Topic: POLITIK - on September 15, 2004 at 11:49:00 AM CEST
Group offers $50,000 for proof of Bush service
The founder of the group Texans for Truth said Tuesday that he is offering $50,000 to anyone who can prove President Bush fulfilled his service requirements, including required duties and drills, in the Alabama Air National Guard in 1972.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 15, 2004 at 11:47:00 AM CEST
Hungary's next PM rapped over "wife" remark
Hungarian women's groups have lashed out at Prime Minister-in-waiting Ferenc Gyurcsany for comparing the way the Socialist Party dumped his predecessor to a married man who abandons his ageing wife for a younger woman.
The party had sacked Peter Medgyessy in the same way as "...anyone whose wife is getting old deserves a younger one," Gyurcsany -- a thrice-married 43-year-old millionaire -- told Hungarian television earlier this month.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 14, 2004 at 6:31:00 PM CEST
E-Mails über Clinton´s Penis
In ihrer Skandalbiografie zitiert Autorin Kitty Kelley aus privaten E-Mails der Präsidentenfamilie Bush. Bush senior hat sich mit seinen Söhnen offenbar über die Unterleibsanatomie seines Nachfolgers Clinton unterhalten. Woher er die Insider-Informationen hat, bleibt allerdings unklar.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 14, 2004 at 2:17:00 PM CEST
Counting Bodies like Sheep - video
November 2nd, coinciding with the presidential election, APC will be releasing a collection of songs about WAR, PEACE, LOVE AND GREED, entitled "eMOTIVe." Featuring new material and songs like "imagine" by John Lennon, "What's goin on" by Marvin Gaye, "Let's have a war" by FEAR. This week we will release one of these new songs entitled, "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums," with an animated video poking fun at our fearless leader. Hopefully, you'll find it as entertaining as we do.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 11, 2004 at 2:52:00 PM CEST
CBS Stands By Bush-Guard Memos
The controversy continues over the authenticity of memos obtained by CBS News that show President Bush's National Guard commander believed Mr. Bush at times shirked his duties and used his political influence.
The network is adamantly defending the authenticity of the memos, which were obtained by CBS News' "60 Minutes," saying experts who examined the memos concluded they were authentic documents produced by Mr. Bush's former commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 11, 2004 at 1:55:00 PM CEST
Eighth Governor Gets Suspicious Letter
Boston's Governor Mitt Romney, received a letter bearing a return address from the same security prison in Nevada that was the source of other mysterious letters.
Governor's offices in Montana, Texas, Idaho, Nebraska, Wasington and Utah received letters on Thursday. They were rigged to ignite when opened by the use of matches.
No reports of injuries in any of the incidents. All letters were postmarked from the Ely State Prison in Nevada. Two inmates whose names were on the envelopes are being questioned.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 10, 2004 at 1:45:00 PM CEST
Return of the Berlin Wall?
Nearly 14 years after the Berlin Wall was ripped down, one in five Germans say they would like to see it return. According to the Forsa Institute in Berlin, many Western Germans would prefer 15 million Eastern Germans to live in a different state.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 10, 2004 at 10:14:00 AM CEST
Some Question Authenticity of Papers on Bush
Documents unearthed by CBS News that raise doubts about whether President Bush fulfilled his obligations to the Texas Air National Guard include several features suggesting that they were generated by a computer or word processor rather than a Vietnam War-era typewriter, experts said yesterday.
Experts consulted by a range of news organizations pointed out typographical and formatting questions about four documents as they considered the possibility that they were forged. The widow of the National Guard officer whose signature is on the bottom of the documents also disputed their authenticity.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 10, 2004 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Memos state Bush failed to meet standards, refused direct order
Addressing questions that have lingered for years, newly unearthed memos state that George W. Bush failed to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, that he refused a direct order and that his superiors were in a state of turmoil over how to evaluate his performance after he was suspended from flying.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 8, 2004 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
Kerry Victory Would Bring Terrorist Attack
VP Dick Cheney, in front of around 350 supporters at a town-hall meeting in an Iowa city, said that if the wrong choice is made on Election Day, "then the danger is that we'll get hit again."
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 5, 2004 at 2:17:00 PM CEST
Arnold The Commercial Years: The Governator as Huxter
A few strange clips edited together promoting "The Sixth Day" and Nippon TV (immediate left) and, at the far left, a spot for the now defunct in Japan "Direct TV."
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 4, 2004 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
George Jr sent out of Texas by father as a 'drunken liability'
The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his father's former confidants revealed yesterday.
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