September 24, 2006

"Get rich and the Republicans will put you on welfare the next day." President Clinton
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From Curtis and JK: We would love to elect a president who would qualify for a medal that was given for their humanitarian efforts and respect and defense of basic human rights.
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WAR

Bush dismisses bloodshed in Iraq as ‘just a comma’
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/8551.html

List of accusations of GIs in Iraq stuns experts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15083.htm

Betrayed: Senior Army officer quits in disgust over Afghan shambles:
http://snipurl.com/x1ju

Pentagon May Lift Restraints on Guard Deployments
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092406X.shtml

BRITISH soldiers have been caught smuggling stolen guns out of Iraq and allegedly exchanging them for cocaine and cash on the black market.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2372277,00.html

POLITICS

Six in 10 of Bush's appearances helping Republican candidates have been closed to all media coverage.
http://tinyurl.com/hrkrs

Falwell Says Faithful Fear Clinton More Than Devil
http://tinyurl.com/n9tvr

Blair's sister-in-law, Lauren Booth, fronted one of the anti-war demonstrations, telling reporters it was a "massive embarrassment" for her to be related to the prime minister.
http://tinyurl.com/z7my7

Angelides pledges to seek return of Guard troops to California.
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/28409.html

It's the Manipulated Economy, Stupid: one factor seems more powerful than any
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly09222006.html

Libby Plans to Testify at His CIA Leak Trial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092406G.shtml

ECONOMY

Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People - The Real Story of the Money-Control Over America
http://www.bullnotbull.com/archive/billions.html

911

What Everybody Knows (except the mainstream media!) - Barrie Zwicker Speaks at Winnipeg 9/11 Truth Event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pXSWcULbI&eurl

Rice Reportedly Signed Off On 9/11 "Safe To Breathe" Documents backing up Condoleezza Rice
http://www.ny1news.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=62865

CONGRESS

Kucinich Calls For Congressional Hearings On Negroponte’s Role In The Release Of A False And Misleading Report On Iran
http://www.uruknet.org.uk/?p=m26910&hd=0&size=1&l=e

Congress in dark on terror program
http://tinyurl.com/ph3se

Dems use intel report to attack GOP - terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://tinyurl.com/jeavd


House Approves Strip Search Bill – now easier for teachers and school officials to conduct wide scale searches of students.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/092006search.cfm

Jean Schmidt, Plagiarist
http://tinyurl.com/nrbm4

The US military’s top general warned on Friday that forces unfriendly to the United States are brewing in the Americas,
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=25408

Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., called a Pentagon report he had requested about pre-9/11 intelligence on al-Qaida operations in the United States a 'Whitewash'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/9/22/90332.shtml?s=lh

DOMESTIC

Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines - “I Didn't Want My State To Continue To Be An Embarrassment Like Ohio And Florida”...
http://tinyurl.com/psfqp

Why the Gulf Countries continue to embrace the Doomed Dollar :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15087.htm

Department of Education Violated Rules awarding grants to states steering contracts to favored textbook publishers,
http://tinyurl.com/z3ooz

A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology
http://tinyurl.com/n98ql

INTERNATIONAL

Anger at U.S. Policies More Strident at U.N.among a number of other world leaders and foreign diplomats
http://tinyurl.com/hbtq4

Repubs and top elite object to Chavez name calling: Don't forget when Limbaugh ridiculed Chelsea Clinton, then 13, as the "White House dog.".
http://tinyurl.com/rsfqn

Venezuelan foreign minister strip-searched by US :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5374954.stm

MILITARY

Army Corps Faked Budget Entries- Corps officials listed $362 million in potential contracts for a nonexistent contractor labeled "Dummy Vendor
http://tinyurl.com/gbvsy

Defense Lawyers Assail Legislation on Detainees saying it appeared to be vague and could give President Bush and future presidents too much latitude.
http://tinyurl.com/j2ec8

Army Adds Interrogators, It Outsources Training $20,000 above the average service pay
http://tinyurl.com/m5txv

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Republicans Tread on the Constitution for Political Gain
http://tinyurl.com/n7faw

Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (Hardcover)
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/338

The New York Times: Facing Facts on Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092406Y.shtml

Texas Tech SGA resolution aims to censor Daily Toreador display the death toll of the people who died in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/mgghg

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

The Pro-Torture Pact - Democrats chose to outsource their policy on military tribunals to John McCain.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=123781

We have seen America’s president and vice president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, advocating some of the same interrogation techniques the KGB
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15091.htm

Renouncing Bush's Failures Is a Start
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092306X.shtml

HEALTH

Republicans Tread on the Constitution for Political Gain
http://tinyurl.com/n7faw

LACK of health insurance kills six times as many Americans each year as 9/11 did.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15073.htm

NOTE:
A large, 15-year Swedish study of women looked at fatty and lean fish consumption and the risk of kidney cancer. mega-3 fatty acids abundant in fatty fish like salmon and sardines may help protect your kidneys against cancer, new research suggests.

HUMAN RIGHTS

San Diego's mayor and police Opposes Sleeping Zones For Homeless
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/9904805/detail.html

Rosa Brooks: Our Torturer-in-Chief
http://tinyurl.com/zsyjl

OF INTEREST

Blair's sister-in-law, Lauren Booth, fronted one of the anti-war demonstrations, telling reporters it was a "massive embarrassment" for her to be related to the prime minister.
http://tinyurl.com/z7my7

LET'S JUST CHAT A MOMENT:
THE TWO PARTIES ARE DIFFERENT:
What Democrats must do:
- Increase minimum wage
- Clean energy helps environment and makes new jobs
- Offer big tax credit for college costs (no loan paybacks)
- Stop big deficits (simple arithmetic will work)
………………(2 + 2 = 4 except with Republican figures).
………………(Stop the money borrowing – even Mexico loans to us)!!!
Thanks to Republicans for:
- Big loans with tax cuts to the top 1%
- A drug bill Einstein cannot understand
………………with a doughnut hole for the drug cos.
………………(no bargaining for better prices)
- Cutting aid to higher education
- Huge deficits
- Doubling our National Debt in five years
- Destroyed international togetherness with the Iraq war and the
……………….2002 election aftermath.
9-11 Commission Report was ignored
- Opposed $800 million for checking incoming stuff at ports
- $25 billion of estate tax when $ needed for 8000 families needing help
……………….and/or 300 million of us who need to be safer
- No mistreatment of persons as THEY did to MacCleland
Do NOT pick a fight but be sure and finish one if they start it.