October 31, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

HOPE YOU ENJOYED HALLOWEEN – A MAKE-BELIEVE SCARE JOB. (Too bad we have a real one going on in the White House!)

A L E R T – election paper cut - OUCH!
Don't you wonder how much *they*paid Kerry? Geez, how could he say that and not be more clear or better yet just not have said it at all?

White House, Kerry exchange accusations
http://tinyurl.com/y3cbnu

Kerry's Mangled Statement a Distraction --updated-- Kerry should just admit he screwed up his statement. It may be ugly, but it's the truth. And of course, St. McCain has already chimed in.
http://tinyurl.com/yy5dhb

WAR

If You Are Against the War, Take This Quiz
http://tinyurl.com/y2bru9

U.S. Diplomat: Iran Bigger Threat Than North Korea: A senior U.S. diplomat on Tuesday described Iran as more dangerous than North Korea and said that besides developing a nuclear weapon, the Islamic state was undermining regional stability.
http://tinyurl.com/y4jfmj

The Washington Post lets the truth about Iraq leak out: Soldiers estimate "it would take 30 to 40 years before the Iraqi police could function properly."
http://tinyurl.com/y7mjp6

THE WHITE HOUSE

Hitler, Like Bush, Loyal To The Vatican - Certain things in history get lost in the shuffle like Adolph Hitler's loyalty to the Vatican and his eternal gratitude paid to the duplicitous Jesuit Order.
http://tinyurl.com/y4ex4p

Laura Bush on Michael J. Fox: ‘It’s Always Easy To Manipulate People’s Feelings’ (((And conservatives have the nerve to call Hillary an insensitive woman!))) http://tinyurl.com/yxjg57

POLITICS

Stop Drinking At The K Street Trough: There's a big elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about--and I'm not talking about the Republican Party. It's the gusher of money flowing to Democrats from K Street lobbyists. And it is worrisome that so few progressives want to talk about this openly.
http://tinyurl.com/yxpf8v

Texas Republican Is Holding Up $900 Million For Autism Research -
http://tinyurl.com/y44t82

SCANDAL

Money trails lead to Bush judges --- A four-month investigation reveals that dozens of federal judges gave contributions to President Bush and top Republicans who helped place them on the bench.
http://tinyurl.com/yygbjw

ELECTION ITEMS

The Zogby lowdown - all the polls out there
http://tinyurl.com/yxc6ef

U.S. Election Fraud 2006 Risk Assessment Update - Election Fraud and Digital Disruption Take on More Importance
http://tinyurl.com/y6s823

Rep. Young predicts 'no GOP losses'
http://tinyurl.com/y6mph9

Will a shocking new GOP court victory and Karl Rove's attack on Ohio 2006 doom the Democrats nationwide?: The GOP has thrown Ohio's entire process of voting and vote counting into serious disarray. The mess is perfectly designed to suppress voter turnout, make election monitoring and a recount impossible, and allow the Republican Party to emerge with a victory despite overwhelming evidence the electorate wants exactly the opposite.
http://tinyurl.com/y2jr6p

New ad 'gay-baits' national GOP chief
http://tinyurl.com/yalrky

Jefferson County Voters Continue To Raise Concerns About Voting Machines : KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket.
http://tinyurl.com/yl23z3

Orange County charges 11 with phony voter registration: Fraudulent voter registration charges were filed this week by prosecutors who said Democrats were unwittingly signed up as Republicans
http://tinyurl.com/shd5h

$1 of nice for every $10 of nasty' in ads--Nearly $160 million spent on attack ads, only $17 million on positive ones.
http://tinyurl.com/v9j5g

Senator Allen's Staff Tackles Blogger --- Staff members of GOP Senator George Allen of Virginia appear in a video to have physically accosted a blogger who asked questions at a rally in Virginia. The blogger, Mike Stark, says he will press charges.
http://tinyurl.com/wnwru

Sen. Dole blames Dem candidate for 'uncivil' blogger
http://tinyurl.com/y2xrvj

Dem Iowa candidate asks Kerry to cancel campaign visit
http://tinyurl.com/y82p66

Still Believe He Isn't George W. Bush's Favorite Senator? (If Lieberman beats out the Dems, does this tell us Connecticut is really a red state? 'Guess so.)
http://tinyurl.com/yh3mod

New Zogby Poll: Lamont within 4 points --- Connecticut readers, please try to support Lamont. You need a Senator dedicated to Connecticut, not to a foreign nation, and AIPAC needs to lose their cache as "King maker" in DC
http://tinyurl.com/y94xek

New Poll: Harold Ford Leads Bob Corker By 5%...
http://tinyurl.com/y7blmz

Poll: Bush's Campaigning Not Helping His Approval Rating...
http://tinyurl.com/yyjwvs

Liberal bloggers backing centrists
http://tinyurl.com/vo5kx

ECONOMY

United States National Debt: An Analysis of the Presidents Who Are Responsible For Excessive Spending
http://tinyurl.com/zb3x2

Paulson re-activates secretive support team to prevent markets meltdown. Judging by their body language, the US authorities believe the roaring bull market this autumn is just a suckers' rally before the inevitable storm hits.
http://tinyurl.com/y7ttfv

Economic Policy Institute: Minimum Wage -- Nine Years of Neglect
http://tinyurl.com/yxctx6

Thousands of Students "Join Sex Trade to Fund Degrees" (Hey George - can't you do better than this? Why did you take big chunks out of money help for aspiring grads?)
http://tinyurl.com/y6xtcx

Future Tax Shock - Meanwhile, multimillionaires are not being snared at nearly the same rate as other filers.
http://tinyurl.com/t83go

US auto sales seen up for October
http://tinyurl.com/y2eblv

Chevron 3Q Profit Soars to $5 Billion: Topped off by the record results released Friday by Chevron, five of the world's largest oil companies produced a combined net income of $31.6 billion during the three months ended in September.
http://tinyurl.com/y3sjbz

U.S. Drops Bid Over Royalties From Chevron: The Interior Department has dropped claims that the Chevron Corporation systematically underpaid the government for natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, a decision that could allow energy companies to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.
http://tinyurl.com/y3ydl9

911

Official Transcript: President Bush admits bombs were in World Trade Towers --- For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping. "
http://tinyurl.com/mhy6p

CONGRESS

The Worst Congress Ever --- How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps .
http://tinyurl.com/y2r3uh

DOMESTIC

Teens Call Hyper-Sexualized Media Images "Normal" --- survey of 700 women and 300 men aged 13 to 18 ... the responses suggest that many of the young women are resigned to this being the way society is right now and that women's bodies are used to sell practically everything.
http://tinyurl.com/y48hjv

RELIGIOUS ITEMS

More Satanic Worshipping In Vatican Verified - "The Jesuits and the Vatican hierarchy are the master black magicians, controlling the many cult groups involved in the New World Order," said Zagami. "American people need to wake-up as the Vatican controls the U.S. government. The Bush family is a tool of the papacy. They are actually crooks and consider themselves pirates and that is the reason for the name Skull and Bones. These are sick criminals that need to be exposed and I am not afraid to do that since I was one of them at the top level in Monte Carlo.
http://tinyurl.com/sj7bf

ENVIRONMENT

Snow: Bush Admin Is “Actively Engaged In Trying To Fight Climate Change”...(Remember folks, Republicans hate everyone but themselves!)
http://tinyurl.com/uwb7w

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

British scientists grow human liver in a laboratory - British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
http://tinyurl.com/ymnbe9

Virus writers target online videos
http://tinyurl.com/y8f49b

Dr. Helen Caldicott: The Dangers of a Nuclear War: Authoritative analysis of the devastating impacts of a nuclear attack on Iran
http://tinyurl.com/yx5j9e

INTERNATIONAL

FRENCH NEWS CHANNEL TO CHALLENGE 'ANGLO-SAXON' CNN, BBC: BOSS - A round-the-clock international news channel France is to launch in December will challenge the "Anglo-Saxon" views spread by market leaders BBC and CNN by relying on "French values", the network's chief said Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/y6dlkj

AUGUSTO PINOCHET, the 90-year-old former dictator of Chile, was branded a “grave danger to society” as he was placed under house arrest in Santiago yesterday by the judge investigating his role in cases of torture and kidnapping during his time in power.
http://tinyurl.com/y5flzk

Note: North Korea Agrees to Six-Party Nuke Talks - diplomatic breakthrough three weeks after the communist regime conducted its first known atomic test, the Chinese government said.
http://tinyurl.com/y6poae

Blair Risks Humiliating Defeat as Opponents Demand Iraq Inquiry --- Tony Blair faces the risk of a humiliating Commons defeat today over his refusal to allow a wide-ranging inquiry into the crisis in Iraq. The Tories, Liberal Democrats and as many as 40 Labour rebels are threatening to support a nationalist demand for a parliamentary examination of the war and its aftermath.
http://tinyurl.com/y24z6h

MILITARY

US force in Iraq swells to 150,000: Pentagon
http://tinyurl.com/y5u8x4

Pentagon memo reveals launch of new PR war - The Pentagon is buttressing its public relations staff and starting an operation akin to a political campaign war room as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faces intensifying criticism over the Iraq war. In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Dorrance Smith, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said new teams of people will "develop messages" for the 24-hour news cycle and "correct the record."
http://tinyurl.com/sqh27

How the Pentagon censors Hollywood
http://tinyurl.com/y6862p

Air Force said to seek $50 bln emergency funds Air -- amount equal to nearly half its annual budget
http://tinyurl.com/w8t47

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Limbaugh Outfoxed - Radio, television and the Internet greased Limbaugh's descent into fantasy. Years ago, a profile described him "holed up in his New York apartment with Chinese takeout and a stack of rented movies." In another profile, he "complained that he has virtually no social life." Click the video links on his Web site, and you can peer into his world. He sits in a soundproof studio. He never has to go outside.
http://tinyurl.com/yl6gz2

The Daily Show In Ohio: We Tried To Get Ohio Politicians But They Are Preparing To “Leave office ...Or Go To Prison”...
http://tinyurl.com/y2up9d

HEALTH

Fluoride Was Never FDA Approved For Ingestion - Sodium fluoride was already sold pre-1938 but not as a decay preventive. As strange as it sounds, it commonly sold as a rat poison.
http://tinyurl.com/yx7dfc

FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH by B. Richards (important read!)
WHAT'S IN THE FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH: Big Pharma targets protects drug companies rather than public health, unbridled power of corporations, toxic chemicals dripped into municipal water supplies, food companies are still treating consumers like guinea pigs, global fluoride scam, statin drugs are extremely dangerous, truth about osteoporosis drugs, FDA's sinister plan to outlaw nutritional supplements = business for drug companie, end of scientific skepticism, etc.

More Dirty Drug Company Secrets - Newer, heavily hyped drugs are often no better than the generic older drugs they are intended to replace -- but they are more expensive, and sometimes more dangerous.
http://tinyurl.com/w8nrm

Why Are Kids Entering Puberty Before They Enter School? - The increased prevalence of chemicals called endocrine disruptors in drugs, cosmetics, and environmental toxins may be triggering early puberty in young children.
http://tinyurl.com/y2qebq

HUMAN RIGHTS

Chocolate's Horror Show --- Forced child labor went into the making of much of these chocolates. Illegal child labor is a major problem on the West African cocoa farms from which companies like Hershey, Nestle and M&M Mars buy their cocoa beans."
http://tinyurl.com/y97lqg

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Best Video of Steve Irwin - This video beautifully captures one of the greatest examples of passion and enthusiasm this planet has seen for quite some time. You MUST see this video.
http://tinyurl.com/y3mk7r

October 30, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

Bush "Upbeat" on Iraq? --- for President Bush to say publicly that the United States attacked Iraq because of 9/11 is an insult to the more than 2,809 men and women who have died in combat in Iraq and tens of thousands of other soldiers who were maimed, believing they were fighting a war predicated on finding weapons of mass destruction.
http://tinyurl.com/yalncd

ALERT

Target Iran *** This is a must listen *** Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh. The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change.
http://tinyurl.com/yjlvnh

WAR

Bush's Legacy of Failure: 100th GI Killed This Month for a Lie. Warming will damage economy The *My Pet Goat* guy is the one we are stuck with.
http://tinyurl.com/yatx35

Iraq to seek extension of US presence --- Iraq is to ask the UN Security Council to renew the mandate governing the presence of US-led forces in the country for another year, said Hoshiyar Zebari, its foreign minister.
http://tinyurl.com/trky3

Prime Minister Using US Angst Against Bush --- A close aide to Nouri al-Maliki said the prime minister was intentionally playing on US voter displeasure with the war to strengthen his hand with Washington.
http://tinyurl.com/yaedll

Claim: Saddam 'accepted' US ultimatum before invasion
http://tinyurl.com/yzaft7

Saddam's Defense Lawyer Walks Out (Again???)
http://tinyurl.com/vfjmp

Bush and Blair Searching for a Way Out of Iraq, and Finding None --- The pressures on Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair are now immense. The sheer scale of the bloodshed and chaos their invasion unleashed - coupled with the dissembling that preceded it - has undermined their credibility and destroyed their popularity. The latest US polls show only one in five Americans believes Washington is winning in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/yelxby

Security firms 'abusing Iraqis'--- Private security firms operating in Iraq are committing human rights abuses, a charity has claimed.
http://tinyurl.com/ykarsq

Halliburton Motto - It's Cost Plus, Baby - Since the minute Dick Cheney authorized the no-bid contracts for Halliburton, the granddaddy of war profiteering has been ripping off American tax payers left, right and center
http://tinyurl.com/ydy43q

Nuke secrets stolen: THE secrets of Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent are feared stolen, the Sunday Express can reveal. It is claimed they disappeared from a high-security base in the US.
http://tinyurl.com/yeuk78

Scott Ritter: Weapons of Mass Delusion : Ritter gives his analysis of the real reasons for the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/yfxpjk

THE WHITE HOUSE

Rockefeller Predicted "Event" To Trigger War Eleven Months Before 9/11 - Russo related how Rockefeller knew precisely what the event would lead to and which countries would be militarily targeted by the elite.
http://tinyurl.com/uc42w

"TERRORIST ATTACK IN NOVEMBER" ACCORDING TO KARL ROVE
Another Freudian slip?
http://tinyurl.com/y4lrrw

A little bird told me that a *Document Shredding Truck was Spotted On The Way To Cheney's House...

"The President Knows More Than He Lets On" --- 100 suspected terrorists from all over the world are still being held in secret American prisons. In an interview with Der Spiegel Online, CIA expert Ron Suskind accuses Washington of "running like a headless chicken in its war against al-Qaeda. He reserves special criticism for the CIA's torture methods, which he argues are unproductive.
http://tinyurl.com/y9z7pk

POLITICS

Getting to the Root of the Problem by Getting Rid of the Republicans
http://tinyurl.com/y2tg2u

Hastert Out Of A Job, Win Or Lose…
http://tinyurl.com/yaur93

SCANDAL

Who are the eighteen members of Congress that signed the Abramoff letter to the Customs Trademark division? - Why did George W. Bush talk to Vladimir Putin about this specific case a few days after the Abramoff letter? Doesn't this prove that Bush is lying about 'not knowing' Jack Abramoff?
http://tinyurl.com/y3zc86

Alleged Assault by GOP Congressman Caught on Tape Videotapes from cameras in the parking garage where Congressman Jim Gibbons is alleged to have tried to sexually assault a cocktail waitress are now in the hands of Las Vegas police. http://tinyurl.com/upe74

LEGAL ITEMS

The way the police treat us verges on the criminal: Guilty until proven innocent now seems to be the watchword of a government that increasingly treats its law-abiding citizens with absolute contempt (ask my husband - this certainly was true for us where we live)
http://tinyurl.com/ybulhx

ELECTION ITEMS

Red State (DVD). Learn What is on the Mind of Rural Red Staters. It Will Freak You Out. The GOP Knows How to Push Their Hot Buttons, That's for Sure. Demagoguery Works. Highly Recommended.
http://tinyurl.com/ycpx73

Will Ken Blackwell find the ways to steal Ohio 2006 as he did in 2004?
http://tinyurl.com/ym8m5m

Don't Become Complacent. Don't Become Cocky. Democrats with Big Edge in Campaign's Last Week." Now, Don't Think It's In the Bag. Make It Happen.
http://tinyurl.com/yednk9

Calls increase for GOP Senator George Allen to explain his multiple arrest warrants
http://tinyurl.com/yfs49n

Why are Republican conservatives calling for an end to One Party GOP Rule?: William Frey, a founder of "Republicans for Humility," explains why he and other conservative Republicans are upset with the direction of the Bush administration and the GOP-controlled Congress:
http://tinyurl.com/yh7nq6

The War in Iraq IS the ECONOMY; Stupid!
http://tinyurl.com/y2m6c5

11 Charged in GOP Vote Fraud --- The Orange County district attorney's office has charged 11 people with fraudulent voter registration stemming from a Republican registration drive this year that resulted in dozens of Democrats unwittingly being signed up as Republicans.
http://tinyurl.com/yh288c

RNC Chief Ken Mehlman accepted political contributions from gay porn king?
http://tinyurl.com/yawlfy

Racism Enters the Races --- "The ads may not be overt, but across the country campaigns are trying to tap into a vein of fear and bigotry," according to the Los Angeles Times.
http://tinyurl.com/ykjvpg

Paper: Dems fear 'tsunami' could leave them 'high and dry'
http://tinyurl.com/t5v5a

The Polls Predict a Huge Republican Defeat. The People Aren't So Sure
http://tinyurl.com/yffcy4

Poll: Stumping not boosting Bush popularity
http://tinyurl.com/yjk4hj

Democrats are favored to take control of state capitols
http://tinyurl.com/sduzn

Rep. Hunter to run for president - Tony Snow to stump for Sen. Talent - McCain’s PAC to retain Terry Nelson - Poll signals hope for GOP on DeLay seat - AFL-CIO deploys 100,000 volunteers in turnout effort - DCCC expands Red to Blue list expanded their “Red to Blue” list by 17 candidates www.thehill.com

NEWSPAPERS ACROSS COUNTRY SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES…
http://tinyurl.com/u4rc7

Diebold quietly repaired voting machines - State Board of Elections Chairman Gilles W. Burger said Diebold's failure to fully inform board members of the repairs at the time raises questions about whether the company violated its state contracts.
http://tinyurl.com/y5aox8

43% of Likely Voters Get Political Info Online - increasing numbers of people looking for political news are going online, with more than a third now saying they check the Internet for such information.
http://tinyurl.com/yb6y2r

Jefferson County Voters Continue To Raise Concerns About Voting Machines - Early voting runs through Friday, November 3rd. KFDM continues to get complaints from Jefferson County voters who say the electronic voting machines are not registering their votes correctly.
http://tinyurl.com/v89wx

Send your elected officials our free PDF guide to hacking the vote - So, you asked for it, and here it is: How to Steal an Election by Hacking the Vote, in a portable, easily readable/printable PDF format.
http://tinyurl.com/y7hm6r

This Week in South Dakota --- the campaign is the referendum to overturn the abortion ban approved by the state's legislature and signed into law by its governor, Mike Rounds, last March."
http://tinyurl.com/ye6dth

Can This Machine Be Trusted? --- The US's new voting systems are only as good as the people who program and use them. Which is why next week could be interesting.
http://tinyurl.com/yjgg5n

Florida E-Voting Machines Already Flipping Votes --- Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen - the final voting step.
http://tinyurl.com/ygsapx

McCaskill Will Bring Needed Change - Kansas City Star -In the Missouri US Senate race, Claire McCaskill is far more interested than her opponent in bringing fundamental change to Washington. Such change is essential
http://tinyurl.com/yb39qu

ECONOMY

Top accountant says U.S. faces financial ruin: "This is about the future of our country, our kids and grandkids," the comptroller general of the United States warns a packed hall at Austin's historic Driskill Hotel. "We the people have to rise up to make sure things get changed."
http://tinyurl.com/yl7xor

The Dollar's Full-System Meltdown ---Everyone in Washington already knew that doomsday was approaching. That’s the way the system was designed from the very beginning. It’s all part of the madcap scheme to “starve the beast” and transfer the nation’s wealth to a handful of western plutocrats.
http://tinyurl.com/yleafj

Futures down on economic woes --- U.S. stock futures declined on Monday, as concerns about the health of the economy were reignited over the weekend by Wal-Mart Stores' below-forecast October sales numbers.
http://tinyurl.com/yhkv38

Spending up, income 'grows briskly' --- Consumers kept a firm grip on their wallets in September, boosting spending just 0.1%, the smallest increase in 10 months, and a year-on-year inflation index remained close to an 11-year high in a sign of persistent inflation risk
http://tinyurl.com/yd7yn3

Oops... Gas Profits Did it Again --- Let's face it - 10.5 Billion doesn't happen over night. Exxon knew that they were raking in profits. They know what oil costs them, and they know what they charge for it.
http://tinyurl.com/yyznpc

DOMESTIC

Google faces 'defamation' challenge
http://tinyurl.com/yeah9t

St. Louis Ranked As Most Dangerous City In US...
http://tinyurl.com/y7ovuj

RELIGIOUS ITEMS

The number of conservative Christians with a favorable view of the GOP has plummeted from 74 percent to 54 percent between 2004 and this year, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Evangelicals comprise more than one-third of GOP voters. Praise the Lord!
http://tinyurl.com/yg62cb

ENVIRONMENT

Brown to back more emissions trading - And, in an effort to push climate change up the international agenda, the chancellor will appoint Al Gore, former US vice-president and an environmental campaigner, as an adviser on green issues.
http://tinyurl.com/tybpe

INTERNATIONAL

Swedes think US 'greatest threat to peace' - Nearly one in three Swedes, 29 percent, think that the US is the biggest threat to peace on earth, the poll, commissioned by Axess Television, reveals.
http://tinyurl.com/tuhlf

MILITARY

Military "Lost" Hundreds of Thousands of Weapons
http://tinyurl.com/yfvplj

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

CNN's Wolf Blitzer: I Was “Surprised” At Lynne Cheney's "Sniping At My Patriotism'...
http://tinyurl.com/ybfogd

Big Metros Show Severe Declines in Latest Circ Report While blog readership continues to set new records.
http://tinyurl.com/y6e6ky

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

The War. The War. The War.--- Cheney is right: I don't have the stomach for this--not because I inherently lack the capacity for wartime intestinal fortitude but because this particular war's inanity hits me right in the gut.
http://tinyurl.com/ylhvrf

How I Was Wrong About Thomas Friedman - his outsized economic privileges become especially relevant when we consider that he's inclined to be glib and even flip as he advocates policies that give very low priority to reducing economic inequality."
http://tinyurl.com/ynfq4b

HEALTH

Calorie-Restricted Diets Now Proven To Drastically Slow Aging Process...
http://tinyurl.com/yjpk2d

"Not enough evidence" to support winter flu shots for seasonal flu, declare researchers:
http://tinyurl.com/yl3ccv

KFC joins Wendy's in switching to trans-fat-free cooking oil:
http://tinyurl.com/yfqa3p

Environmental Working Group: Thyroid Threat: CDC Study Shows Proposed Rocket Fuel Standards Inadequate to Protect Baby
http://tinyurl.com/ycqrdy

Breastfeeding improves mental health of infants:
http://tinyurl.com/ygbhu5

Superfruits to form basis of gut-healthy, prebiotic drinks:
http://tinyurl.com/ybcdnk

Shocking Away Shoulder Pain - From the University of Cincinnati, a new type of electrical stimulation for shocking away shoulder pain in stroke patients
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

Using an EMG in addition to the typical MRI to help diagnose the problem behind back pain. A word to the wise, however, a friend of mine said there's no mention of how uncomfortable an EMG can be!
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

A new surgery using a patient's own small intestine to make a "neobladder" From Oregon Health & Science Center,
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

What Scares Doctors? Doctors Speak Out!
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

What Scares Doctors? How to Survive Your Doctor's Care
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

What Scares Doctors? Choose the Right Hospital
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

Curry for Arthritis
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

Are Men Becoming Less Manly?
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

Statins Slow Lung Damage in Smokers
http://tinyurl.com/yacjfn

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Mirror test infers elephants self-awareness - Test results suggest that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror.
http://tinyurl.com/yzodny

The Truth Behind Women "Opting Out" --- Much of the talk about women "opting out" to care for their families is a myth, two studies report.
http://tinyurl.com/yzka9m

October 29, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

The war cannot be won for the simple reason that all of the stated objectives were lies…..
1. We cannot rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction because they did not have any…..
2. We cannot harm Al Qaeda by attacking Iraq because Iraq was already an enemy of Al Qaeda..............................................
3. We cannot punish Iraq for 9-11 because Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11
Therefore, victory in terms of the publicly stated objectives, is impossible. WE cannot win this war. WE can only lose it, EXACTLY WHAT BUSH IS DOING RIGHT NOW!

ALERT #1

Top Government Official Says US on Verge of Economic Disaster --- Top Government Official Says US on Verge of Economic Disaster
http://tinyurl.com/yctn4b

ALERT #2

Iran Sounds an Awful Lot Like Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/ybh3ks

WAR

Bush, Iraqi Premier Act to Close Rift After Week of Tension
http://tinyurl.com/yhyfkq

Hey, we killed some 650,000 folks but at least we brought these people democracy! -Sounds sick to me.
http://tinyurl.com/ymwwub

Hussein Verdict: ........Saddam did NOT have weapons of mass destruction____Saddam did NOT have links to Al Qaeda ___ Saddam did NOT have anything to do with 9-11 ___ Saddam did NOT "gas his own people" (Iran gassed the Kurds). This is a show trial on a par with anything the USSR ever did, with a pre-ordained verdict, timed to be announced just before the elections.
http://tinyurl.com/uf9ll

One hundred suspected terrorists from all over the world are still being held in secret American prisons. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, CIA expert Ron Suskind accuses Washington of "running like a headless chicken" in its war against al-Qaida. He reserves special criticism for the CIA's torture methods, which he argues are unproductive.
http://tinyurl.com/y6zpp5

WHITE HOUSE

Bush, In Another WH Crisis, Claims Cheney Didn't Support Waterboarding, But In an October 5, Washington Post Article the White House Specifically affirmed that New Pro-Torture Legislation Would Allow It to Use Waterboarding
http://tinyurl.com/rj9rd

Is Bush even capable of working with the coming Democratic congress? asks David Broder
http://tinyurl.com/ycvha9

The White House Gave an Order to Go; Now, It's the Ousted Chef's Turn to Dish
http://tinyurl.com/y9oosq

POLITICS

Laura Bush for President? Don't Rule it Out. Republicans are Running out of Options --
http://tinyurl.com/yhdprt

Powell says Bush fired him
http://tinyurl.com/pm37m

SCANDAL

Who are the eighteen members of Congress that signed the Abramoff letter to the Customs Trademark division? - Why did George W. Bush talk to Vladimir Putin about this specific case a few days after the Abramoff letter? Doesn't this prove that Bush is lying about 'not knowing' Jack Abramoff?
http://tinyurl.com/yz2mx5

NBC's Chip Reid: “The Mark Foley Scandal Investigation Is Going To Widen”...
http://tinyurl.com/sn33n

Congress battle sinks into the dirt --- Candidates have been accused of using sex phone lines, going to Playboy parties, writing books that encourage paedophilia, assaulting their ex-lovers or paying for sex. Anything to not talk about the war.
http://tinyurl.com/yl82a6

LEGAL ITEMS

Businesses Seek Protection on Legal Front - Frustrated with laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back.
http://tinyurl.com/ybppg2

NOTE: One of the battle cries of the Bush loyalists is that Fitzgerald is a partisan prosecutor. But in Illinois, he is pursuing two extremely intense and high profile investigations of the offices of the two top Democratic office holders in the state: the Governor and the Mayor of Chicago.

ELECTION ITEMS

Twelve days before the midterm elections, Republican congressional incumbents are struggling to corral a key voter group -- rural residents. A new bipartisan poll indicates that Democrats now dominate rural voters, a critical part of the Republican base.
http://tinyurl.com/ylxpje

Democrats with Big Edge in Campaign's Last Week
http://tinyurl.com/ym98mz

DEMS: Election Is More And More A Referendum On George Bush And His Failed policies...
http://tinyurl.com/yju9wl

Finally, a Democrat will sit in the Governor's chair in Massachusetts. Ain't it ironic that they've had so many Republican governors? But Deval Patrick is going to break the curse.
http://tinyurl.com/mzml

Dem. Senate hinges on mobilization effort
http://tinyurl.com/yjjbux

Lieberman-Lamont Race Now The Most Expensive In State History...
http://tinyurl.com/ybkowo

The New York Times Endorses Lamont For CT Senate...
http://tinyurl.com/y262s9

Hope Versus Fear” In Tennessee Senate Race...
http://tinyurl.com/ybsyng

NOTE: Antiwar candidate are showing up by the carload.

Poll Puts Maryland Democrats In the Lead --- Democratic tide in Maryland threatens to swamp Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s reelection bid and bolsters the party's efforts to retain control of an important U.S. Senate seat,
http://tinyurl.com/yf93so

ECONOMY

Nearly 1.5 Million Back-Office U.S. Jobs Seen Moving Abroad - The Fortune 500 could save $58 billion annually if it shifts about half of its general and administrative workforce abroad over the next decade, a Hackett Group research study finds.
http://tinyurl.com/yh6m6c

Note These Breaks Now --- If tax season seems too far off to be worth the worry, think again.
http://tinyurl.com/yg59op

CONGRESS

Forget Her "Pledge" Not to Impeach, She Took an Oath to Defend the Constitution - What Stahl should have asked Pelosi was whether she thought that President Bush had violated the law and the Constitution, and whether she believed he has committed impeachable offenses. The answer to that is clearly yes.
http://tinyurl.com/ygxjza

RELIGIOUS ITEMS

Conservative Christians Wondering “Whether Republicans Deserve The Power They Were Given”...
http://tinyurl.com/yzfta7

ENVIRONMENT

Ky. gets money for coal technology - U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman announced on Friday $450 million in grants over the next decade to further research into technology that would lessen the environmental impacts of coal use.
http://tinyurl.com/yn92uf

INTERNATIONAL

Warships deploy around S. Arabia oil facilities --- If I were the Saudis, I would NOT be very happy about this
http://tinyurl.com/y4en8e

China Puts Satellite Into Orbit - The satellite, known as Sinosat-2, was built by the China Academy of Space Technology for the Sino Satellite Communications Co., or Sinosat, a state-run provider of satellite communications. Sinosat-2 is designed to provide broader coverage of TV signals and allow for more digital and live broadcast TV services, Xinhua said.
http://tinyurl.com/yha4gx

MILITARY

Kidnapped soldier 'had secret wife' - AN American soldier who was kidnapped this week in Baghdad had left his base to visit his secret Iraqi wife, a relative said on condition the family not be identified.
http://tinyurl.com/ybzfpa

How do military personnel handle illegal orders in war? - Legal analysts, combat veterans and a former Marine drill instructor said military law is clear: An illegal order, especially one likely to result in injury or death, should not be obeyed.
http://tinyurl.com/ye7xdd

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Lynne Cheney's Anger Management Problem --- Witchy? Bitchy? Don't be ridiculous -- she's displaying righteous indignation. Rage? Hysteria? Oh, no, that's standing your ground.
http://tinyurl.com/ykvqlt

October 28, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me...It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too." ……They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied..."The one I feed."

ALERT

GAO Chief: Government On Track To Economic Disaster ... Federal government's top accountant warns that DC has dug a fiscal black hole.
http://tinyurl.com/ybquhb

WAR

Top U.S. Military Officer Recommends ‘We Remove All Troops From Baghdad’ - President Bush has consistently said that his strategy in Iraq is dictated by military officials on the ground. Last night on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, columnist Mark Shields revealed that one of the “highest ranking men” in the military has recommended removing all U.S. troops from Baghdad.
http://tinyurl.com/yh3524

Report Says Iraq Contractor Is Hiding Data From US --- this marks the first time the federal government has weighed in and accused it of systematically engaging in a practice aimed at veiling its business practices in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/ymag2d

Iraq Correspondent Richard Engel: “The People Who Are Being Killed Are Too Old, Too Stupid, Too Poor…To Leave”…
http://tinyurl.com/ygf5wr

Blame and Run? --- "...this president is so messianicly consumed with 'victory' there that he will remain in his 'State of Denial' and leave it to his successor to clean up his mess - as JFK did to LBJ, as LBJ did to Nixon, and as Nixon did to Jerry Ford."
http://tinyurl.com/ykarjj

"Not America's Man in Iraq," Premier Says --- Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Maliki told the US Ambassador Saturday that he's "not America's man in Iraq." Maliki criticized what he called the patronizing US tone toward the Iraqi government and warned US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad to respect Iraq's sovereignty, two of the prime minister's advisors said.
http://tinyurl.com/yffbou

Confession That Formed Base of Iraq War was Acquired Under Torture: Journalist
http://tinyurl.com/yztdu5

New York Times Says Dem Congress Won't Have Authority to Change Course of Iraq War
http://tinyurl.com/yd7gfc

While the Administration Struggles with Spin, USIP Forecasts Iraq's Potential "Descent into Hell"
http://tinyurl.com/yc5syh

THE WHITE HOUSE
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"The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus ... are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it [the Constitution] contains....The practices of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. ************************************************
An Administration That Defies Any Semblance of Common Sense. Now Bush Says That Cheney Didn't Really Mean Torture is a "No Brainer," Although He Said It. And That the Busheviks Don't Torture People, Although It's Documented and They Fought Tooth and Nail for a Bill to Allow Them to Continue to Torture. Today, Bush's Envoy to Iraq and the Iraqi Prime Minister Hold a PR Opportunity to Announce Agreement on Timetables, Even Though Bush Says Supporting Timetables is Supporting al-Qaeda. These People Belong in a LOONY BIN! They Make No Sense!
http://tinyurl.com/v7zx8

MSNBC analyst: Bush approval jump is 'too little, too late'
http://tinyurl.com/ybsg8x

Porn business grows under Bush
http://tinyurl.com/ykogv4

POLITICS
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
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No Foley report before Election
http://tinyurl.com/yhlcsh

IRS won't enforce taxes until after the election. Government pulls out all stops to help GOP
http://tinyurl.com/ye7an9

Stem Cell Politics --- Paul Wellstone about Michael J. Fox and stem cell research, remembering a point Wellstone made: "When a prominent figure who suffers from a life-threatening condition joins the debate over funding scientific research, it can shift the political pendulum."
http://tinyurl.com/yl7xfk

Why Nancy Pelosi is WRONG - she says:impeachment would be "off the table" if Democrats take over the House of Representatives in November, calling it a "waste of time."
http://tinyurl.com/ygxjza

Poison Pill --- How Abramoff's cronies sold the Medicare drug bill.
http://tinyurl.com/yxpeow

SCANDAL

Investigators Say Speaker's Aide Hindered Inquiry of Hill Security Contracts --- Two former House committee investigators who were examining Capitol Hill security upgrades said a senior aide to Speaker J. Dennis Hastert hindered their efforts before they were abruptly ordered to stop their probe last year.
http://tinyurl.com/ycqr3r

Reports Shed Light on Ties Between Weldon, Businesses --- Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon, under investigation for allegedly trading his influence to get lobbying business for one of his daughters, also has helped corporations that have hired another daughter, a friend and some of his former aides.
http://tinyurl.com/yh4253

LEGAL ISSUES

Jeremy Scahill/Garrett Ordower From Whitewater to Blackwater: Ken Starr, the Mercenaries' New Lawyer
http://tinyurl.com/yefhhx

NYPD Must Investigate Response to Alleged Assault of Transgender Woman at McDonald's, Says Amnesty International
http://tinyurl.com/ynaaaa

18 months for Bush procurement boss
http://tinyurl.com/ymgsn6

ACLU drops Patriot Act challenge
http://tinyurl.com/yl2fxp

ELECTION ITEMS
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
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Risk remains that Republicans will out-organize Democratic activists on Election Day -- Howard Dean prepares to kick it into high gear
http://tinyurl.com/yk63w2

Corporate America Increasing Its Last-Minute Donations To Dems...
http://tinyurl.com/yftdqc

Congressman facing ethics flap - U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, (Republican) who is seeking his third term in Congress, has mixed campaign activities and official government work in a manner that present and former staffers consider unethical or in violation of House rules, according to interviews with a half-dozen of them.
http://tinyurl.com/yjomn7

TURNING ON HARDLINERS? Are Voters Turning Against Hardliners in Texas? In Houston, a Republican state legislator finds that party discipline has a cost.
http://tinyurl.com/yglzkk

Touch-Screen Votes Reportedly Hopping to Republicans During Early Voting in Texas, Missouri and Arkansas
http://tinyurl.com/yctzco

How Webb won the Navy Cross
http://tinyurl.com/y7yh7v

911

Phone call to NTSB regarding AA77 Flight Data Recorder - Phone call was made 10/26/06 to the NTSB to get answers based on the Flight Data Recorder information/animation they provided of American Airlines Flight 77. AA77 was reported to have struck the Pentagon and is in direct conflict with the official story of striking down light poles on its path to impact. The actual flight path shown in the animation based on the Flight Data Recorder also conflicts with the physical damage on the ground. Here is what the NTSB had to say...
http://tinyurl.com/y6k8ch

CONGRESS

GOP Alabama Congressmen Keep “Stranglehold” On Condom Contracts For Foreign Aid...
http://tinyurl.com/ylk4g2

DOMESTIC

Airport screeners fail to see most test bombs: screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the starting points for the Sept. 11 hijackers, failed 20 of 22 security tests conducted by undercover U.S. agents last week, missing concealed bombs and guns at checkpoints throughout the major air hub's three terminals, according to federal security officials.
http://tinyurl.com/y4werz

RELIGIOUS ITEMS
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"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." -- Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)
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US Bishops Draft Guidelines Advising Teaching Against Same-Sex Relationships...
http://tinyurl.com/y4fblc

Former Pastor Gets 11 Years in Prison - A former Baptist pastor who disappeared with a 15-year-old girl for a month and later pleaded guilty to raping her was sentenced Friday to more than 11 years in federal prison. (It ain't just the Catholics folks! By the way, it looks like heterosexuality is the same as pedophilia.)
http://tinyurl.com/ym5ukz

INTERNATIONAL
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"When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance or distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am friend of its happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government ." - Thomas Paine
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US terror law 'could violate international treaties': Washington's new anti-terrorism law could end up violating international treaties protecting detainees, with some provisions denying suspects the right to a fair trial, a key UN rights expert said today.
http://tinyurl.com/ybcded

North Korea's Collapse? The End Is Near -- Maybe -- inevitable fall into economic and political chaos National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 205
http://tinyurl.com/yf8qc2

Nicaragua Votes to Outlaw Abortion --- Nicaragua voted last night to outlaw all forms of abortion - including operations to save a pregnant woman's life - after a campaign by the Catholic church. The main political parties supported a bill establishing jail sentences of six to 30 years for women who terminate their pregnancies and doctors who perform the procedure. (Church and Religion don't mix folks!)
http://tinyurl.com/yftv6e

Noam Chomsky: US threats to Venezuela: The US has had two major weapons for controlling Latin America for a long time. One of them is economic controls, the other is military force. They have both been used continually. Both of them are weakening and it’s a very serious problem for US planners
http://tinyurl.com/yb4coc

Dozens die in Russia from bad booze
http://tinyurl.com/ycbajb

Ex-dictator Pinochet ordered arrested in Chile - Judge Alejandro Solis ordered the arrest of Pinochet for 36 cases of kidnapping, one of homicide and for 23 cases of torture at the Villa Grimaldi, a political detention center run by Pinochet's secret police where thousands of people were tortured between 1974 and 1977.
http://tinyurl.com/ydb4r8

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Lou Dobbs On Lynne Cheney Interview: “Now We Are Watching Power Bridling And Truth Being Spoken To Power”...
http://tinyurl.com/yhe34p

Bush's Absolute Power Grab - Many Americans are in denial about what is happening to the United States. They don't want to believe that a totalitarian structure could be put in place in their own country.
http://tinyurl.com/yfaqa2

The New Queen Of Mean Is Lynne Cheney…
http://tinyurl.com/ykvqlt

LETTERMAN'S O'REILLY SMACKDOWN UPDATED: “YOU GUYS OVER THERE AT FOX…YOU GUYS KNOW IT’S ALL JUST A GOOF, RIGHT? YOU’RE JUST HORSING AROUND”…
http://tinyurl.com/yb53nl

What do you know about Iran's Princess Ashraf? --- "On March 23, 1979, late on a Friday afternoon, Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller and his longtime aide Joseph Verner Reed arrived at a town house in the exclusive Beekham Place neighborhood on New York's East Side," states Robert Parry. "They were met inside by ... Iran's Princess Ashraf, the strong-willed twin sister of Iran's long-time ruler, who had gone from wielding immense behind-the-scenes clout in the ancient nation of Persia to living in exile - albeit a luxurious one.... Now, she was turning for help to the man who ran one of the leading US banks, one which had made a fortune serving as the Shah's banker for a quarter century and handling billions of dollars in Iran's assets. Ashraf's message was straightforward. She wanted Rockefeller to intercede with Jimmy Carter and ask the president to relent on his decision against granting the Shah refuge in the United States."
http://tinyurl.com/ymsnsq

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

The End of the Rove
http://tinyurl.com/yg7t92

HEALTH and SCIENCE

Ethics Rules Send NIH Scientists Packing --- Nearly 40 percent of the scientists conducting hands-on research at the National Institutes of Health say they are looking for other jobs or are considering doing so to escape new ethics rules that have curtailed their opportunity to earn outside income.
http://tinyurl.com/ym6rnh

Bringing a health issue to the table --- New Jersey State Sen. Ellen Karcher (D., Freehold) wants restaurant patrons to eat healthier; for this she receives statewide ridicule, defensive outrage from businesses, and even death threats.
http://tinyurl.com/ydqlbo

It's Not "Unnatural" --- "Is homosexuality an unnatural behavior?
http://tinyurl.com/y9nny7

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

How to Make International Calls at No Cost - A new service allows residents in 56 countries to make no-charge international calls from any phone you like, including a mobile.
http://tinyurl.com/ybuwwm

A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data --- By flooding the Web with references to the candidates and repeatedly cross-linking to specific articles and sites on the Web, it is possible to take advantage of Google's formula and force those articles to the top of the list of search results.
http://tinyurl.com/yc3vop

October 27, 2006

The GOP Hypocrite of the Week

Incumbent Republican John Hostettler looks like he's going to lose his Indiana congressional seat to Democrat Brad Ellsworth. a Desperate Congressman from Indiana Who Psychotically Claims Nancy Pelosi Has a "Homosexual Agenda": Congressman Hostettler, if you want to talk about a "homosexual agenda," talk to your own party. And while you are at it, talk to them about that pedophile agenda, too.
http://tinyurl.com/yztacq

ALERT

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law --- In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the resident to declare federal martial law ---For those of you who didn't think the daily governmental grind on American civil liberties could't possibly get any worse, it just has.
http://tinyurl.com/yafxrb

WAR

Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding - Cheney indicated that the Bush admin doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. "It's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said at one point in an interview.
http://tinyurl.com/y2eoad

Are U.S. Corporations Going to “Win” the Iraq War?
http://tinyurl.com/y36toy

THE WHITE HOUSE

White House Denies Cheney OK'd Torture -- The White House said Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney was not talking about a torture technique known as "water boarding" when he said dunking terrorism suspects in water during questioning was a "no-brainer." --- This administration cah't have it both ways. Do they seriously believe that the American people are some completely brain-dead that they can't remember what Cheney said 48 hours ago?
http://tinyurl.com/uxvu5

POLITICS

'The GOP father,' starring Mikey Rove and Fredo Mehlman; "There is no sewer, no pigsty, no circle of hell to which the GOP's interchangeable Roves and Mehlmans won't travel for a one-point uptick."
http://tinyurl.com/y4amm5

SCANDAL

House GOP Officials Likely to Be at Odds - The House Republican campaign chairman and the speaker of the House are likely to be at odds this week as they testify about the handling of ex-Rep. Mark Foley's come-ons to male pages.
http://tinyurl.com/y2rd9c

House Investigators: Hastert's Office Hindered Corruption Probe...
http://tinyurl.com/y7nroe

Turmoil in Hastert's Office as Key Staff Testifies - The investigation of how the Republican leadership handled the issue has provoked turmoil and finger-pointing in Hastert's office, congressional sources say. - Some of Hastert's principal aides have hired criminal defense lawyers to represent them during the investigation.
http://tinyurl.com/yy6hmh

Reports shed light on ties between Weldon, businesses - Pennsylvania congressman Curt Weldon, under investigation for allegedly trading his influence to get lobbying business for one of his daughters, also has helped corporations that have hired another daughter, a friend and some of his former aides.
http://tinyurl.com/walcl

Report: Halliburton unit exploited rules; "I'm convinced that this is the most significant waste, raud and abuse in the history of this country," said Sen. Dorgan.
http://tinyurl.com/y27crf

LEGAL ISSUES

Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Child Rape Photos - A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image. Last year a Republican senator conceded that they contained scenes of "rape and murder" and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said they included acts that were "blatantly sadistic."
http://tinyurl.com/ydvr8g

A YEAR AND A HALF IN JAIL FOR BUSH OFFICIAL...
http://tinyurl.com/y6rlsd

Re: Scooter Libby, who betrayed a CIA operative using classified information and betrayed the national ecurity of the United States of America. After Fitzgerald got through with "questioning" her during pre-Trial testimony, her credentials and credibility had gone through a shredder.
http://tinyurl.com/y6l97k

ELECTION ISSUES

GOP staffer quits to join Dem's campaign --- Called candidate 'extreme'; GOP says 'earlier defection helped us, as will this one.'
http://tinyurl.com/upjbb

11 in O.C. charged with voter registration fraud - Dozens of people who thought they were signing up to be Democrats ended up Republican. Those accused in the case are low-level, per-signature workers.
http://tinyurl.com/ye7v56

Dems 44%, GOP 33% on Generic Congressional Ballot 49% Say Donald Rumsfeld should not be fired; Most say Congressional page scandal won't affect their vote
http://tinyurl.com/yff23s

Iraq Trumps Traditional Issues for Older US Voters --- America's elderly enjoy outsized influence in elections because they vote in greater numbers, but this year they've focused their clout on the Iraq war more than traditional concerns such as health and retirement benefits
http://tinyurl.com/y7dqop

US Corporate Media – America’s Greatest Enemy: Nobody Needs to Know About Election Fraud!
http://tinyurl.com/y65pn4

GOP Gov. Candidate Crist Denies Gay Trysts...
http://tinyurl.com/y4647a

Scumbag Rove Protégé Behind Racist Tennessee Ad. He Also Ambushed Max Cleland with Attacks on a Severely wounded Combat Veteran Unbefitting an American.
http://tinyurl.com/yypqcv

Pat Buchanan: Ad Isn't Racist Because “Ford Is A Guy That Likes Playboy Bunnies Almost All Of Them Are White”...
http://tinyurl.com/y5vfwc

PRODUCER OF RACIST TENN AD FIRED AS CONSULTANT TO WAL-MART…
http://tinyurl.com/vtyv4

In Old Textile District, the Free Trade Issue Dominates who benefits when workers are prevented from joining together to represent themselves.
http://tinyurl.com/yac9ze

ECONOMY

Exxon Mobil Posts Second Highest Profit in History --- it earned $10.49 billion in the third quarter, the second largest quarterly profit ever posted by a publicly traded American company.
http://tinyurl.com/ycyuyj

DOMESTIC

'What does the GOP know about you?'
http://tinyurl.com/y4sxcj

RELIGIOUS ISSUES

A Note to NeoCons and the Religious Right - Here’s an exercise. Substitute the word “Pharisees” with "Religious Right” or “NeoCon”.
http://tinyurl.com/ycxwvk

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change could trigger worst recession since Great Depression, economist warns; and more in Gloria . Lalumia's World Media Watch for October 27th
http://tinyurl.com/y2zau3

MILITARY

Army funding short under budget plan - Earlier this year, Army officials struggling to find money to pay war costs cut back for travel, civilian hiring and other expenses not essential to the war mission.
http://tinyurl.com/ydqbnm

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

The Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Doesn't Want You To See because, they said, the ads "are disparaging to President Bush." Where's the Liberal Media? Where is it? Can ANYONE Find a Liberal Media?
http://tinyurl.com/yxfy2d

Media promote mutually inconsistent themes on terrorism and the election, both of which benefit GOP
http://tinyurl.com/yba9kd

US Corporate Media – America’s Greatest Enemy: Nobody Needs to Know About Election Fraud!
http://tinyurl.com/y65pn4

PRODUCER OF RACIST TENN AD FIRED AS CONSULTANT TO WAL-MART…
http://tinyurl.com/vtyv4

HEALTH

Hospitals Try Free Basic Care for Uninsured ---
http://tinyurl.com/ynz7fw

HUMAN RIGHTS

Martyrs of the web --- Amnesty launches a campaign to free the bloggers jailed for telling the truth about repressive regimes.
http://tinyurl.com/kcue4