October 1, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT
"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." : Woodrow Wilson (History does repeat itself!)
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WAR

Rumsfeld: I Won't Resign...
http://tinyurl.com/jxpdm

STATE OF DENIAL - There was a vast difference between what the White House and the Pentagon knew about the situation in Iraq and what they were saying publicly.
http://tinyurl.com/g72f7

Bush calls for war "across the world"
http://www.unknownnews.org/insanity100106.html

Attack On Iran Inevitable - Nuke Use In White House Plan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15170.htm

Blood & guts: At the front with the poor bloody infantry - emails and videophone images from the troops tell a terrifyng story
http://tinyurl.com/qqwvs

POLITICS

Republican Sexcapades: Meet the Real GOP
http://tinyurl.com/qrbrk

Bush says: Even If Laura And Barney The Dog Are The Only Ones Supporting Him...He is not withdrawing from Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/klq84

Abramoff Knew US Would Invade Iraq in March, 2002 - Seems everyone knew the US was going to war in Iraq in 2001 ... except the American people
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/1/0185/88184

The DO-NOTHING Congress adjourns for election with work unfinished except to terrorize us - went home on Saturday to ask us voters to re-elect them in five weeks.
http://tinyurl.com/kb2ew

Too Close for Comfort in the Abramoff Scandal
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1541033,00.html

Stung by criticism, Bush calls for offensive 'across the world'
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060930/1/43rly.html

Foley Scandal Spreads, After GOP Leader Calls 'Wash Post' to Change Story
http://tinyurl.com/lajr2

Musharraf Blasts "Ungrateful" West
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-09/30/06.shtml

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

FBI Opens "Preliminary Investigation" of Foley
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/fbi_opens_preli.html

Gingrich urges overriding Supreme Court
http://tinyurl.com/fwcmu

Judge May Have Stymied Abramoff Probe
http://tinyurl.com/nt5mx

Detainee bill lifts Bush's power to new heights / President now has legal authority even courts can't challenge (And if you think that this law will only apply to the foreign-born and naturalized American citizens, you'd better think again.)
http://tinyurl.com/nfgaf

Memo Fueled Deep Rift in Administration on Detainees – an undisclosed nine-page memorandum drafted in June 2005 by Defense and State Department officials urged the Bush administration to seek Congressional approval for its detention policies. The memo so angered Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that his aides gathered up copies of the document and had at least some of them shredded.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100106Y.shtml

Bush faces wave of challenges to terrorists' trial law
http://tinyurl.com/fd8ya

Detainee bill lifts Bush's power to new heights / President now has legal authority even courts can't challenge (This smells to high heaven people!!!!)
http://tinyurl.com/nfgaf

ELECTION ISSUES

Gas Prices: “Republicans May Be Relieved...But Their Voters Aren't”...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/business/30gasoline.html

Top Three Senate Races Extremely Competitive, New Polls Show...
http://tinyurl.com/oohyd

ECONOMY

Sorry, no one's reading that resume you sent - Computers now doing most of the weeding out.
http://tinyurl.com/qpkfp

The New Face of Class War
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09302006.html

911

Two Months Before 9/11, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an Urgent Warning to Rice, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his ounterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black ... made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100106Z.shtml

Chilling message of the 9/11 pilots
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2382788,00.html

U.K. Paper Says Has Unseen 9/11 Video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6116857,00.html

9/11 Panel Members Weren’t Told of Meeting
http://tinyurl.com/j6uh7

CONGRESS

GOP Staff Warned Pages About Foley in 2001
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2514259&page=1

HOUSE ROLL CALL VOTE ON TORTURE BILL
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll491.xml

SENATE ROLL CALL VOTE ON THE TORTURE BILL
http://tinyurl.com/j8ko8

Roll call vote for Senate on Defense Spending - 100 for, none against.
http://tinyurl.com/p9k4l

Foley case "repugnant, but equally as bad is the possibility that Republican leaders in the House of Representatives knew there was a problem and ignored it to preserve a congressional seat this election year."
http://tinyurl.com/edsk4

Foley's secret confounds friends: Ex-congressman, said to be an emotional wreck, loses GOP support
http://tinyurl.com/haoyr

NOTE: Independent Investigation Needed: Did Congressional Republicans Cover Up Page Abuse Scandal? - more to come

Corker Campaign Imploding, Putting Tennessee Senate Seat Closer in Democratic Hands Than Ever
http://www.ostroyreport.blogspot.com/#93006

DOMESTIC

Louisville Paper Gets Disc With 232 Photos of Nude National Guard Women
http://tinyurl.com/oa98s

S.C. official: Sterilize bad parents
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/councilman_sterilization

Schwarzenegger vetoes national presidential vote bill
http://tinyurl.com/m5v6f

INTERNATIONAL

Accessories to Torture - bill was rushed to passage just days after the Canadian government exonerated Maher Arar, "rendered" by the United States to Syria, imprisoned and tortured for nearly a year.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061016/editors2

India, China and Eastern Europe will be soon dependant on energy from ‘Russian Oil Block’. Putin will soon control more than 50% of the oil and gas reserves in the world.
http://indiadaily.com/editorial/13505.asp

Mexico to ask Bush not to sign border bill
http://tinyurl.com/fwcmu

Carved-up Map of Turkey at NATO Prompts US Apology – (This dissection into several small nations is no accident folks!)
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=36919

Rival to Panama Canal Planned
http://tinyurl.com/et7ef

Russian Bombers Penetrate N. American Buffer Zone, Intercepted by U.S., Canadian Jet Fighters
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/09/30/rusbombers.shtml

MILITARY

Troops could be kept past their duty expirations
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=40430

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Woodward: Bush Denied Blair Access To Key Intelligence...
http://tinyurl.com/ky2l3

Woodward: Congressman Murtha Is "The Soul And Conscience Of The Military:...
http://tinyurl.com/olppg

Kissinger Admits Woodward Was Right: He Is Frequent Bush Admin. Adviser...
http://tinyurl.com/s8afz

Woodward Book: Rumsfeld...Bullying, Petty. Bush...Incurious To The Point Of Cluelessness. Rice...Almost A Pathetic Figure...
http://tinyurl.com/rq65f

Top officials swarmed network TV on Sunday to limit damage from "State Of Denial" 10/2
http://tinyurl.com/s7se2

Watch out for John McCain, the president's enabler.
http://tinyurl.com/kyvqy

What if "Daddy Warbucks" Came Clean? - From Harken to Halliburton, the backrooms deals that have netted war profiteers billions.
http://gnn.tv/articles/2565/What_if_Daddy_Warbucks_Came_Clean

Alec Baldwin: Forget About Bush, Forget About Foley, Focus On Hastert…
http://tinyurl.com/lpvdl

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

The Antifederalists Were Right – ratifying the US Constitution they feared that it would create an overbearing central government,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/antifederalists-right.html

Bush and Republican Congress Erase 800 Years of Human Rights
http://tinyurl.com/fcory

Falling on His Sword
http://tinyurl.com/l45a7

HEALTH

NOTE on STROKE:
Researchers tracked levels of air pollutants between the months of April and September, the risk of hemorrhagic stroke -- when a blood vessel bursts in the brain -- more than doubled two hours after high hourly rates of particulate matter (in excess of 200 micrograms per cubic meter) were observed…..This effect was not found for ischemic stroke, when arteries in the brain become blocked. The researchers propose this may be because the time lag between the start of an ischemic stroke is longer than that for a hemorrhagic stroke….Previous research showed that the effects of air pollution act quickly on the body, the authors said, with inhaled particles detectable in the blood within 60 seconds. The National Institute for Neurological Disorders

The National Institute for Neurological Disorders
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt498.html

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Scandal involving Chicago police officers could precipitate over 100 dropped cases
http://tinyurl.com/hhtpn

Man Accused In Rape Of 2-Year-Old Relative
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/9939171/detail.html

New molestation allegation dogs arrested conservative activist - Nielsen took a 14-year-old Westminster boy as his sex partner in 2003
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/our-thing/25902/