November 7. 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

The Seven Deadly Sins - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Few people will miss the 109th Congress. Rolling Stone called it the "worst Congress ever." Just 16 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, the legislative body's lowest approval rating in 14 years. "The 109th Congress is so bad that it makes you wonder if democracy is a failed experiment," notes constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley.
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WAR

Iraq-Gate How The United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein
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Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death, Legal Experts Question Court Proceedings
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Saddam will be hanged 'by end-January': Saddam’s execution will probably take place in a closed room inside an Iraqi prison, most likely in Baghdad in the presence of Iraqi government officials and private citizens, whose families suffered under the dictator’s reign
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POLITICS

Female Leader Would Be First for Navajos
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SCANDAL and then there is SCANDAL

Stunned and Amazed --- The structure now is in place for turning America into the largest concentration camp since Mao Tse Tung ruled over China
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The Secret Wars Of The CIA: : How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980's.
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Iraq - massive carnage - direct consequence of an illegal invasion - the Nazi leaders were sentenced to death for a war crime based on lies and deception. Why does this not put Bush in the same hangman's noose?
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Top Republicans Leave Telecom Accused of Bribery --- Rudy Boschwitz, former senator from Minnesota; James S. Gilmore III, former Virginia governor; Thomas Slade Gorton III, former senator from Washington State; Jack Kemp, former congressman from New York and 1996 vice presidential nominee; and Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
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ELECTION ITEMS
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"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." -- Fredrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
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James J. Zogby Iraq: Front and Center
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Did campaign staffer 'out' GOP opponent?
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Bill Clinton fires up voters (Clinton was great at Ford's get out the vote get together.)
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Rain dampers voter turnout, Scientists say -- A new study by three political science professors say that rain affects Democratic voter turnout more than Republicans.
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Minimum wage ballot initiatives motivating voters
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Health Care Industries Fill Candidates' Coffers
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In Missouri, a Forecast for Voter Misery -- The state most ripe for voting disputes in tomorrow's voting, according to election law experts across the ideological spectrum, may well be Missouri.
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MELTDOWN '06: Missouri Election Integrity Org Says More Reports of Touch-Screen Vote Flipping…
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Gun Control on the Back Burner
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America's Slide to Totalitarianism - If some last-minute polling trends showing a powerful Republican comeback carry through the Nov. 7 elections, the end of America as we have known it for more than two centuries will be at hand.
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FBI looking into possible Va. voter intimidation - In the Washington, D.C., area, NBC affiliate News4 reported on its Web site that it had received e-mail from a viewer in Virginia who said he received a phone call from so-called volunteers threatening voters with arrest if they cast ballots.
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Republicans See Edge From Early Voting - Get ready for the "surprise upset". (Really????)
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Conservative Radio Host Telling Listeners To Crank Call Dem Voter Hotline...
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Sen. Allen's Campaign Connected To Phone Call Threatening People With Arrest If They Show Up To Vote...
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Voters Swamped With Phony Guides Funded By Oil, Tobacco Companies...
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GOP Calls Have Voter In Tears, Others Angered, “Harassment As Far As I'm Concerned”...
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Sample Ballots in Pr. George's Misidentify Candidates --- "I think it's pretty low that Ehrlich and Steele would print up a fake ballot and bus in unemployed people and exploit them," Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, the Democratic candidate for governor, said this morning as he greeted voters as a polling site in Greenbelt. "It doesn't get much lower than that."
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Right wing/GOP pundit Laura Ingraham tries to jam DNC voter protection line. Today, like most of her GOP cohorts, Ingraham engaged in an effort to undermine voting in America.
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ECONOMY

Analysts outraged over U.S. adjustments of employment data
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CHEAP LABOR MY ARMPIT - Bear-Stearns reported last year that illegal aliens in the United States comprise the second largest underground economy in the world. They do not pay $301 billion in IRS income taxes annually. You pay the difference. Politicians and corporate America call such illegality “cheap labor” or the presidential definition, “They do the jobs Americans won’t do.”
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Dramatic drop in corporate tax
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Philadelphia Inquirer may axe 150
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2 Major Homebuilders See Orders Dive
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Dollar poised for a dip
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CONGRESS

Pelosi Poised to Shatter Capitol's "Marble Ceiling"
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DOMESTIC

Investigation at the C.I.A. Looks for Favors Among Friends
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ENVIRONMENT

Bush Administration pushes for approval of ozone-destroying pesticide methyl bromide:
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Solar startups to offer affordable, thin-film solar cells within two years:
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LEDs could replace light bulbs to save billions in energy costs:
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Stealth technology could quiet passenger jets; ease airport noise pollution:
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INTERNATIONAL

Keeping the oil pumping: Washington and Tehran are preparing for a fight to see whether Iran can block the Straits of Hormuz, source of a quarter of the world's oil.
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The Sandinistas Are Back - They swore they would return. And today, 16 years after losing their grip on power in national elections, Nicaragua's Sandinistas appear to have made it back,
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Germany's population in nose dive
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MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Bush Has Gone Unchecked For Too Long: Having frightened us, having bullied us, having lied to us, having ignored and rewritten the Constitution under our noses, having stayed the course, having denied you’ve stayed the course, having belittled us about "timelines" but instead extolled "benchmarks," you’ve now resorted, sir, to this? By Keith Olbermann (Video and transcript)
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HEALTH

The omega-3 oils of fatty fish are once again being shown to offer near-miraculous disease prevention properties. The latest research shows frequent consumption of fatty fish to slash prostate cancer risk by 43 percent:
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Scientists to combine human, bovine embryos into human-cow hybrid:
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Whole wheat diet reduces breast cancer risk in offspring, study reveals:
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Electrical stimulation of brain improves memory, study finds:
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Compound in Red Wine Boosts Health of Obese Mice - old, obese mice that were fed a high-fat diet plus the compound resveratrol were healthier and lived longer than their counterparts that didn't get resveratrol.
(See Scout News)

Another Natural Remedy for Alzheimer's? - A plant widely used in China as a treatment for cognitive disorders is now the focus of a national clinical trial in the U.S.
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Putting on your face could cause ugly health problems Putting on
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