December 30, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

You know what folk, my sense about the impeachment issue of Bush and Cheney is that impeachment is a NO GO. - Why? Because too many in seats of power sense the whimpishness of the Republicans. Frankly, the Republicans do not have the balls for dealing with the responsiblity that goes with their bad decisions backed with their huge lies. All I have heard is a bunch of boohooing and finger pointing to redirect blame away from themselves. Hey Repubs, when you do the big crime, you should be willing to do the big time.

ALERT

Saddam Hussein Executed at US Base in Baghdad - Hussein was hung around 6 a.m. local time (10 p.m. Friday EST) in the American-controlled Green Zone in central Baghdad. Hussein was executed before a small group of observers.
http://tinyurl.com/y4t7ut

We made him, then we destroyed him.- Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability." (Author unknown but well said.)

WAR
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"Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?" : Philip Berrigan - Source: Hell, Healing and Resistance Veterans Speak
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How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply
http://tinyurl.com/ym2vjp

War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended
animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service: Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
http://tinyurl.com/9vl8d

CABINETS, COMMISSIONS, etc
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Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace....They are continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches. Eugene V. Debs *******************************************

Social Security Agreement With Mexico Released After 3 1/2 Year Freedom of Information Act Battle - The Totalization Agreement could allow millions of illegal Mexican workers to draw billions of dollars from the U.S. Social Security Trust Fund.- The agreement between the U.S. and Mexico was signed in June 2004, and is awaiting President Bush's signature. Once President Bush approves the agreement, which would be done without Congressional vote, either House of Congress would have 60 days to disapprove the agreement by voting to reject it.
http://tinyurl.com/y4bd6y

POLITICS

The Real Reason Republicans Hate Hillary Clinton
http://tinyurl.com/y2w3ku

DID YOU KNOW?

-3,000 African children die of malaria EACH DAY.

-Will Rogers: "If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.”

-IRS agreed to stop collecting the tax after several cases held the continued collection of the tax to be illegal:

-Possible Explosive Device Found Near Bridge In DC

-Edwards is doing fine - standing room only at Nevada event

-Head-banging snakes predict quakes

-Bush's favorite *toy* is the pistol Saddam was carrying when captured.

911

9-11 Attacks: The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9-11 - It was later confirmed that the five detained Israelis were in fact Mossad agents (21). They were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released.
http://tinyurl.com/3fwec

INTERNATIONAL

Doctors Without Borders: After a Week of Intense Fighting in Somalia, MSF Extremely Concerned About the Security of Medical Staff and Safety of Patients
http://tinyurl.com/yc3q3n

MILITARY
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"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about.": Noam Chomsky
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Poll: Only 1 in 3 military service members approve of the way the president is handling the war in Iraq. And only 41% now feel it was the right idea to go to war in Iraq in the first place.
http://tinyurl.com/ymq3jt

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age - The belief in truth was powerful. Truth would deliver justice and bring an end to status-based privileges and the falsehoods propagated by privilege. The faith in truth was short-lived. Today propaganda is everywhere in the ascendency.
http://tinyurl.com/sfr5p

HEALTH

Cloned Animals Set to Be Sold As Meat in the US
http://tinyurl.com/y7yvj9