September 29. 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

What is failure – bankrupting these United States and creating an enormous insurgency within the very population we are supposedly liberating

A Personal Declaration of Independence - As a citizen of these United States for 70 years, I refuse to be ruled by a tyrant who imposes despotic, autocratic control on the citizens of these United States through a series of clandestine actions that usurp the rights of the people.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15156.htm

WAR
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"War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism."-- Philip Berrigan
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"We are either going to get out or we will be shoved out. This is not a war that can be won militarily." Murtha

Latest pile of manure from Homeland Security - U.S. Troops will be the intended target of a major chemical/biological attack in the "Green Zone" 10 - 14 days from the November, 2006 U.S. Elections."
http://tinyurl.com/j3np9

British Lawyer: officer at Guantánamo threatened me: with internment at the notorious camp by a US military officer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1881721,00.html

Where are all the dead Taliban? : The figures just don't add up.
http://tinyurl.com/qxo7m

US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn
http://tinyurl.com/gfx88

POLITICS
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." --Plato
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Latest pile of manure from Homeland Security - U.S. Troops will be the intended target of a major chemical/biological attack in the "Green Zone" 10 - 14 days from the November, 2006 U.S. Elections."
http://tinyurl.com/j3np9

Laura Bush And Fmr. WH Chief Of Staff Card Urged The President To REPLACE Rumsfeld...
http://tinyurl.com/n9rf5

Bush Ignored Calls For More Troops To Fight Insurgency: “I Don't Want Anyone In The Cabinet To Say It Is An Insurgency”...
http://tinyurl.com/enej9

Lobbyist scandal spreads to Rove: Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had hundreds more contacts with senior White House officials than previously acknowledged, a congressional report reveals.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20500113-2703,00.html

Rice versus Clinton on January 2001 Clarke Memo: "A Comprehensive Strategy to Fight Al-Qaeda"?:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

Judge gives feds 7 more days to wiretap
http://tinyurl.com/j9o5m

Gonzales cautions judges on interfering: :and has sent Justice Department lawyers into federal courts from coast to coast defending Bush's detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15160.htm

The Washington Post reports this week that George W. Bush has signed an executive order giving himself the right to issue death warrants for any individual he deems a terrorist or terrorist supporter
http://tinyurl.com/jy7xk

Legal rights could be curbed in new bill: Watch ever being accused of an *enemy combatant* because this could strip you of your right to challenge your detention in court
http://tinyurl.com/jmp85

There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own government and tortured.
http://tinyurl.com/m6n4o

Supreme Court Poised to Decide on Abortion Cases in Upcoming Term
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092806R.shtml

Ex-US Supreme Court justice worries about judicial independence
http://tinyurl.com/rutts

ELECTION ISSUES
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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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Majority of Baptists Support Bush: The majority of Baptists still support President Bush and his handling of the Iraq war.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15155.htm

Court gives exit poll workers access - members of the media may conduct exit polls within 100 feet of Ohio polling places.
http://tinyurl.com/qsqeh

Battle Royale: Democrats Have Shot At Senate and House Control
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/438

The intelligence authorization bill is "a potential Pandora’s box for Republicans in the run-up to the November midterm elections – Frist to shelve 2nd year in a row.
http://tinyurl.com/qha5l

Former Pollster Describes 2000 Election Theft - how George W. Bush took the presidency that was rightfully won by Al Gore.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906G.shtml

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"Face it," wrote Garrison Keillor, of A Prairie Home Companion, in Time Magazine, "a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality."
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Republicans Using the Illegal Immigration Issue to Score Votes – in their favor?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906Q.shtml

ECONOMY
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"In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." Thomas Paine
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Medicare cuts worry docs, seniors - a planned cut in Medicare payment rates may force the elderly and disabled from the doctor's office.
http://tinyurl.com/fbbcu

Middle-class families in worse shape than ever, study finds –
http://tinyurl.com/h5wwp

Risky mortgages threaten a squeeze
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0929/p01s02-usec.html

Most Uninsured Children's Parents Work
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092806HA.shtml

Deficit Comes in Below Projections, Thanks to "Off-Budget" Borrowing - they don't use the same math you use – would you ever have guessed that?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906F.shtml

United for a Fair Economy: Ten Super-Wealthy, Anti-Estate Tax Families Listed on Forbes 400
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0928-09.htm

911
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"Those who are willing to sacrifice their basic liberties to assure their security deserve neither." Benjamin Franklin
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9/11 and the Greenberg Familia
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1261.shtml

Rice Ignored bin Laden Warnings Prior to 9/11
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906A.shtml

CONGRESS

House Passes Measure on Religion Suits: barring judges from awarding legal fees to the American Civil Liberties Union and similar groups that sue municipalities for violating the Constitution's ban on government establishment of religion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Roll call for H R 6166 bill allowing indefinite detention without charges or counsel: 34 Democrats voted for this bill.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll491.xml

This Time, Congress Has No Excuse - passage of the terror detainee bill takes the cake."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906E.shtml

Sen. Leahy: “THIS IS SO WRONG, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UN-AMERICAN”…
http://tinyurl.com/nq2tv

GOP Sen. DeWine Knew About NIE Report Proving Iraq Promotes Terrorism, but Just Didn't Care. Is he Stupid or Just Stubborn?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/115

House Approves Warrantless Wiretap Law
http://tinyurl.com/e6vk8

DOMESTIC

HUD Secretary Admitted "Bias" Against Bush Critics
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906M.shtml

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?. too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up
http://www.dvschool.org/psngatto.htm

HP memos shed light on past pretexting
http://tinyurl.com/hlxpg

Dunn grilled by Congress
http://tinyurl.com/k4wvo

Technology Giant Hewlett-Packard Admits to Spying on Journalists, Board Members
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/28/1446254

Foley Resigns Over Sexually Explicit Messages to Minors - Another "family values" Republican - ?feels we need more religion in our schools and our government?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/foley_resigns_o.html

ENVIRONMENT

'One degree and we're done for' - we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know."
http://tinyurl.com/ry3c4

NOTE: White House Says No Change on Carbon Strategy – (There is no economy when we are all dead!)

The Ascent of Wind Power
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092906EB.shtml

INTERNATIONAL
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“Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.” : Lester B. Pearson
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Tracking the CIA Torture Flights – GWB admits to secret CIA-run prisons in foreign countries
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906O.shtml

K.Hughes - Fixing U.S. image may take years - it's not going to change" quickly, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes said in an interview with The Associated Press.
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15631630.htm

Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites: by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday. (Did we get upset, why NO.)
http://snipurl.com/xmer

Ex-Prez Carter: Bush has brought U.S. "international disgrace":
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?s=5473638

MILITARY
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“Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.” : Anne O'Hare McCormick: First woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for her work as a foreign correspondent.
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U.S. army `coming to end of its rope': Not only are troop levels not being reduced, but almost 8,000 soldiers have just had their 12-month tours of duty extended.
http://snipurl.com/xmdp

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
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"The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it ould not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believingin them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which onedenies — all this is indispensably necessary.": George Orwell in the book 1984
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Read "George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, And Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying." (How would you like this in your resume?)
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/350

Iraqi Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers – a new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, - (Iraqi 'democracy', American-style: don't you just love it?)
http://tinyurl.com/eutfn

Iraqi Journalists Slaughtered, Suppressed for Speaking Against Government
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906D.shtml

In Case I Disappear - "I have been told a thousand times at least, in the years I have spent reporting on the astonishing and repugnant abuses, lies, and failures of the Bush administration, to watch my back."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906J.shtml

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS
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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.": Georges Bernanos
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Oliver Stone: Bush Has “Set America Back 10 Years”...I'm “Ashamed For My Country”...
http://tinyurl.com/nubfw

Some (Republican) leaders don’t deserve to be called Americans - Last Chance Democracy Cafe
http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=588

Ripping Off A Democracy Is As Old As Ancient Athens
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0928-32.htm

HEALTH

US - Scientist Simon LeVay: Being gay is biological...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1159522530261910.xml&coll=1

Parents Demand for Milk Free of Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone Changing Dynamics of Marketplace
http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_2847.cfm

Selenium boost could slash rates of bladder cancer by 70 percent,
concludes research:
http://www.newstarget.com/020583.html

Link proven between sugar consumption and hyperactivity, mental
disorders in teens:
http://www.newstarget.com/020585.html

Nine million children left uninsured by America's health care system:
http://www.newstarget.com/020586.html

Pecan consumption found to lower risk of heart disease, reduce LDL
oxidation:
http://www.newstarget.com/020587.html

Samambaia rainforest herb prevents skin cancer and sunburn, treats
psoriasis and inflammation:
http://www.newstarget.com/020589.html

TFAs, The Food Industry's "Trojan Horse" on Your Table - a killer ingredient in the foods everyone is eating
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906I.shtml

Insulin can help heart attack patients recover. Giving insulin to patients immediately following a heart attack can dramatically reduce inflammation. This can prevent additional damage to the heart muscle, getting heart attack patients back on their feet sooner.
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=14548

Strong Link Between Kidney Cancer and Lack of Sunlight - Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego have found a strong link between deficiency in exposure to sunlight -- specifically ultraviolet B -- and kidney cancer.
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=14537

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hundreds of Terror Suspects Have ‘Disappeared,' Rights Group Says – some captured by bounty hunters and sold to America, according to Amnesty International.
http://www.nysun.com/article/40640

Amnesty accuses Pakistan of abusing rights by holding persons on terrorism charges and giving them over to US for money
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pakistan_human_rights

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Judge received death threats after ruling on intelligent design
http://tinyurl.com/r5ccn

Attention Liberals: Please Breed; Conservatives are outbirthing libs by a wide margin. How soon can you get knocked up?
http://tinyurl.com/hf6fq

Discrimination Against the Female Brain - It was discrimination, pure and simple of a conservative and simplistic media promoting otherwise.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092906WA.shtml

2 Priests Accused of $8.6-Million Theft in Florida
http://tinyurl.com/z2wed

BUSH has:
01. started an illegal war
02. lied to Congress to have an illegal war
03. missued funds before getting approval
04. civilians targeted
05. journalists targeted
06. hospitals targeted
07. ambulances targeted
08. used illegal weapon - white phosphorous
09. used illegal weapon – depeted uranium
10. used Napalm-like weapon of Mark077 fire bombs
11. arbitrarily detained Americans without due process – charge – access to counsel
12. arbitrarly detained legal residents without due process – charge – access to counsel
13. arbitrarily detaine non-Americans without due process – charge – access to counsel
NOTE: the Supreme Court says this is all CRIMINAL – what do you say?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906P.shtml