November 20, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

How long will it take the people of Iraq to forgive us if they ever can?

WAR

General: Cut Iraq strength by one-third: The U.S. would have to slash combat forces in Iraq to 10 brigades by Christmas to keep the Army from breaking, said retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey.
http://tinyurl.com/y5y4wt

THE WHITE HOUSE

Unlike Clinton, Bush Sees Hanoi in Bit of a Hurry --- a 15-minute visit to the Joint P.O.W./M.I.A. (His exposure is limited to avoid exposing his limitations, lack of intelligence and lack of understanding of the world. The less exposure the better.)
http://tinyurl.com/y769xh

Fury at American contempt for British war dead -- A diplomatic row erupted between London and Washington ght over George Bush's bid to cover up the way bungling US soldiers killed British servicemen in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/y2uhmw

CABINETS, COMMISSIONS, etc

Richard M. Nixon will appear on one dollar coin in 2016 (This I could do without)
http://tinyurl.com/taxzf

New US Treasury Secretary Paulson Concerned About Protectionism But Finds Nothing Wrong With The US Trade Deficit --- Unbelievably, the new US Treasury secretary in his first address to the country found nothing wrong that so-called “free trade” policies have created a massive trade deficit and funded a gutting of American industry through foreign acquisition and subsidized foreign-owned production. He even went so far as to advocate strongly that we continue to expand these completely failed policies. The alleged benefits of “free trade” and globalization are theoretical and have not been realized while the devastation is very real.
http://tinyurl.com/y3akdp

Homeland Security Tightens Grip on International Travel -- The Department of Homeland Security proposed new rules back in July that would fundamentally undermine the right of American citizens to travel abroad. ((Ever notice that as the government screams "foreign terrorists" louder and louder they clamp down more on We The People?))
http://tinyurl.com/tvtno

POLITICS

Kristol fears GOP support 'crumbling'
http://tinyurl.com/y82etz

DeLay's Temporary Replacement “Mortally” Damages Political Career With “Odd” Behavior...
http://tinyurl.com/y274qw

Mary Matalin Solicits Money For Scooter Libby's Defense Fund: “A True Unsung Hero In The War On Terror”.......
Please tell me this isn't so!
http://tinyurl.com/y3wgjy

The Albatross: Why the Democrats Should Cut Loose Lieberman:If the Democratic Party were a real opposition party--a party of principle filled with fighters--I'd say maintaining control of the Senate, even with by a margin of a single, fragile vote, would be important
http://tinyurl.com/y2r6qa

SCANDAL

David Sirota: Getting Serious About Corruption
http://tinyurl.com/y3hxyz

Four Were Framed With The FBI's Help --- Thousands of recently disclosed U.S. Justice Department records show that the FBI, in order to cultivate Flemmi and Barboza as informants, allowed them to frame four innocent men for the Deegan murder.
http://tinyurl.com/y79ucd

Screenwriter Finds Evidence Implicating 3 CIA Agents In RFK Assassination…
http://tinyurl.com/y87xuq


LEGAL ITEMS

Iranian-American suing Rumsfeld
http://tinyurl.com/ygsd77

THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM!-- Judge rules that Homeowner Associations can legally ban smoking inside your home.
http://tinyurl.com/yh6vhx

ELECTION ITEMS

Dem intel aide's access restored
http://tinyurl.com/yyluxj

Democrat Contesting Florida Congressional Race After Evidence Of Machine Malfunctions...
http://tinyurl.com/yd9dme

ECONOMY

Forecasters look for economy to slow
http://tinyurl.com/w7m38

Rubin, Volcker Say Investors May Avoid Buying Dollars - Robert E. Rubin, Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said foreign investors probably won't keep increasing dollar holdings, raising the risk of a slump in the currency.
http://tinyurl.com/y7836f



Dell to start making PCs, laptops in India - Taking its total headcount in India to 20,000, global PC maker Dell will start manufacturing all its products including desktops, laptops and computer peripherals in the country by the first half of 2007.
http://tinyurl.com/t4u8y

Outsourcing hits a new class of workers: Journalists
http://tinyurl.com/y74erj

911

Report reveals reasons for WTC collapse ((Too bad this theory is disproven by the photos of people waving from the aircraft impact holes.))
http://tinyurl.com/y8mgst

9/11 autopsy guidelines exclude probe of link to Ground Zero air --- An effort to create standard autopsy guidelines that could document a link between toxic air at Ground Zero and deaths of 9/11 rescue workers has been abandoned by the federal government amid concerns the information collected could be misinterpreted.
http://tinyurl.com/y8kmmv

Plans For 9/11 Responder Autopsies Scrapped - The federal government is abandoning an effort to create standard autopsy guidelines that could document a link between toxic air at ground zero and the deaths of Sept. 11 rescue workers.
http://tinyurl.com/uxntm

Judge to FBI: Correct disclosures on post-9/11 Saudi flyout
http://tinyurl.com/yj2yc5

CONGRESS

Kill Bill - Neutering Bush's Torture Law - Sen. Chris Dodd introduced legislation to amend Bush's "torture bill," remove the almost-dictatorial powers it has given the White House and neutralize the bastardizing effect it's had on the Constitution.
http://tinyurl.com/y8bzq8

Democrats Aim to Repeal Tax Breaks for Big Oil -- House Democrats are targeting billions of dollars in oil company tax breaks for quick repeal next year. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an outline of priorities over the first 100 hours of the next Congress in January, promises to begin a move toward greater energy independence "by rolling back the multibillion dollar subsidies for Big Oil."
http://tinyurl.com/t6c6j

ENVIRONMENT

Navy sewage flowed to bay since '04 - More than 10 million gallons of raw sewage flowed into San Diego Bay over the past two years from an award-winning military barracks because of an improperly connected pipe, Navy officials said yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/yyyjuk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The Dem Congress Must Save the Internet
http://tinyurl.com/uaotb

Spam, spam, spam, spam... you’ve got mail - The latest wave of junk e-mails is blamed on new software that can hijack home computers to use them to send out spam.
http://tinyurl.com/y985tk

Cracked it!: Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?
http://tinyurl.com/y2ju2z

INTERNATIONAL

Crocodiles Ride In On Massive Floods In Somalia…
http://tinyurl.com/y97om9

MILITARY

Thousands Protest Ga. Military School - The Army's School of the Americas moved to Fort Benning from Panama in 1984 and was replaced in 2001 by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), under the Defense Department. The school trains Latin American soldiers, police and government officials.
http://tinyurl.com/spmsy

Korea Tells US Military to Lay off - Democratic Korea denounced US air maneuvers Saturday designed to prepare a surprise attack against the northern part of the Korean Peninsula
http://tinyurl.com/y5222s

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

UNDER PRESSURE FOX CANCELS OJ BOOK, TV SPECIAL...
http://tinyurl.com/yjjp8x

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Capitalism 3.0 - A New Way To Think About What We Own
http://tinyurl.com/y2g8nm

Iran: The Next Act - read the prediction of what happens if the Democrats were to win both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran,
http://tinyurl.com/y3ygh2

HEALTH

Prescription for high costs: Let U.S. negotiate drug prices: American seniors pay far more for brand-name prescription drugs than their peers in Denmark, Canada or France. Why?
http://tinyurl.com/tdlub

We're Drinking What?---Look at photos of the gigantic udders on rBST treated dairy cows and it's not hard to imagine the artificial hormone's role in increasing U.S. rates of breast and prostate cancer, precocious puberty and obesity.
http://tinyurl.com/ukptx

HUMAN RIGHTS

USA Disses UN Human Food Rights - The government of President George W. Bush shamed the United States into international isolation after it rejected a UN resolution defending the human right to food.
http://tinyurl.com/yzq69c

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Face of Jack the Ripper 'revealed'
http://tinyurl.com/yxpo4z

Clintons’ neighbors shot while driving home - A husband and wife who live on the same cul-de-sac as former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton were forced off the road and shot, police said.
http://tinyurl.com/wbaf4