George Bush Unplugged

Washington Post – President Bush called on Congress today to provide $30 billion toward battling the global AIDS crisis over the first five years after he leaves office, a doubling of the current U.S. commitment. The increase in the President’s Emergency Program for

Scotsman – GEORGE Bush, the US president, is supporting Congress’s $120 billion ( 60 billion) war spending bill, ending weeks of wrangling with Democrats on whether the legislation should set a date for troops to leave Iraq. It funds the war until the end of
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Sky.com – And it follows former US President Jimmy Carter’s attack on Tony Blair for his “blind” support of George Bush in the Iraq war. Jimmy Carter – a liberal Democrat who was in the White House from 1977-81 – said it had been a “major tragedy for the world
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Salon – They want to vest George Bush with the power to imprison whomever he wants with no charges — including U.S. citizens, indefinitely, and place blind faith in The Leader to spy on us, detain us, and exert any other power he wants without limits
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Daily Times – ISLAMABAD: The government s claim to provide speedy justice to the people was exposed on Friday when it failed to get the Law Reforms Bill through Senate within the 90 days required to make it a law. The National Assembly (NA) had passed the Law
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New Straits Times – MALAYSIA S one-stop government portal (MAMPU) is ranked among the top 40 in Brown University s Global E-Government (EG) ranking. The country is ranked 36, a significant position compared with 83 in 2004 to 157 in 2005. As of this year, myServices
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Herald Tribune – ANKARA, Turkey: Parliament approved a key constitutional amendment to allow the Turkish people rather than legislators elect the president, a post the Islamic-rooted government and secularists in the opposition have wrangled over for nearly
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AZCentral.com – Medicis Pharmaceutical will pay the federal government $9.8 million to settle a whistle-blower complaint claiming that the Scottsdale company violated federal law by improperly promoting use of its Loprox topical skin product for treatment of diaper
Government Supports KBS Plan to Increase Fees Donga.com – The Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) is [...]

MSN UK News – Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday said last week’s talks between his country’s foreign minister and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were not a “breakthrough,” instead accusing the Bush administration of making Damascus a scapegoat for
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Independent Online Edition – The Liberal Democrats have ruled out propping up either a nationalist or a Labour administration at Edinburgh following the knife-edge elections to the Scottish Parliament. They took their hard line as the prospect emerged of two legal challenges to
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