September 23, 2006

ALERT
Have we totally lost our focus of what our country stands for?
Maybe I am just uninformed or naive but anyone who condones torture leaves me wondering. I knew there had been raping of young boys in front of their moms and raping of young girls in front of their dads and I was clear on water boarding and I knew about pulling out fingernails but I heard a couple of new ones today, that of crushing the testicles and also that of dipping this human prisoner's body into boiling water. All together I fail to comprehend how anyone can support a president who wants to torture anyone. I have to assume that those who continue to support this pathetic piece of immorality are themselves terribly flawed. We have a catastrophe and we have to start dealing with it now. Do this in groups not by yourself warns Ray McGovern.

WAR

BELLACIAO - Bushfraud Diversion - Musharraf, Pakistani President, knows that Bin Laden is dead and knows where he is buried.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=13604

France Looks Into bin Laden Death Report French Newspaper Says Terror Leader Died in Pakistan
http://tinyurl.com/nrl4c

Is Bin Laden Dead? Saudi Ambassador Prince Turki al-Faisal responds:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1538569,00.html

Army Corps Faked Budget Entries
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092306A.shtml

As crazy as it sounds, President George Bush might be planning to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=9736

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat
http://tinyurl.com/lg2pn

POLITICS

Wave of Party Switchers Hits Republicans
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2823/

Déjà Vu All Over Again: It's Not the Economy, Stupid!
http://tinyurl.com/kebxa

The Democrats Should Probably Lose In November
http://tinyurl.com/np8al

SPINELESS DEMOCRATS MISS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY
http://tinyurl.com/r6u7h

Will The Next Election Be Hacked? - new evidence from an insider doesn't bode well
http://tinyurl.com/psfb8

ECONOMY

Corporate America's Uncashed Check: Disgorging the Ill-Gotten Gains of Slave Labor
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0922-33.htm

911

One in Three in Poll Still Think Saddam Was Involved in 9/11
http://tinyurl.com/fpoad

Report: Theory in anthrax case broadens suspect pool
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?s=5444709

Dentist Whistleblower Who Met 9/11 Hijackers Poisoned To Death http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/220906methijackers.htm

CONGRESS

House Approves Strip Search Bill http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/092006search.cfm

Compact with Evil: The McCain "Compromise" on Bush's Torture Program (remember the Rose Garden hissy fit?) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15064.htm

Backroom Deals in the Corridors of Power. Torturers Now Shielded from Prosecution
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/220906backroomdeals.htm

Democrats Wary of Detainee Trials Compromise http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092306Y.shtml

Ex-Halliburton Worker Calls for Halliburton's efforts to cover up violations of corruption laws and to mislead investigators.
http://tinyurl.com/rq9fa

DOMESTIC

FEMA Death Camp, Gas Chambers In Indiana?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2778262607166042I

Iraq for Sale when corporations go to war.
http://www.tvnewslies.org/donate/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=291

State to investigate Boston vote count as candidate seeks recount of all the votes (hand-counted).
http://tinyurl.com/hh2wj

Violent Crime Rate Goes Up for First Time in 15 Years Following Massive GOP Cuts for Law Enforcement since President Bush took office.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/120

ENVIRONMENT

Feds aerial anti-terrorism program in New York City surveyed NYC and found 80 unexpected "hot spots"
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12613889.html

Global warming film lights fire under Congress – this Republican bunch needs to throw away its crutches
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/23/WARMING.TMP

Clinton Raises $7.3 Billions for global warming and fight Third World poverty, disease and ethnic strife.
http://tinyurl.com/jb8uj

INTERNATIONAL

Bush Rages: “I am not Beelzebub, Lord of Sulfur”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15049.htm

Hugo Chavez: Welcome Here
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/76432.shtml

Iran's KOCHULGA antenna device passively detects stealth planes 800 Km away, making the billions of Dollars spent on stealth technology and the AWACS planes (600km detection range) utterly useless.
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/103246

U.S. Government Called on to Clear Canadian Tortured Suspect's Name – Canadian government has finally admitted Arar's complete innocence http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/139678/1/7263

Iran's proud but discreet Jews : did you know that about 25,000 Jews live in Iran? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5367892.stm

A Peruvian court tries Vladimir Montesinos -- a 30-year CIA asset -- for supplying Colombian drug traffickers with weapons.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/18349

Top secret: Banff security meeting attracted U.S., Mexico officials: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2006/09/21/secret-meeting.html

MILITARY

New York City's Reservists Are Asked to Return Iraq Pay http://tinyurl.com/r8j9o

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Journalist Goes to Prison for Contempt – a 1972 Supreme Court precedent to appear at grand juries if summoned
http://tinyurl.com/ouf99

O’Reilly’s Al Qaeda “death list is really a fantasy list… Marcus Baram broke his story and discusses it with Keith Olbermann
http://tinyurl.com/m599a

Bill O'Reilly's enemies list, available in hardback for $26 with many factual errors, obvious hypocrisy and bad attacks upon idea opponents http://mediamatters.org/items/200609220010

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Cheating Poor Countries Out of Trillions http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News and Chris Wallace
http://thinkprogress.org/clinton-interview

Clinton Raises $7.3 Billions for global warming and fight Third World poverty, disease and ethnic strife.
http://tinyurl.com/jb8uj

Iraq is Bush’s Reflection Pond - Martial law is not liberation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15070.htm

There is only one reason prisoners are whisked off to other countries: what Bush calls “alternative interrogation” by CIA
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/22/torture_exhibit_a.php

HEALTH

F.D.A. Is Faulted for Drug-Safety Process – Pharma payouts to people on FDA is verified fact – why expect Repubs to clean this up
http://tinyurl.com/nf4gt

Calif. Gov. Vetoes Universal Health Bill – everyone lost big time http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6099893,00.html

Md. Spinach Alert Questioned- Family of Hagerstown Victim Cites Timing of State's Warning
http://tinyurl.com/hhmuy