September 20, 2006

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"What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label 'Liberal?' If by 'Liberal' they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer' s dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of 'Liberal.' But if by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal,' then I' m proud to say I'm a 'Liberal'.
John F. Kennedy, September 14, 1960

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ALERTS

AMAZON.COM DRUG-PUSHING OUTRAGE!
http://www.newstarget.com/gallery/articles/amazonadhd.jpg
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“So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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WAR
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war: Otto Von Bismark
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Gardiner, who taught at the U.S. Army’s National War College, has previously suggested that U.S. forces were already on the ground in Iran.General Says US May Increase Troops in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006L.shtml

The Ground Truth: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006F.shtml

Military maneuvers in the Middle East increases speculation that conflict with Iran is no longer quite so unthinkable."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006M.shtml

Iran blows away Bush's warm words at UN
http://tinyurl.com/pnkf4

In Baghdad No One Dares to Help
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006S.shtml
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both" Dwight Eisenhower
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POLITICS
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. Cicero Marcus Tullius
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Swiftboating the Swiftboaters
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006J.shtml

Conservatives like the government every bit as much as liberals.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006O.shtml

Look where Liberman's car was parked – sure says it all!
http://lamontblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/thousand-words.html

Ex: GOP Knuckle head (no finance background) sent to reopen Iraq stock exchange
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15025.htm

From his office in clouded cockoo land: Cheney Says Hopes of World Rest on U.S.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6090925,00.html

Harry Reid : Not a single terrorist has been brought to justice :
http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=263124&
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"An elective despotism is not the government we fought for." Thomas Jefferson
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ECONOMY

Air Controllers Chafe at Plan to Reduce Staffing Levels
http://tinyurl.com/

911

Five Years Later: The Official Story Falls Apart State Department, media launch assault on 9/11 dissent
http://tinyurl.com/n3dpn

CONGRESS

Senate Bill on Torture and Detention Faces GOP Filibuster
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092006Z.shtml

Republicans Call for Ney to Resign
http://tinyurl.com/eaf5b

Senate Bills Would Allow for Lifelong Detention Without Trial, Torture Without Accountability
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15027.htm

FBI triples its Capitol Hill corruption squads:
http://tinyurl.com/gzekj

DOMESTIC

Gonzales Wants Law to Force Internet Companies to Save Customer Info
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006C.shtml

Georgia Law Requiring Voters to Show Photo ID Is Thrown Out
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006G.shtml

Washington's Enron-style accounting is now widespread and deeply ingrained
http://www.safehaven.com/article-5917.htm

One hacker with virus can infect large numbers of electronic voting machines
http://tinyurl.com/gg4f4

The Ugly Truth is that the Top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% through hoards of wealth transfer
http://tinyurl.com/q2vcg

Judge Dismisses Medicaid Law Challengehttp://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092006HA.shtml

If the Auto Industry Is Dead What Does That Mean for Workers?http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092006LA.shtml
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."- Franklin Roosevelt
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ENVIRONMENT

Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denialhttp://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092006EA.shtml

INTERNATIONAL

Wolfowitz Shut Down by World Bank Officials
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092006I.shtml

Canada Plans Official Torture Protest
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006A.shtml

The American government is no longer a credible messenger.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092006H.shtml

German government and secret services turned a blind eye to US practices
http://tinyurl.com/pwxka

List of countries describes as "Terrorist breeding grounds" increases:
http://tinyurl.com/k9fed

U.S. assailed for `protecting terrorists':
http://tinyurl.com/oo7ck

Ten Nobel Peace Prize Winners Take Aim at U.S. demand US pull back its military
http://tinyurl.com/k8wcv

MILITARY

Bigger pay raise in peril
http://tinyurl.com/ogsg3

Air Force sex scandal: 9 more soldiers incarcerated
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3305525,00.html

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

H.P. Is Said to Have Studied Spying on Newsrooms
http://tinyurl.com/f49ut

New Fox Unit to Produce Christian Films
http://tinyurl.com/quy2s

How Bush Rules: Torture and The Quest For Unfettered Power -- S. Blumenthal
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15023.htm

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Rogue Nation - Time to change the course of U.S. history
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15028.htm

HEALTH

Let Teens Use Emergency Contraception
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092006WA.shtml

NOTE: The fourth-leading cause of cancer death in the United States:
"Individuals in the highest levels of consumption of vitamin D had a greater than 40 percent reduction in their risk of pancreatic cancer," said study co-author Dr. Charles S. Fuchs, an associate professor and medical oncologist with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston……..Fuchs' team presented their findings in the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.

Red Wine Prevents Alzheimer's
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=14530

Update on Outbreak of E. coli From Fresh Spinach
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=14534
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One of the penalties for not paying attention to your health is ending up being a slave to inferiority.
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HUMAN RIGHTS

British soldier admits war crime
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5360432.stm

Canadian Man Tortured in Syria Wants Explanation From U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/n2mau

Red Cross delegation will visit detainees at Guantanamo including mastermind of Sept. 11
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15558460.htm
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
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OF INTEREST – MISCELLANEOUS

Big Brother is shouting at you
http://tinyurl.com/l3zgd

Church experts say Pope is 'unrepentant':
http://tinyurl.com/pz4y7
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one: Thomas Jefferson
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