September 28, 2006

ALERT ISSUES

1. Documents disclose 'shadow government' - a 'shadow' trilateral bureaucracy with Mexico and Canada that is aggressively rewriting a wide range of U.S. administrative law, all without congressional oversight or public disclosure
http://tinyurl.com/jkqrj

2. NOTE: NM State Senator Tells Bush - Pull The Plug On Aspartame - With all that money and muscle behind it, aspartame has evaded its comeuppance for another year. But the final reckoning can only be postponed, not avoided.

3. Something bad is about to happen. Only you can stop it, and the clock is ticking Under SPA . . * The President can spy on you without a warrant * You'll never learn that his spys have done so, until they use the information against you (legally or not) * Your phone and internet providers can't refuse to provide information about you * Or tell you they've done so after the fact
http://tinyurl.com/ropt6

WAR

Heralded Iraq Police Academy a "Disaster" - $75 million project grossly mismanaged
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806Z.shtml

Americans favor diplomacy on Iran: Reuters poll - 70 percent oppose the use of U.S. troops to thwart Iran
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2501698

Confidence in Iraq Policies Drops to 20% in U.S
http://tinyurl.com/n9x2d

Saudis Plan Long Fence for Iraq Border - part of a $12 billion package of measures including electronic sensors, security bases and physical barriers
http://tinyurl.com/golzx

A Timeline of Oil and Violence – 1995, 96, 97 Unical pipeline thru mideast, Unocal and Delta Oil of S.Arabia for gas pipeline, Unocal etc. Afghan pipeline, Unocal plus Taliban for pipeline discussions with Clingto Admin.
http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm

Trent Lott: “Why Do Sunnis Kill Shiites? How Do They Tell The Difference? They All Look The Same To Me”...
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/28/lott-iraq/

POLITICS

Condi Rice: Liar, Stupid, or Both?
http://tinyurl.com/ndkov

GOP's Sen. DeWine Admits He Only Read Iraq Intel Report This Week Even Though He's On Intel Committee...
http://tinyurl.com/gpb3o

NOTE: Ohio Case Has Potential To Dismantle Bush Money Machine - Bill Maloof, former owner of Level Propane Co., being muzzled by corrupt Ohio and Bush officials. has the potential to dismantle the state and federal courts in Ohio, as well as Bush Sr. and Jr.'s money machine in Ohio.

Rumsfeld Comments on Intelligence Report - The absolute absence of any logic in this man's response to the Intelligence Report is terrifying in the extreme
http://tinyurl.com/ghqso

CIA counter-proliferation front company's cover blown by State Department officially two years before White House leak to media.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

John Bolton and US Lawlessness did not come from nowhere
http://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=9754

A Platform of Bigotry - With harsh new allegations emerging daily, it’s fair to ask: Where are the voices of reason in the Republican Party?
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12831484.html

Neocons' Middle East Scheme Is Backfiring - Palestinians were to be crushed and Iraq and Lebanon balkanized. The U.S. and UK were conned into doing the Neocons’ dirty work in Iraq.
http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/34037

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

He Wrote the Book on Torture - George W. Bush has made absolutism respectable among American conservatives - John Yoo is Bush's pimp on this one.
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/print/reviewprint.html

Censored Affidavit Issued in National Security Case Manhattan Federal District Court to preserve the secrecy of a national security investigation that he believes is morally questionable
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt484.html

Judge Rejects Ashcroft's Immunity Claim – he is not entitled to absolute immunity since his position at the Department of Justice was prosecutorial
http://tinyurl.com/jp7j9

Bush Seeks Retroactive Immunity for Violating War Crimes Act - President Bush is quietly trying to pardon himself of any crimes connected with the torture and mistreatment of US detainees."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706J.shtml

Judge to Weigh Evidence in CIA Leak Case - The issue is whether President Bush's daily terrorism briefings and other sensitive documents should be disclosed in the CIA leak case.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606T.shtml

ELECTION ISSUES

Clinton's TV 'Meltdown' May Pump Up Democrats
http://tinyurl.com/zh426

Likely voters' support of Congressional Dems climbs 13 points in one month
http://www.diageohotlinepoll.com/

Why Some Republicans Want to Lose
http://tinyurl.com/jg7en

Ranks of absentee voters swell
http://tinyurl.com/egtlv

New Hope for Democrats in Bid for Senate
http://tinyurl.com/lg7u5

The Pentagon's current attempt to keep those ballots from being rejected in large numbers, as they have been in past elections, has created a system that is ripe for fraud.
http://tinyurl.com/hs6k8

GOP Congressman's Affair Leads to Tough Election Race - Sherwood admitted to a five-year extramarital affair with a woman 35 years his junior
http://tinyurl.com/k6u6h

ECONOMY

A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week
http://tinyurl.com/gv6us


Dow Tops Record High Of 11, 722.98...
http://tinyurl.com/l9ssp

For Real Estate Brokers, Business ‘Has Dropped Dead' and with a flood of inventory on the market. There are no buyers
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=40411

USA Today/Gallup Poll: 42% of Americans Believe Bush Administration Manipulating Gas Prices to Help GOP
http://tinyurl.com/ja6eu

Replacing the Big Three - Over the last five years, health care and the military have been responsible for almost all the net new jobs created in America."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606LA.shtml

911

ABC Affliliate Sees No, Hears No Dissent on "Path to 9/11" - Viewers who sent emails to ABC critical of "Path to 9-11" had their emails bounce.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/5219

CONGRESS

HP Scandal Goes To Capitol Hill: “A Plumbers Operation That Would Make Nixon Blush”... HP's Law Firm Has Given Thousands To Lawmakers Who Are Now Investigating Spying Probe...
http://tinyurl.com/gpb3o

McCain Torture Compromise Bill Allows Sodomy, Rape of Prisoners
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/280906_b_Torture.htm

House Passes Measure on Religion Suits
http://tinyurl.com/nxock

House approves bill on terror detainees - 1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent.
http://www.rense.com/general73/voting.htm

House approves bill on terror detainees Now Torture is COOL because the United States has decided it is okay - It is only torture if they subsequently die from it.
http://tinyurl.com/nuz9v

Letter From Intelligence and Military Professionals on Use of Torture to the attention of Senators Arlen Spector and Patrick Leahy - torture is an ineffective and immoral practice.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606S.shtml

A Vote That Will Live in Infamy -- Who Will Betray Their Country Today and Who Will Stand Up for America? Democrats are voting for this bill because of cowardly political expediency
http://tinyurl.com/zztvf

NY Mayor Bloomberg unleashed a tirade on Congress yesterday for pushing gun legislation that, he said, leaves it easier to track the origins of tainted spinach than a cache of illegal firearms.
http://tinyurl.com/mvuza

DOMESTIC

Medicare: Why Are Conservatives Scared of Competition?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706M.shtml

Spying Probe Forces HP's General Counsel To Resign...
http://tinyurl.com/s28ub

'NY Post' Makes Fun of Olbermann's Reaction to Getting Letter -- At Home -- With White Powder (in this day and age journalists make fun of a colleague?)
http://tinyurl.com/nhjb9

Top lawyer convicted of causing death through negligence - negligence lasted for 14 crucial seconds in which he could have prevented the accident,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/768518.html

A New Jersey congressman said Wednesday it should have taken the FBI days, not years, to determine the anthrax used in 2001 that killed five people was much less sophisticated than believed.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_FBI_Anthrax.html

Lap dance cops - Your taxes paid for this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15029311/

INTERNATIONAL

Ecuador Candidate Calls Bush 'Dimwitted'
http://tinyurl.com/mhap5

Israel's Population Secret - The real population figures for Israel are a very closely guarded secret. They are not easily found and the "official" numbers provided by the Israeli state are not at all correct
http://tinyurl.com/qqpr7

MILITARY

Military Officials Add to U.S. Criticism of Iraq’s Government
http://tinyurl.com/pqg66

The United States Coast Guard has started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine guns mounted on their vessels
http://tinyurl.com/qektm

TECHNOLOGY

How to Find Out Who is Spamming You
http://tinyurl.com/ofnsl

Microsoft issues immediate CRITICAL update patch
http://tinyurl.com/oddn6

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Bob Woodward :" the Bush administration has NOT told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. Key intelligence predicts the insurgency will grow worse next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/60minutes/main2047607.shtml


Fox News continues downward slide - Fewer Americans are watching cable news than a year ago, and Fox News is suffering the biggest desertions,
http://www.infowars.com/articles/media/fox_news_ratings_continue_slide.htm


E.J. Dionne: 'Silent majority' won't help; This time, critics of the war include generals and most Americans.
http://www.startribune.com/562/story/700961.html

Metropolitan Police today charged the director of human resources at The Washington Times In Sex Sting involving a minor.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20060927-054303-9103r.htm

Stewart: Newsweek Mag Tells American Public “You Can't Handle The Truth”...
http://tinyurl.com/fwy6p

Twilight Struggle: Finally Standing Up as the Republic Crashes Down - So the New York Times has finally roused itself and laid out the straight facts about the presidential tyranny that has been erected around the pathetic figure of George W. Bush:
http://tinyurl.com/mtwk8

Keith Olbermann Terrorized and Gov Tries to Hide it he'd been threatened, apparently with some anthrax-like substance – given prescription for Cipro - he and his network were told to keep this off the air.
http://tinyurl.com/jhkh6

Keith Olbermann takes a “look back” at Bush’s first months in office leading up to 9/11. We have to know where we have been to know how we got to where we are.
http://tinyurl.com/f6qez

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Doomed to repeat: Germany, 1933, the Enabling Act of 1933 -- the law that gave Hitler his power – see the torture bill that Congress is about to pass
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/28/10395/6059

Devil Can't Compare to Bush, Politician Says - the devil is evil, but intelligent."
http://tinyurl.com/hhfff

HEALTH

Report: U.S. hospital emergency rooms overcrowded
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4220644.html

Beware Another Vioxx-Like Drug Still on Market - Arcoxia, the latest COX-2 drug from Merck, made to seem far less dangerous than it actually is.
http://tinyurl.com/rwlyu

NOTE: Diabetes a Greater Risk for Death Than Obesity - In a study published in the Sept. 24 issue of Critical Care, researchers from the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital in Lexington and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. obese people do not have a greater risk of suffering from acute organ failure or dying from acute organ failure than people who are not obese.

Look Alive, the Anti-Contraceptionists Are Coming! - The Pro-Life Action League sponsored a conference criticizing the use of birth control.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606WA.shtml

HUMAN RIGHTS

Torture Tactics Refined In US Prisons, ACLU Says - honing torture tactics in American prisons before they were allegedly implemented in terrorist detention centers
http://tinyurl.com/lxruy

China denies death-row organ sale - Video: BBC hidden cam shows China selling prisoners' organs
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/280906organs.htm

Dozens Arrested in Several Demonstrations for Peace Held Near Capitol - saying prayers and reading the names of the Iraq war dead, civilian and military.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706Q.shtml

Panel Urges Basic Coverage on Health Care - A federal advisory panel said Monday that Congress should take immediate steps to guarantee that all Americans have access to affordable health care by 2012.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606HA.shtml

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Clinton's Three Day Birthday Event Includes Contributor Packages Of $500,000 And Higher...
http://tinyurl.com/n34nq

Two Workers From Sago Mine Have Shot Themselves - Two key figures in January's disaster at the Sago Mine in West Virginia have taken their own lives in the last three weeks,
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092606LB.shtml