November 26, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

Energy Information - Do you wonder how long the media has manipulated you? Read the 2002 preface to a 1918 book "The Free Press" - Need further proof that information is suppressed? - In the late 50’s, a retired Florida college physics professor had a patent for a device to run an engine on water, The government classified his patent and this prevented him from developing his device.

ALERT

Word on the street ... they’re listening -- The microphones can detect conversations 100 yards away.
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ALERT

POPULATION EXTERMINATION - HOW WILL IT BE DONE? - The idea is that there are just too many people for the planet to sustain. Indeed, the Communist UN is hawking a program called Agenda 21, which includes a scam called “sustainable development.” It means total, totalitarian control of the environment and is presently being implemented here in these united States
http://www.etherzone.com/2006/stang112406.shtml

WAR

Ferocity of Iraq attacks leaves US troops helpless - More than 3½ years after President George W Bush launched an invasion of Iraq, which his supporters proclaimed as a “cakewalk”, American troops were yesterday engulfed in a wave of sectarian bloodletting that threatens to destroy the Iraqi government and may jeopardise a crisis summit this week with Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister.
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Opposition to U.S. Occupation in Iraq now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other means, Says NYT. Bush taunted them, and they beat him back by killing our GIs and by killing each other.
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CNN correspondent: "I mean, if this is not civil war, then what is it?
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/24/ldt.01.html

Al-Sadr loyalists take over Iraqi television station - Followers of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state-run television Saturday to denounce the Iraqi government, label Sunnis "terrorists" and issue what appeared to many viewers as a call to arms.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16092045.htm

THE WHITE HOUSE

Bush plans week of high-stakes diplomacy - President Bush reaches out to allies this week for help in quelling violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a burst of diplomacy from a Baltic summit of NATO partners to Mideast talks with Iraq's prime minister.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

CABINETS, COMMISSIONS, etc

CIA Launches Personality Quiz To Recruit New Employees…Take The Quiz Here…
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/cia-goes-for-comed y-with-personality/20061125123209990001?cid=2194

POLITICS

Cheney's Record Shows Dems “Should Not Expect The White House To Cooperate” In Next 2 Years...
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SCANDAL

Economic scandal: AP Analysis: Firms Crimping Oil Supplies - The company says it could make more money on other projects. It denies it intended to squeeze the market, as its critics would claim, to drive up gasoline profits at its other refineries in the region.
http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&feed=ap&src=601&news_id=ap-d8lkf8a80&date=20061125

ELECTION ITEMS

Midterm Elections Show Voting Flaws: Voters In 25 States Had “Serious Problems”...
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ECONOMY

"As an Economic System, Capitalism is Going Crazy"
http://www.counterpunch.org/

The Coming Collapse in Housing -- Gary argues that housing prices are not in for just a small decline but a material drop.
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US dollar 'will keep falling' - The US dollar has reached a 'tipping point' as foreign exchange markets wake up to the threat that the Federal Reserve will have to slash interest rates in the new year to stave off recession, analysts say.
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How Rent Makes Poverty -- This is a bit of an over-simplification. The recent boom in real estate values has dragged property taxes upwards with it, including taxes on rental properties. As taxes climb on property, the workmen hired to maintain rental properties who pay taxes on their homes and places of business must charge more. Those costs have to be passed on to renters.The real force driving the increase in costs at all levels of our economy is the tax burden.
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/111706EDNEY.shtml

Bankers wage open war on workers - This is a(nother) wakeup call for those stubborn working class conservatives who still believe that pinko commies are out to get them. Nothing can be further from the truth.
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/141

911

Whistleblowers Say US Government Ignored Their Warnings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506F.shtml

CONGRESS

Dems Plan “Array” Of Investigations...
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Democrats say no liberal plans in next Congress - Three Democratic congressmen who are about to take important leadership posts said on Sunday they plan to pass popular legislation blocked by Republicans but would refrain from pushing some of the most controversial elements on the liberal agenda.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061126/pl_nm/congress_agenda_dc

DOMESTIC

California Legislature Votes to Kill the Health Insurance Industry....The US system, according to the World Health Organization, is rated 72nd in quality, but number one in cost, worldwide. The "Death by Medicine" study shows that the system itself is the number one killer of Americans. The number two and three killers of Americans are heart disease and cancer,
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RELIGIOUS ITEMS

Colo. Residents Spar Over Peace Sign - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/nov/26/112602743.html

ENVIRONMENT

Plants, Animals, People Racing North Ahead Of Climate Change...
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Private Spies Stalk The Internet - As has been exhaustively documented on this website, 90% of alleged major terror busts target either completely innocent people caught in a dragnet or are outright examples of entrapment, incitement and guilt by association.
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Good old days gone for biotech - Of the estimated 260,000 Californians who work in the life-science industry, about 70 percent are employed in high-paying jobs in drug, medical-device or diagnostic-tool companies.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20061126-9999-1n26biotech.html

INTERNATIONAL

Crusher! Chávez Retains a Big Edge Down the Stretch in Venezuelan Election
http://www.zogbyworldwide.com/news/ReadNews1.cfm?ID=772

Pinochet takes responsibility for 'everything' - Gen. Augusto Pinochet took full responsibility for the first time Saturday for the actions of his 1973-90 dictatorship, which carried out thousands of political killings and is blamed for widespread torture and illegal imprisonment.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4360086.html

MILITARY

Long stints in Iraq fracture families - 3rd Infantry Division will be the first deployed for a third year-long tour
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15898612/

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Nobel winner says spend on women, not bombs - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said on Saturday nations with nuclear capabilities should spend money to stop exploitation of women instead of making bombs.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1751542006

HEALTH

Age 10 Is The New Age 15...Kids Growing Up Much Faster...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061126/ap_on_re_us/teen_tweens

Folic acid 'reduces stroke risk' - Scientists have discovered that the nutrient lowers blood levels of homocysteine - a substance believed to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/health/s/229/229139_folic_acid_reduces_stroke_risk.html