September 30, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

COMMENT: You know, every week it is something else thrown at us from the Bush administration. We are becoming reaction dulled. Is it any wonder? Every time we turn around, there is more crap coming at us from our own government – people we elected to watch for our care. I have never cried about my country before, but these years under Bush have seen many tears roll down my cheeks. I am going to plan for a day when I will be able to smile and laugh and be proud of my country once again. Excuse me while I get a tissue!

ALERT

Torture Bill States Non-Allegiance To Bush Is Terrorism - American citizens who breach their "allegiance" to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.
http://tinyurl.com/hqvu7

WAR

2003 Iraq Postwar Planning Chief: “We've Made Three Tragic decisions”...Rumsfeld: Really?”...
http://tinyurl.com/meqyg

Over 800 attacks every week in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1884383,00.html

Revolt of the Generals - Mesopotamia as another Vietnam-like, strategically failed war, and they blame the errant, arrogant civilian leadership at the Pentagon.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/0093006X.shtml

Not Worth a Camel - Eventually, after we leave, a new dictatorship will emerge, probably a Shi'ite version.
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=9772

Previously Unknown Lawyer Central to Exposing Mistreatment
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0929-01.htm

Bush Appointees Browbeat Senior Military Officers on Geneva Conventions
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806B.shtml

POLITICS

Kucinich to White House: share information on Iran - Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) plans to introduce a resolution Friday calling on the president to share information related to U.S. policy toward Iran with the House. Kucinich was a leading voice among Democrats who opposed the 2002 resolution authorizing the president to use force in Iraq.
www.TheHill.com

Selective Intelligence - how easy it is to publicly misrepresent intelligence-community findings - especially when almost all of the key documents remained shrouded in secrecy.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806L.shtml

Bush Throws Down the Gauntlet – "Now honey, I would hate to and it would be hard but if you can't support me, I will lock you up and call you a terrorist combatant. Got that?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093006D.shtml

I won't say "Republican pedophile ring" but feel free to think it...
http://tinyurl.com/gaa65

Bush Job Approval Climbs to 42% - New Reuters/Zogby poll shows Republicans, weekly WalMart shoppers, Catholics, and men help buoy the President, but Democrats retain edge in battle for Congress
http://www.zogby.com/methodology/readmeth.dbm?ID=1141

Bush and his friends cannot be punished for crimes they have committed, while others can be thrown in jail without even knowing what crimes they are accused of.
http://tinyurl.com/zoz3g

Sheppard Smith clashes with Kristol on the War: it’s “repulsive” that Bush won’t do anything till after the election in Iraq. (Kristol is the chairman of PNAC and one of the people beind the invasion of Iraq and our current insane foreign policy.)
http://tinyurl.com/huc9b

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

Detainee law may not provide total immunity for CIA interrogators
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15642236.htm

Gonzales Cautions Judges on Interfering - federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/0093006Y.shtml

ELECTION ISSUES

Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say - ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia’s electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections
http://tinyurl.com/r44xc

AP, Networks Sue Over Fla. Exit Poll Law
http://tinyurl.com/l65no

ECONOMY

Free trade a myth, U.S. executive says
http://tinyurl.com/po6ny

Cost of Iraq War Nearly $2 Billion a Week - nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806G.shtml

Judge: Medicare must halt collection of accidental refunds - The federal government must stop reclaiming erroneously refunded Medicare premiums and inform beneficiaries they may be permitted to keep the money, according to a court order issued on Wednesday.
www.TheHill.com

Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Soar
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0927-09.htm

Post-election Recession – More Republican Chicanery – because we are probably looking at an economic recession soon – when will the lies stop and the truth start?
http://tinyurl.com/phs8y

911 STRANGER THAN FICTION –an independent investigation of 9-11 and the war on terrorism by Anonymous
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/Stranger_Than_Fiction.php

9/11 Commission Counsel: Bush Admin. May Have Covered Up Meeting Between Tenet And Rice...
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/30/911-meeting/

Special investigation: Leading up to 9/11- Did Bush try to stop bin Laden in his first eight months in office?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15046240

CONGRESS

Port Security Bill Being Used As Dumping Ground By Frist-Led Senate GOP…http://tinyurl.com/qbbo7

Congress Tries to Break Logjam of Bills
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt493.html

Congress Approves 700 Mile Border Fence
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2510371

House GOP Leadership knew about Foley almost a year ago, let Foley remain in House leadership, let him remain as chair of House sex offender caucus
http://tinyurl.com/h4ov3

Legislating Violations of the Constitution
http://tinyurl.com/lt36k

DOMESTIC

World’s Largest Rice Company Halts All Imports from USA
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0929-12.htm

US warns charities on any links to terror groups
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2508524

Baskins out at Hewlett Packard - "There is no room in our society for pretexters getting your phone records. If it can happen to a member of the board of directors of a Fortune 500 company, like Hewlett-Packard, it can happen to any of us," Barton said
www.TheHill.com

SC Councilman: "Mothers Need To Be Spayed If They Can't Take Care Of Their” Kids...
http://tinyurl.com/fabnk

Ala. governor defends white Masonic unit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_el_gu/riley_masons

Paddle, Corporal Punishment Still Present In Many US Schools...
http://tinyurl.com/k9mxs

Abortion clinics still face violence
http://tinyurl.com/elc8o

Art Teacher Loses Job After Kids See Nude Sculpture during a trip to a museum
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/9936513/detail.html

ENVIRONMENT

$1,000,000,000,000: the cost of capping greenhouse gas emissions
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1772355.ece

Depleted Uranium: Far Worse Than 9/11 - In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27096&hd=0&size=1&l=t

INTERNATIONAL

Nato unable to find Afghanistan reinforcements - There was no offer of more troops.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2381896,00.html

Secret US Deal 'Broke EU Privacy Law'
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0929-06.htm

Dictator Kim Jong Il Using Body Doubles In Assassination Fear...
http://tinyurl.com/fs3yw

India Economy Grows at Torrid Pace
http://tinyurl.com/ofw9v

MILITARY

Derelictions Of Duty: How George Bush Has Disrespected Commanders and Hurt Our Troops
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/439

Uncomfortably Numb to Torture - convicted Army Reserve Pfc. Lynndie R. England convicted for nothing so awful as what the president and his flank have chosen to protect."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093006E.shtml

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

ESPN denies silencing New Orleans's jeers for ex-president Bush
http://tinyurl.com/hj6hk

Ex-presidential aide confirms accounts in new book – A. Card suggested replacements for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and decided to quit his own post because ``I think America was crying out for some kind of change.
http://tinyurl.com/fpxw7

Ellsberg Named for Right Livelihood Award - Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, was announced today as a recipient of this year's Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the "alternative Nobel Peace Prize."
http://www.accuracy.org/http://www.rightlivelihood.org//recip/2006/daniel-ellsberg.htm

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Cry, Pray to Bush and Wash out the Devil: Welcome to Jesus Camp
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0929-08.htm

Terrorism and the Republican Way
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806J.shtml

A Self-Defeating War - Most Democratic politicians subscribe to the "war on terror" for fear of being tagged as weak on defense.
http://tinyurl.com/fsy5u

HEALTH

F.D.A. Says Bayer Failed to Reveal Drug Risk Study – a widely used heart-surgery medicine might increase the risks of death and stroke,
http://tinyurl.com/s6kdc

Tomato extract helps reverse "sticky" blood, improves heart health:
http://www.newstarget.com/020575.html

Phytochemicals in red wine may slow Alzheimer's disease:
http://www.newstarget.com/020576.html

Islet transplants for diabetics fail to live up to hype; patients are back on insulin within two years:
http://www.newstarget.com/020577.html

HUMAN RIGHTS

Global trade in human organs expands as cash buys body parts from prisoners, cadavers:
http://www.newstarget.com/020581.html

September 29. 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

What is failure – bankrupting these United States and creating an enormous insurgency within the very population we are supposedly liberating

A Personal Declaration of Independence - As a citizen of these United States for 70 years, I refuse to be ruled by a tyrant who imposes despotic, autocratic control on the citizens of these United States through a series of clandestine actions that usurp the rights of the people.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15156.htm

WAR
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"War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism."-- Philip Berrigan
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"We are either going to get out or we will be shoved out. This is not a war that can be won militarily." Murtha

Latest pile of manure from Homeland Security - U.S. Troops will be the intended target of a major chemical/biological attack in the "Green Zone" 10 - 14 days from the November, 2006 U.S. Elections."
http://tinyurl.com/j3np9

British Lawyer: officer at Guantánamo threatened me: with internment at the notorious camp by a US military officer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1881721,00.html

Where are all the dead Taliban? : The figures just don't add up.
http://tinyurl.com/qxo7m

US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn
http://tinyurl.com/gfx88

POLITICS
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." --Plato
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Latest pile of manure from Homeland Security - U.S. Troops will be the intended target of a major chemical/biological attack in the "Green Zone" 10 - 14 days from the November, 2006 U.S. Elections."
http://tinyurl.com/j3np9

Laura Bush And Fmr. WH Chief Of Staff Card Urged The President To REPLACE Rumsfeld...
http://tinyurl.com/n9rf5

Bush Ignored Calls For More Troops To Fight Insurgency: “I Don't Want Anyone In The Cabinet To Say It Is An Insurgency”...
http://tinyurl.com/enej9

Lobbyist scandal spreads to Rove: Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had hundreds more contacts with senior White House officials than previously acknowledged, a congressional report reveals.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20500113-2703,00.html

Rice versus Clinton on January 2001 Clarke Memo: "A Comprehensive Strategy to Fight Al-Qaeda"?:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

Judge gives feds 7 more days to wiretap
http://tinyurl.com/j9o5m

Gonzales cautions judges on interfering: :and has sent Justice Department lawyers into federal courts from coast to coast defending Bush's detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15160.htm

The Washington Post reports this week that George W. Bush has signed an executive order giving himself the right to issue death warrants for any individual he deems a terrorist or terrorist supporter
http://tinyurl.com/jy7xk

Legal rights could be curbed in new bill: Watch ever being accused of an *enemy combatant* because this could strip you of your right to challenge your detention in court
http://tinyurl.com/jmp85

There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own government and tortured.
http://tinyurl.com/m6n4o

Supreme Court Poised to Decide on Abortion Cases in Upcoming Term
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806R.shtml

Ex-US Supreme Court justice worries about judicial independence
http://tinyurl.com/rutts

ELECTION ISSUES
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"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative."-John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, British philosopher
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Majority of Baptists Support Bush: The majority of Baptists still support President Bush and his handling of the Iraq war.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15155.htm

Court gives exit poll workers access - members of the media may conduct exit polls within 100 feet of Ohio polling places.
http://tinyurl.com/qsqeh

Battle Royale: Democrats Have Shot At Senate and House Control
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/438

The intelligence authorization bill is "a potential Pandora’s box for Republicans in the run-up to the November midterm elections – Frist to shelve 2nd year in a row.
http://tinyurl.com/qha5l

Former Pollster Describes 2000 Election Theft - how George W. Bush took the presidency that was rightfully won by Al Gore.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906G.shtml

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"Face it," wrote Garrison Keillor, of A Prairie Home Companion, in Time Magazine, "a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality."
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Republicans Using the Illegal Immigration Issue to Score Votes – in their favor?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906Q.shtml

ECONOMY
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"In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." Thomas Paine
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Medicare cuts worry docs, seniors - a planned cut in Medicare payment rates may force the elderly and disabled from the doctor's office.
http://tinyurl.com/fbbcu

Middle-class families in worse shape than ever, study finds –
http://tinyurl.com/h5wwp

Risky mortgages threaten a squeeze
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0929/p01s02-usec.html

Most Uninsured Children's Parents Work
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092806HA.shtml

Deficit Comes in Below Projections, Thanks to "Off-Budget" Borrowing - they don't use the same math you use – would you ever have guessed that?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906F.shtml

United for a Fair Economy: Ten Super-Wealthy, Anti-Estate Tax Families Listed on Forbes 400
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0928-09.htm

911
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"Those who are willing to sacrifice their basic liberties to assure their security deserve neither." Benjamin Franklin
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9/11 and the Greenberg Familia
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1261.shtml

Rice Ignored bin Laden Warnings Prior to 9/11
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906A.shtml

CONGRESS

House Passes Measure on Religion Suits: barring judges from awarding legal fees to the American Civil Liberties Union and similar groups that sue municipalities for violating the Constitution's ban on government establishment of religion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Roll call for H R 6166 bill allowing indefinite detention without charges or counsel: 34 Democrats voted for this bill.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll491.xml

This Time, Congress Has No Excuse - passage of the terror detainee bill takes the cake."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906E.shtml

Sen. Leahy: “THIS IS SO WRONG, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UN-AMERICAN”…
http://tinyurl.com/nq2tv

GOP Sen. DeWine Knew About NIE Report Proving Iraq Promotes Terrorism, but Just Didn't Care. Is he Stupid or Just Stubborn?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/115

House Approves Warrantless Wiretap Law
http://tinyurl.com/e6vk8

DOMESTIC

HUD Secretary Admitted "Bias" Against Bush Critics
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906M.shtml

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?. too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up
http://www.dvschool.org/psngatto.htm

HP memos shed light on past pretexting
http://tinyurl.com/hlxpg

Dunn grilled by Congress
http://tinyurl.com/k4wvo

Technology Giant Hewlett-Packard Admits to Spying on Journalists, Board Members
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/28/1446254

Foley Resigns Over Sexually Explicit Messages to Minors - Another "family values" Republican - ?feels we need more religion in our schools and our government?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/foley_resigns_o.html

ENVIRONMENT

'One degree and we're done for' - we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know."
http://tinyurl.com/ry3c4

NOTE: White House Says No Change on Carbon Strategy – (There is no economy when we are all dead!)

The Ascent of Wind Power
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092906EB.shtml

INTERNATIONAL
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“Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.” : Lester B. Pearson
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Tracking the CIA Torture Flights – GWB admits to secret CIA-run prisons in foreign countries
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906O.shtml

K.Hughes - Fixing U.S. image may take years - it's not going to change" quickly, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes said in an interview with The Associated Press.
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15631630.htm

Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites: by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday. (Did we get upset, why NO.)
http://snipurl.com/xmer

Ex-Prez Carter: Bush has brought U.S. "international disgrace":
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?s=5473638

MILITARY
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“Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.” : Anne O'Hare McCormick: First woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for her work as a foreign correspondent.
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U.S. army `coming to end of its rope': Not only are troop levels not being reduced, but almost 8,000 soldiers have just had their 12-month tours of duty extended.
http://snipurl.com/xmdp

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
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"The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it ould not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believingin them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which onedenies — all this is indispensably necessary.": George Orwell in the book 1984
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Read "George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, And Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying." (How would you like this in your resume?)
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/350

Iraqi Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers – a new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, - (Iraqi 'democracy', American-style: don't you just love it?)
http://tinyurl.com/eutfn

Iraqi Journalists Slaughtered, Suppressed for Speaking Against Government
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906D.shtml

In Case I Disappear - "I have been told a thousand times at least, in the years I have spent reporting on the astonishing and repugnant abuses, lies, and failures of the Bush administration, to watch my back."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906J.shtml

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS
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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.": Georges Bernanos
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Oliver Stone: Bush Has “Set America Back 10 Years”...I'm “Ashamed For My Country”...
http://tinyurl.com/nubfw

Some (Republican) leaders don’t deserve to be called Americans - Last Chance Democracy Cafe
http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=588

Ripping Off A Democracy Is As Old As Ancient Athens
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0928-32.htm

HEALTH

US - Scientist Simon LeVay: Being gay is biological...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1159522530261910.xml&coll=1

Parents Demand for Milk Free of Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone Changing Dynamics of Marketplace
http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_2847.cfm

Selenium boost could slash rates of bladder cancer by 70 percent,
concludes research:
http://www.newstarget.com/020583.html

Link proven between sugar consumption and hyperactivity, mental
disorders in teens:
http://www.newstarget.com/020585.html

Nine million children left uninsured by America's health care system:
http://www.newstarget.com/020586.html

Pecan consumption found to lower risk of heart disease, reduce LDL
oxidation:
http://www.newstarget.com/020587.html

Samambaia rainforest herb prevents skin cancer and sunburn, treats
psoriasis and inflammation:
http://www.newstarget.com/020589.html

TFAs, The Food Industry's "Trojan Horse" on Your Table - a killer ingredient in the foods everyone is eating
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906I.shtml

Insulin can help heart attack patients recover. Giving insulin to patients immediately following a heart attack can dramatically reduce inflammation. This can prevent additional damage to the heart muscle, getting heart attack patients back on their feet sooner.
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=14548

Strong Link Between Kidney Cancer and Lack of Sunlight - Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego have found a strong link between deficiency in exposure to sunlight -- specifically ultraviolet B -- and kidney cancer.
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=14537

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hundreds of Terror Suspects Have ‘Disappeared,' Rights Group Says – some captured by bounty hunters and sold to America, according to Amnesty International.
http://www.nysun.com/article/40640

Amnesty accuses Pakistan of abusing rights by holding persons on terrorism charges and giving them over to US for money
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pakistan_human_rights

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Judge received death threats after ruling on intelligent design
http://tinyurl.com/r5ccn

Attention Liberals: Please Breed; Conservatives are outbirthing libs by a wide margin. How soon can you get knocked up?
http://tinyurl.com/hf6fq

Discrimination Against the Female Brain - It was discrimination, pure and simple of a conservative and simplistic media promoting otherwise.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092906WA.shtml

2 Priests Accused of $8.6-Million Theft in Florida
http://tinyurl.com/z2wed

BUSH has:
01. started an illegal war
02. lied to Congress to have an illegal war
03. missued funds before getting approval
04. civilians targeted
05. journalists targeted
06. hospitals targeted
07. ambulances targeted
08. used illegal weapon - white phosphorous
09. used illegal weapon – depeted uranium
10. used Napalm-like weapon of Mark077 fire bombs
11. arbitrarily detained Americans without due process – charge – access to counsel
12. arbitrarly detained legal residents without due process – charge – access to counsel
13. arbitrarily detaine non-Americans without due process – charge – access to counsel
NOTE: the Supreme Court says this is all CRIMINAL – what do you say?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906P.shtml

September 28, 2006

ALERT ISSUES

1. Documents disclose 'shadow government' - a 'shadow' trilateral bureaucracy with Mexico and Canada that is aggressively rewriting a wide range of U.S. administrative law, all without congressional oversight or public disclosure
http://tinyurl.com/jkqrj

2. NOTE: NM State Senator Tells Bush - Pull The Plug On Aspartame - With all that money and muscle behind it, aspartame has evaded its comeuppance for another year. But the final reckoning can only be postponed, not avoided.

3. Something bad is about to happen. Only you can stop it, and the clock is ticking Under SPA . . * The President can spy on you without a warrant * You'll never learn that his spys have done so, until they use the information against you (legally or not) * Your phone and internet providers can't refuse to provide information about you * Or tell you they've done so after the fact
http://tinyurl.com/ropt6

WAR

Heralded Iraq Police Academy a "Disaster" - $75 million project grossly mismanaged
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806Z.shtml

Americans favor diplomacy on Iran: Reuters poll - 70 percent oppose the use of U.S. troops to thwart Iran
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2501698

Confidence in Iraq Policies Drops to 20% in U.S
http://tinyurl.com/n9x2d

Saudis Plan Long Fence for Iraq Border - part of a $12 billion package of measures including electronic sensors, security bases and physical barriers
http://tinyurl.com/golzx

A Timeline of Oil and Violence – 1995, 96, 97 Unical pipeline thru mideast, Unocal and Delta Oil of S.Arabia for gas pipeline, Unocal etc. Afghan pipeline, Unocal plus Taliban for pipeline discussions with Clingto Admin.
http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm

Trent Lott: “Why Do Sunnis Kill Shiites? How Do They Tell The Difference? They All Look The Same To Me”...
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/28/lott-iraq/

POLITICS

Condi Rice: Liar, Stupid, or Both?
http://tinyurl.com/ndkov

GOP's Sen. DeWine Admits He Only Read Iraq Intel Report This Week Even Though He's On Intel Committee...
http://tinyurl.com/gpb3o

NOTE: Ohio Case Has Potential To Dismantle Bush Money Machine - Bill Maloof, former owner of Level Propane Co., being muzzled by corrupt Ohio and Bush officials. has the potential to dismantle the state and federal courts in Ohio, as well as Bush Sr. and Jr.'s money machine in Ohio.

Rumsfeld Comments on Intelligence Report - The absolute absence of any logic in this man's response to the Intelligence Report is terrifying in the extreme
http://tinyurl.com/ghqso

CIA counter-proliferation front company's cover blown by State Department officially two years before White House leak to media.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

John Bolton and US Lawlessness did not come from nowhere
http://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=9754

A Platform of Bigotry - With harsh new allegations emerging daily, it’s fair to ask: Where are the voices of reason in the Republican Party?
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12831484.html

Neocons' Middle East Scheme Is Backfiring - Palestinians were to be crushed and Iraq and Lebanon balkanized. The U.S. and UK were conned into doing the Neocons’ dirty work in Iraq.
http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/34037

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

He Wrote the Book on Torture - George W. Bush has made absolutism respectable among American conservatives - John Yoo is Bush's pimp on this one.
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/print/reviewprint.html

Censored Affidavit Issued in National Security Case Manhattan Federal District Court to preserve the secrecy of a national security investigation that he believes is morally questionable
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt484.html

Judge Rejects Ashcroft's Immunity Claim – he is not entitled to absolute immunity since his position at the Department of Justice was prosecutorial
http://tinyurl.com/jp7j9

Bush Seeks Retroactive Immunity for Violating War Crimes Act - President Bush is quietly trying to pardon himself of any crimes connected with the torture and mistreatment of US detainees."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706J.shtml

Judge to Weigh Evidence in CIA Leak Case - The issue is whether President Bush's daily terrorism briefings and other sensitive documents should be disclosed in the CIA leak case.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606T.shtml

ELECTION ISSUES

Clinton's TV 'Meltdown' May Pump Up Democrats
http://tinyurl.com/zh426

Likely voters' support of Congressional Dems climbs 13 points in one month
http://www.diageohotlinepoll.com/

Why Some Republicans Want to Lose
http://tinyurl.com/jg7en

Ranks of absentee voters swell
http://tinyurl.com/egtlv

New Hope for Democrats in Bid for Senate
http://tinyurl.com/lg7u5

The Pentagon's current attempt to keep those ballots from being rejected in large numbers, as they have been in past elections, has created a system that is ripe for fraud.
http://tinyurl.com/hs6k8

GOP Congressman's Affair Leads to Tough Election Race - Sherwood admitted to a five-year extramarital affair with a woman 35 years his junior
http://tinyurl.com/k6u6h

ECONOMY

A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week
http://tinyurl.com/gv6us


Dow Tops Record High Of 11, 722.98...
http://tinyurl.com/l9ssp

For Real Estate Brokers, Business ‘Has Dropped Dead' and with a flood of inventory on the market. There are no buyers
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=40411

USA Today/Gallup Poll: 42% of Americans Believe Bush Administration Manipulating Gas Prices to Help GOP
http://tinyurl.com/ja6eu

Replacing the Big Three - Over the last five years, health care and the military have been responsible for almost all the net new jobs created in America."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606LA.shtml

911

ABC Affliliate Sees No, Hears No Dissent on "Path to 9/11" - Viewers who sent emails to ABC critical of "Path to 9-11" had their emails bounce.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/5219

CONGRESS

HP Scandal Goes To Capitol Hill: “A Plumbers Operation That Would Make Nixon Blush”... HP's Law Firm Has Given Thousands To Lawmakers Who Are Now Investigating Spying Probe...
http://tinyurl.com/gpb3o

McCain Torture Compromise Bill Allows Sodomy, Rape of Prisoners
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/280906_b_Torture.htm

House Passes Measure on Religion Suits
http://tinyurl.com/nxock

House approves bill on terror detainees - 1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent.
http://www.rense.com/general73/voting.htm

House approves bill on terror detainees Now Torture is COOL because the United States has decided it is okay - It is only torture if they subsequently die from it.
http://tinyurl.com/nuz9v

Letter From Intelligence and Military Professionals on Use of Torture to the attention of Senators Arlen Spector and Patrick Leahy - torture is an ineffective and immoral practice.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606S.shtml

A Vote That Will Live in Infamy -- Who Will Betray Their Country Today and Who Will Stand Up for America? Democrats are voting for this bill because of cowardly political expediency
http://tinyurl.com/zztvf

NY Mayor Bloomberg unleashed a tirade on Congress yesterday for pushing gun legislation that, he said, leaves it easier to track the origins of tainted spinach than a cache of illegal firearms.
http://tinyurl.com/mvuza

DOMESTIC

Medicare: Why Are Conservatives Scared of Competition?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706M.shtml

Spying Probe Forces HP's General Counsel To Resign...
http://tinyurl.com/s28ub

'NY Post' Makes Fun of Olbermann's Reaction to Getting Letter -- At Home -- With White Powder (in this day and age journalists make fun of a colleague?)
http://tinyurl.com/nhjb9

Top lawyer convicted of causing death through negligence - negligence lasted for 14 crucial seconds in which he could have prevented the accident,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/768518.html

A New Jersey congressman said Wednesday it should have taken the FBI days, not years, to determine the anthrax used in 2001 that killed five people was much less sophisticated than believed.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_FBI_Anthrax.html

Lap dance cops - Your taxes paid for this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15029311/

INTERNATIONAL

Ecuador Candidate Calls Bush 'Dimwitted'
http://tinyurl.com/mhap5

Israel's Population Secret - The real population figures for Israel are a very closely guarded secret. They are not easily found and the "official" numbers provided by the Israeli state are not at all correct
http://tinyurl.com/qqpr7

MILITARY

Military Officials Add to U.S. Criticism of Iraq’s Government
http://tinyurl.com/pqg66

The United States Coast Guard has started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine guns mounted on their vessels
http://tinyurl.com/qektm

TECHNOLOGY

How to Find Out Who is Spamming You
http://tinyurl.com/ofnsl

Microsoft issues immediate CRITICAL update patch
http://tinyurl.com/oddn6

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Bob Woodward :" the Bush administration has NOT told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. Key intelligence predicts the insurgency will grow worse next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/60minutes/main2047607.shtml


Fox News continues downward slide - Fewer Americans are watching cable news than a year ago, and Fox News is suffering the biggest desertions,
http://www.infowars.com/articles/media/fox_news_ratings_continue_slide.htm


E.J. Dionne: 'Silent majority' won't help; This time, critics of the war include generals and most Americans.
http://www.startribune.com/562/story/700961.html

Metropolitan Police today charged the director of human resources at The Washington Times In Sex Sting involving a minor.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20060927-054303-9103r.htm

Stewart: Newsweek Mag Tells American Public “You Can't Handle The Truth”...
http://tinyurl.com/fwy6p

Twilight Struggle: Finally Standing Up as the Republic Crashes Down - So the New York Times has finally roused itself and laid out the straight facts about the presidential tyranny that has been erected around the pathetic figure of George W. Bush:
http://tinyurl.com/mtwk8

Keith Olbermann Terrorized and Gov Tries to Hide it he'd been threatened, apparently with some anthrax-like substance – given prescription for Cipro - he and his network were told to keep this off the air.
http://tinyurl.com/jhkh6

Keith Olbermann takes a “look back” at Bush’s first months in office leading up to 9/11. We have to know where we have been to know how we got to where we are.
http://tinyurl.com/f6qez

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Doomed to repeat: Germany, 1933, the Enabling Act of 1933 -- the law that gave Hitler his power – see the torture bill that Congress is about to pass
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/28/10395/6059

Devil Can't Compare to Bush, Politician Says - the devil is evil, but intelligent."
http://tinyurl.com/hhfff

HEALTH

Report: U.S. hospital emergency rooms overcrowded
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4220644.html

Beware Another Vioxx-Like Drug Still on Market - Arcoxia, the latest COX-2 drug from Merck, made to seem far less dangerous than it actually is.
http://tinyurl.com/rwlyu

NOTE: Diabetes a Greater Risk for Death Than Obesity - In a study published in the Sept. 24 issue of Critical Care, researchers from the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital in Lexington and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. obese people do not have a greater risk of suffering from acute organ failure or dying from acute organ failure than people who are not obese.

Look Alive, the Anti-Contraceptionists Are Coming! - The Pro-Life Action League sponsored a conference criticizing the use of birth control.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606WA.shtml

HUMAN RIGHTS

Torture Tactics Refined In US Prisons, ACLU Says - honing torture tactics in American prisons before they were allegedly implemented in terrorist detention centers
http://tinyurl.com/lxruy

China denies death-row organ sale - Video: BBC hidden cam shows China selling prisoners' organs
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/280906organs.htm

Dozens Arrested in Several Demonstrations for Peace Held Near Capitol - saying prayers and reading the names of the Iraq war dead, civilian and military.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706Q.shtml

Panel Urges Basic Coverage on Health Care - A federal advisory panel said Monday that Congress should take immediate steps to guarantee that all Americans have access to affordable health care by 2012.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606HA.shtml

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Clinton's Three Day Birthday Event Includes Contributor Packages Of $500,000 And Higher...
http://tinyurl.com/n34nq

Two Workers From Sago Mine Have Shot Themselves - Two key figures in January's disaster at the Sago Mine in West Virginia have taken their own lives in the last three weeks,
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606LB.shtml

September 27, 2006

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"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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ALERT

Dr. Russell Blaylock exposes the truth behind MSG, aspartame -- largely labeled "harmless" by the food industry -- and their disastrous effects on your body and brain chemistry.
http://www.newstarget.com/020550.html

WAR
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience: Albert Camus: French novelist, essayist, and playwright.1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. 1913-1960
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Poll: Iraqis Back Attacks On US Troops...
http://tinyurl.com/fv6rx

Bush Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm

Hidden Stinger in Bush NIE release - sinister amalgam is to equate leftist, nationalists, anti-globalization activists, etc., with fundamentalist Islamic terrorism – crackdown!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/26/205814/469

Report’s Startling Conclusion: Bombing People Really Pisses Them Off (with conclusions like this – how can anyone keep a straight face?)
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Drolette25.htm

71% of Iraqis want U.S. out in year
http://tinyurl.com/f47qr

Mini-gulags, hired guns and lobbyists = Camp Cropper, which started out as a bunch of tents, has now become a US$60 million "state-of-the-art" prison
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI28Ak01.html

Negroponte Tries to Cloud Intelligence Analysis on the War on Terror
(Sorry Neg. –the truth is the truth, is the truth).
http://tinyurl.com/rtey8

More blame Bush for not catching Osama - 53% blame Bush, while only 36% Clinton for failure to capture Qaeda leader
http://tinyurl.com/j4ese

More than 7,000 security personnel sacked for ‘corruption’ from Iraq’s newly formed security forces
http://tinyurl.com/k78cx

Group Wins Public Relations Deal in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6108470,00.html

POLITICS

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"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."
-- Richard Whately, philosopher, reformer, theologian, economist (1787-1863)
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Giuliani: Blaming Clinton For 9/11 “Is Just Wrong”...
http://tinyurl.com/nsc88

Democrat brings Iraq experience to poll - Republican candidate says Dems want America to "cut and run" from Iraq. Dem candidate who lost both her legs in Iraq visibly angry.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14988252/

White House Said to Bar Hurricane Report (All Bushee appointees are little tyrants!)
http://tinyurl.com/zcmz9

Race slur senator loses ground to Democrats (from shoo-in to shoo-out?)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2376754,00.html

Lott threatens the Dems - for using an Appropriations Committee room for an unofficial hearing on Iraq oversight
http://tinyurl.com/qtl4v

The "Moderate Republican" Scam - enablers of an extremist party
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706G.shtml

Halliburton Gave $4 Million to Politicians and Received 600 Percent Gain on Contracts Since 2000, HalliburtonWatch Says
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73168

Lawmaker Asks State To Remove Citgo Gas Stations From Turnpike
http://www.nbc6.net/news/9939356/detail.html

Republicans skip Jeffords' Senate retirement speech (sleazy Repub.attitude!)
http://tinyurl.com/pfpsz

Twin Cities win 2008 GOP convention
http://tinyurl.com/ouup2
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"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative."
-John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, British philosopher
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ECONOMY

Political Fallout from the Housing Bubble Bust ("Katrina" has to be figure in when looking at the smaller decline in southern housing.
http://tinyurl.com/ghcv3

Existing-home prices fall for 1st time in 11 years
http://tinyurl.com/my5ha

Reading the Gas Pump Numbers – why are they falling?
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=124698

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Why Oil Prices Are Falling
http://www.tomdispatch.com/

7-Eleven Inc. will drop Venezuelan-controlled Citgo Petroleum Corp. as its gasoline supplier
http://tinyurl.com/qeaq3

Health Care Premiums Up 7.7 Percent So Far in 2006
http://www.laborradio.org/node/4271

Intel Chief Warns on Health Care System
http://tinyurl.com/m9hbk

AT&T Says "No More" to Customer Service Outsourcing
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4297

911
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"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."
-- French proverb
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September Eleventh; Should the truth be revealed or concealed?
http://tinyurl.com/p82wc

CONGRESS

U.S. Warned on War Spending and Deficits
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34887

Rep. Woolsey and 15 Other Congress Members Hold Hearing on Iraq Lt. General Odom speaks truth in basement of U.S. Capitol. Dome shakes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00384.htm

Demand Accountability for the Faulty Iran Intelligence Report!
http://tinyurl.com/hoavt

Boxer, Dodd introduce 11th hours emergency paper ballot legislation in senate!
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3531

DOMESTIC

Thousands to repeat grades
http://tinyurl.com/k2bkq

Accompanying a minor across a state line to obtain an abortion and avoid parental notification in the girl's home state would become a federal crime under a bill the House passed Tuesday.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/09/26/ap3047354.html

Ex-Enron CFO gets 6-year sentence
http://tinyurl.com/f37e8

Announcing a Day of Mass Resistance: OCTOBER 5, 2006
http://www.worldcantwait.org/

Make Your Vote Count. Empower yourself by contacting your Secretary of State.
http://www.virtualcitizens.com/article.php?shorttitle=VoterAction

If It's Election Season, It Must Be Time for a Terror Alert
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/270906Terror.htm

Four banks helped me, Enron's Fastow says - The accusations could be seized on by shareholders seeking to recover $30 billion of losses.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9063-2376940,00.html

Suit Alleging Wal-Mart Pay Violations Set for Trial
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092706LB.shtml

ENVIRONMENT

'Care needed' in fish purchases
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5383728.stm

Virgin Group to Invest $3 Billion in Renewable Energy
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092706EA.shtml

INTERNATIONAL

No more Mr Nice Guy - which side faces the potential of an energy-based economic checkmate.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI27Ag01.html

Comverse Ex-CEO Is Located in Namibia - charged with conspiracy to commit mail, wire and securities fraud by the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn
http://tinyurl.com/hzy56

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, lies againto the Australian people – utter deceit regarding Bali targeting.
http://tinyurl.com/lu9vk

British lawyer says US threatened him with Guantanamo internment
http://tinyurl.com/gpeow

MILITARY

Top Generals Hint at Army Expansion of 60,000 Troops
Watch for a drive for a "National Service Act/Draft" from congress.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2489700&page=1

A Broken, De-Humanized Military in Iraq: General Barry McCaffrey, it's the worst readiness condition the US Army has faced since the end of Vietnam."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606A.shtml

General: Appeals for More Troops Were Denied – Bush and Rumsfeld lied again – they were not listening to our generals who were trying to win this war.
https://serve.coreg360.com/(wxvrgjznbsclok55xycdzg3v)/asp/serve.aspx

PBS Scrubbing G.I. Mouths With Soap - Frontline Quivers; Oath Can Cost $325,000
http://tinyurl.com/z534h

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
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"Helen Thomas is a legend. She's known and covered every president since JFK. In a candid moment, Ms. Thomas spoke a powerful truth. "George W. Bush is the worst president in all of American history." Given how Mr. Bush has squandered the surplus, trashed the economy and is now hurdling toward a war that is unpopular, unjust, unwise and unwarranted, I think I see Helen's point. Now, the GOP has moved into smear mode. The RNC is urging it's faithful to, "call her out," which apparently means harassing Helen by e-mail, and phone, and fax. I guess nothing makes a Republican feel better than beating up on an 82-year-old woman."
- Paul Begala, Crossfire, 02/24/03
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A Modified MSNBC? Fox News has seen its year-to-date ratings in primetime fall 29%
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6374608.html

Daily Show Rips Cable News for Clinton Coverage
http://tinyurl.com/gr77m

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS
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"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence."
-- Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948)
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Let's put to rest the notion of the political or ideological "center"--it doesn't exist.
http://tinyurl.com/jdb7t

Bush has trashed the Constitution to the point that it is now little more than a historical artifact!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/270906Bush.htm

Fascism the American Way - United States is awash in ignorance, superstition, repression, and fear reminiscent of the Dark Ages
http://tinyurl.com/gpvmh

Our Pathetic Congress – by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092706I.shtml

HEALTH

Heart attacks decline after smoking ban
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060926/hl_nm/heart_smoking_dc

Doctors fail to communicate drug side effects to patients:
http://www.newstarget.com/020566.html

One-third of foods in U.K. found to contain pesticides:
http://www.newstarget.com/020565.html

Lutein, zeaxanthin in eggs could help prevent macular degeneration:
http://www.newstarget.com/020564.html

Avastin cancer drug may cause brain bleeding, warns FDA:
http://www.newstarget.com/020558.html

Health care costs skyrocket in United States and threaten to bankrupt
national economy:
http://www.newstarget.com/020563.html

NYC considering ban of all trans fats in restaurants:
http://www.newstarget.com/020561.html

Salad eaters show higher levels of carotenoids, antioxidants in their
bodies:
http://www.newstarget.com/020557.html

OF INTEREST

ESPN faked stadium cheers for Bush Sr.
http://tinyurl.com/et3lc

Two Sago Mine Workers Commit Suicide
http://tinyurl.com/pfm3e

Nude sculpture costs art teacher's job
http://tinyurl.com/gttod

September 26, 2006

ALERT

The Lethal Science Of Splenda - A Poisonous Chlorocarbon
http://tinyurl.com/ox797

WAR
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions: Robert Lynd (1879-1949)
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Wiretap Bill Moves Closer to Passage After Changes, Senate Holdouts Pledge Support
http://tinyurl.com/oa6sb

Why is Pat Roberts suddenly calling for the declassification of the National Intelligence Estimate?
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

The US CIA has paid million to Pakistan to hand over 350+ suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to US
http://tinyurl.com/z9cbt

Army Major General John Batiste, retired says Iraq War Fuels Islamic Radicals
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606M.shtml

Negroponte Tries to Cloud Intelligence Analysis on the War on Terror
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1821

POLITICS
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"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.": Alexander Meiklejohn - (1872-1964) - Source: Testimony, First Session, 84th Congress, 1955
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Clinton and the pitfalls of faux bipartisanship, Chris Wallace vs Larry King gave all of us very different vibes.
http://tinyurl.com/gv8wo

Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, challenged former President Clinton's claim that he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue Osama bin Laden
http://tinyurl.com/zb468

CONDI LIES to Rebut Clinton
http://tinyurl.com/o2yf5

NOTE: There is a video of Bush dismissing the deaths in Iraq a "Just a Comma"!
BuzzFlash: This guy is a true sociopath. If an ounce oc compassion found it's way to Bush's heart, it would die of loneliness and disuse.

Casey widens lead in Pa. Senate poll
http://tinyurl.com/ma6kl

More accuse Allen of using slurs. The Virginia Republican denies using the "N-word," but two new sources claim he did
http://tinyurl.com/r93pf

Novak: "Republican Money Is Starting To Pour Into" Lieberman's Campaign
http://tinyurl.com/mjv7x

Battling Democrats' indifference blurs the importance of the midterm elections.
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

GOP Trolls on Liberal Blogs
http://tinyurl.com/qlnvz

The religious right is looking to make a comeback just in time for the midterms.
http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2006/09/bigotry-vote.html

During the 2004 presidential and congressional elections Consultants raked in $1.78 billion via 600 consultants with expertise in every facet of politics,
http://tinyurl.com/kgxml

Pelosi Asks for Closed House Session
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6106864,00.html

ECONOMY

Thom Hartmann Comes to the Defense of the Embattled, and Shrinking, Middle Class
http://buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/034

Many Americans look for political manipulation as gasoline prices plunge
http://tinyurl.com/labmf

Massachusetts. home sales plunge, prices drop
http://tinyurl.com/qt63f

US housing bubble: Economy in denial
http://tinyurl.com/jp8fc

Problem Loans for U.S. Banks Rise as Manufacturers Struggle
http://tinyurl.com/g54vn

911

Bill Clinton did what almost none of us have done in five years. He has spoken the truth about 9/11, and the current presidential administration." - Keith Olbermann
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606Z.shtml

9/11 Truth: Thermite & The Case for Controlled Demolition - confirms that the angled cut on the H beam is the remains of a controlled demolition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd1-Dp_-7WI&mode=related&search

CONGRESS

Arlen Specter joins Democrats: Habeas corpus — the phrase in Latin for “you have the body” — has been a centerpiece of Anglo-American jurisprudence since it was first developed over 300 years ago in Britain. It gave defendants the right to have their imprisonment reviewed by a court.
http://susiemadrak.com/2006/09/25/19/38/the-man-of-principle/

Sen. Arlen Specter challenged the constitutionality of the president's practice of adding signing statements to legislation - said the practice "is inappropriate under the Constitution
http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61253

Lott Threatens the Democrats
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606O.shtml

Over 100 Whistleblowers and Organizations Urge the House Chairman against S.494
http://nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/PR-DefAuth-Sep25-06.htm

DOMESTIC

A new bill on jailing, interrogating, and trying terror suspects that President George W. Bush is trying to ram through the US Congress contains provisions on rape and sexual assault that turn back the clock alarmingly.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606N.shtml

Vermont Congress candidate calls on Pentagon to arrest Bush, Cheney
http://bridgenews.org/news/092006/morrisseau/newsitem_view

Sealing our border - It won't work - Canyons, rivers and shifting sand — plus a multibillion-dollar price tag, more violence and less business
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/border/146870

Enron's Fastow gets 6-year sentence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_bi_ge/enron_fastow

Voting in the dark on eavesdropping
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

Why are so many Americans still hoodwinked:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

Anti-terror funds to protect big California ports decreasing
http://tinyurl.com/s8lk2

Indiana has admitted disabling the straight-party feature on their Infinity machines because of a software error and they told no one in the state about the action.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3529#more-3529

I want to register and vote Republican says Alec Baldwin – they make is so easy???
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/

The purity, fineness and potency of the anthrax -- particularly that mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont -- makes it highly unlikely that the sender of the letters made and treated the spores in a makeshift setting, according to officials involved in the massive investigation. (Think Cover Up while reading this.)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/04/10/inv.anthrax.investigation/index.html.

Problem Loans for U.S. Banks Rise as Manufacturers Struggle
http://tinyurl.com/g54vn

U.S. Relaxes Air Travel Restrictions
http://tinyurl.com/e7op9

HP scandal figure resigns after being subpoenaed
http://tinyurl.com/go8uy

ENVIRONMENT

Global Warming Fear Lights Fire Under Congress
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092506EA.shtml

INTERNATIONAL

Cartel forces pose threat on U.S.-Mexican border
Through training and recruiting, the Zetas drug cartel enforcers are growing in strength and extending their Texas ties.
http://tinyurl.com/n5vd7

US Pursues Ties to Oil-Rich Kazakhstan – human rights must not matter
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092506T.shtml

BERLIN - A leading opera house canceled a 3-year-old production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" that included a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad
http://tinyurl.com/k88ud

USA falls from 1st to 6th place.- Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are the world’s most competitive economies
http://tinyurl.com/hoj4f

Opec considers drop in output
http://tinyurl.com/s7zke

MILITARY

The Army also is considering accelerating the deployments for some brigades in a move to try to stop sectarian violence among Sunnis and Shi'ites in Baghdad,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060925/pl_nm/iraq_usa_troops_dc

A Broken, De-Humanized Military in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606A.shtml

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
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"It does not require many words to speak the truth."-- Chief Joseph, native American leader (1840-1904)
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Google is again embroiled in a censorship farce after its Google Video sub-division was caught altering viewing statistics for Alex Jones' Terror Storm documentary,
http://tinyurl.com/kgvnl

Nancy falling from Grace over book?
http://tinyurl.com/s7vzr

HUMAN RIGHTS
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Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world: Preamble, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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U.S.: Girls Abused in New York’s Juvenile Prisons
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0925-06.htm

Marjority of Uninsured Children Live in Two-Parent Families
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0925-15.htm

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Can’t bring yourself to blame Bush? Slam Rumsfeld
http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=583

HEALTH

Something's Rotten in Food Oversight
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092506HA.shtml

Insurance Horror Stories
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092506HC.shtml

Will Brown Seaweed Fight Obesity?
http://tinyurl.com/gubmx

2 dairies to end use of artificial hormones (FINALLY!!!!!)
http://tinyurl.com/o6blp

Chemicals Within Us - National Geographic
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0610/feature4/index.html

Curcumin halts colorectal cancer, breast cancer by inducing death of cancer cells:http://www.newstarget.com/020527.html

CoQ10 improves cardiovascular health of heart patients:
http://www.newstarget.com/020512.html

Vitamin K deficiency found to promote osteoporosis in women:
http://www.newstarget.com/020526.html