September 19, 2006

ALERTS

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Scammers pretend to be fraud investigation agents for Visa and MasterCard in order to obtain credit card security codes. (Snoops says this is true.)
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/creditcard.asp
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WAR
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IN WAR, SWIFT ANNIHILATION IS THE ONLY MERCY, AND THE SOLE SYNONYM FOR "INNOCENTS" IS "AMERICANS".
Michael Scheuer
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Bush's Cruel and Degrading Presidency
http://www.uruknet.org.uk/?p=m26773&hd=0&size=1&l=e

GOP Candidate Switches Parties After Attack
http://www.kcci.com/politics/9878030/detail.html

Sick to Death of Bush
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2779/

And JUST in time for the mid-term elections!
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/paul-williams091606.htm

Trying to spin the unspinnable
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI20Ak01.html

Next Stop: Conscription
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4212.shtml

Control the Dictionary, Control the World
http://www.crisispapers.org/essays6w/dictionary.htm

Thousands Protest to End Iraq War at UN Headquarters
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091906R.shtml
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt
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POLITICS
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"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner."
H. L. Mencken, quoted from The Gist Of It _____________________________________________________________

What Bush Bounce
http://tinyurl.com/o7mt5

Halliburton and Cheney: War Profiteers in Chief Fight to Keep Their Wallets Fat 9/19
http://iraqforsale.org/diaries/2006/09/halliburton_and_cheney_war_pro.php

Cheney behind closed doors: the veep is such a political albatross that his fundraisers aren't even public events.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060917/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_maine

Employee Of Polling Company Used By Bush, Lieberman Pleads Guilty To Fraud...
http://tinyurl.com/gwv44

Lieberman Forced Into Very Low Position On Election Day Ballot...
http://tinyurl.com/mgs2j

Lieberman is freaking out because he owes his seat to making the exact same argument against former Sen. Lowell Weicker -- that he wasn't doing his job
http://www.dailykos.com/

Bill Clinton: “I Am Sick Of Karl Rove's Bullsh*t”...
http://tinyurl.com/hbg29

ECONOMY
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"Actually, there is a class war raging in this country, but it is being waged not by the poor, but against them. Those who would deny government relief to the poor but demand they find jobs, when all of the jobs are hard to find and decent ones impossible, are waging a class war."
-- Fr. Charles Owen Rice
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Needed: Workplace Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091906LA.shtml

911
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"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
-- Harry S. Truman
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Sources: August terror plot is a 'fiction' underscoring police failures
http://tinyurl.com/h8xht

The Dollar$ & $en$e Of 911
http://www.rense.com/general73/dollars.htm

9/11 - Can you keep a secret? I hope not
http://tinyurl.com/non4d

CONGRESS
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
- George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)
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Ney resigns from 2 committee posts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_on_go_co/ney_committees

Republicans just love their corruption after Ney Admits To Crimes, Boehner Refuses To Call For His Resignation.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/18/boehner-ney/

End of Habeas Corpus?
http://www.husseini.org/content/2006/09/questioning_mcc.html

Control of the Senate Now A Toss Up...(Could Come Down to Macaca!)
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.html#2382

Revolt of the Elders: Pombo vs. McCloskey for the Soul of the Republican Party
http://tinyurl.com/goggv

Bush's Way or the Highway
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091806R.shtml

DOMESTIC

"Hotel Minibar" Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091906P.shtml

One Week After Harvard, Princeton Ends Early Admissions...
http://tinyurl.com/pjedg

Why doesn’t the IRS investigate James Dobson?
http://crooksandliars.com/

Moms Mean Business
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091806WB.shtml

ENVIRONMENT

Gore says tax pollution, not payrolls
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/environment_gore_dc

Al Gore Global Warming Is the Immediate Crisis
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091906J.shtml

Mercury Contamination Moves Beyond Fish
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2459581&page=1

The denial industry
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875762,00.html

INTERNATIONAL

NATO credibility at stake in Afghanistan after Taliban surprise
http://tinyurl.com/gzyum

Leaders Strengthen Alliance Against U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/qkspk

Israeli Diplomat Carrying Large Quantity Of Explosives Arrested In Argentina
http://tinyurl.com/e85ln

MILITARY
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."
--Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
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From Victim To Accused Army Deserter
http://tinyurl.com/espnt

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
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"Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional Swine and he makes a good living at it."
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm

Maher on Scarborough - Did CBS Try to Limit Free Speech? (video)
http://crooksandliars.com/

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

The End of the Affair? Britain’s Special Relationship with America under Threat
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=12116

HEALTH
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
- Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882)
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Bottled water may help fight cancer:
http://www.newstarget.com/020462.html

Couch potatoes can still turn their health around after age 40 (press release):
http://www.newstarget.com/020460.html

Tobacco Industry Increased Addictive Nicotine in Cigarettes
http://tinyurl.com/jn9v5

Water aerobics helps new moms recover quickly (press release):
http://www.newstarget.com/020457.html

This Common Car Option Can Cause Male Infertility
http://tinyurl.com/hea59

HUMAN RIGHTS
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“Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.” Mary Robinson:
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Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says
http://tinyurl.com/obdjk

Dominican U students give Coke the boot
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-nocoke18.html

MISCELLANEOUS

How to Avoid Having to Navigate a Company's Endless Phone Menus
http://tinyurl.com/quvlb

Toshiba recalls 340,000 Sony batteries
http://tinyurl.com/jsg2m

Bruce Willis: “Please Write This...I'm Always Being Accused Of Being A Hollywood Republican-- But I'm Not!”...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/453415p-381582c.html

Surprise: Willie Nelson Cited For Drug Possession...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060918/D8K7D41O0.html

Finally, You Can Virtually Eliminate Cell Phone Risk With This New Headset
http://www.mercola.com/forms/rf3_headsets.htm
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"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer _____________________________________________________________