October 2, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

We have lost and our kids have lost, this world has lost - thanks to this pathetic bunch. You know, our young people don’t have a chance with this administration. The problem with power is that it attracts the very sort of people who should not have it.

WAR

Iran crisis overshadows Israeli-Palestinian dispute as Rice visits Mideast
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061002/1/43s4w.html

Bush's Chilling New Definition of "Unlawful Enemy Combatant" - is an anti-war activist an unlawful enemy combatant?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/442

The Lineage of Bush-Cheney Torture - from the dungeons of North Korea. What he describes of the Korean torture methods is a precise parallel to what Bush and Cheney are practicing today.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/021006_b_Lineage.htm

POLITICS

Cover-Up Over Mark Foley Grows while GOP Preps New Candidate
http://www.cfnews13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=19050

Things Fall Apart - the right-wing coalition that has spent 40 years climbing to its current position of political dominance may be cracking up."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206F.shtml

Dear Media: You totally misread Denny Hastert's letter to the Justice Dept. - Hastert wants Justice to investigate the very people who broke the story and thus got the GOP in trouble.
http://tinyurl.com/h4d85

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

Supreme Court faces abortion, race in schools - without Sandra Day O'Connor, who cast the critical votes the last time
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15104005/

ELECTION ISSUES

Battle for Control of Congress Tightens
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206D.shtml

Most Democrats Voting For Bush Torture Bill Silent : roster of who voted with Republicans on this, here they are:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15174.htm

Gerrymandering: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count
http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2006/09/gerrymander.html

ECONOMY

America is living beyond its means - China and India will be calling the shots when the US is no longer top dollar
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1885259,00.html

911

Condi Rice, 9/11 and Another Nest of Lies - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have committed perjury in her testimony before the 9/11 Commission in May of 2004.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206X.shtml

9/11 Panel Not Told That Tenet Warned Rice in July - they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 of CIA Tenet warning C. Rice
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206Z.shtml

Bush's Chilling New Definition of "Unlawful Enemy Combatant" - is an anti-war activist an unlawful enemy combatant?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/442

Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/07/02/article_tro.htm

WRH: Evidence of Demolition Charges In WTC 2
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc2_cutter.html

CONGRESS

Tenet Warned Congress in February 2001 About al-Qaeda - Tenet eerily described a scenario that seven months later would become a grim reality.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206Y.shtml

Confirmed: Tenet Did Brief Rice On Al Qaeda Threat...
http://tinyurl.com/rfkvz

Republican Leaders Must Reconvene Congress, Give Sworn Testimony, Or Resign Over Page Scandal
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/443

Republican Lawmakers Scramble to Avoid Taint of House Scandal – the cover-up can kill you.
http://tinyurl.com/npk29

PredatorGate Cover-Up: Reynolds Confirms Hastert Involved, Kildee Confirms No Investigation Happened
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/30/201619/004

DOMESTIC

Losing a War, Winning a Police State: the Bush administration is either woefully ignorant of how to combat terrorism or finds the terrorist threat a useful tool for managing the American public.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/092606a.html

The future of policing in America? Homeland Security must be salivating.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/021006_b_robo.htm

Are You an 'Unlawful Combatant'? - authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants,
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9779

Entrants to US workforce "ill-prepared - So much for 'no child left behind':
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15095620/

INTERNATIONAL

The US Treasury's Terrorist Finance Tracking program had violated the privacy of up to 7,800 international financial institutions in its secret trawl through financial records held by the Belgian firm SWIFT.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/swift_us_privacy_violation/

British documentary alleges pope linked to "child abuse cover-up"
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/061001233844.0n6u9xt6.html

US paying Pak $70-80 million a month -A British analyst has stirred a hornet's nest by revealing that the United States is bankrolling Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf to the extent of $70-80 million a month
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2038420.cms

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism By Bob Woodward Instead of a "long retreat," the report forecast a more violent 2007:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15162.htm

"A Swashbuckling Spectacle of Corruption" - Bill Moyers Investigates Abramoff Lobbying Scandal
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/02/1321259

Foleygate: ABC hints that more shoes will drop
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/2/185441/972

Dear Media: You totally misread Denny Hastert's letter to the Justice Dept. - Hastert wants Justice to investigate the very people who broke the story and thus got the GOP in trouble.
http://tinyurl.com/h4d85

GOP Hitman Matt Drudge Blames Kids For "Playing Foley" – (So, great minds think alike – is that what we are supposed to get from this?)
http://tinyurl.com/f224o

The Franklin Coverup Scandal: The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
http://www.thelawparty.org/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm

"That's a tender subject..." – notice that Jeff Gannon, hasn't gotten around to posting anything about the Mark Foley scandal on his blog.
http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2006/10/thats-tender-subject.html

Laura Bush On Rumsfeld: “I Don't Know Why [The President Is] Not Upset With This”...
http://tinyurl.com/fl9u4

Richard Clarke Blinded by Hindsight
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100106B.shtml

Frank Rich So You Call This Breaking News? – Our leaders fiddle while Iraq burns.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100106D.shtml

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Foley on Clinton -- (This ought to be interesting!)
http://tinyurl.com/z6788

Rabbit Hole Of Elitist Perversion Far Deeper Than Foley
http://tinyurl.com/zbte7

HEALTH

Cancer industry - get the straight story on what cancer non-profits hope you never learn about the running events:
http://www.newstarget.com/020600.html

Target stores begin selling organic produce:
http://www.newstarget.com/020598.html

Trans fatty acids are public health hazard, says author of "Poison in the Food":
http://www.newstarget.com/020599.html

Food industry to fight trans fat ban with lawsuits:
http://www.newstarget.com/020601.html

Bipolar drug Lamictal tied to birth defects when used by expectant mothers:
http://www.newstarget.com/020602.html

Fast food chicken contains cancer-causing chemicals; warning labels sought:
http://www.newstarget.com/020603.html

Merck denied blood pressure screening services to doctors that did not prescribe its brand-name drugs:
http://www.newstarget.com/020604.html

HUMAN RIGHTS

US Congress gives green light to human rights violations in the 'war on terror' :
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-060930-features-eng

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Fatal Shooting Reported at Amish School
http://tinyurl.com/ntfvd

FLASHBACK: Fla. can't find 1,000 kids in state custody
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/06/03/florida.child.welfare/