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Democrats Aim to Repeal Tax Breaks for Big Oil
House Democrats are targeting billions of dollars in oil company tax breaks for quick repeal next year. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an outline of priorities over the first 100 hours of the... ...
The Carlyle White House
"The weakening of George W. Bush, in short, has opened the door for an alumnus of the Iran/Contra scandal, Robert Gates, to gain control of the Pentagon - his nomination, as yet, has met with little Congressional... ...
Pentagon Without Budget Watchdog for One Year
The Pentagon has been without its chief watchdog for more than a year, even as the military spends billions of dollars a month in Iraq and controversy simmers over warrantless surveillance, missing weapons... ...
Iraq reconstruction needs more than $100B
The civil reconstruction of Iraq will cost at least $100 billion, U.S. officials in Baghdad told Iraqi contractors who are vying for some of the work. http://www.upi.com/Secur ityTerrorism/view.php?Stor yID=20061110-114629-4533r From... ...
Outcry stops train mast in its tracks
ALAN RODEN TRANSPORT REPORTER (aroden@edinburghnews.com) CAMPAIGNERS have won their battle to stop a giant 29-metre high radio mast being put up in a conservation area. The towering structure was... ...
Beware of High Hopes
by Dorothy Seese The illusionists are masters of deception, and deception rules the age in which this world spins. Post-election euphoria has not yet pulled one American soldier out of the Middle East,... ...
Ban mobiles in schools
28 July 2000 Daily Telegraph (c) 2000 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd EDUCATION Secretary David Blunkett has written to every school in Britain urging them to ban children under 16 using mobile phones... ...
Baghdad's 'missing' billions
"I think we're looking at a huge scandal. The CPA handed over $8.8bn in cash to the Iraqi government even though that new government had no security or accounting system. "No one can account for it. We... ...
In the departure of Bechtel, the Iraqis see the end of remaining hopes for the reconstruction of Iraq
Bechtel's billions down the drain The decision of the giant engineering company Bechtel to withdraw from Iraq has left many Iraqis feeling betrayed. In the company's departure, they see the end of remaining... ...
First we take your money, then we take your schools
Cato Institute by Neal McCluskey 11/09/06 'Loca l schools remain under local control,' Bush declared in his radio address, though NCLB dictates everything from how reading is taught to teacher qualifications.... ...