December 20, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

War With Iran *** "We're Heading Straight To The Gates Of Hell"*** ((By Scott Ritter)) - Democrats are Not Anti War - We are Not Anti War - We are Anti Loosing!
http://tinyurl.com/yf46nj

ALERT

Only the People Can Save Us Now: Sell-Out Democrats Have Walked into a Bush Trap on Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/ye8low

WAR

This is where George Bush gets dangerous - The man is a gambling fool – the kind of loser who doubles up as his political fortunes evaporate.
http://tinyurl.com/yxkqf6

It Can't Be Won Militarily; So, Send More Troops?
http://tinyurl.com/yz972v

Bush Can't Kick the Habit - Robert Scheer writes: "Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House?"
http://tinyurl.com/y6ae23

Dem Rep. to Bush: Why did you censor Iran report?
http://tinyurl.com/y8a5nl

Classified Doc. Shows Bush Admin. Plotting To Undermine Syrian Regime...
http://tinyurl.com/yhz9j4

Bush "Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons" - Pentagon "is now gearing up to fight and 'win' biological warfare" pursuant to two Bush national strategy directives adopted "without public knowledge and review" in 2002.
http://tinyurl.com/ydxor3

Top General Stepping Aside - He has strenuously resisted calls to increase troop levels to quell rising violence in Baghdad, arguing it would increase Iraqi dependence on Americans.
http://tinyurl.com/yjqcy9

THE WHITE HOUSE

Desperation in the White House: The power brokers in Washington spent the week carefully arranging fig leaves and tasteful screens to cover the emperor's nakedness while he was busy pretending to listen hard to everyone with an opinion about Iraq while hearing nothing.
http://tinyurl.com/y3blkc

Napoleon in the White House - When our president looks in the mirror, whom does he see? Lincoln? FDR? Churchill? Napoleon is more like it.
http://tinyurl.com/yfs7yg

The Man Needs to be Hauled Before a Grand Jury, After Receiving Appropriate Mental Health Treatment. Today's Gem from the Man Who Lets Other Die for His Stubborn Vanity: "U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time."
http://tinyurl.com/yxtuv9

How many years ago did Bush promise to get to the bottom of PlameGate?...Of course, that was disingenuous, because he is probably underneath the pile he swore to get to the bottom of.
http://tinyurl.com/yepdlq

CABINETS, COMMISSIONS, etc

U.S. Cancels Order for 75 Million Doses of Anthrax Vaccine -in a major setback to the Bush admin's biodefense efforts, the government announced Tuesday that it had canceled an order for 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine, the single biggest purchase planned for the nation’s antiterror drug stockpile.
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SCANDAL

Top NY Republican Is Subject of FBI Inquiry -The New York Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, one of the three men who effectively control state government, said Tuesday evening that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was looking into his business interests. Mr. Bruno, 77, who will be the state's top Republican when Gov. George E. Pataki leaves office in less than two weeks, offered few details about the nature of the inquiry, which he said he was announcing because it had been leaked to reporters.
http://tinyurl.com/ycsmen

Morgan Stanley charged with using 9/11 smokescreen' to hide e-mails The securities industry's self-regulating arm accused Morgan Stanley of "falsely claiming that millions of emails it possessed had been lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, where its email servers were housed."
http://tinyurl.com/y76h4y

The Drug Scandals Keep Flowing: Time for New Thinking
http://tinyurl.com/y22v7p

LEGAL ITEMS

Cheney Called To Testify In CIA Leak Case....
http://tinyurl.com/vtexq

Lawsuit Demands Answers About Government's Secret 'Risk Assessment' Scores
http://tinyurl.com/yz3dkd

ECONOMY

Is the dollar doomed?: Even after the slide of the last two years it still looks over-valued: that's bad news for all of us.
http://tinyurl.com/ybrk63

Oil drives Wall Street lower
http://tinyurl.com/ybez5j

The Mortgage Bust Goes On - A record-high 19% of high-cost mortgages originated during the past two years will end in foreclosure, a consequence of the growth in risky mortgage products, according to new data compiled by an industry group....The nonpartisan Center for Responsible Lending predicts 2.2 million households in this mortgage segment, known as subprime borrowers, either have lost their homes or hold mortgages doomed for foreclosure in the next few years. This estimate comes a week after a grim survey from Fitch Ratings, which studies residential mortgage securities, showing a 16-fold increase in past-due subprime loans in the third quarter of 2006, compared with 1998.
http://tinyurl.com/v5bmv

CONGRESS

US Senate clearing way for action on China - Senate leaders said Tuesday evening they were preparing a change to US law to make it easier to take action over the growing US-China trade deficit.
http://tinyurl.com/y8nvra

DOMESTIC

Wake Up, Employers: Working Moms Are Giving Up - Is the most well-educated generation of women in history - the daughters of feminism and Title IX and glass ceiling-smashing pioneers - really choosing domesticity over career?... Is the most well-educated generation of women in history - the daughters of feminism and Title IX and glass ceiling-smashing pioneers - really choosing domesticity over career?
http://tinyurl.com/ymt727

RELIGIOUS ITEMS

Holy Warriors Set Sights on Iran - Over the past 20 years, the U.S. Christian right has evolved into one of the most powerful grassroots organising forces within the Republican Party, and a host of Christian Zionists have taken a well-earned seat at the foreign policy table.
http://tinyurl.com/uc2ox

Ex-top Southern Baptist pastor hit by sex abuse claims
http://tinyurl.com/ydkqqe

MILITARY

Long-rumored shuffle of generals expected - Those with a serious understanding of what is truly happening on the ground in Iraq are leaving, putting Bush in a position tor eplace them with more "pliable" military commanders.
http://tinyurl.com/ycdqjt

US Soldiers' Suicide Rate in Iraq Doubles - US soldiers serving repeated Iraq deployments are 50 percent more likely than those with one tour to suffer from acute combat stress, raising their risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Army's first survey exploring how today's multiple war-zone rotations affect soldiers' mental health.
http://tinyurl.com/y79c52

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Abu Ghraib - The Bottom Line - The video is shocking,. It’s particularly scary because it is real, and particularly sad because all of our tax dollars are making this happen. Several minutes of every day you work goes to support this. Had enough? 2 Minute Video
http://tinyurl.com/tn6zo

Concern for the Truth - the foundations of democracy are at risk whenever a country accepts - as the United States did with the war in Iraq - lies and illusion.
http://tinyurl.com/ybmw4u

HEALTH

Vitamin D may Protect Against MS - Whites with the highest blood levels of the vitamin had a 62-percent lower risk of having MS than those with the lowest levels.
http://tinyurl.com/tea69

Suspicious Shrimp Could Make You Ill
http://tinyurl.com/yht3tl

Cancer Risk Increases After Kidney Transplant Patients who receive a kidney transplant are at an increased risk for three types of cancer.
http://tinyurl.com/ttqnp