Howard Dean sticks foot in mouth on Latin America

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Sunday January 08, 2006 · 1:34 PM PST

2006/01/08 · 13:34

Remember when Kerry sided with the Venezuelan elites during the 2004 Presidential campaign? Remember how much flak Kerry caught from progressives for parroting the lies of the Bush dictatorship? We now have Howard Dean following in his footsteps:
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HRC and the Rathskeller

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 9:39 PM PDT

2005/10/28 · 21:39

HRC Mission Statement:

As America's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign provides a national voice on GLBT issues.

http://www.hrc.org/...

Why is HRC giving aid and comfort to businesses that support politicians having a clear anti-LGBT agenda?

One such business is the Rathskeller (http://www.rathskeller.com). The Rathskeller is located at the historic 19th century Athenaeum Building in downtown Indianapolis and has been the recipient of many accolades, including voted Best German Restaurant seven years in a row.
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Do we have another Chalabi in regards to Syria?

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Saturday October 22, 2005 · 11:51 AM PDT

2005/10/22 · 11:51

Condi Rice and Geroge Bush have been demanding the UN takes up the case of alleged Syrian involvement in former Lebanese Premier Hariri's assassination. Condi Rice went so far as to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
that "all options are on the table" in regards to Syria, the same bellicose language that was used before the US invaded Iraq. At issue is the UN's Mehlis report, the key source having been a former Syrian intelligence officer, Zuheir al-Siddiq. We now have a breaking story from the German magazine Der Speigel in which serious questions are being raised about Siddig's reliability as a witness, a reliability which sounds remarkably similar to that of Chalabi, the Iraqi exile that fed Judy Miller of the NY
Times all the stories about Saddam working on an atomic bomb.
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Plan Would Limit Reproduction Options For Gays, Singles

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Tuesday October 04, 2005 · 8:55 PM PDT

2005/10/04 · 20:55

This story is just now breaking in the mainstream media, but it first broke in dailykos yesterday:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/213554/300

Plan Would Limit Reproduction Options For Gays, Singles

POSTED: 11:10 am EST October 4, 2005
UPDATED: 1:13 pm EST October 4, 2005

INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana legislative committee is considering a bill that would prohibit gays, lesbians and single people in Indiana from using medical science to assist them in having a child.

Republican state Sen. Patricia Miller said state law should have requirements for assisted reproduction similar to those for adoption. She acknowledged that the legislation would be controversial.

It would require "intended parents" to be married to each other and says an unmarried person may not be an intended parent.
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ALERT: Unauthorized Reproduction bill

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Monday October 03, 2005 · 6:35 PM PDT

2005/10/03 · 18:35

We just got a heads up about an upcoming article in the Indianapolis magazine NUVO from the author of the as yet unpublished article.

A draft of the legislation which, among other things, bars unmarried people from having children by articifial means is here:

http://www.in.gov/legislative/interim/committee/prelim/HFCO04.pdf

The Crime of "Unauthorized Reproduction"
New law will require marriage as a legal condition of motherhood

By Laura McPhee

Republican lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make
marriage a requirement for motherhood in the state of Indiana,
including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do
become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

According to a draft of the recommended change in state law, every
woman in Indiana seeking to become a mother throu gh assisted
reproduction therapy such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation,
and egg donation, must first file for a "petition for parentage" in
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Why hasn't Bush accepted offers of help for Katrina victims from Cuba, Venezuela, et al?

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Sunday September 04, 2005 · 8:59 AM PDT

2005/09/04 · 08:59

Many countries have offered their assistance to the American people in the aftermath of this disaster, among them Cuba and Venzuela. Are the ideological blinders of the Bush Administration preventing others from helping people in need in our country?:

Governments pledge aid after Katrina

Saturday, September 3, 2005; Posted: 10:53 p.m. EDT (02:53 GMT)

CUBA: Cuban President Fidel Castro offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston with 26 tonnes of medicine to treat disaster victims.

<snip>

VENEZUELA: President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the United States, offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the disaster area.

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US in Iraq on same moral plane as Iraq in Kuwait

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Sunday August 28, 2005 · 8:55 AM PDT

2005/08/28 · 08:55

US invasion of Iraq is on same moral plane as Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

From a moral, religious, and ethical standpoint, American troops are cast in the same role as the German troops that invaded Poland, or the Japanese troops that invaded China. Our armies are the armies of aggression, not liberation. Our armies are the armies of an evil empire in quest of conquering and controlling other nations' natural resources. There is only one fate reserved for such armies: defeat and the scorn of future generations!
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Pentagon issues gag order on BRAC

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 7:07 PM PDT

2005/08/24 · 19:07

Paul Wolfowitz's successor as Rumsfeld's second banana at the Pentagon, Gordon England, has issued a gag order to Defense Department employees instructing them to "refrain from answering questions or providing comments regarding the (BRAC) Commission's recommendations." Read More

Why does Blair oppose an inquiry into intelligence failures?

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Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 5:02 PM PDT

2005/07/13 · 17:02

London bombings: Why does Blair oppose an inquiry into intelligence failures?
By Chris Marsden
13 July 2005

Speaking in Parliament this week, Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected demands from the Conservative Party opposition for an inquiry into the July 7 London bombings that have so far have resulted in 52 confirmed deaths.
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Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq

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Monday July 04, 2005 · 11:19 PM PDT

2005/07/04 · 23:19

Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq
By James Cogan
1 July 2005

On June 24, Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired.

The US military has announced it is conducting an investigation into Salihee's killing. Knight Ridder has already declared, however, that "there's no reason to think that the shooting had anything to do with his reporting work". In fact, his last assignment gives reason to suspect that it was.
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Bayh's response regarding Downing Street memo

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Sunday July 03, 2005 · 12:22 AM PDT

2005/07/03 · 00:22

The following is the response I received to a letter I sent to Evan Bayh in which I requested that he supports Rep. Conyers efforts to get answers from Bush regime as to whether the intelligence was fixed to fit the policy:

Thank you for contacting me regarding a series of
memorandums about conversations between British Prime Minister
Tony Blair and President Bush months before the Iraq War,
collectively known as the "Downing Street Memo." I appreciate
your thoughts and concerns on this important issue.

As you may know, a previously classified British
government memorandum was published in The Sunday Times of
London on May 1st, 2005. The memorandum detailed minutes
from a high-level meeting on Iraq held in July 2002 between
British and U.S. intelligence officials. Since this report, several
other internal British government documents related to Iraq have
been cited in various press reports including The Washington Post.
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