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