October 6, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

NOTE: Nearly 4 Dozen Subpoenas Issued, Hastert Says He Won't Quit...


The Sexual Security of America’s Youth Betrayed by the Republican Party: Rove’s in Charge Now
http://tinyurl.com/fhae7

ALERT #1
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side: Aristotle
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Gulags For American Citizens In Final Planning Stages - With the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, this doesn't seem quite as far-fetched as it did last March.
http://tinyurl.com/s5n43

ALERT #2
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If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier - just so long as I'm the dictator. George W. Bush, 18 December 2000
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Cousin of White House Chief of Staff Tells How Illegally Jailed by Bush administration - The frightening story of Susan Lindauer should make every American stand up and take notice about how the U.S. government --gone mad with power -- is jailing innocent citizens who speak out against the policies of the Bush administration. A former journalist, congressional aide and U.S. intelligence asset in the Iraqi Embassy, Lindauer tried to notify the Bush administration through her cousin that Iraq posed no WMD threat and wanted to cooperate with U.S. authorities to avert a conflict.
http://tinyurl.com/zw256

WAR
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Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this: Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003
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Rep. Murtha: Iraqis Have To Be Put On Notice That We Will Redeploy And They Will Be Responsible…
http://tinyurl.com/kvg3p

Senators: Iraq situation bleak- He described Iraq as being “on the verge of an all-out civil war” and said Iraq’s leaders “clearly do not want us to even think about reducing troops,” an attitude that “is just going to be an endless quagmire” for the U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/hqgy3

Sen. Warner is warning: GOP Senator's Call For Iraq Change Causes “Growing Sense Of Unease” Among Republicans...
http://tinyurl.com/gmro6

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a remarkable nerve. In July, she went to Israel in the midst of a Lebanon war in which thousands of civilians were being killed and insisted on not calling for a ceasefire until a final solution to Hezbollah was reached between Israel and Lebanon.
http://tinyurl.com/ppc9o

Anti-U.S. Attack Videos Spread on the Internet - a level of access to combat scenes rarely available before, if ever.
http://tinyurl.com/fq6qm

US set to cut deal with Taliban - Alarm bells are going off in the US political and strategic community over the Bush administration's weighing the option of bringing Taliban back into the power equation in Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/h3xet

POLITICS
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"Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people."- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Latest Republican Strategy -- Blame the Victims
http://tinyurl.com/m4mwf

Cheney Makes Unannounced Campaign Visit For Allen: He “Has To Sneak...The VP Through The Back Door”...
http://tinyurl.com/mdftg

Bush asserts right to edit Homeland Security privacy reports
http://tinyurl.com/fxm9h

Bush cites authority to bypass FEMA law - President Bush this week asserted that he has the executive authority to disobey a new law in which Congress has set minimum qualifications for future heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ---Is there any law Bush thinks he has to obey????----
http://tinyurl.com/lapmh

White House Aide to Rove Resigns Friday in the wake of congressional report that listed hundreds of contacts between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House.
http://tinyurl.com/mrnov

Waterboarding Historically Controversial - Congress has outlawed detainee interrogation techniques. White House will not go that far
http://tinyurl.com/hnql8

Bush signings called effort to expand power - he has the power to disobey newly enacted laws is "an integral part" of his "comprehensive strategy to strengthen and expand executive power" at the expense of the legislative branch,
http://tinyurl.com/gnljg

FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES

Bush Policy Irks Judges in West - Using language that suggests they are fed up with the Bush administration tell it all.
http://tinyurl.com/of8tj

New lawsuits challenge Congress's detainee act - anti-terror legislation retroactively strips the courts of jurisdiction to hear detainee cases, amounts to an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus -Christian Science Monitor
http://tinyurl.com/g6t57

ELECTION ISSUES
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger: Williams Tad
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Fire the liars TIME Poll: The Foley Scandal Is Hurting the G.O.P. - If they lie about the little things, assume they lie about the big things. And vote accordingly. Two-thirds of those aware of the scandal believe Republican leaders attempted a cover-up, according to a new survey -- Memo to Congress: you all might as well resign: you have nothing more to do,
http://tinyurl.com/ehy6p

Democrats say 2004 election data was altered Alaska Democratic Party officials say the 2004 election data they sued the state to get may have been changed this year, and they want to know why.
http://tinyurl.com/oq2et

Voter registrations faked in GOP drive
http://tinyurl.com/gzoar

ECONOMY

White House says economy slowed (How about that - NO DENIAL)
http://tinyurl.com/rsek6

Tight U.S. security turning off tourists
http://tinyurl.com/ez5py

Google In Talks To Buy YouTube For $1.6 Billion...
http://tinyurl.com/fy9gm

Deeper and Deeper - For most of the past five and a half years, interest rates have been low, allowing the government to borrow more and more - to cut taxes while fighting two expensive wars - without having to shoulder higher interest payments. That's over now.
http://tinyurl.com/jmjmd

911
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"Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."-- Mark Twain, "Chronicle of Young Satan"
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Why Did 9/11 Panel Omit "Secret" Meeting?
http://tinyurl.com/gy635

CONGRESS
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."-Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906
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GOP Angry Over Hastert’s Handling Of Scandal…GOP Senate Candidate Kean Calls On Hastert To Resign...
http://tinyurl.com/

Longtime Republican was source of e-mails- The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide.
http://tinyurl.com/fy9mg

More Foley Follies: NY 19th District Democrat Challenger Takes on 6-Term Rep. Sue Kelly for Her Role as Former Page Board Chair
http://tinyurl.com/jwqg2

DOMESTIC
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"The bane of ideology is that it exalts abstractions over human beings. It impoverishes our sense of reality, and it impoverishes our imagination, too."-- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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Bush's Brother Neil To Make Millions Off GOP's “No Child Left Behind” Act...
http://tinyurl.com/k4ksn

Bernanke: Baby Boomers Will Strain U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/hfjpj

Report: Job Cuts Soar in September - Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas says it's the second straight month of increased job cuts, topping the August tally by 54 percent and the level of a year ago by 40 percent.
http://tinyurl.com/ltg5o

Whirlpool laying off 1,200 U.S. workers
http://tinyurl.com/zqc34

City Considers Plan to Let Outsiders Run Schools
http://tinyurl.com/nwqxe

Interior Dept. reports computer abuse - They're spending thousands of hours a week visiting shopping, sex and gambling Web sites.
http://tinyurl.com/fjjll

Women Face Greatest Threat of Violence at Home, Study Finds
http://tinyurl.com/gdvbo

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move (Paperback) By Albrecht- McIntyre. The Bush administration is invading the privacy of any American it wants -- and is using the NSA, data mining, and high technology to achieve its goals including politically.
http://tinyurl.com/of9hu

Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S. Software - Opinions of U.S. A consortium of major universities, using Homeland Security Department money, is developing software that would let the government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas. you can bet that this monitoring system will be in place in the US (particularly for on-line resources) in a very hot hurry.
http://tinyurl.com/fybs8

It's the Cover Up Stupid. (to have her husband's (Jay Hone) confidential file removed from the Department's central location and hidden.)
http://tinyurl.com/jgcsk

Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons - Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
http://tinyurl.com/93aqe

INTERNATIONAL
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International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me; George W. Bush, 12 December 2003
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OPEC's Oil Price Gouging Goes On Unabated
http://tinyurl.com/e6326

Saudi Ambassador Says U.S. Standing With Arabs Is `Lowest Ever'
http://tinyurl.com/mtadl

When China, one of the world's most corrupt countries, starts dishing out tens of billions of US dollars in aid and business contracts in Africa, the world's most corrupt continent, alarm bells go off
http://tinyurl.com/ggxyu

Deadly virus spreads to Prime Minister's home An outbreak of dengue fever has penetrated the residence of the Indian Prime Minister
http://tinyurl.com/gvgjd

MILITARY
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War is fear cloaked in courage: William Westmoreland
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General: U.S. Army in danger - The Iraq war has left the U.S. military in critical condition, stretched beyond its limits in manpower and equipment and in danger of "breaking," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey said Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/q8ezt

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

White House “Is Very Much Involved” With Foley Damage Control...says Russert
http://tinyurl.com/ouq2d

GOOGLE TRIES TO CENSOR ALEX JONES' "TERROR STORM". Every time the ratings for "Terror Storm" place it among the "most watched" videos, Google "accidentally" erases the ratings.
http://tinyurl.com/f7ogy

Here is Joe Wilson's Introduction to ""George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution":
http://tinyurl.com/j8skk

Pedophile priest confesses his wrong doings in documentary - turns to the movie camera to wink and smile at his victims.
http://tinyurl.com/zs692

"Conspiracy of Silence", the British TV documentary on the Franklin child-sex scandal that reached right into the Bush/Reagan White House. Relevant today to the allegations of child-sex currently running through congress, this video is important not only for what it reports, but for the obvious attempts to suppress it. This documentary was scheduled to air on The Discovery Channel. But at the last second, it was pulled from the schedule when members of the US Congress threatened the entire cable TV industry with crippling regulations if the program were allowed to air.
http://tinyurl.com/jamby

Ex-Page's Lawyer: Drudge's "Prank" Story "A Piece of Fiction" Now, the lawyer for the former page in question, 21-year-old Jordan Edmund, says the Drudge Report article is false.
http://tinyurl.com/j38cl

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

What’s On Mark Foley’s IPod…
http://tinyurl.com/hruf6

Grand Old Party of Child Endangerment - welfare of the children - damage to children caused by his abuse of power - damage to American children caused by this Congress' disastrous mismanagement of the American economy."
http://tinyurl.com/pqysf

The Blessing of Bush - Annals of Liberation: The End of Education in Iraq Ignorance, extremism, fear, death, ruin -- and oodles and oodles of bribes and war profits for the cronies, the crooks, and the cranks...yes, Iraq is definitely the wave of the future! After all, it's the first nation in the world where the Bush Agenda has been applied in its purest, most unfettered form
http://tinyurl.com/rd5jv

HEALTH

Toxic cloud from plant fire forces thousands to evacuate
http://tinyurl.com/ouco5

U.S. Nuclear Accidents
http://tinyurl.com/ofh25

California lab meltdown in 1959 may have caused cancer, hurt ground and water - A 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory may have caused hundreds of cases of cancer in the community, and chemicals threaten to contaminate ground and water, according to a report.
http://tinyurl.com/ng85b

Marijuana may help 'stave off' Alzheimer's. So, are you willing to volunteer for the study?
http://tinyurl.com/zyw66

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Women Face Greatest Threat of Violence at Home, Study Finds
http://tinyurl.com/gdvbo

Vatican to review state of limbo - somewhere between heaven and hell - should be amended.
http://tinyurl.com/kzgqf