Archive for March, 2006

three to see

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Mike Keefe: go fish

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Mike Peters: good news about the war

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Ted Rall
Universal Press Syndicate
Mar 27, 2006

Military expert has fighting words for Bush -

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military’s elite covert counter-terrorist unit said “We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies.”

David Kronke, Los Angeles Daily News, March 26

Complete article at:

http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=yke9cubab.0.vwa8cubab.u4ueehbab.3303&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailynews.com%2Fontv%2Fci_3641046

From: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PRESS REVIEW

Documents Describe U.S. Auditors’ Battles With Halliburton:

Friday, March 31st, 2006

A government study says the company overcharged on a crucial Iraq contract and did not comply with regular reporting obligations.

http://tinyurl.com/e6wwx

From: Poacnewsletter

O’Reilly falsely attacked Krugman over immigration column

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Bill O’Reilly falsely attacked New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for “writing about illegal immigrants” but refusing to “put the word ‘illegal’ in there.” In fact, the portion of Krugman’s March 27 column that O’Reilly read referred to all immigrants, not only those here illegally. Later in his column, Krugman referred specifically to “illegal immigrants,” “illegal immigration,” and “an illegal immigrant.”

Read more http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200603280011

We’re All Broke

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Surprise: Bankruptcy filings shot up a record 30 percent in 2005.

Read the full story…. http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/GpqVob51dcWW/

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Library Launches Liber8

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Liber8 is a portal that links to economic information from the Federal Reserve System, government agencies, and international economic data sources.

http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/