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Saturday, October 1, 2005 |
NYTimes: "Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated 'covert propaganda' in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban."
1:43:38 PM 
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ChicagoTribune: "As Death Row and DNA exonerations mount, a bill that critics say would severely curtail the ability of prison inmates to appeal in federal court faces a crucial Senate committee vote Thursday.
The Streamlined Procedures Act is aimed at limiting what the original sponsors of the bill, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) and Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), have described as 'endless delays' in carrying out death sentences.
But more and more legal groups, including the American Bar Association and the Judicial Conference of the United States, an organization of federal judges, have announced their opposition to the bill."
Such a bill can only come from Republicans; it's their way of continuing the good old lynching practice.
1:29:39 PM
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MSN: "Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday.
Chavez, a sharp critic of what he calls imperialist U.S.-style capitalism, has often criticized foreign banks for the power they wield in international financial markets at the expense of poorer countries.
Chavez again proposed the creation of a South American central bank that would hold the foreign exchange reserves of all the central banks in the region."
1:22:32 PM
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