawks already are impugning Murtha's patriotism" Withdrawal - "The voices at the White House seem ever more puny and defensive." Medicaid's Fragile Beneficiaries - "These cuts are being made at the same time as tax cuts are being made for the wealthiest" Cheney 'Vice President for Torture' - "I am embarrassed that the USA has a vice president for torture" Cheney Renews Attack - "Bush seems to be distancing himself from his Vice-President" Bill to Shore Up Pensions - "If you've been promised a pension, we are going to make sure that you receive it" A Timetable for Bush - "Bush has lost the confidence of the American people, and his own party" Proof Pre-War Intel Was Manipulated - "Proof that the Bush administration...knowingly manipulated intelligence" The Big Lie Technique - "57 percent of Americans polled believe that President Bush deceived them" Iraqi Torture Practices - "What's really distressing is that we promised this would stop" Senate Flexes Muscle - "We are not going to simply allow the administration to do what it wants on detainees" Bush's Betrayal of History - "Bush blasts his truth-telling critics as traitors to the cause." Immediate Iraq Exit - "The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion" Medicare Helps Only Drug Companies - "The purpose of the plan is to bring more customers to the drug company" Another Cheney Attack Speech - "The Vice President needs to stop stonewalling" Inquiry into Frist's Stock Sales - "Questionable transactions lucrative to Frist family members" Protection for Vaccine Makers - "The Republican leadership...is trying to do another special favor for the drug companies" More Problems at Gitmo - "I can no longer be part of this lie." Groups Sue over New Medicare Plan - "The groups filed the suit on behalf of about 6.4 million people" Oil Chiefs Met with Cheney Task Force - "The task force's activities attracted complaints from environmentalists" US Used Chemical Weapons in Iraq - and Lied about It - "Napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis" Decoding Bush's Denials - "We agree, but it is Mr. Bush and his team who are rewriting history." 9/11 Body Attacks White House - "The report gives failing grades of 'insufficient progress' " Bush Rewrites History - "Is ignoring history the same as rewriting it?" Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law - "Tomlinson repeatedly crossed statutory boundaries" Candidate Cites Bush as Key to Loss - "Republican politicians are increasingly distancing themselves from Mr. Bush" Politicizing Intelligence - "Bush's credibility will continue...to sink beneath the weight of lies" Detainees Allege Torture - "Threatened with Lions, Mock Execution" John Edwards - "It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002. I take responsibility for that mistake." Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us - "How did American interrogation tactics...include...torture?" Pombo's Poison Pills - "Pombo is a Republican in the DeLay mold." Aid and Comfort - "George W. Bush's decision to invade and occupy Iraq - and it was his decision" Torture's Terrible Toll - "Why we must, as a nation, do better." 'We Do Not Torture' and Other Funny Stories - " If it weren't tragic it would be a New Yorker cartoon." Republicans Losing Control of Agenda - "They've spent everything that can be spent. It's hard to have any sympathy for them" Let's Try Baloney - "The man-child who should never have been made president." Consultant Claims Link to Cornyn - "The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff...along with his partner Michael Scanlon" Rep. Davis Threatens Subpoenas - "Davis decried the failure of White House officials" Forcing Bush to Honor Veterans - "The US invasion and occupation of Iraq is an unfolding disaster" Honoring Veterans Includes Telling the Truth - "The Bush administration spin machine is in high gear." ...And Why it should Never Be One - "Cheney has been watching too many Hollywood flicks that glorify torture" The Deadly Doughnut - "Can the drug bill be fixed? Yes, but not by current management." Some Kind of Manly - "Spare me the tough talk. He didn't play football - he was a cheerleader." Veterans Day Is upon Us - "The VA admitted to 393,000 discharges since the start of the War in Iraq." House Budget Measure Is Pulled - "Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff." Democrats and the War - "The reasons..for the American war in Iraq were all falsehoods or deceptions" Bush Disputes Charges - "None of the president's three main justifications for the war turned out to be true" Fallujah: A Name That Lives in Infamy - "The city's main hospital was selected as the first target" Cornbread and Roses - "Edwards finally utters the words.."I voted for the resolution...It was a mistake"
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