2005 NEWS ARCHIVES
- News for 30 December 2005
- The Constitutional crises of 2006 - De facto dictatorship looms if America doesn't act now
- Senator Byrd: No President Is Above the Law
- Going Too Far - One More Voter Wakes Up
- Rumsfeld Admits to "Ghosting" Detainee - War Crime?
- Fear Destroys What bin Laden Could Not
- "The Administration of George W. Bush is not a dictatorship, but it does manifest the characteristics of one in embryonic form."
- NSA Spied on UN Diplomats in Push for Invasion of Iraq
- 12 Days
- 2005 In Review - Part 2...Click Here for Part 1
- Checks and Balances...
- Are we there yet?...
- Worthless...
- Wish...
- No Probably About It...
- Preparing Our Children For The Future...
- Just Too Good...
- Who is the Looser?...
- His Future...
- News for 27 December 2005
- Daschle: Congress Denied Bush War Powers in U.S.
- Stay The Course
- History's Lesson
- Freedoms in Danger
- Why
- Smarter Than Any Stupid Law
- 2005 In Review - Part 1...
- News for 23 December 2005
- "The president is not above the law; he is not King George. Yet, with sorrow, we are now learning that in this great land we have an administration that has refused to follow well-crafted, longstanding procedures that require the president to get a court order before spying on people within the United States. With outrage, we learn that this administration believes that it does not have to follow the law of the land."
- Pengaon Breaks the Law - Something is wrong when Civil Servants Break their Oaths to the American People
- Imperial Presidency
- "The President Took a Step toward a Police State"
- "Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans, say constitutional scholars, former intelligence officers and politicians. What's missing is the political will to impeach him."
- Why didn't Bush Ask Congress?
- More Borrowing...
- A Shame...
- Say What...
- Remember...
- Wake-up Call...
- Hmmm....
- Well Done....
- At Best....
- Oh yes....
- Telling....
- Result of Voting Wrong...
- News for 19 December 2005
- Bush Admits Ordering NSA to Spy on Americans, Breaking Law
- Bush Vows to Continue Spying on Americans
- NSA has monitored telephone calls and e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years
- FBI Agents Question Student About Inter-Library Book Request for Research Paper
- Rumsfeld Spies on Quakers and Grannies - 400 Page Document Says Quakers constitutes a "threat," - Government Out of Control
- Billions Wasted on Poor Performing Defense Contractors - Troops Not Getting Equipment
- Contrasts...
- Just Repeat'n History...
- He Has You Watched...
- Fits...
- News for 16 December 2005
- DFAS Notification to Council 171 DFAS Realignment
- Vets' preference rules at issue in Defense personnel reform
- No Real Backbone - Self Centered
- Politics as Usual...
- About Says It All...
- Mondern Methods...
- Modern Redention...
- Bush Admits to a few - a bit low though...
- One Cost of Unreasoning Fear...
- News for 13 December 2005
- Hiring & Employment Briefing Slides (pdf)
- Performance Management Briefing Slides (pdf)
- Workforce Shaping Briefing Slides (pdf)
- Bush Gets a Bump...
- Then...Now...
- Another Legacy From Bush...
- Ho Ho Torture...
- The Veep Speaks...
- Image...
- Bankrupt Politics...
- Condi Torture Logic...
- Word Torture...
- Near Future?...
- News for 8 December 2005
- AFGE Letter to Defense Secretary England on Issuances
- Pay Band Chart (Click on image to enlarge)
- Military Looses Moral High Ground, Again...
- Your Interests, Not at Their Heart...
- How Congress Views Your Function in Life...
- Still Felling Good About What Congress Does?...
- Dictator for Life?...
- Maybe So...
- Typical Huh?...
- Hard to tell isn't it?...
- Any Government Action Costs You One Way Or Another...
- Reason for Germany to Attack US...
- Where the Politicians Have Taken Us...
- Unlike Them, He Does Not Believe in Lying, Cheating, Stealing, Torturing...
- Aha...
- Bush speak..
- News for 6 December 2005
- NSPS - Reductions In Force
- NSPS - The Parable of the Caboose
- U.S. Air Ware in Iraq Increases Tempo
- The Bush administration has embraced torture as a key part of the "war on terror." Finally, members of Congress, the military and the CIA are speaking out against the abuse
- If the U.S. withdrew from Iraq, it could fund an entire program to alleviate global suffering with but a modest portion of the money it saved, and start to reduce terrorism instead of increasing it
- News for 5 December 2005
- Anatomy of a CIA 'Rendition' Gone Awry: Pressure to apprehend al Qaeda members led the CIA to wrongfully detain a German citizen for several months
- Finally, Congress Stands Up
- All Over but the Pullback
- Bush Approves 3.1 Percent Pay Raise
- W.'s Head in the Sand
- First Ammendment...
- Legacy...
- Obviously no rudder...
- Yep...
- Corruption...
- Desparate Wishing...
- News for 2 December 2005
- While you were sleeping
- News for 1 December 2005
- Stay the course man
- Is it done yet?...
- Cheney practices...
- Cheney thoughts...
- Very apt...
- He doesn't care but we do...
- Guest worker program...
- Compare the two...
- Show the world what we are really like...
- The shame of it...
- Did we lose the cold war...
- News for 30 November 2005
- Cheney's trouble with the truth
- News for 28 November 2005
- As many have feared, Government definition of lawful interrogation including beating, simulated drowning, etc can be used on American citizens on American soil by federal, state and local police agencies.
- Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt
- Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity - "We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America"
- Pentagon Admits It Burned Bodies in Afghanistan
- Chicken Hawk meets decorated veteran...
- A solution...
- The unfortunate truth...
- Appropriate...
- How History Will Remember Dick Cheney...
- Words of Fascism...
- Too Bad Congress Has No Guts...
- News for 23 November 2005
- The Mother of All Constitutional Crises
- How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
- The fact is that we're not going to stay in Iraq until we achieve victory, whatever that means in this context. At most, we'll stay until the American military can take no more. So the question isn't whether things will be ugly after American forces leave Iraq. They probably will. The question, instead, is whether it makes sense to keep the war going for another year or two, which is all the time we realistically have.
- Iraqi Leaders Call For US Pullout Timetable
- Asian Tour - Mission Accomplished...
- What...
- New/Old, Same Old Sh...
- Iraq Current Events...
- Knuckles Spotted...
- Not Acceptable...
- Choke...
- Don't Let It Happen - Only You Can Stop It...
- Chenney the chicken hawk...
- Something Foul This Way Comes...
- Same As, Just Updated...
- News for 21 November 2005
- Senator Reid: We Need Answers and a Way Forward in Iraq, Not Another Cheney Attack Speech
- Admiral Stansfield Turner: Cheney 'Vice President for Torture'
- President Clinton: U.S. made a big mistake when it invaded Iraq
- The [Iraq] war has also become the single greatest threat to our national security
- How Tax Dollars Were Used to Generate Support For Iraq War - Facinating Read
- Political Dissenters
- Adventures of Knuckles
- Knuckles Likes Secrets
- Big Brother is Back
- RummyCo
- Why Political Attack Ads
- Liers or Stupid...
- Buying the Best Deception...
- By & For...
- By Example...
- Looking Forward...
- Stealing Candy From a...
- Lost, Not to be Found...
- Cheney World...
- War Criminals...
- Hoping the Criminals Will Go to Jail...
- Designed for Them...
- News for 17 November 2005
- DoD Postpones Implementation of NSPS Labor Rules
- Decoding Bush's Denials
- European Press: US Used Chemical Weapons in Iraq - and Lied about It
- Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon
- Medicare Drug Plan...
- Perspective...
- Exit?...
- A Fact...
- Bush Policy...
- We Have Become Them...
- News for 15 November 2005
- President Jimmy Carter - This Isn't the Real America
- Former Senator John Edwards - I Was Wrong
- How Low Can Our President Go? "If you do not support the war, if you do not support Bush, you are betraying our troops and giving aid and comfort to the enemy"
- Senate Creates Constitutional Crisis
- News for 14 November 2005
- 20051109 - Letter from President John Gage
- Democratic Leadership Failing to Lead
- Senator John McCain Speaks to us about Torture's Terrible Toll
- Why Torture Should Never Be An Option
- Worth Pondering - We Do Not Toruture and Other Funny Stories
- Why did we bother to beat the Soviet Union if we were just going to become it?
- Detainees Deserve Court Trials
- Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Facism
- Army Colonel - 28 Years, State Department Diplomat - 16 years, Now a Full-Time Antiwar Activist. "I refuse to be placed on active duty....I will not serve this administration in the Iraq war which I firmly believe is an illegal war of aggression"
- Wow - This from the most conservative State in the Union!
- The President Should Be Held Accountable for deceiving public and troops
- Poll: Most Americans Say Bush Not Honest
- 64% Disapprove of Bush - 71% Believe Cheney is Dishonest and Unethical
- An Army Ready to Snap - "You go to war and you could lose your heart, your mind, your arms, your legs - but you cannot win. The soldiers don't win"
- Forcing Bush to Honor Veterans
- Honoring Veterans Includes Bush Telling the Truth
- VA admits to 393,000 discharges since start of Iraq war. Over 102,000+ have disabilities and seek VA health assistance
- Can the Medicare drug bill be fixed? Not by current management - We won't have a drug benefit that works until we have politicians who want it to work
- How do you know George W. Bush is lying? His lips are moving
- Disturbing...
- The Start...
- Thank You...
- And Thank You...
- Hypocrite and Critic...
- Honest - Not...
- Interpreted for you...
- Liberty Almost Broken...
- What was said and meant...
- In War...
- Real Targets...
- Sleaz...
- History Should Teach Us...Why Don't We Listen?
- Double
- Don't Worry
- Remeber the fear mongering?
- Bush's War Blues
- Box Mart
- I would Like to be a Dictator...Listen for it
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- News for 10 November 2005
- The Media are Minimizing US and British War Crimes in Iraq. War Crimes?
- CIA vs Cheney
- US Forces Use Banned Chemical Weapons in Iraq
- Justification...
- Vote...
- We Don't Torture...
- Chain Theory...
- Poem...
- Rules...
- Is This How We View Government Service Now?...
- Pledge, Not...
- News for 9 November 2005
- Text of NSPS Law Suite filed by AFGE
- Official Reveals Budget for U.S. Intelligence
- Bush Continues to Show US and World that he has no credibility - Bush defends interrogation practices: 'We do not torture'
- Did You Doubt The News on the CIA Secret Prisons? Well the CIA took the first step toward a full-scale criminal investigation of a leak of possibly classified information on secret prisons to The Washington Post, a U.S. official said Tuesday
- Democrats Push Prisoner Torture Probe
- Yes, They Lied
- No More Blank-Check Wars
- Humor for the times...
- A Real Hoot...
- Recycle, Reuse...
- Indictment Circus...
- That...
- Victory...
- Gops...
- Army of One...
- News for 8 November 2005
- Our LIberties Under Siege - America may be on the verge of becoming a national security state
- A Deadly Interrogation: Can the CIA Legally Kill a Prisoner?
- Bush Said Yesterday "We do not torture." - Seen the Pictures and International Reports?
- The President and His Vice: Torturers' Puppetmasters
- Upstanding Citizens All...Or Not
- And the War Goes On
- 20051108 - AFGE Files Suite Challenging NSPS
- News for 7 November 2005
- BRAC Transistion Assistance Power Point Slides
- Polls show 60% Believe Bush a Liar
- As a reiminder, Bush's List of WMD's from his State of the Union Address Used to Justify the Iraq War - In hindsight, you can see we were lied to
- They lied [Bush Administration], repeatedly and with deliberate intent
- Obviously Bush Lied Here as Well - On September 30 2003 President Bush emphatically stated that he wanted anyone in his administration with information about the Plame leak to "come forward". On June 10 2004 he pledged that anyone on his staff who leaked Plame's name would be fired.
- Bush Administration Leads Effort to Continue Human Torture
- FBI caught performing clandestine scrutiny of U.S. residents and visitors who are not alleged to be terrorists or spies
- Torture: Its the American Way - The Soviets Won the Cold War - We Became Them
- "Almost everything we feared would happen in a second Bush term has come to pass, just as many of us predicted it would. And you weren't listening"
- Did Cheney Violate the Espionage Act?
- Welfare*Mart...
- Secret Prisons...
- Secret Prisons II...
- Lies...
- Another...
- How Many Feel About the Emphasis on Bird Flu...
- Why a distraction is needed...
- Distroy America To Save it?...
- Company...
- News for 4 November 2005
- October Iraq Casualty Info Posted
- Law Firm Newsletter for November 2005
- The Rep...
- Probably All That Will Happen...
- Bingeing...
- The Next Crisis...
- What A Filthy Dirty House...
- News for 3 November 2005
- Companies Use Bankruptcy Laws to Force Bigger Givebacks, Break Unions
- CIA's Secret Prisons
- Sattelite Photo of Largest CIA Covert Prison, Code-named The Salt Pit, In Afghanistan - Your Money At Work
- CIA maintains its own network of secret prisons, into which suspects have "disappeared" as if they were victims of a Third World dictatorship
- Rumsfeld Spurns Request (made 4 years ago) by UN Human Rights Investigators to Meed With Detainees At Guatanamo
- Confessions of a Marine
- Chain, Chain, Chain of Cheney Fools
- Experts Say America Is Losing War on Terror
- Truth about Torture
- The True Cost of War
- Cheney Taps Torture Memo Author to Replace Scooter Libby
- History Indeed Repeats - The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, N.S.A. officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to cover up their mistakes.
- It's the War
- News for 31 October 2005
- Pentagon estimates Iraq civil toll
- "They did it as part of a clear effort to cover up the lies and disinformation used to justify the invasion of Iraq. That is the ultimate crime."
- Who's On First?
- Bush confronted by growing drumbeat of revulsion against US practice of torture
- "So the question falls to ordinary Americans: How many more brave men and women are we willing to sacrifice before we force our leaders to bring the troops home? I pray that it does not take another 56,000 like it did in Viet Nam"
- 2,000 US Troops Dead in Iraq: One Survivor Tells His Story
- A Tricky Dicky er Bushy...
- With Ghouls Like These...
- Shamed, Embarassed, Made Out Fools, Red Faced...
- Puppet Master Speaks...
- Alternat Reality...
- How Far He Has Fallen...
- Wishing...
- Lies Are Just...
- How it is...
- News for 28 October 2005
- Pentagon personnel rules face hurdles
- House paves way for enactment of BRAC proposals
- Pentagon stands ground on personnel reforms
- Exxon Mobil Profit Soars 75% - With Congress Considering Freezing Your Pay
- The US military occupation of Iraq is the single greatest catalyst for the violence there
- President Bush - "This war will require more sacrifice [death of your sons and daughters], more time [as long as you give me the money] and more resolve [keep joining up]"
- News for 27 October 2005
- Final NSPS Regulations
- Cheney Agressively Pursuing Formal Adoption of cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment and torture as a legal instrument of U.S. policy
- Cheney Caught Lying? Committing Perjury(the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing)?
- Only US Seeks to Justify Torture
- Grim Milestone
- Senate Back $10 Billon in Cuts in Medicare & Medicade. No Cuts for Iraq
- Doesn't make sense, does it?...
- Only the rich benefit, again...
- Why 2K...
- Monsters Have Nothing On This Guy...
- Another White House Shill Exposed...
- New Vice Presidents Seal...
- News for 26 October 2005
- Base closures now face little opposition
- Senator Patrick Leahy's address on Iraq
- Cheney Wants CIA Exempt From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees
- U.S. Military Death Toll in Iraq Hits 2,000. More than 15,000 Wounded. Bush Says More Sacrifices Required.
- Another Iraq War Legacy: Badly Wounded US Troops
- Oil Firms Step Up Advertising - Don't Worry, they Can Afford It. After All, You Pay For It - The Best Your Money Can Buy
- GOP Declares US is Broke (bankrupt, out of money) - Planned Budget Cuts Target Foster Care, Food Stamps, Student Loans, Health Care, Center for Disease Control (CDC), Etc. - "Listen, we're broke. Let's face it," said Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) - However, There is Plenty of Money for Iraq
- Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt - Mahatma Gandhi
- Ouch - "One of the consequences of this [Bush] dysfunction, as I have noted many times, is the unending parade of dead or badly wounded men and women returning to the U.S. from the war in Iraq - a war that the administration foolishly launched but now does not know how to win or end"
- News for 24 October 2005
- Disaster Profiteering - Oil Companies post whopping 46% profit increase for 3rd Quarter. All from your pocket
- Bush Proposing to Eliminate Deductions for Mortgage Interest, State Taxes, etc
- Bush Again Calls for Military to Act as Police - Unconstitutional To Say The Least
- Threat to Truth
- Iraq Slips Away - Vote fix was in - Vote fraud was rampant
- Remember Our Troops - They Are Not Numbers
- Cost of War at Walter Reed
- House & Senate Approve 3.1% GS Pay Raise
- Attack Syria? Invade Iran? By What Constitution?
- Name That War
- A Constitutional Disaster: "The Patriot Act has been and will continue to be used mainly against ordinary Americans accused of crimes unrelated to terrorism, or those who disagree with government policies"
- The Best Defense Witness...
- Too Bad...
- Incomprehensible...
- The Underlying Truth...
- News for 21 October 2005
- Bush's Anti-Civil Rights Record
- Gulf Coast Families Struggle While Millionaires Get Massive Tax Giveaway
- News for 20 October 2005
- Throwing Grenades in the Global Economic Cockpit
- The president has yet to admit he told massive untruths about WMDs and the Iraqi threat in his State of the Union address in late January 2003, just before U.S. forces went into battle
- Iran: Same Lies, New War, We Pay
- Naughty Harry: Lawyering without a License
- Why Corruption is So Hard to Cure...
- News for 19 October 2005
- Bush Continuing in His Defiance of the Law
- Screwed...
- Two...
- Says it All...
- Right Wants You...
- News for 18 October 2005
- Administration Signals a Longer, Broader Iraq Conflict
- Study Ranks Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Lowest in Morale
- Treason Being Proved?
- VA Seeks to Punish Iraq War Veterans
- The Treasure, the Strongbox and the Crowbar
- Pentagon Decided It Is More Cost Effective to Let Troops Die Instead of Purchaing Protective Equipment
- News for 17 October 2005
- Staged (Fake) Teleconference Using Goverment Resources and Military Officers
- Military Angry At Bush Politicing troops and using them as military wallpaper
- The Fallen Legion: Casualties of the Bush Administration
- "majority of Iraqis "oppose the US presence in Iraq"-"US sponsored Iraqi parliament issued a unanimous report calling for the end of occupation"
- A Parent Speaks Out, "I want someone to be held accountable for George's war of choice that has robbed so much from almost 2000 families"
- Mr Bush said he "wanted to go beyond Iraq in dealing with WMD proliferation, mentioning in particular Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan"
- Fake Picture, Read the Words, They Are Factual...
- Fake Fake Fake...
- Fake Honors...
- What Strings...
- I.E.D...
- Believe It or Not...
- The Goofy Guy and His Side Kick...
- The Chain of Abuse...
- News for 14 October 2005
- Wounded & Maimed, Disabled Troops Mercilessly Hounded by DFAS For Minor Debts Caused By Iraq War Wounds
- News for 13 October 2005
- GOP Stands Up for US Right to Torture
- Locality Pay Recomendations for 2006
- Unfortunately, so true...
- DoD Spies in the Home...
- Past and Present Presidencies...
- Common Characteristics...
- How He Decided...
- Today's Offical Rationale...
- Too Good To Pass Up...
- News for 12 October 2005
- War on Terroism - A Translation
- Remove All Torturers from Power
- General Lambastes Bush Administration
- No Nukes in Iran
- News for 10 October 2005
- Read Ruling Here - AFGE Wins Another Court Battle For DHS Employees - Beats Back Agency Bid to Implement New Work Rules At DHS
- Judge rejects DHS attempt at revising personnel rules
- "Let's be clear: Mr. Bush is proposing to use the first veto of his presidency on a defense bill needed to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan so that he can preserve the prerogative to subject detainees to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. In effect, he threatens to declare to the world his administration's moral bankruptcy."
- "This is going to be a long war [Iraq]" - Army Returns to 12 Month Tours in Iraq and wants 80,000 young adults to join each year though 2011 to meet its goals
- Pentagon Seeks to Use Undercover [Secret Police] Intelligence Agents in United States
- The Threat To American Democracy - How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it's almost as if America has entered "an alternate universe?"
- Bush Defrocked
- Pat Tillman, Truth Revealed By His Family
- How the World Was Duped: The Race to Invade Iraq
- Beyond the (In)Security State
- Drawing the line on eminent domain
- News for 7 October 2005
- AFGE Calls Upon Secretary Chertoff (HDS) to Throw Out MAXHR And Work With AFGE To Create A Better HR System
- New Online Forum Where Federal Employees Can Post Information For Journalists Anonymously
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- Natural Gas Prices Heat Up
- Credibility of a Desparate President - Bush: U.S. Has Disrupted 10 Al Qaeda Plots
- Washington Sleaze At Its Best - Microwaves, Lasers, Retired Generals For Sale - Cheney Was There Too
- Iraq Slips Away
- First he [Bush] elevated Condi Rice to secretary of state, even though she had bungled her job as national security adviser...
- Race Discrimination at Commerce Department
- News for 6 October 2005
- Letter From AFGE President John Gage to DHS Secretary Chertoff
- VP Cheney - "The United States must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades to bring peace to Iraq"
- Bush - Use Pentagon to quarantine parts of the nation
- A New Twist
- Yes, The Real Heros Are...Click for 9/11 firefighter heros
- News for 5 October 2005
- Troops Might Be Used to 'Effect a Quarantine,' Bush Says - President's Answer to Every Problem is The Military
- Even George Will Has Turned Against Bush - His Comments Are Right On The Mark
- News for 4 October 2005
- Pentagon personnel reforms on the brink of completion
- Governors to Bush: Relief Our Job - Pentagon Not Needed
- Law Firm News for October from Minahan & Shapiro
- News for 3 October 2005
- Agency decides pay banding is not the answer
- Senators skeptical on future of Defense Travel System - Zack Gaddy (DFAS Director) Defends DTS
- MSPB - Supervisors Not Performing
- Bush Policies Remain Obstacle for Hughes as She Works To Convince World US is Their Friend - All She Can Offer Are Words - US Deeds Speak Clearly
- Bush Threatens Defense Bill Veto, Apparently Borrowing $440 Billion Just Isn't Enough
- Audit Shows Bush Violated Law By Purchasing Favorable News Coverage
- U.S. Commander [Gen Casey] Now Doubts Troop Cutbacks
- Karen Hughs Maiden Voyage To The Middle East Has Turned Into A Fiasco
- Military Forces Stretched by Hurricanes - Hardest-Hit Are Those Leaving Ravaged Homes and Families When They Ship Out to Iraq
- The Missing Apology
- No Conservative Compassion...
- Debt...
- News for 30 September 2005
- Gen Casey States "The average 20th century counterinsurgency lasted nine years. And there is no reason that we should believe that the insurgency in Iraq will take any less time to deal with Iraq Insurgency to Last Nine Years"
- Senators grill military officials about Iraq progress
- US Military Strategy Totaly Dependant On Iraq's Picking Up US Fight So US Can Leave
- News for 29 September 2005
- House panel rejects bid to thwart base closure decisions
- Rita causes record damage to oil rigs
- Another President Plays Games With Defintions Any School Child Knows
- Dancing in the Dark
- The Bush Administration's FY 2006 Budget
- Do as I Say, Not as I do...
- Again...
- The Dirty Word...
- Polls...
- Define Rebuild...
- News for 27 September 2005
- AFGE Says No To Raiding Federal Pension and Medicare for Katrina Clean-up
- 100 Pro War Protestors in DC - 300,000 Against War
- Bush Wants DoD to Handle Disasters in US, So Why Have FEMA or DHS if DoD is Going to Get All the Money?
- Bush Wants to Federalize Emergencies, States Rights Disapearing
- He Understands...
- Bush & Congress Run Up the Bills, We Pay...
- Prepare Now For...
- Hmmm...
- News for 26 September 2005
- House Republicans Want to Reduce Retirement Annuities of Future Federal Retirees to Pay for Katrina Relief
- Hard to Believe - 30 Page Report States US Military Regulary Beat Prisoners, Kidnapped Family Members of Prisoners and Held Them Hostage
- President's Remarks on Keeping US in Iraq
- Retired, Poor, Elderly slated to Pay for Katrina Costs In Plan Submitted by House Republicans
- 300,000 Protest War in D.C. - Bush Flew to Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Anitwar Protests Across U.S.
- 8 Trillion in Debt...
- Yep...
- News for 19 September 2005
- DFAS (Melissa Johnson) Delcares President Bush's Behavior/Language "inappropriate and offensive". Removes link to Council 171 web page after article and & picture of President Bush is posted on 9 Sep 2005
- DoD refuses to reveal costs of National Security Personnel System(NSPS)
- The U.N. pressuring U.S. to allow [IRAQ] parliament to vote on the constitution; so far, Bush administration has refused
- Interesting background on Bush Broadcast from New Orleans
- Federal Employees Health Benefit premiums increase from 2.5 percent to 15 percent starting January 2006
- Guess Who Pays the Debt, Why You of Course...
- Wake up call...
- Then and Now...
- Our Problem...
- The Real Truth...
- Rotting From Within...
- News for 16 September 2005
- Bush approves domestic base-closure plan (BRAC)
- Bush Vows Aid for Storm-Struck Gulf Coast - But not debt forgiveness for the families that need to start their lives over
- Bush Pledge to Rebuild, with costs expected to exceed $200 billion within a year, does not include citizen debt relief
- An interesting analysis of our problems in Iraq
- Might happen again in your life time...
- No suprise...
- News for 14 September 2005
- Surely Congress has done more than enough to increase the profits of the oil industry
- At Last - President Says He's Responsible in Storm Lapses
- A Fatal Incuriosity
- Congress Agreed to it all, How Come They Don't Get The Blame?...
- More Low Wage Contracting...
- The Bottom Line...
- The Way...
- News for 12 September 2005
- "I still find this epic of incompetence -- sustained, systemic, outrageous incompetence -- genuinely hard to believe"
- Imagine, A US President Lies About a WMD Threat and Boom - The World Ends as the President launches pre-emptive nuclear strikes against enemies planning to use weapons of mass destruction under a revised "nuclear operations" doctrine to be signed in the next few weeks. Feel safer?
- Four Years Later, Billions Squandered, No Safer, Not Prepared - We Can do Better
- A Price To Be Paid For Folly - During the Last Four Years of Bush Borrowing/Spending, National Debt has Increased Another $3,000,000,000,000.00
- Pentagon Marks 9/11 With New Memorial
- Remember...
- With Friends Like These...
- Nicely Done...
- News for 9 September 2005
- "Flodwaters that spilled into New Orleans contain extremely high levels of sewage-borne bacteria, posing an immediate health threat to people who remain in the city"
- Flood Infections Killing In New Orleans - "we certainly won't be surprised if we see more cases"
- DHS directs workers to withdraw offers to volunteer for hurricane relief duty
- Profiteering & Greed...
- Self Investigation...
- Con Game Exposed...
- So Close To It...
- News for 7 September 2005
- Bush's Obscene Tirades Set Lower Standards for Language and Behavior of Federal Employees
- Vets Aren't Buying Bush's B.S.
- "Bush's 2004 budget transfered money meant for reinforcing the levees that were keeping the waters of Lake Pontchartrain out of downtown New Orleans to homeland security and the war in Iraq"
- "the Bush team's philosophy since 9/11 has been: "We're at war. Let's party."
- "We have learned through bitter experience - the Abu Ghraib nightmare is just one example - that when this administration begins an internal investigation, it means a whitewash in which no one important is held accountable and no real change occurs
- But now, when W., Mr. Cheney, Laura, Rummy, Gen. Richard Myers, Michael Chertoff and the rest of the gang tell us everything's under control, our cities are safe, stay the course - who believes them? This time we can actually see the bodies
- "even President Bush's own administration acknowledges that America's poverty is worsening on his watch"
- News for 6 September 2005
- Working Families Need Help
- "What we witnessed was the dangerous incompetence and the staggering indifference to human suffering of the president and his administration"
- When Scarce Resources Go For War, None Are Left For Home...
- Yep...
- Don't Count on it...
- News for 2 September 2005
- Letter from AFGE to Secretary England on Your Free Speech Rights
- John Bolton very Undiplomatic, Shaming US at United Nations
- "The city's police chief spoke of rapes, beatings and marauding mobs"
- AFGE OFFERS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO KATRINA VICTIMS
- Hmmm...
- Disaster Profiteering, A Crime Against Humanity...
- It is...
- Great Deciever...
- Free for Him, but Our Children Die and Are Saddled with His Debt...
- Saudis (Al Queda) Win Again?...
- The Real Looters...
- News for 31 August 2005
- Click Here- See Where to Donate to Hurricane Relief Efforts
- War Strains Military's Ability to Help in Hurricane Relief
- President's Poll Rating Falls to a New Low - 53 percent now disapprove of Bush
- An Iraqi-born U.S. resident who was arrested in Baghdad in April after a mortar attack on American forces has been detained for months despite a finding by a military tribunal that he had nothing to do with the attack
- News for 30 August 2005
- DoD Employees Fear Reprisal, Even At The SES Level
- National Park Service Fails to Honor Its Contractual Obligations - Proof Government Will Not Negotiate In Good Faith
- Iraq the 51st State - "We will continue with a rotational [military] presence of some type in that area [Iraq] more or less indefinitely,"
- With Unlimited Billions to Borrow & Our Lives, Rumsfeld is condfident in saying "U.S. Won't Lose In Iraq"
- News for 29 August 2005
- Library Challenges FBI Request - Patriot Act Prohibits Details of Lawsuit From Being Released - Facisim Requires Secrecy to Succeed
- Each Man, Woman and Child Now Owes the U.S. Government $145,000 and rising each day
- "Iraq, it turns out, is the one branch of American government that the Republicans don't control"
- Security or hysteria - "In an October 2001 interview, Osama bin Laden boasted, 'I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The United States government will lead the American people into an unbearable hell and a choking life.'"
- "I was an ex-Marine and a reporter for the Associated Press. It took only a few months [in Vietnam] before I realized I was being fed official lies on a daily basis. Now, having spent decades covering war and its aftermath around the world, I have just been through an eerily reminiscent experience in Iraq"
- "The National Guard is in the stage of meltdown and in 24 months we'll be coming apart."
- Sure enough...
- Budget...
- Lies and more...
- Stay the Course Will Mean Four More Years...
- The Shame of it...
- Support the Troops...
- Unfortunately True...
- Paying for Terrorism...
- News for 25 August 2005
- Anti-Iraq war parents to take protests across nation - Parents of soldiers killed in Iraq plan to follow President George W. Bush around the country in the coming months, hoping to generate nationwide anti-war sentiment
- 20050825 - BRAC Votes to Keep New London Sub Base Open
- 20050825 - BRAC Votes to Keep Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Keep Portsmouth in Main, Close Monmouth in New Jersey, Close Fort Gillem and Fort McPherson in Georgia, Close U.S. Army Garrison in Selfridge, Mich, Close Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va, Close Brusnswick Navel Air Station in Maine
- Ouch - Can Anyone, "in good faith, argue to today's young people that volunteering for a form of military service is a good idea. Judging by the members of the stay-the-course school of thought I know -- overwhelmingly liberals and critics of the Bush administration to one degree or another -- the answer is no."
- Just Say No More
- The Iraq Constitution "is threatening to "drag the country into civil war"
- Bush The Irresponsible
- You Too Can See Iraq The Way Buse Does...
- Oh Oh...
- The Disconnect, Can You See It?...
- A Life Time of Image Down the Drain...
- Yes, History Is Repeating Itself...
- Just Something We Say or Do We Believe It?...
- Who Woulda Thought?...
- News for 24 August 2005
- Zack Gaddy Fully Supports the Proposal for Thousands of DFAS Employees To Loose Their Jobs - Read His Letter to BRAC
- "What this means is that only a quarter of the American people are standing behind Bush on the war"
- "Ethical behavior is absolutely essential. Actions by the Department of Defense must always be above reproach," Gordon England told the Senate Armed Services Committee in June - Unfortunately, this often is not so, is it?
- John Bolton Proved Wrong Again - "No Proof Found of Iran [Nuclear] Arms Program, U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined"
- "Scotland Yard acknowledged Monday that Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician mistaken for a suicide bomber, had done nothing unusual before he was shot after entering the London subway last month. Police said Menezes used a ticket to enter and had not jumped a turnstile, and they said he was not wearing a padded jacket that could have concealed a bomb"
- "It's huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country [US], there are entirely terrorist statements like those."
- Wave/Wear the Flag, Support the War, Support the Troops but "Military service isn't for our son, It isn't for our kind of people." - Hypocrisy at its Best
- Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said "We are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar, dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam, - The Longer we stay, the more problems we are going to have."
- This Not Vietnam...
- Still Not Working...
- News for 22 August 2005
- No Civil Rights When You Travel?
- "Any effort to explain Iraq as 'We are on track and making progress' is nonsense," said Newt Gingrich
- Henry Kissinger said "Mr. Bush had only a few things to accomplish: train a real Iraqi Army that includes all religious and ethnic groups, make the Shiites stop hating the Sunnis and the Kurds stop hating everyone, and keep the Iranians from creating a theocratic dictatorship in Iraq. Oh, yeah, and a couple of other teensy little things: our troops have to defeat the vicious Iraq insurgency, and Mr. Bush needs to keep domestic support for the war."
- "Senior U.S. military leaders have increasingly concluded that the long [Iraq] war is an unwinnable one. "[T]his insurgency is not going to be settled, the terrorists and the terrorism in Iraq is not going to be settled, through military options or military operations," Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, acknowledged earlier this summer. "It's going to be settled in the political process"
- Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah Calls Upon Utahs to Protest Preident Bush When He Vists SL Monday 22 August
- "Current ID technologies are 'untested and unreliable,'. An ID card, 'should be regarded as a potential danger to the public interest and to the legal rights of individuals.'
- Worrisome - "this White House no longer has any more control over the insurgency at home than it does over the one in Iraq"
- Wish They Could...
- Reality...
- Lack of..
- Republicans Deserting Bush..
- News for 19 August 2005
- Nationwide vigils call for war to end
- Why Won't Our President Meet One on One With Cindy Sheehan? Is he a personal coward?
- "Would a pullout [from Iraq] really make things worse? Maybe it would make things better."
- Ethics provisions in Defense bill prompt industry concern
- President Should Replace Rumsfeld says Bill O'Reilly
- Is the Nomination of Judge Roberts Simply a Reward for Ruling in President Bush's Favor?
- OMB orders credit checks on new [government] cardholders
- DoD [DFAS] needs financial reform - "I implore this committee to promote the necessary steps, now and in the future, to prevent another citizen soldier from ever suffering the hardships that members of my company had to endure. Soldiers are prepared mentally and physically to face the rigors of combat in a foreign land. What they are not prepared for are the hardships imposed by an ineffective pay system. My soldiers have suffered divorces, bankruptcies, lost homes, and endured untold family problems that are far more destructive to their morale than any enemy they face in combat. Twenty-five soldiers have left my unit as a direct result of these pay problems."
- Reservists' [DFAS] travel-pay problems widespread, GAO report says - Contradicts Pat Shine
- "Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida's ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr. Gore. This was true despite a host of efforts by state and local officials to suppress likely Gore votes"
- "The London metropolitan police resisted and delayed an independent investigation into why their officers shot an innocent man seven times in the head on a subway car last month, the official police oversight commission announced Thursday, adding to growing criticism of Scotland Yard."
- So True...
- Our Sons and Daughters Die So He...
- The Cowardly Sherif er Bush er Shrub...
- Maybe if We Stopped Screwing Around in the Middle East They Would Stop...
- True Incompetence...
- Still no Armor...
- News for 17 August 2005
- DHS told to revamp personnel rules
- Pentagon's personnel system still a 'go' despite DHS ruling
- 'No-fly list' keeps infants off planes
- "We set out to establish a democracy[Iraq], but we're slowly realizing we will have some form of Islamic republic" - Ya Think?
- A senior Bush official admits that "administration officials can no longer cling to their own version of reality. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning"
- London Inquiry Refutes Police in Their Killing of a Suspect - In other words, they lied to cover up the murder of an innocent man
- News for 16 August 2005
- Homeland Security Dept. Loses Labor Rules Fight
- America will leave Iraq -- not in success but in failure. These are all discrete events but they are linked by issues of culture and a willingness to use terrorism. Connect the dots.
- Really, You Should Hold Congress Responsible, Bush Doesn't Care...
- Thanks to Globalism...Again...
- This is Great...
- News for 15 August 2005
- AFGE Wins - Food Inspectors in Agriculture Get Union Representation Restored
- Court Issues Ruling Preventing Implementation of New DHS Personnel System. Complete Decision Here
- Minahan & Shapiro on DHS Injunction
- Anti-War Protesters Gaining Strength and Apparently Money
- "The campaign for [Social Security] privatization provided an object lesson in how the administration sells its policies: by misrepresenting its goals, lying about the facts and abusing its control of government agencies. These were the same tactics used to sell both tax cuts and the Iraq war."
- Not Able to Be Real...
- What George Does Best...
- Maybe Bush Should Replace One of Our Soldiers for a Week...
- How History Will Remember George Bush...
- Classic Bush...
- A Better Ribbon To Support Our Troops...
- Yes, Truth Hurts...
- Bush Mantra...
- More Georgeism...
- News for 11 August 2005
- Letter From United DoD Workers Coalition Asking DoD Secretary England to tell the truth - Can He?
- History Repeats Itself
- New Feature - US Constitution, Amendments and Federalist Papers - Learn Where Your Civil Rights Come From
- New Feature - View Pictures and Names of Military Deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq
- One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet President Bush, who was visiting the hospital. Rodgers declined. "I don't want anything to do with him," he explains. "My belief is that his ego is getting people killed and mutilated for no reason -- just his ego and his reputation .
- Think Bolton Will Do Better Than The Other Theives...
- Most of America is Just Saying No...
- Education...
- News for 8 August 2005
- Forget the War? Many Can't
- Spouse of Military Recruiter Speaks Out
- World Tribunal on Iraq...Hmmmm
- Your Childrens CAFTA Future...
- News for 5 August 2005
- New York Police Sued Over Random Subway Searches Which Violate Basic 4th Amendment Right to be Free From Unreasonable Searches
- Just Priceless...
- W and the ...
- News for 2 August 2005
- August 2005 Law Firm Newsletter from Minahan & Shapiro
- News for 1 August 2005
- A month after the Supreme Court ruled that governments could take one person's property and give it to another in the name of public interest, the decision has set off a storm of legislative action and protest, as states have moved to protect homes and businesses from the expanded reach of eminent domain
- "Yet even today the president keeps playing the same dishonest games"
- Iraqi to American - "The political process, and the American project, it has failed, Believe me, there is no need to waste anymore one penny of the American taxpayers' money and no more one drop of blood of the American boys. Continuing on the basis to build a democratic process in securing the country, it's only a dream."
- "The ultimate enemy of freedom is the unchecked power of the state"
- Uzbekistan Tells US Military to Close Base and Leave
- The Truth - Generals and Secretaries of Defense Lying
- The Recruiting Problem...
- Guard Recruits Fall Off Steeply
- "Detainee policies imposed by White House and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld violated American and international law and undermined the standards of civilized treatment embedded in the American military tradition"
- White House Fiction...
- Jefferson & Patriot Act...
- News for 25 July 2005
- Asst. General Counsel J. Ward Morrow and AFGE Local President Avis Buchanan set the record straight on what Civil Service changes truly mean for federal workers (Windows Media 3.3M)
- Civil Service Modernization Act of 2005 - Bush Screw Job For Rest of Civil Servants
- Chenney Shows His Colors - Presses Republican senators to NOT pass legislation that would bar the U.S. military from engaging in "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees, from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and from using interrogation methods not authorized by a new Army field manual
- Iraqi Kurds Demand Right To Create Separate Nation - Bush Promised Turks It Would Not Happen
- Army Recruiters Desparate - Offering Incentives That Could Reach $104,400, If The Recruit Survivies Iraq of Course
- The top U.S. commander in western Iraq said yesterday that there are 10,000 Iraqi soldiers in his sector, but no unit is able to mount combat operations on its own. The coalition was forced to dismantle police forces in Fallujah and other towns because they were corrupt and traitorous
- Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely - A Direct Result of Our Out Of Control Politicians?
- Veto threat raised against any attempts to delay BRAC - And Do We Care If The President Issues a Veto?
- Another Constutional Right (4th Ammendment) Stipped From US Citizens
- Just Like His Father...Remember "No New Taxes"?...
- Tribal Culture Still Strong...
- British Hear a Fool When They Hear Bush...
- Tribal Culture Will Fight Everyone That Attacks (Trys to Change) Them - How Come You Don't Know That Mr Bush?...
- What we are becomming...
- What Has Come Out of Our Mouths...
- Rendering - Outsourcing Torture...
- News for 22 July 2005
- Iraqis Not Ready to Fight Rebels on Their Own, U.S. Says, "Iraqis may never assume the responsibility for taking back their country"
- Military compensation ballooning out of control-unsustainable, GAO says
- Decades of US Social Meddling in Middle East Yielding This Crop...
- Your Rights Ticking Away...
- Crapspeak Primer...
- Right...
- News for 21 July 2005
- Poll: Public sees Bush as not trustworthy
- Army blames parents for recruiting problems
- How Low Can He Go...
- Our Best Buddy for 20 Years...
- A New Support the Troops Ribbon...
- In Memory of James Doohan...
- News for 20 July 2005
- Rep Wyan Gilchrest (R-MD) Calls On Bush to Implement Exit Strategy
- BRAC Adds Colorado, Ohio, California, Maine, N Carolina facilities to closure list
- BRAC Adds DFAS Denver to List for closure or consolidation
- Bush Nominates John G. Roberts for Supreme Court
- Administration asking adults - parents, teachers and coaches - to encourage the younger generation to sign up
- Exercising your rights can get you investigated...
- Sigh, What do you think? Disgusted Yet?...
- Bush Reality...
- It's Time Isn't it...
- Iraq's Price for Bush's War...
- News for 19 July 2005
- White House wants to exclude Defense and Homeland Security employees from receiving annual pay increase
- FBI political surveillance of the 1960's has returned - "Why would the F.B.I. collect almost 1,200 pages on a civil rights organization engaged in lawful activity? What justification could there be, other than political surveillance of lawful First Amendment activities?"
- America's weakening position in the global trading system is obvious and ominous, yet leaders in politics, business, finance and the news media are not willing to discuss candidly what is happening and why. Instead, they recycle the usual bromides about the benefits of free trade and assurances that everything will work out for the best.
- President declining in popularity and experiencing declining confidence in his honesty
- The Republican Southern strategy is a cynical and remarkably successful divide-and-conquer strategy that nurtures the bigotry of whites and is utterly contemptuous of blacks
- House Committees Failed to Bring Patriot Act in Line with Constitution; Lawmakers Approved Cosmetic, Not Substantive, Reforms
- Integrity - Yeah Right...
- Couldn't Resist...
- Look Familiar...
- News for 18 July 2005
- Rollout of DHS personnel system delayed for two weeks
- TSP begins permanent open season
- BRAC commission lawyer: States must approve Guard changes
- Military Lawyers Fought Policy on Interrogations - JAGs Recount Objections To Definition of Torture - A law enacted in 1994 bars torture by U.S. military personnel anywhere in the world
- The real victims are the American people, American sons and daughters sent to war on trumped-up grounds and in so doing diverted finite resources, human and otherwise, from fighting the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11
- Not True Then...
- Treason...
- What Happens When Congress Does Not Do Their Job to Protect You...
- Your Future Borrowed and Wasted...
- Exit Please...
- Doesn't Make Sense, Does It...
- News for 15 July 2005
- Base closure method illegal, senator says
- IRAQ Deaths - Insurency Kills 800/mth - US has killed 22,00 to 100,000 depending on which American Group You Believe
- Obviously Military Claims Are Wrong Again - Insurgency Not Broken - 8 Months After U.S. Led Siege, Insurgents Rise Again in Falluja
- Rumsfeld Authorized Torture at Guantanamo Before Abu Ghraib
- Rove Should Resign - If it were you or me, we would be in jail for treason, fired or at least suspended
- The Three...
- About Right - Billons Borrowed and Wasted...
- Bush - No Friend of Working Men and Women...
- This is...
- Who Pays...
- Slimeman...
- Yes Yes Yes...
- No Honor...
- Dems Reps...
- Just Say No to Zealots...
- News for 13 July 2005
- Israel seeks U.S. Funding for Pullout - Wants US To borrow $2Billion and Give it to them.
- U.S. Army National Guard's recruiting woes deepen
- Union members rally against Defense, DHS personnel changes
- White House Said "anybody in the administration involved in the leak would be fired" but will Bush Fire Karl Rove? Don't Hold Your Breath.
- A Tratior...
- Ah...
- News for 11 July 2005
- Senate Considers allowing Federal Bureau of Investigation to gain access to anyone's financial, medical, employment and even library records without approval from a judge
- UnSpin the Budget - "We must squander our nation's hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent...And, on the foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it."
- It Just Gets Worse - Has the president given any thought to leveling with the American people about how bad the [IRAQ] situation has become?
- One out of five DoD employees are looking for employement elsewhere - Thousands of Civil Servants Are Looking to Leave, Survey Says
- Despite High Use Demand from Returning IRAQ Vets, VA Hospital in Texas Fights to Stay Open
- EEOC gets green light for reorganization - The reorganization plan fails to address the EEOC's main problem, which is a lack of adequate staff
- Unity Only Goes So Far - But there's one big thing the world leaders do not share: support for President Bush's method of fighting terror
- Spin vs. reality in Iraq
- Our Rights Slipping Away...
- Wrong Again Mr Bush...
- Wrong And Wrong...
- News for 7 July 2005
- Army Reserve Officer Thinks Bush Should Ask You to Enlist. Since Most Americans Have Figured Out Bush is Not Trustworthy, Why Would They Listen to Him?
- Sent in by a veteran. Interesting.
- Just Another DC Conservative Fascist...
- Picture Worth a Thousand Words...
- Future for Soldiers, Guardsmen, Reservists...
- The Rove Specialty...
- Liberty can not exist without privacy from government...
- The Compassionate Fascist er Conservative...
- Since Congress Can't Say No, Americans Are...
- Yep...
- News for 6 July 2005
- Retired officials warn BRAC could cause civilian brain drain - "These people are easily hired in most places; they do not have to move."
- Arnold Beichman urges US to Attack Syria and remove Bashar Assad, President of Syria. Those who don't fight wars, always want one.
- Hundreds of Billions Wasted, 1,800 lives lost, 12,000 lives shattered (wounded) and the Iraq Civil War Created by the U.S. continues to grow. Sorta Like Vietnam...
- July Law Firm News Letter from Minahan & Shapiro
- News for 5 July 2005
- Pentagon base-closing budget will fall short of upfront costs
- Republicans had to be forced to support veterans health care
- Bush Administration Testing Pesticides on Children and Pregnant Women...
- Join Military, Go to War, Come Home to Medical Care, Or Not...
- Americans Still Say No to Government Wars of Choice...
- Bush lies continue to pile up...
- Get'em While They are Young...
- I Want to Fight More Wars, I need you...
- Money and the Military...
- The Act and Reading...
- Rice World...
- News for 29 June 2005
- Limestone argues for expansion of DFAS
- President Fails Once Again to Come Clean With America - Text of President's Speech at Fort Bragg
- Bush Declares Sacrifice in Iraq to Be 'Worth It' - Whose? Yours of Course (lives, debt, service cut backs, jobs)
- VA Faces $2.6 Billion Shortfall in Medical Care
- Sex Sells but will it Get Recruits...
- Burning Bill of Rights...
- Active Supporter of the War...
- Need Troops Now...
- Bush's Speech...
- Awful Truth...
- News for 27 June 2005
- Dictatorship - Make PBS Part of Government Propaganda Machine
- Financial Destruction of US
- Rumsfeld Sued Over [Prisoner] Torture
- If China's attempt to buy an American oil company does nothing else, it should, at long last, force the United States to decide how it plans to protect its economy
- Leading the nation wrongfully into war strikes at the heart of democracy. It would have been an unprecedented abuse of power even if the war hadn't turned into a military and moral quagmire. And we won't be able to get out of that quagmire until we face up to the reality of how we got in.
- The all-volunteer Army is not working. The problem with such an Army is that there are limited numbers of people who will freely choose to participate in an enterprise in which they may well be shot, blown up, burned to death or suffer some other excruciating fate
- The top US military commander in the Middle East warned yesterday that troops are questioning whether the American public supports the Iraq war
- Eminent Domain Ruling Allows Transfer of Private Property to Developers...
- Future of Military - Endless Deployments to Iraq...
- Heart of Our Protection from Government is Gone...
- Saudis Have Deficit - You Have to Pay More...
- Government Can Take it Whenever...
- Why Is He Supporting Globalism...
- No Bush Will Serve In Iraq...
- Tattered Again...
- Desecration Too...
- Desecration...
- One Can Wish...
- Grim Reaper...
- US Bankrupt...
- Reality...
- Sad...
- News for 25 June 2005
- Pentagon Giving Your Child's Social Security Number, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and study subjects to private firm (BeNow Inc. of Wakefield, Mass) to target for Recruiting
- DHS management directives spark union outrage-A Glimpse of DoD Future Directives
- Rumsfeld Will Not Set Timetable for Iraq Withdrawal - Troops to Be in Iraq Forever
- If it Didn't got to Properly Equip our Troops, Where did Trillions Given Bush Pentagon Go? Think About it Real Hard - We Are Being Stolen From and Our Children (the troops) Endangered...
- What Happens When You Vote For the Wrong People...
- What the US Really Thinks of Its Military...
- Another Bush Legacy - The Wreck of Iraq...
- Will You Vote For Him in 2008...
- Favorite Movie Quotes...
- The Moral High Ground...
- The Bluff...
- Warning...
- News for 20 June 2005
- Bolton Leaves, Progress Occurs. Another Reason Why Bolton Can Not Be Trusted as UN Ambassador
- Downing Street Memo...
- The Next Republican President...
- UnPatriot Act...
- How Long Will You Let Them Snow You...
- Maybe Foriegn Nationals Will Join US Military...
- Give Up Rights, Get This Future...
- More Lies On The Way...
- Bush Doesn't Care that You Know He Lied...
- Dictatorships Need Secrecy to Flourish...
- Ouch...
- News for 14 June 2005
- Name That Civil Service Proposal: If It's Not 'Pay for Performance,' What Is It?
- Message From DEFCON Chair Don Hale on NSPS
- News for 13 June 2005
- From Minahan & Shapiro News of Civil Service Modernization Act of 2005 (CSMA)
- CSMA Bill (pdf)
- Having Screwed DHS and DoD employees, Bush administration expanding personnel reform quickly
- Cheney: U.S. Not Aiming To Close Guantanamo - Congress wants it closed. Note to Congress - Simply refuse to fund it...It will close.
- Bush Administration Bill Would Take Pay System Changes Government-Wide
- Truth...
- How Dictatorships Work...
- They Are Winning, We Are Becoming Like Them...
- Why You Should Never Take Thier Word For It...
- Recruiting..America Still Saying No...
- News for 8 June 2005
- Defense personnel reform postponed
- More Info Showing Bolton unworthy of being our U.N. Ambassador
- Psyops Contracts Awarded - Let the Propaganda Roll Forth
- How Do I Get to the Gulag? Via the Patriot Act...
- Army Of One...
- If the President can do it to them, he can do it to you...
- News for 7 June 2005
- Pentagon misses deadline for releasing base-closing data - Guess Congress Hasn't Figured Out Who Works For Whom
- Compare...
- Bush Supports Our Enemies Who...
- Amen...
- Americans Continue to Vote Against the Bush War...
- News for 6 June 2005
- The real message in the Amnesty report
- Rumsfeld Issues a Sharp Rebuke to China on Military Budget(US $579 Billion, China $29.9 Billion) Hmmm
- Bush Wrong Again...Military Details Koran Incidents at Base in Cuba
- Truth and Deceit
- DoD Refuses to commit to fixing NSPS problems
- Mary Lacey said the meet-and-confer discussions were productive-Sounds Like More Lies to Me
- Avoid disaster - scrap NSPS
- Not Acceptable! Senators Say Newly Released BRAC Data 'Insufficient'
- Growing Problem for Military Recruiters: Parents
- Lowest of the Low?...
- Darth Recruiter...
- Deaths...
- How Dictatorships Flourish...
- What Do You Think...
- U.S. Human Abuse & Why It Happens Here...
- Lessons Well Learned...
- Lets Hope Someone Has the Courage To Tell Us The Truth...
- News for 2 June 2005
- Dutch Voters Reject E.U. Constitution
- Dictator Bush Hints He Will Withhold Other Papers on Bolton
- Baghdad Dick...
- Guess...
- What Else Can He Trash...
- Compare...
- News for 1 June 2005
- Minahan & Shapiro Law Firm Newsletter for June
- Collins, Lieberman send letter to GAO asking DoD to release data related to BRAC recommendations
- Collins, Lieberman letter to GAO (pdf)
- Letter to Rumsfeld From House Stating that DoD Has Not Complied With BRAC Law(pdf)
- Senators threaten to subpoena base closing documents-DoD not Cooperating. Has Congress Forgotten How to Control Run-Away Executive Branch Paper Shufflers? It's Easy, Cut Off Their Funding!
- News for 31 May 2005
- DoD Obstructs Congress
- The House agreed Thursday to cut off funding for the latest round of military base closures unless the Defense Department provides detailed information about how decisions were made
- House & Senate Ask Pentagon to "stop playing games when so many of our hardworking men and women's livelihoods are at stake." (BRAC)
- "When was the last time so many individuals have emerged from an administration to send warning signs to the U.S. Congress about an individual?" Voinovich asked, in a reference to former colleagues of Bolton who have voiced strong public opposition to him. Voinovich added: "We owe it to the United States, our children and our grandchildren to heed this warning, and to ask our president, 'Please, Mr. President, find a better candidate to send to the United Nations.'"
- Unbounded Stupidity - Defense missiles aboard passenger jets to be tested
- French Voters Reject EU Constitution
- Time for an Iraq Accounting
- Death Spiral of the Volunteer Army
- House Republicans Disrespect Women Soldiers
- Our Shame...
- Freedom Isn't Free - Never Forget the Price...
- Hmmm...
- Right...
- Race Away from Military Service...
- Because of Lies...
- Patriot Act - THE Tool to Destroy US...
- News for 27 May 2005
- Video of NSPS Rally in Washington DC
- See How Your Representative Voted On Stop BRAC Bill HR1815
- US Honor Down the drain...
- Bald with Truth...
- Speaks for itself...
- News for 26 May 2005
- Syria Stops Cooperating With U.S. Forces
- Representative Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., says Bill Maher's Comments on Army missing recruiting goals is possibly treasonous. Guess U.S. Constitution Protected Speech Rights No Longer Exist
- Collins presses Pentagon for [BRAC] data...Pentagon Not Providing Data or Returning Calls...Government Out of Control
- Senate Bill S1075 - Stop BRAC
- Guantanamo Guards Accused of Mistreating Koran...Newly Released FBI Documents Detail Allegations
- Amnesty International castigated the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay as a failure Wednesday, calling it "the gulag of our time" in the human rights group's harshest rebuke yet of American detention policies.
- Our Real Enemy...
- Hmmm, Is This US...
- News for 23 May 2005
- Government Financial Condition Worse Than Advertised According to GOA Head David Walker
- The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday that it repeatedly expressed concern to the U.S. government in 2002 and early 2003 about a series of credible detainee allegations that military guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba had mishandled and shown disrespect to the Koran.
- "It is not a lack of money. When we can afford the war in Iraq, we can afford to control our own borders."
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai demands greater control over U.S. military operations in his country and called for vigorous punishment of any U.S. troops who mistreat prisoners
- No Honor or Integrity Left...
- Conscript, Draft, Impress, Shanghai - Take Someone Against His Will For Compulsory Service...
- Bush's Job...
- Patriot Act...
- Never Bush's Fault...
- Dirty Birds All...
- News for 20 May 2005
- Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) joined Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) and co-sponsored legislation to postpone the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act, the BRAC Letter to BRAC Chairman
- Senators Snowe and Collins have joined a group of their colleagues in cosponsoring legislation that would postpone BRAC and make null and void last week's BRAC recommendations
- As Predicted, "If we let go of the [IRAQ] insurgency and take our foot off its throat, then this country could fail and go back into civil war and chaos."
- "If . . . we don't want to see women killed, then maybe you should make a law that says women can't be in Iraq," said Rep. Loretta Sanchez (Calif.) Speaking of Amendment That Targets Role of Female Troops
- Bolton pushed to have employee removed from his job, testified under oath that he did not. Sounds like a lier to me.
- No Memory...
- What We Have Lost...
- Pay For Performance...
- Very Well Done...
- This Insanity Must Not Happen...
- PysOps...
- What Fascism Will Do to US...
- News for 19 May 2005
- Protesters Subjected To 'Pretext Interviews' - "It's very clear to me that the purpose of those interviews was to intimidate activists in the Denver area from exercising their First Amendment rights,"
- Pentagon Pay
- The Image of US...
- The Bush Legacy...
- Facts...
- His True Self...
- How Much Evidence Does it Take...
- The Immoral Government...
- Truth Shall Keep You Free...
- Bush & Company's Other War...
- Why Did We Allow It...
- News for 18 May 2005
- Unions call for repeal of law authorizing new Defense personnel system
- Audio Message from AFGE National President John Gage on NSPS
- Audio Message from UDWC Member Ron Alt on NSPS
- Two Guesses Why America Says No To Military...
- The Biggest Hypocrite of Them All...
- Who Should be Ashamed...
- Meet the Bush Staff...
- One of the Results...
- Real Comparison...
- Lets Be Clear...
- News for 17 May 2005
- Calling the "Meet & Confer" Process a Sham, Unions walk out of Pentagon personnel system meetings Monday
- Rummy Speaks...Stupidly as Usual...
- Not America's Priority. War is, Right...
- The House of Hypocrites...
- America Doesn't Like the Lies...
- Hmmm...Could it Be...
- Just Bolton...
- Patriot Act ID...
- News for 16 May 2005
- Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona
- "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD [weapons of mass destruction]. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
- Army Offers 15 Month Tours - Retains Right to Forcibly Extend Enlistment as 14,000 Others Have Found Out
- Congress Working on Illegal Immigration Due to Complaints of Taxpayers. Solution, Pass Law That Makes Illegals Legal. Problem Solved.
- 21 DFAS sites to close
- Saudis Attack Us 911 - Saudis Kill Our Troops in Iraq - Bush Holds Hands With Saudi Prince...Go Figure
- Carnage in Iraq
- Not Secure After All
- Iraq: Let the Truth Show
- Start A War, No Money Down!
- What Our Sons & Daughters Are Facing... "They came here to die," Gunnery Sgt. Chuck Hurley, referring to the insurgents, told a Washington Post reporter embedded with the unit. "They were willing to stay in place and die with no hope. All they wanted was to take us with them."
- The Horrible Cost...
- The Real Terrorists...
- Misled...
- Might Help...
- Nuclear Stupidity...With Our Money...
- Timely...
- Iraq & Here...
- How America Views Military Recruiters...
- Not Trustworthy...
- Why Loose Jobs Here...
- No Future...
- News for 13May 2005
- BRAC List By State - DFAS Hit Hard
- BRAC List -Detailed Showing Positions
- Memo from AFGE National Presidnet John Gage on BRAC Announcement
- Minhan & Shapiro Law Firm Newsletter for May
- Welder Blows Whistle...Under NSPS...No Way
- News for 12 May 2005
- Memo from AFGE National Presidnet John Gage on BRAC Announcement
- Uncompensated - Its the Law - Management Does Not Have the Right to Keep You from Getting Compensated For Travel Oustide Duty Hours
- Lets See...Only American Citizens have to Produce Proof of Existence for Drivers Licence Whereas Foriegn Nationals Can Continue to Use Thier Country's Drivers License because of NAFTA. Another Stupid Law From Congress...
- Can't Have a War if People Won't Fight...
- Church's Risk Loosing Tax Exempt Status If They Meddle in Politics...
- Youth Are Just Saying No...
- News for 11 May 2005
- Report reveals anxiety over new DHS personnel system
- Marines recall combat vests [in Iraq] after concerns about testing [failures]
- Good/Bad News. Welcome to NAFTA. CAFTA next...
- Americans continue to vote with their feet - against the war...
- Welcome to Globalism...
- News for 10 May 2005
- Thanks goodness we won't be saddled with him for a 3rd term...
- Out of the mouths of babes...
- Torture continues...
- Like NSPS...
- News for 9 May 2005
- Va. Shipyard Workers On a Lifesaving Mission - Unlike Those that Just Talk (Political Appointees), Civil Servants Get The Work Done. Another Example that Shows NSPS Not Needed
- AFGE Standard - March/April 2005
- 1,700 Reported Cases Of sexual assault, which includes rape, nonconsensual sodomy, indecent assault as well as attempts to commit those offenses in Military - In in Iraq signs are posted in female showers and other locations requiring U.S. servicewomen to be in the company of a "battle buddy," especially at night, for their safety
- As Government Rules More of Your Life.. When a teacher told him to hang up, he refused. He said he told the teacher, "This is my mom in Iraq. I'm not about to hang up on my mom."
- Pentagon Nixed Plan to Send Lawyer to Abu Ghraib
- Bush Administration Lies Archives
- Uncle Sam..er Iraq Wants You...
- Stretched Thin...
- Begging...
- Freedom or Forced Lifetime...
- How Stupid Can We Be To Inflict This On Ourselves...
- Your Tax Dollars At Work...
- News for 6 May 2005
- In a stunning reversal, England's guilty plea scrapped
- A very thoughtful presentation of our Nuclear arsenal
- We have used them before...
- Nukes, Nukes everywhere a Nuke...
- How fitting...
- Men of Dishonor?...
- News for 5 May 2005
- Reporting Live From AFGE NSPS Task Force Headquarters
- DoD to resume voluntary anthrax vaccinations - I sure wouldn't volunteer
- Letter to Govexec
- Almost True...
- All Costs Passed on to You...
- Well Done...
- Nuclear Hypocrisy...
- Same Ole S...
- Love this one...
- News for 4 May 2005
- For third straight month, Army misses recruiting goal
- U.S. Called Unprepared For Nuclear Terrorism
- Utah Snubs Bush on No Child Left Behind
- Two Republicans From Texas Have a Plan to Tame Windfall Penalty
- OPM is considering instituting regular pay rates for IT again
- News for 3 May 2005
- Mission Accomplished...
- Bush's Ideal of The Right Man For The Right Job...
- Cuts...
- Black Hole...
- Source of the Poor...
- Who do you think is a real housewife...
- Fakes all...
- News for 2 May 2005
- Your Papers Please...Police Data Stops Draw Doubts...Police are not entitled to force you to cooperate with them to gather personal information without probable cause
- [DoD] Authorities at Guantanamo Bay staged interrogations of detainees for visiting politicians and generals to give the impression that valuable intelligence was regularly being gathered
- DHS chief floats idea for collecting private citizens' information using a nonprofit group that would collect information on private citizens, flag suspicious activity, and send names of suspicious people to his department. Kinda like the brown shirts did in nazi Germany?
- Horrifying, personal John Bolton story
- John Bolton alledged to have exaggerated [lied] about Cuban bioweapons...Of Course Bush Likes Him
- Had a couple of folks take me to task for stating that Rumsfeld said a missile struck the Pentagon on 9/11.
Here is the interview by Parade Magazine posted on the Pentagon defense link web site.
Click here to go to the actual Pentagon web page - Bull [Bolton] in the China Shop
- If a Sponge Can Figure It out...
- Delay-ed Ethics...
- Outsource America...
- A Saudis Best Friend...
- SS to Stocks An Old Remedy Returned...
- The Patriot...
- The Real Power...
- Trust Not Deserved...
- News for 29 April 2005
- Press Begins to Notice Problems with NSPS Meet & Confer
- Meet and Confer
- Union laments failed homeland security amendment that would have restored collective bargaining avenues and appeals rights for employees and would have guaranteed that salaries for employees switching to the new pay system would not fall below the levels they had under the General Schedule system
- House Votes to Rescind Ethics Rules backing off from controversial committee changes Republicans had forced in January. A new investigation of DeLay could follow.
- Their Character is Known by the Company they keep
- Budget makers agree to cut billions in Medicaid spending. Hmm...Billions for Wars of Choice, Billions cut in Medicaid. Hope you remember when you get to vote next time
- Bush administration using the annual handbook for Medicare beneficiaries to mislead seniors about the new prescription-drug benefit. No surprise, this administration excels in misleading the people
- No one in custody of the United States Government should be abused or mistreated. It could be you next. Think about it.
- Step up fuel incentives
- Lawmakers consider using military to seal U.S. borders - Very Very Bad folks. Be careful about using military to enforce laws. Founding Fathers recognized the risks, do you?
- Despite a "bully boss" temperment and lack of real leadership skills Lugar Predicts Bolton's Approval
- MSPB Rules Against OSC in Favor of Federal Employees Sending Emails to Each Other That Contain Their Political Opinions
- News for 28 April 2005
- As questions surface, Rumsfeld defends pre-war planning
- GOP, Dems to huddle with AARP. The meeting is an extension of a letter that Conaway sent AARP two weeks ago asking the group to help House Republicans craft a solution to Social Security's long-term solvency shortfall. Solution: Pay Back The $1.7 Trillion Congress Took From Social Security Trust Fund.
- National ID Cards May Be On The Way. Federal agencies will conduct background checks on their employees before issuing the new cards to ensure they are properly on the payroll. Say What???
- Bush's New Energy Policy...
- Bush Loves the Saudi...
- Saudi Main Export to U.S...
- Friends of the U.S.? I don't think so...
- Bush Logic...
- Unfortunately...
- Our Sons And Daughters Deserve Better Than This...
- Al Qaeda & Bush...
- News for 27 April 2005
- Family Medical Leave Act (FLMA) in Danger?
- Two Peas in a Pod, Bush & DeLay Stumping for Social Security Scam
- Moderates Abandoning Bush and Bush Supporters
- Hundreds of cases of torture and abuse by U.S. revealed to world last year. U.S now reveals there will be no justice for breaking it's own laws
- The Shame of it All...
- Pentagon 9/11 Missile Strike Footage...Just Like Rumsfeld Said
- Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war - again
- Congress to Military: So What If Anthrax Shot Made You Ill. Why Should We Care?
- DoD to Military: Soldiers to Be Scapegoats. Titan & CACI Contractors, Apparent Participants in Abu Ghraib Prison Tortures, Not Even Included in Pentagon Invesigation
- Bush To Military: I Don't Care About You. Bush Pushed To Have Award to POWs in Iraq Overturned. Supreme Court Lets Case Stand.
- Republicans to Military: "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals, to be used as pawns in foreign policy" Henry Kissenger...
- Remember...
- News for 26 April 2005
- Bloodied Marines Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men. "I'm checking out," Corporal Winn said. "When I started, I wanted to make it my career. I've had enough."
- News for 25 April 2005
- Angry Man Bolton Gets Unequivoval Backing From Bush, but Not Powell
- Any Justification to Invade Iran...
- $160 Billion Could Have Been Spent on Manufacturing Fuel Cells So We Don't Need as Much Oil But Some Wanted to Have a War as for Congress...
- Did You Know That Most Of The Mid-East Oil Does Go To China?...
- Bankruptcy of Social Security...Yeah Right...
- The Planned 21st Century...
- Dictators Stage Public Events...Now Bush Does It...Surprised?
- The Country Refuses to Participate in Wars of Choice...
- Bless Our Abused Military and Curse the Politicians That Treat Them Like Mercenaries...
- The Real Winner of Social Security "Private Accounts"...
- Deeds Are Truer Than Words, The Real Bush...
- News for 22 April 2005
- MSPB "The possibility that an [DHS or DoD] employee would be subject to multiple actions based on the same underlying conduct raises a substantial question of fundamental fairness."
- Senate Hearing Blasts DoD on NSPS
- GAO Comptroller General David Walker said the proposed regulations don't include adequate measures to ensure fairness and guard against abuse, specify how employees will be told what's expected of them
- Your Social Security Dollars at Work...
- Wall Street and Social Security...
- Have You Paid Enough Yet for Bush's Election?...Have You Noticed Your Grocery Bill Increase Yet?...
- Yep...
- Have You Figured It Out Yet...
- Bush Got What He Wanted, What Did you Get?...
- Says It All...
- News for 18 April 2005
- The Gift From congress...
- Poor Houses With the Illusion of Freedom. Thanks Congress For Not Representing Us...
- Amnesty To Those That Have Killed Our Soldiers...What's Next? Payments for Their Inconvienence?...
- The New Army, Fanatics Wanted...
- Let the Airlines Fail, Better for the Rest of Us...
- Too Bad...
- Problem Is, Which Preditor? Debt, Sex, Drugs, Military Recruiters...
- News for 15 April 2005
- Official NSPS Myths and the Truth
- Reductions In Scope of Employee Bargaining under NSPS
- Defense, OPM officials face questions on new personnel rules
- The UNdiplomat-If Anyone Ever Needed to Attend Anger Management...
- Retribution Cometh...
- UNfit for Duty...
- One of The Reasons Social Security is in "trouble"...
- We Can't Take That Risk...
- Scam After Scam...
- Amen...
- News for 12 April 2005
- Thousands of Billions Borrowed and Still Pentagon faulted for shortage of critical war supplies...If the Money Wasn't Spent on the Troops, Where Did It Go?
- Defense Scientists Call For Halt To Missile Defense Deployment Funding
- We Are a Bankrupt Government...
- Food for Oil...
- Congress Has Concerns About John Bolton as U.S. UN Ambassador
- Graphic Image of Government Out of Control...
- News for 11 April 2005
- Axworthy fires back at U.S. critics of Canadian Ballistic Missile Defense decision in An Open Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
- If American forces aren't pulling out of Iraq in a year, a draft will be needed to meet manpower requirements, military analysts warned Wednesday
- You Support the War Don't You?...
- Liberty and Those Working To Take It Away From You...
- Iraq War Supporter? Don't Complain To Her About Your Choices...
- Are You Going to Let Them Do It?...
- There is No Excuse For Giving Your Rights Away The Government...
- Lest We Forget...
- Do You Get It Yet?...
- News for 8 April 2005
- As Predicted, DHS creation was a waste of your money...
- The Well Practiced Scam...
- AARP on Bush's Social Security Scam...
- One Could Wish...
- Shades of the Future...
- The Real Bush Legacy...
- The Pope's Anti-Bush Values...
- Let the Real Culprit Off...
- Army recruiting short again in March
- Studies: Blacks, females less willing to join Army...having to fight for a cause they don't support as a barrier to military service
- Tricks Recruiters Use to Gain Recruits
- Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war
- Emiliano Santiago Forcibly Re-enlisted for 27 Years Under Bush's Stop Loss Policy
- Commanders Again Plead for Armored Humvees
- 7,000 Soldiers Forcibly Re-enlisted Until 24 December 2031
- News for 30 March 2005
- Despite What Secretary England said in his press briefing, Panel Ignored Evidence on Detainee. Did he lie?
- Effort to Form Iraqi Government Collapses
- Corruption in Iraq is out of control. But will the United States join efforts to clamp down on it?
- Free Speech Suppressed in Denver Colorado
- Declining to enlist, kids vote with their feet
- Case for Return of the Draft
- A Life Changed by [Iraq] War
- "I've been hearing a lot of people talking about all the innocent people who are being killed and the prisons over there where they've been torturing people. I just didn't want to be a part of it"
- Despite law, banks foreclose on soldiers
- What you didn't know about Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons
- Freedom Requires Citizens to Guard and Enforce Their Rights
- News for 28 March 2005
- The Ultimate...
- The Real Reason? Nah, another smoke screen...
- Lied to, abused, misused by their own government...they still care enough to serve..Bless Them...Bring Them Home
- Use and Forget
- Father Government...
- How Votes for Bush Screwed DoD and DHS Employees
- NSPS Report for Congress
- Pay Attention...David Walker's (OPM) Testimony Before Congress
- News for 24 March 2005
- Individual liberties are not negotiable, even in the face of terrorism
- Conservatives Call on President Bush To Reconsider Unqualified Endorsement of Patriot Act
- Letter to President Bush
- Our Priorities: The Patriot Act Sunsets and Domestic Surveillance
- FBI official, privacy advocate clash over PATRIOT Act
- National physician group joins "patriots to restore checks & balances" coalition, citing threats to medical privacy
- Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights
- Patriot Act Increases Potential for Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Second amendment foundation endorses call to review patriot act
- Barr Urges Conservatives to Fight for Freedom at Home
- "We are most concerned with any government initiative which could be used to undermine or even eviscerate the individual Second Amendment civil right"
- "Attorney General Torture Gonzales Promotes Giving President More Powers"
- News for 22 March 2005
- Message to all DoD employees
- News for 14 March 2005
- "[Bush] could set people with disabilities back 50 years."
- News for 11 March 2005
- Meet & Confer...Will DoD Actually Work to Fix the NSPS Mess...Will Congress Actually Protect the Employees From the DoD Hacks?
- Welcome to the hidden costs of Globalism
- Action, Reaction
- Will you let this come about?
- If only it would happen...
- True...Unfortunately
- Out of Control...
- News for 7 March 2005
- Letter from AFGE National President John Gage on NSPS
- How long will Americans Allow President Bush to Break American Law and have Human Beings rendered [tortured]? Who will be next? You? Think about it.
- More Churches Decide to Become Political Organizations
- How the New Social Security Will Work...
- Against all advice and wisdom...
- Do as I say, not as I do...
- News for 4 March 2005
- Bill on retiree health insurance premiums could stall again...Bilions for war, nothing for Veterans & Retirees
- House panel boosts defense spending in supplemental
- Condi's Track Record
- News for 3 March 2005
- Comments on new Defense personnel system highlight fears
- Bank loses federal workers' charge card data
- More Evidence of Goverment Agencies Out of Control?...Agencies fail to implement anti-discrimination act
- "We can say the PATRIOT Act is working; it has helped prevent additional terrorist attacks...but of course they can provide no proof"
- News for 28 February 2005
- Letter From AFGE President John Gage on DoD Lawsuit
- To DoD Employees
- March Law Firm News Letter
- OPM Announces pay cuts for DFAS employees in St. Louis(12.09%), Kansas City(12.36%) and Orlando(11.75%) in 2006
- Unions Start Looking for New Members North Where Employee Unions Can Still Represent Employees...Unlike U.S.
- Administration readies new ID standard for employees...More Millions Wasted
- War supplemental faces lengthy debate...Message to Congress, Just Say No
- [Pay] Raise Resentment
- A coalition of DoD worker unions filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the implementation of NSPS
- Canada Says No to Missile Defense...U.S. Says Don't Care, Will Shoot Through Canada Anyhow
- What the Administration will do to your Benefits...
- Bush's Progress...
- What Will Bush's Grades Be?
- Privacy...
- Liberty...
- Machine Politics...
- Republican Congress Killing Horses?
- News for 22 February 2005
- Bush's budget uses deficit as excuse for massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich
- Neverfinding Land
- Our Gutless Congress
- Scuzzy Math
- Words and Deeds
- If you could budget like Bush
- Finaly, an Emerging Exit Strategy
- The Awful Truth of it all
- Why I Don't Fly
- Coming Near You
- US Troops Hide Abuses
- Rumsfeld Disobeys Congress - Refuses to Estimate Size of Insurgency in Iraq...More evidence of Government Out of Control
- News for 18 February 2005
- Yep...This tracks...
- What You Should Know About Social Security Privatization
- News for 17 February 2005
- ACLU Urges Investigation of Detainee Abuse...Attorney General Torture Gonzales does not intend to recuse himself..Of Course
- Democracy in the Bush Mold
- C.I.A.'s current leadership is concerned that legal authority for interrogations and detentions is eroding, that there is no clear plan for how the agency can extricate itself from what could be a lengthy task of holding a small population of aging terrorists who are unlikely ever to be released or brought to trial
- US government warned it needs to dramatically curtail spending to prevent fiscal disaster
- Republicans have lost their way...
- The nation has amassed $43 trillion in liabilities and commitments[debt]
- Suckered in 2001...Are you going to let it happen again?
- Italian Hostage Pleads for US Troops to Leave Iraq to Save Her Life
- US Military Violates International Law & Iranian Air Space...Bombs Next?
- Priorities Wrong Again...
- Military Twister
- One Builds the Nation...One Destroys
- Words and Deeds...
- Bush's Illogic
- News for 16 February 2005
- President sends supplemental request to Congress...Increasing total war funding to about $300 billion since the Iraq war began in March 2003
- News for 15 February 2005
- United DoD Workers Coalition Responds to Release of NSPS
- Joint Comments and Recommendations Submitted By the United DoD Workers Coalition
- News for 14 February 2005
- To All DoD Employees - The Valentine's Day Slaughter of DoD Civilians
- NSPS Regulations pdf file
- Rumsfeld Denounces Idea for NATO Rival - Speech was a late addition to Rumsfeld's agenda and came after German prosecutors decided not to investigate Rumsfeld on war crimes.
- U.S. House of Representatives approves sweeping set of rules forcing states to issue all adults federally approved electronic ID cards
- Doctors have discovered a frightening new strain of HIV that is resistant to most drugs and can lead to full-blown AIDS very quickly.
- Bush Budget not serious about deficit reduction...only moving money from taxpayer benefit programs to his pet projects
- BRAC Briefing Power Point Slides
- News for 11 February 2005
- Social Security not in crisis, most say
- The Compassionate Bush
- Maybe he knows something...
- Iraq gets...
- Fiscal Discipline
- Fascism flourishes in Congress...Use IRS to inhibit free speech of NAACP
- Budget in perspective
- The real monster...
- Well...
- Remember...
- A Bribe by Any Other Name...
- News for 10 February 2005
- Bush says "no new taxes" and then presents a budget that requires 100% increase in federal tax on airline tickets
- Will Indians Ever Recover Their Money from Federal Government?
- Facts are in again: Union members make more money and enjoy better working conidtions
- News for 9 February 2005
- February Employee Law Observer Newsletter
- Outline of NSPS Training Given by Minahan & Shapiro
- Executive Summary for Union White Paper on NSPS
- Union White Paper on NSPS
- President's "Lean Budget" Plan Fattens Defense
- Bush's Cuts
- Smoke and Mirrors...Bush's Budget Does Not Include War Costs...Then Why is the Pentagon Budget so Obese?
- Majority Now Say Iraq War a Mistake...Gee, No Kidding?
- News for 8 February 2005
- Social Security proposal not really new...It is part of longtime GOP ideology to undo the system that provides for millions of Americans
- Bush Budget Bleeds Red...Pentagon Budget Continues to coruscate out of control
- Pentagon Budget Increase Paid for by Increasing VA Prescription Co-Pays
- Bush's Social Security Agenda
- News for 7 February 2005
- Congress Thinks Pentagon Needs More Oversite...Ya Think?
- Bush Back to his Old Tricks...Seeks Pay Disparity Between Miliary & Civilians Again
- Bush Seeks Less for Civilians
- Did your Senator Vote in Favor of Attorney General Mr. Torture Gonzales?
- What Bush Should have Said in His State of the Union Address
- Privatizing Government
- The Truth
- News for 4 February 2005
- AFGE Local Wins Overtime Case
- Deputy Defense secretary warns of 'substantial' supplemental request - With Pentagon Spending Already Out of Control, Isn't it Time Congress Just Said No?
- Senate confirms Mr. Torture Gonzales as attorney general...Lawless Ideals and Inhumanity Rewarded
- New Axis of Evil
- Your New Economic Future
- The New Con Game
- SOS...
- News for 3 February 2005
- President's State of the Union Address - Congress Verbally Challenges President During His Speech
- Workers to March to Capitol, Speak Out Against Bush Administration Attacks on Civil Service
- New for 31 January 2005
- Law Firm Newsletter for Feb 2005
- Billions in Debt but Bush Government Spends More to Propagandize US Citizens
- Defense budge cuts [Biggest budget in history] compel military transformation
- Will the Weak Congress follow the Strong Leader?
- How will you handle this under NSPS? Merit vs. Race
- NSPS - No Peeking - DoD & OPM Refuse to Cooperate with Congress
- Another Bush Agency Out of Control - Office of Special Counsel Refuses Congress
- And...Congress not in loop on administration's reform plans
- German authorities asked to prosecute Rusmfeld for war crimes in Iraq
- Executive Order 10988 by President Kennedy Giving you the right to have a Union...Now NSPS Takes your rights away
- Executive Order 11491 by President Nixon Improving your Union Rights...Now NSPS Takes your rights away
- Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 Gave Union Rights Under the Law...Now NSPS Takes your rights away
- News for 28 January 2005
- AFGE Government Standard Jan/Feb 2005
- Bush Moving Forward to "reform" Civil Service
- DHS Personnel System Unvailed...A glimpse at what is instore for DFAS employees
- Advance Look at DHS Regs to be published 31 Jan
- AFGE Fact Sheet On DHS Regs
- Homeland secuity unions plan to sue DHS
- We have sunk very low where we reward those who advocate human torture, lawless elected officials and deception with what should be positions of trust in our government...We are truely destroying ourselves from within.
- News for 24 January 2005
- FAA will not lift pay for performance pay caps on long-term [older] employees
- FAA workers plan lawsuit challenging pay caps[under Pay for Performance]
- TheArt of Quiting President Bush
- Countdown to Life Cycle Investments in TSP
- What's left in your wallet? Bush inaugurated, proclaims era of expanding freedom...which means more war?
- Bush's Address to the Nation...What does he really mean?
- For the People
- Liberty
- Next Attack on those in need...HHS nominee says Medicaid overhaul will be a priority
- Bush' Plan for Social Security
- News for 18 January 2005
- Bush's Social Security Con Job...A Smokescreen to Slash Benefits
- Doesn't this Sound Familiar?
- Time for an Accounting...The WMD Fraud
- Integrity, Courage...
- More Than Half the Population of Iraq will not be able to Vote January 30th...How can anyone believe this will be a valid election?
- Rally Cry - Bush Must Convience Capitol Hill to Continue with His Globalist Agenda
- Forced Relocations of Employees Beginning...The Future for DoD Employees?
- "Now that the search [for Weapons of Mass Destruction] is finished, President Bush needs to explain to the American people why he was so wrong, for so long, about the reasons for war"...Hmm think he will ever admit he lied to get us to barrow money for his globalist war?
- US Supreme Court Again Rules Against Bush Administration stating the Government Can NOT Hold People in Jail Indefinitely. Thousands Ordered Released
- Homeland Nominee a Surprise...Mr Torture Jr?
- The Ownership Society
- Bush's Nominee for Attorney General Disavows Torture but then says... "a president has the authority to sidestep laws and treaties and authorize torture". Do you think he would protect your civil rights against torture?
- News for 14 January 2005
- AFGE Government Standard November/December 2004
- News for 13 January 2005
- Army Report of U.S. personnel at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison abusing Iraqi prisoners
- NJ Man charged with Terroism for using a laser pointer while star gazing in his back yard
- News for 7 January 2005
- "The Army Reserve, whose part-time soldiers serve in combat and support roles in Iraq and Afghanistan, is so hampered by misguided Army policies and practices that it is 'rapidly degenerating into a "broken" force'"
- Alberto Gonzales [Mr. Torture] Prepares to Answer Critics apparently believing he can preserve your civil rights while advocating it is ok to use torture as an interrogation tool. Huh?
- U.S. authorities in late 2001 forcibly transferred an Australian citizen to Egypt, where, he alleges, he was tortured for six months before being flown to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.