The case for regime change in the USA

Judah Ben-Hur
Physicist

A president and respected physicist of a Californian technologies company
dips into journalism to make his case for a more transparent United States
of America.

"Strange times are those in which we live when old and young are taught in
falsehoods school.  And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called
at once a lunatic and a fool" - Plato

"And those who perform jihad for us, we shall certainly guide them in our
ways, and God is surely with the doers of good." (Quran XXXIX; 69)

"You have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad." (Hadith)

To all who read and understand: it is time to take the next step in
understanding. After careful and meticulous research, including access to
files and data guarded by the United States Government, I have uncovered
information that has been written about, talked about, read about, and in
many cases silenced to protect and to confuse those who wish to uncover its
not so guarded secrets.

Careful and planned exposure of this information seems to be the only way to
begin the process of enlightenment of not just the American people but all
peoples of this planet who are considered common men and women.

We cannot blame the "United States Government" for our woes, but ourselves
for allowing our own Constitution to manipulate and control not just us but
others in its path towards imperial rule, which by the way was why some
people left England to come to the Americas to rid themselves of that
tyranny.
True democracy does not impede growth or dominate others. It was established
to be a beacon for those who wish to call on its existence and only that. We
do not have the right to impose democracy on nations or peoples who do not
truly ask for it.

The United States in its own right is a ... country imposing
pseudo-democratic policies through crafty methods - controlling without
regard to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! Regime change within
the United States should be seriously considered.

Fact: the United States has in its possession weapons of mass destruction,
so why does not the United Nations impose restrictions against the United
States?

Fear is the reason why no nation or individual will want to go up against
this Goliath! Well I have a small stone, I know where to throw it, and if I
have to by myself so be it.

The fact that Thomas Jefferson who co-authored the now infamous doctrine of
democracy himself was an advocate of slaves.

 Hypocrisy runs through the veins of the elite American people who control
the destinies and lives of so many people.

What we all must learn is that the power in change is in the people that
make up the majority of the civilized and so-called uncivilized world.


What gives this small group of people their control over us is the fact that
they know we all will not collectively give up our lives to get back control
of the government and rid ourselves of the self-serving politicians and
business executives that control what we eat, where we sleep, who to like
and not like, what to read, what to write, how to dress, how and who to
love, who to hate, what race is superior, who gets education, who not, where
to travel, who lives, who dies, who eats, who does not eat, who gets elected
in office, who does not get elected, who is popular and who is not,  who is
"in" who is not, what clothes to wear, what not, what movie or music star is
in, which one is not, who to disrespect who to not, who to be prejudice to
and who to not, what freedoms we have and have not, who gets destroyed, who
not, who must accept the "way" and who not, who goes to prison, and who not,
and the list goes on into infinity.

Remember that in the Constitution it does allow for bloodless regime change
within the government as long as we stand together and collectively vote for
our freedoms back.
Rid ourselves of the electoral college and other manipulative organizations
that are self-serving their own agendas at the expense, hard work and lives
of so many innocent and misguided people that are here within the borders of
despair.

The French Government should formally request that the Statue of Liberty be
returned to France. We all know what it was for.

The United States has over many years systematically infiltrated other
nations to "weed" out the non-conformers to the so-called Democratic process
and replace those with the showroom dummies of democracy.
Granted, the United States has some freedom of movement for its people but
not the way it was originally intended. Look at Africa, South America, and
parts of Europe, Asia and other nations that are sucking the teat of the cow
and its sour milk.

Collectively, we the people of the world should stand up and be counted on
to rid ourselves of individuals who are ignorant of their own ignorance and
replace this Constitution with one that includes all religions, all peoples,
all races, all nations and all who feel left out and want to be what they
want to be without the constraints of prejudice and restrictive law. Not to
run lawless but have the right to be an individual and collectively correct
this turmoil we are in.

The Earth is trying to warn us that we are spinning out of control and that
we need to correct ourselves soon or the earth will rid itself of this
infection and parasite called mankind that is slowly destroying its primary
intent to allow its inhabitants the freedom to live be fruitful and multiply
to the extent of finding a way to leave this planet and journey to others
and spread some sort of reason rather than an infectious spore.

I am a physicist and a patriot who, through years of being silent, had
almost forgotten my obligations.  It is high time I and others like me use
our intellect and technology to stand up against an oppressor and rid
ourselves of this infection. We are a legion that wants to live a life of
peace and respect for all living things and have considerations for those
who are different and look for ways to truly accommodate those who are slow
in understanding.

We do not need your help just your patience and understanding of what we are
about.

We are America's best-kept secret that just got out of the "keep".

Rumsfeld link to sale of reactors to North Korea --The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, sat on the board of a company that three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts of build nuclear weapons. Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $US200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors.

Bush ally set to profit from the war on terror --James Woolsey, former CIA boss and influential adviser to Dictator George Bush, is a director of a US firm aiming to make millions of dollars from the 'war on terror', The Observer can reveal. Woolsey, one of the most high-profile hawks in the war against Iraq and a key member of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board, is a director of the Washington-based private equity firm Paladin Capital. The company was set up three months after the terrorist attacks on New York and sees the events and aftermath of September 11 as a business opportunity which 'offer[s] substantial promise for homeland security investment'.

Move to bring Bush, Blair to trial taking on int'l scale --Thousands of people in Arab and other Islamic countries have signed a petition demanding that US Dictator George W Bush and British Prime Minister Poodle Tony Blair be brought to trial for the actions committed by US and British forces on Iraqi territory. Initiators of the move accuse Bush and Blair of invading and occupying Iraq, destroying its infrastructures, contaminating the territory, plundering natural resources, and devastating Iraq's immense historical and humanitarian values.

U.S. Offers Rewards in Iraq Weapons Hunt [LOL! If it wasn't so pathetic...] --U.S. Authorities in Baghdad Use Radio Announcement to Offer Rewards for Help in Banned Weapons Hunt --American authorities have promised rewards to Iraqis for information leading to discovery of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons programs, the U.S.-run Information [Propaganda] Radio said Saturday.

Task Force Unable to Find Any Weapons Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq --The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms, according to participants.

US rivals turn on each other as weapons search draws a blank --One key argument for war was the peril from weapons of mass destruction. Now top officials are worried by repeated failures to find the proof - and US intelligence agencies are engaged in a struggle to avoid the blame.

WMDs for the Taking? --While U.S. troops pushed on to Baghdad, Iraqis were looting radioactive materials from once protected sites --From the very start, one of the top U.S. priorities in Iraq has been the search for weapons of mass destruction. Weren’t WMDs supposed to be what the war was about? Even so, no one has yet produced conclusive evidence that Iraq was maintaining a nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) arsenal.

Villagers suffer radiation sickness after looting nuclear power plants --Doctors fear that hundreds of Iraqis may be suffering from radiation poisoning, following the widespread looting of the country's nuclear facilities.

US forces may stay in Iraq for more than a year --US on Saturday said it is not possible to know how long its forces will remain in Iraq and hinted that stabilising the "newly liberated [sic] country" could take longer than a year.

Jordan Takes Dim View of a Rising Star in Iraq --Ahmad Chalabi's critics recall the financial ruin he caused and his flight from their kingdom. Hailed by some in the Pentagon as a pro-American visionary and an emerging leader of the new Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi evokes quite a different response in Jordan, where he spent 12 years and left behind economic chaos, a court conviction on numerous financial charges — and a lengthy prison term he never served.

Bush Shakes Up Iraq Regime --Bodine and Garner Recalled to U.S. in Effort to Speed Reconstruction --The American diplomat serving as chief administrator of Baghdad has been reassigned by the Bush dictatorship after less than three weeks in Iraq in what U.S. officials here said was part of a broader shake-up of the troubled Pentagon operation to rebuild the country.

American Overseeing Baghdad to Step Down --The U.S. official sent in to oversee Baghdad and a large swath of its surrounding territory is leaving her position immediately after less than a month, a spokesman for the postwar American regime said Sunday.

Iraq in danger of starvation, says UN --Iraqi agriculture is on the brink of collapse, with fears that many of its 24.5 million people will go hungry this summer, according to a confidential report being studied by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Baghdad skeptically waiting for better days --With little food, no power, a community recalls another Bush's promises "The gray-bearded man, nearly blind, extremely hungry and fully out of patience, sat on a thin pillow in a hot room, resting his chin in his palms. Above him, a ceiling fan was still, and so was the air - the electricity had been out forever it seemed - and next to him sat a grandson who was 10, his teeth and eyes and bony limbs all showing signs of malnourishment. Outside, gunshots sounded..."

Iraqis told to sign pledge to get top health jobs --U.S. officials shepherding in an interim government in Iraq started purging the ranks of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party yesterday, requiring Iraqi doctors and Health Ministry officials to formally resign from the party and denounce it to qualify for top jobs with the ministry.

Iraqis on Paradise Street want security --On Paradise Street, as elsewhere, many Iraqis - even those pleased with Saddam's ouster - want foreign troops out of their country. It's a sentiment that has found expression right there in Paradise Square, on the base of the vanished statue, where someone with imperfect spelling and bold paint has told the Americans their work is completed. "ALL DONNE," it reads. "GO HOME."

Shiite Leader Demands U.S. Leave Iraq --The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite Muslim group denounced the U.S.-led occupation forces Sunday and demanded they pull out and allow the Iraqi people to establish their own government.

Iraq's Crude Awakening --It's only a trickle now, but it could become a gusher that rocks the world --For more than a half-century, American foreign policy involving oil has been cloaked in intrigue and deception, from the overthrow of the Premier of Iran in 1953 to the arming of Afghan rebels through the 1980s, from the permanent establishment of a military presence in the Persian Gulf to the early support of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

U.S. to Take Its Message to Iraqi Airwaves --Just as political and economic reconstruction have lagged in the month since war in Iraq ended, so too has progress on the propaganda front.

Who is Michael Ledeen? --Most Americans have never heard of Michael Ledeen, but if the United States ends up in an extended shooting war throughout the Middle East, it will be largely due to his inspiration.

Bush Visit Could Cost Some Omaha Workers a Day's Pay --Stop on Dictator's Tax Cut Tour Aimed at Neb. --Senator Would Close Plant for Most of Two Shifts --About 340 workers at an Omaha plastics factory will lose pay or have to work next Saturday to make up for time lost during a visit by Dictator Bush on Monday to promote his "jobs and growth plan," their boss said today. [Everyone loses when the Idiot Usurper makes an appearance --Lori Price]

The Other "F" Word --"Chosen by the Grace of God"? --by Ben Tripp "For a long time I couldn't quite slap the 'F' word, as fascism is coyly known among lefties, on Bush and his minions. No matter how naughty the Man Who Would be President might be, for my tastes he never hit that perfect Kafka note-- until recently. Him and his people weren't really fascists. Just execrable excrudescent assholes. But 2003 has changed all that. These people are fascists, and they make Mussolini look like a mezzafinook." [a must read]

Secret Service Questions Students --Some teachers in Oakland are rallying behind two students who were interrogated by the Secret Service. That followed remarks the teenagers made about the Dictator during a class discussion... "When one of the students asked, 'do we have to talk now? Can we be silent? Can we get legal council?' they were told, 'we own you, you don't have any legal rights,'" teacher Larry Felson says.

Blair tops most unpopular list --Prime Minister Poodle Tony Blair has been voted the most unpopular person in Britain -- followed by a topless model and the nation's first female premier, rightwing sickko Margaret Thatcher.

Reject Nomination of Bush and Blair for Nobel Peace Prize (Petition)

An Interesting Day: President [sic] Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11 --by Allan Wood and Paul Thompson --"It was an interesting day." - President [sic] Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02] "After Card told Bush about the second plane and quickly left, the classroom was silent for about 30 seconds or so. [Tampa Tribune, 9/1/02] The children were about to take turns reading from a story called The Pet Goat. [AFP, 9/7/02] Bush picked up the book and began to read with the children. [Tampa Tribune, 9/1/02] In unison, the children read out loud, 'The - Pet - Goat. A - girl - got - a - pet - goat. But - the - goat - did - some - things - that - made - the - girl's - dad - mad.'"

New Find Reignites Anthrax Probe --The FBI has developed a new theory on a central mystery of the 2001 anthrax attacks after finding evidence in a Frederick, Md., pond that may suggest how an ingenious criminal could have packed deadly anthrax spores into envelopes without killing or sickening himself, according to sources close to the investigation.

FEMA could bypass counties on Indian Point (NY) An executive order from the Reagan era may allow Entergy and federal regulators to create new Indian Point evacuation plans without local input — and then send taxpayers the bill.

Disney Parks Shielded With No-Fly Zones --Walt Disney World and Disneyland have no-fly security zones like only a few other potential targets in the United States, according to a Local 6 News report.

Cheerleaders twirl pom-poms of protest --Anyone attending recent political rallies in LA will have noticed the most visible sign of this, a team called Radical Teen Cheer, who chant: 'We're teens, we're cute, we're radical to boot!' Instead of backing the Oakland Raiders or the LA Lakers, they chant: 'Who trained, who trained, bin Laden? Who armed, who armed, Saddam Hussein?'

Did the Bush twins inhale? Kutcher won't say --The White House didn't return phone calls Wednesday, but the dictator and first lady [sic] must be reeling over Ashton Kutcher's comments about their twin daughters in the new Rolling Stone.

A tokin' appearance by Bush twins? --Actor Ashton Kutcher, 25, recounts how he met the First [sic] Daughters at a Los Angeles party a year and a half ago. Kutcher continues, "And then I go upstairs to see another friend and I can smell the green wafting out under his door. I open the door, and there he is, smoking out the Bush twins on his hookah." Stepping outside at one point, Kutcher recalls that "one of the Secret Service guys asked me if [the twins would] be spending the night."

Army demands death waiver as right of passage --Foreigners to the Gaza Strip are being obliged to sign a waiver absolving Israeli forces from responsibility if they shoot them. They also have to sign a declaration that they are not peace activists.

Named: British double agent who murdered for the IRA --Top Provo executioner was paid £80,000 by British government The British army's most deadly double agent, who operated at the very heart of the IRA, has been identified as Alfredo 'Freddy' Scappaticci, known to spy-masters by the codename 'Stakeknife'.

China blames U.S. for SARS --Floats theory virus byproduct of bioweapon research --The deadly SARS pandemic, which has claimed more than 500 lives worldwide, originated as a bioweapon in a U.S. research lab, according to the Hong Kong newspaper Wenweipo.

U.S. Diplomats Decry 'Military Coup' --Inside the beleaguered State Department, plenty of America's elite diplomats are privately seething. They are up in arms over what they see as the hijacking of foreign policy-making by the Pentagon and efforts to undercut their boss, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. "I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, 'There's been a military coup,' and then it all makes sense," said one veteran foreign service officer.

Senate panel votes to lift ban on low-yield nuclear weapons --A Senate committee said Friday it had voted to lift a decade-old ban on the research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons, overriding Democratic arguments that repeal would damage U.S. efforts to stop the spread of nuclear arms.

Senate Panel Votes to Lift Ban on Small Nuclear Arms --A sharply divided Senate Armed Services Committee voted today to repeal a 10-year-old ban on the development of small nuclear weapons. The measure goes before the full Senate in two weeks, where opponents, mainly Democrats, have vowed to fight it.

The allies' broken promises (Independent.co.uk compilation) "Oil --Tony Blair: 'We don't touch it, and the US doesn't touch it' MTV, 7 March The reality: Yesterday's draft UN resolution gives total control of Iraq's oil revenues to the US and UK until an Iraqi government is established..."

Blueprint gives US-UK occupying forces control of oil --US and Britain see advisory role for UN in draft resolution --America and Britain yesterday laid out their blueprint for postwar Iraq in a draft resolution to the United Nations security council, naming themselves as "occupying powers" and giving them control of the country's oil revenues.

Draft of new UN resolution on Iraq (May 9) A US-supported draft resolution on Iraq being considered today by the United Nations security council, taken from a draft copy circulated among UN diplomats ahead of the meeting. "Noting the letters of (1/8)DATE(3/8) from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America and the United Kingdom to the President of the Security Council and recognizing the specific authorities, responsibilities, and obligations under applicable international law of these states as occupying powers and the responsibilities of others working now..."

'US wants to control Iraq's oil, join OPEC' --A top EU official derided today pledges by the United States to manage Iraqi oil revenues transparently, quipping Washington was on its way to becoming a member of OPEC as it prepared to introduce a UN resolution on lifting sanctions on Iraqi oil exports.

Bechtel Busy as a Bee:

New York Officials May Hire Bechtel For Trade Center Job (11/19/01) New York City could soon be turning to San Francisco-based Bechtel Group Inc. to manage the estimated $2.5-billion cleanup of the World Trade Center site. Bechtel has been working on the site "on an informal basis" since Sept. 12, says spokesman Alexander Winslow. [*Oddity question: since all domestic flights were canceled for two days and international for three (except for the bin Laden family members that were allowed to leave , <g>), HOW could San Francisco-based Bechtel have been 'on the site' in New York on Sept. 12, unless they were there in ADVANCE of 911? Just curious.] Bechtel tied to bin Ladens --Osama bin Laden family members invested $10M in an equity fund run by former Bechtel unit. The Bush dictatorship launched a war on terror because of the alleged acts of Osama bin Laden. Ironically, one of the companies the regime has picked to rebuild Iraq after the latest phase of that war has ties to bin Laden's family, according to a published report.

Bechtel's roots in Mideast Lucrative projects date back to WWIII --In the mid-1980s, Bechtel pursued construction of a pipeline linking Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Jordanian port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. According to documents recently obtained by the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., Saddam Hussein discussed the project during a 1983 meeting with current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who at the time was serving as an envoy for President Ronald Reagan.

Bechtel awarded Iraq contract: War profits and the US "military-industrial complex" --On April 17 the US Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a contract worth $680 million to Bechtel Corp., a private company with close ties to the Republican Party and the Bush dictatorship.

Rumsfeld warns against setting deadline withdrawing U-S troops --Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is warning against setting any deadline for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

Muslims Seek Removal of U.S. Official in Iraq; Hiring Administrator Says Guiding Arabs Like 'Herding Cats' --A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on the Bush dictatorship to remove an American official supervising the hiring of translators in Iraq because of offensive anti-Arab remarks he made to an Independent Television News (ITN) reporter.

Seven Nuclear Sites Looted --Iraq's scientific files and some containers that held radioactive sources are missing. Seven nuclear facilities in Iraq have been damaged or effectively destroyed by the looting that began in the first days of April, when U.S. ground forces thrust into Baghdad, according to U.S. investigators and others with detailed knowledge of their work.

'Globe' Reporter Killed in Iraq --Elizabeth Neuffer, a longtime reporter for The Boston Globe was killed Thursday in a car crash in Iraq while covering the war's aftermath., the Globe announced Friday. The Committee to Protect Journalists' Web site reports 13 journalists have died in Iraq, besides Neuffer. Of the 13, nine were killed in action. An additional two are missing, according to the site.

Veteran Globe reporter Elizabeth Neuffer killed in car accident in Iraq --Elizabeth Neuffer, an award-winning reporter for The Boston Globe, was killed today in an automobile accident in Iraq while on assignment there covering the aftermath of the war.

Iraqi opposition leader returns after years in exile --The leader of the largest Iraqi Shiite Muslim group opposed to Saddam Hussein returned to his home land on Saturday after two decades in exile and called for Iraq to become an Islamic state.

Iran says U.S. nuclear claims false --Iran on Friday rejected U.S. claims it is developing nuclear weapons and said the allegations stem from more than two decades of tense relations between the two countries.

Bush favors confrontational approach to Castro, Cuba --Without fanfare, U.S. government efforts to promote political change in Cuba have shifted away from the subtle "people-to-people" contacts favored by the Clinton administration to a more confrontational approach, including direct support for dissidents, two U.S. officials say.

When Lying Pays Off The Fabrications of the Neo-Cons --by Wayne Madsen "America's manipulative neo-conservatives, who support unending aggression against any country that does not succumb to United States political, economic, and military control and who, themselves, seized power in Washington through electoral malfeasance, are taking a page from Nazi Germany's leaders in their quest for world domination."

Livingstone: Bush Is Repellant --"Bush is repellent, a hawk who was a coward, leader of the most corrupt administration since the Twenties. He's not a legitimate President," - Ken Livingstone yesterday --Ken Livingstone last night launched an extraordinary attack on George Bush, branding him cowardly and corrupt. The left-wing Mayor of London said he was as keen to see the dictator ousted as he was to see Iraqi president Saddam Hussein go.

Bush's Triumphant Jet Flight Could Cause Future Turbulence --by Cynthia Tucker "Insinuating himself into the ranks of combat-hardened veterans, Bush, who sat in the co-pilot's seat of the S-3B Viking, told reporters, 'Yes, I flew it.' Even by current political standards, this was rank. Not only did Bush seek to link himself to combat pilots, but he did so despite his less-than-stellar National Guard service."

Danger Zone (The Salt Lake Tribune) "And he [Bush] all but dares his political rivals -- and a press that ought to be pursuing such things -- to again examine the president[sic]'s own military record. During the 2000 election campaign, The Boston Globe reported that Bush not only spent his years of exposure to Vietnam military service in the Texas Air National Guard rather than any combat-bound organization, but also managed to disappear from even that duty for a year."

Weather, Nature's Weapon of Mass Destruction --by Mary MacElveen "According to an AP report, 'Since Sunday, tornado-packed storms have killed at least 42 people across the Midwest and Plains... Officials have estimated damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars.' I am left to wonder how we as a country can afford to pay for such emergency relief when we are already in the red from other budgetary blunders. Such as the war in Iraq, our rebuilding of that country, and the tax cut happy Republican Party" http://www.legitgov.org/essay_macelveen_weather_natures_wmd_051003.html

Graham Claims Bush Regime Blocking Release Of 9/11 Report --Florida Senator and presidential candidate Bob Graham says the Bush dictatorship is stonewalling the public release of a congressional report on the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Post-9/11 interviews faulted --GAO report criticizes Justice Department effort --The Justice Department’s effort to interview some 7,600 foreigners in the United States after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was conducted haphazardly, leading to incomplete, inconclusive results, congressional investigators say.

Secret Service Questions Students --Some teachers in Oakland are rallying behind two students who were interrogated by the Secret Service. That followed remarks the teenagers made about the Dictator during a class discussion. The incident has many people angry.

Fox hunting We don't want biased news over here (The Guardian) "The network [Faux] referred to 'our troops' and to anti-war protesters as the 'great unwashed'. When Baghdad fell, the news anchors addressed those who opposed the 'liberation' with the words: 'You were sickening then, you are sickening now.' ...Here [UK] 'due impartiality' rules ensure the news is balanced and independent - otherwise a broadcaster can be taken off air."

Berlusconi, in a Rough Week, Says Only He Can Save Italy --Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi became the first sitting Italian prime minister to testify as a criminal defendant, prompting speculation that he could also become the first to be convicted of a crime while in office. He faced fresh accusations that he was trying to use his direct or indirect control over six of the seven national television networks to influence news coverage. [Hmmmm... shouldn't the Bush-Faux team be tried for media 'influence', starting with Faux's role in the 2000 coup d'etat?]

Amnesty Says Israel Shutting Out Foreign Scrutiny --The rights group Amnesty International accused Israel on Friday of trying to prevent outside scrutiny of its army after a military clamp down on foreign activists working in Gaza and the West Bank.

Halliburton admits it paid Nigerian bribe --Oil services giant Halliburton, already under fire over accusations that its White house ties helped win a major Iraqi oil contract, has admitted that a subsidiary paid a multi-million dollar bribe to a Nigerian tax official.

G.O.P. Seeks to Ease Rules on Filibusters of Judgeships --After weeks in which Democrats have used Senate rules to block the confirmation of some of Dictator Bush's [rightwing sickko] judicial nominees, Senate Republicans said today that they would try to change those rules.

GOP Faces Battle Within Republicans On Right Target Party Moderates --A central player in the party drama is a new titan in American politics, but one largely unknown outside Washington political circles - the Club for Growth, which raised more than $4.2 million for the 2002 election and claims about 8,000 members who have given $100 or more.

House Approves 10-Year Tax Cut for $550 Billion --The House voted today to cut taxes by $550 billion over the next decade, strongly endorsing Dictator Bush's drive to stimulate the economy [?!?] through lower taxes but differing sharply with him on the shape of the package.

Fed's minutes show deep economic worries --The Federal Reserve was worried, in the hours before the outbreak of the war in Iraq, that US economic growth could be "muted for some time", according to meeting notes released Thursday.

Wall St. to Ship Research Jobs Overseas --Wall Street research analysts have suffered rounds of layoffs, big pay cuts, and accusations that they routinely lied to the investing public. Now there's a new worry -- that their jobs are being shipped overseas.

Rule would give utilities more profits, rights --Owners of hydroelectric dams are close to achieving a victory over environmentalists, federal-resource agencies and Indian tribes. Power companies, after two decades of losing ground, may be on the brink of saving billions of dollars in the operation of their dams while regaining greater control of rivers from New England to the Pacific Northwest.

Governor is warned about Glades proposal --If his message didn't get through the first time, U.S. District Court Judge William Hoeveler delivered it again Friday to Gov. Jeb Bush in the bluntest language: A controversial Everglades bill is "clearly defective.'' Coming days before the governor visits Washington to discuss the measure with congressional critics, the stern words from a venerable federal jurist added considerably to mounting pressure on Bush to kill a bill backed by the sugar industry.

FCC Dems unhappy over agency performance --The Federal Communications Commission's two Democrats said Friday they are frustrated by lack of information on the agency's review of media ownership rules and their chairman's refusal to make proposed changes public.

Feds Give States Cash to Promote Marriage --The Bush dictatorship is giving communities in Michigan and Idaho money for a new idea: using the child support system to promote marriage among low-income families.

[May 9 lead stories:] U.S. drafts a resolution to take control of Iraqi oil --The Bush dictatorship circulated a draft resolution among key Security Council members Thursday calling for the elimination of more than a decade of international sanctions on Iraq and granting the United States broad control over the country's oil industry and revenues until a permanent Iraqi government is in place. [Insert "Oh. I thought the W-ar in Iraq was not a war for oil" lament here. --Lori Price]

U.S. and Britain want control of Iraqi oil --U.N. Security Council members are meeting to discuss a proposal by the United States and Britain to end 12 years of sanctions against Iraq and give them control over its oil revenues.

EU Commissioner says U.S. out to seize Iraq's oil --A European Union commissioner said on Friday he believed the United States aimed to take control of Iraq's oil and was "on its way to becoming a member of OPEC".