QUOTE:
A Prescription for Peace
Teaching Tommy During an Era of Fascism
By Doug Soderstrom,
In looking back at that of my own education, I have
come to the conclusion that much of what I learned
was a matter of propaganda. And I am sorry to say
that it wasn’t until “that sorrowful day in September”
that I decided to take a serious look at the history of
our country, and it was that which has made all the
difference, that which no doubt changed my life.
Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Housing Bubble Smack-down
By Mike Whitney
Give me 5 minutes and I’ll convince you that you should
sell your house immediately and invest your life-savings
in gold or a Swiss bank-account. Continue
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QUOTE:
The Next Act
Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran,
or more?
By Seymour M. HershThe United States does not want to
go into Iran, but, if Israel feels more and more cornered,
there may be no other choice.” Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Frank Rich: It's Not the DemocratsWho Are Divided
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Jesse Jackson: More of the Same?Not This Congress
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
******************************************************
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
ISN'T IT GREAT BEING BORN IN AMERICA? SHOW ME YOUR I.D.! YOU DON'T WANT TO SHOW ME YOUR I.D.? OK THEN...I'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU: ZAAAAAAAAAP!
QUOTE:
UCLA Student Gets Tazered
Video "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your ... abuse of power,"
Watch
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Cops Taser UCLA Student
***************************************************
QUOTE:
President Carter Discusses New Book on Israel and the Middle East :
Q: In your book, you argue that ‘because of powerful political,
economic, and religious forces in the United States, Israeli
government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned.’
Can you explain that more fully?
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Paul Craig Roberts: Milton Friedman In Memoriam:
Early in the morning of November 16, 2006, at the age of 94,
Milton Friedman passed away. Friedman was the great
economist of our time who more than anyone saved the
economics profession from dogma.
**************************************************
QUOTE:
5 Minute Video: What Ted Koppel Found In Iran
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Iraq Turns Up The Heat
By Mike Whitney
Iran is playing a clever game in Iraq using US occupation
forces to crush the Ba’athist-led resistance while expanding
their influence via the Shiite militias. This is a “lose-lose”
situation for the United States. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Exclusive: "Inside Al-Qaeda: A Spy's Story"
It's rare to speak to someone who's been a member of
al Qaeda, and rare too to interview a spy. BBC Video Report
His story is extraordinary, revealing the extent of al-Qaeda's
preparations - years before 9/11 - to target the west, but
also the British authorities' lack of awareness of the
growing threat of Islamic terrorism. Watch It
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy
By Chris Floyd
Little Bush's suddenly conceived internal Iraq policy review
is just another salvo in this ongoing struggle. The Cheney
militarists will certainly not give up without a fight, even
after the "Gray Hawk Down" disaster of Rumsfeld's resignation.
Bush Junior will certainly not keep swallowing Daddy's cod liver
oil without throwing a fit now and then. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Whistleblowers : Who Are They?
By Peter Rost
After blowing the whistle on fraud, 90 percent of the
whistleblowers were fired or demoted, 27 percent faced
lawsuits, 26 percent had to seek psychiatric or physical
care, 25 percent suffered alcohol abuse, 17 percent lost
their homes, 15 percent got divorced, 10 percent attempted
suicide, and 8 percent were bankrupted. But in spite of
all this, only 16 percent said that they wouldn’t blow
the whistle again. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
An idea whose time had come
By Ted Rall
Special prosecutors ought to track down everyone, up to
and including Bush, who lied about WMDs in Iraq, chose
not to pursue Osama in Pakistan after 9/11, deliberately
withheld help that could have saved lives during the
Hurricane Katrina, and signed off on warrantless
wiretapping of American citizens. Law and order starts
at the top. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
DESPERATE CONGRESSWOMEN OF HYSTERIA LANE
BY ANN COULTER
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Latin America is preparing to settle accounts with its white settler elite
By Richard Gott
The recent explosion of indigenous protest in Latin America,
culminating in the election this year of Evo Morales, an
Aymara indian, as president of Bolivia, has highlighted the
precarious position of the white-settler elite that has
dominated the continent for so many centuries. Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Blood-Pouring Anti-Nuke Clowns Sent to Prison
Weapons of Mass Destruction Protected
By Bill Quigley.
What does it say about our society that personal sacrifices
to go to war to kill people in war are praised, while
personal sacrifices for peace are condemned? What
does it say that intentional destruction of cities and
communities and families and individuals are considered
totally legal, while actions trying to dismantle weapons
of mass destruction send people to prison? Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Like Cornered Rats, GOP Losers More Dangerous Than Ever
BY TED RALL
****************************************************
QUOTE:
The End of the U.S. as a Civilized Nation
BY TED RALL
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann: Has Fox News Gone Too Far?
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Ann Woolner: Past Sins Might Keep RumsfeldFrom Roaming World
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Jason Leopold Reviewed: Peter Lance's9/11 Masterpiece
**************************************************
QUOTE:
BAGHDAD BURNING
... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts
can heal and souls can mend...
BY RIVERBEND
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
***************************************************
UCLA Student Gets Tazered
Video "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your ... abuse of power,"
Watch
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Cops Taser UCLA Student
***************************************************
QUOTE:
President Carter Discusses New Book on Israel and the Middle East :
Q: In your book, you argue that ‘because of powerful political,
economic, and religious forces in the United States, Israeli
government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned.’
Can you explain that more fully?
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Paul Craig Roberts: Milton Friedman In Memoriam:
Early in the morning of November 16, 2006, at the age of 94,
Milton Friedman passed away. Friedman was the great
economist of our time who more than anyone saved the
economics profession from dogma.
**************************************************
QUOTE:
5 Minute Video: What Ted Koppel Found In Iran
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Iraq Turns Up The Heat
By Mike Whitney
Iran is playing a clever game in Iraq using US occupation
forces to crush the Ba’athist-led resistance while expanding
their influence via the Shiite militias. This is a “lose-lose”
situation for the United States. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Exclusive: "Inside Al-Qaeda: A Spy's Story"
It's rare to speak to someone who's been a member of
al Qaeda, and rare too to interview a spy. BBC Video Report
His story is extraordinary, revealing the extent of al-Qaeda's
preparations - years before 9/11 - to target the west, but
also the British authorities' lack of awareness of the
growing threat of Islamic terrorism. Watch It
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy
By Chris Floyd
Little Bush's suddenly conceived internal Iraq policy review
is just another salvo in this ongoing struggle. The Cheney
militarists will certainly not give up without a fight, even
after the "Gray Hawk Down" disaster of Rumsfeld's resignation.
Bush Junior will certainly not keep swallowing Daddy's cod liver
oil without throwing a fit now and then. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Whistleblowers : Who Are They?
By Peter Rost
After blowing the whistle on fraud, 90 percent of the
whistleblowers were fired or demoted, 27 percent faced
lawsuits, 26 percent had to seek psychiatric or physical
care, 25 percent suffered alcohol abuse, 17 percent lost
their homes, 15 percent got divorced, 10 percent attempted
suicide, and 8 percent were bankrupted. But in spite of
all this, only 16 percent said that they wouldn’t blow
the whistle again. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
An idea whose time had come
By Ted Rall
Special prosecutors ought to track down everyone, up to
and including Bush, who lied about WMDs in Iraq, chose
not to pursue Osama in Pakistan after 9/11, deliberately
withheld help that could have saved lives during the
Hurricane Katrina, and signed off on warrantless
wiretapping of American citizens. Law and order starts
at the top. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
DESPERATE CONGRESSWOMEN OF HYSTERIA LANE
BY ANN COULTER
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Latin America is preparing to settle accounts with its white settler elite
By Richard Gott
The recent explosion of indigenous protest in Latin America,
culminating in the election this year of Evo Morales, an
Aymara indian, as president of Bolivia, has highlighted the
precarious position of the white-settler elite that has
dominated the continent for so many centuries. Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Blood-Pouring Anti-Nuke Clowns Sent to Prison
Weapons of Mass Destruction Protected
By Bill Quigley.
What does it say about our society that personal sacrifices
to go to war to kill people in war are praised, while
personal sacrifices for peace are condemned? What
does it say that intentional destruction of cities and
communities and families and individuals are considered
totally legal, while actions trying to dismantle weapons
of mass destruction send people to prison? Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Like Cornered Rats, GOP Losers More Dangerous Than Ever
BY TED RALL
****************************************************
QUOTE:
The End of the U.S. as a Civilized Nation
BY TED RALL
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann: Has Fox News Gone Too Far?
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Ann Woolner: Past Sins Might Keep RumsfeldFrom Roaming World
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Jason Leopold Reviewed: Peter Lance's9/11 Masterpiece
**************************************************
QUOTE:
BAGHDAD BURNING
... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts
can heal and souls can mend...
BY RIVERBEND
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
***************************************************
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
THIS ELECTION DOESN'T PASS THE "SMELL TEST": TOO EASILY WON. AND WHAT ABOUT OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES? READ ON...
QUOTE:
Are Democrats Turning A Blind Eye to Civil Liberty?
Paul Craig Roberts
Democrats are anxious to get on with their agendas and
have shown no recognition that the first order of business
is to repeal the legislation that permits torture, warrantless
detention and domestic spying. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
“With Great Power…”
By Rick Banales
We must remind these people that until we have the
900-year-old principle of Habeas Corpus returned in
this country – whole, undiluted, for citizen and non-citizen
alike, we really do not live in America. Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Open Letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers
We the People are Setting the Table Now
By Cindy Sheehan
We the people put the Democrats back into power because
we want to see a change in this country and a rejection of
politics as usual. We want politics as unusual. We want to
see the issue of impeachment and a speedy and safe
withdrawal of our troops from Iraq de-politicized and
brought into the realm of "right and wrong" where these
issues belong, not "right and left." Continue
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
Rumsfeld’s long walk into Political Oblivion
By Mike Whitney
Even after being forced to resign in utter disgrace, he still
shows no sign of doubting his abilities as a military genius.
His ego remains as impervious to criticism as tempered steel.
Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Cheney’s Revenge
By Mike Whitney
The establishment “old school” Republicans and country
club plutocrats put-together a plan to sabotage the Cheney
administration and put an end to the Iraq debacle. Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
The Republicans Took a Dive
By Ezekiel Jones
What explains the curious decline from the high--powered
Republican machine that could snatch victory from the
jaws of defeat in 2000, 2002 and 2004 to the broken
down jalopy of 2006 that blew control of both houses
of Congress? Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
A Veteran Remembers
By Howard Zinn
Our decent impulse, to recognize the ordeal of our veterans,
has been used to obscure the fact that they died, they were
crippled, for no good cause other than the power and profit
of a few. Veterans Day, instead of an occasion for denouncing
war, has become an occasion for bringing out the flags, the
uniforms, the martial music, the patriotic speeches reeking
with hypocrisy. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
War on Iran
Unleashing Armageddon in the Middle East
By Dr. Elias Akleh
The powder keg is ready and all it needs is a match to
ignite it. This could come in the form of an “arranged”
terrorist act in Lebanon – e.g. another political assassination
or toppling of government- to be blamed against Syria and
Iran. American warnings of such an act are already in the
media. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
I doubt there is guilt
By John Chuckman
The Democratic Party has been all but dead for years as
a meaningful national alternative. The party has no
recognized national leader. It has no cause, no fire in
the belly. It has been largely silent for six years while
Bush rampaged through the world and literally peed on
American liberties like a grotesquely-smirking,
small-town sheriff. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Cheney in a Box
By Mike Whitney
The Democrats didn’t win anything; that’s all hogwash. Bush
was buried beneath an avalanche of bad news. It was a
carefully-coordinated coup intended to install “adults”
(like Robert Gates) in positions of power, change the policy
in Iraq, and remove Rumsfeld and Cheney from office. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Al Qaeda Leader: Materials Smuggled Across Border
Terrorists trying to blend in with Mexican culture A News
Channel 5 InvestigationA News Channel 5 Investigation
investigation reveals what the feds don't want you to know.
Suspected terrorists are hiding inside the U.S. and they got
here by sneaking across the Mexican border. Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Baghdad: The New Saigon?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the Democrats have now captured Congress, they assume
co-responsibility for the retreat from Mesopotamia. Which i
s as it should be. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
No Exit Strategy
By Ray McGovern
Ret. Gen. John Keane of the “Military Senior Adviser Panel”
takes a different tack. He recommends that 40,000 additional
U.S. troops be sent to secure Baghdad. And Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., too, continues to press for sending more troops to
Iraq as the only way to “salvage” the situation. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Brecher and Smith:
Ten Reasons Congress Must InvestigateBush Administration Crimes
***************************************************
QUOTE:
She Survived Iraq - Then Shot Herself at Home
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann:Where Are the Checks, Balances?
***************************************************
QUOTE:
David Swanson Off the Table:A Farce in One Act
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Paul Krugman: The Great Revulsion
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Robert Dreyfuss: The Iraq Mandate
************************************************
QUOTE:
David Swanson: A Bulk Rate onPrinting Subpoenas?
************************************************
QUOTE:
Truthout: Impeachment and the Table
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Missing Ed Bradley
Andy Rooney shares some personal thoughts about the passing
of his friend and colleague Ed Bradley. More...
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*****************************************************
Are Democrats Turning A Blind Eye to Civil Liberty?
Paul Craig Roberts
Democrats are anxious to get on with their agendas and
have shown no recognition that the first order of business
is to repeal the legislation that permits torture, warrantless
detention and domestic spying. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
“With Great Power…”
By Rick Banales
We must remind these people that until we have the
900-year-old principle of Habeas Corpus returned in
this country – whole, undiluted, for citizen and non-citizen
alike, we really do not live in America. Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Open Letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers
We the People are Setting the Table Now
By Cindy Sheehan
We the people put the Democrats back into power because
we want to see a change in this country and a rejection of
politics as usual. We want politics as unusual. We want to
see the issue of impeachment and a speedy and safe
withdrawal of our troops from Iraq de-politicized and
brought into the realm of "right and wrong" where these
issues belong, not "right and left." Continue
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
Rumsfeld’s long walk into Political Oblivion
By Mike Whitney
Even after being forced to resign in utter disgrace, he still
shows no sign of doubting his abilities as a military genius.
His ego remains as impervious to criticism as tempered steel.
Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Cheney’s Revenge
By Mike Whitney
The establishment “old school” Republicans and country
club plutocrats put-together a plan to sabotage the Cheney
administration and put an end to the Iraq debacle. Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
The Republicans Took a Dive
By Ezekiel Jones
What explains the curious decline from the high--powered
Republican machine that could snatch victory from the
jaws of defeat in 2000, 2002 and 2004 to the broken
down jalopy of 2006 that blew control of both houses
of Congress? Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
A Veteran Remembers
By Howard Zinn
Our decent impulse, to recognize the ordeal of our veterans,
has been used to obscure the fact that they died, they were
crippled, for no good cause other than the power and profit
of a few. Veterans Day, instead of an occasion for denouncing
war, has become an occasion for bringing out the flags, the
uniforms, the martial music, the patriotic speeches reeking
with hypocrisy. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
War on Iran
Unleashing Armageddon in the Middle East
By Dr. Elias Akleh
The powder keg is ready and all it needs is a match to
ignite it. This could come in the form of an “arranged”
terrorist act in Lebanon – e.g. another political assassination
or toppling of government- to be blamed against Syria and
Iran. American warnings of such an act are already in the
media. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
I doubt there is guilt
By John Chuckman
The Democratic Party has been all but dead for years as
a meaningful national alternative. The party has no
recognized national leader. It has no cause, no fire in
the belly. It has been largely silent for six years while
Bush rampaged through the world and literally peed on
American liberties like a grotesquely-smirking,
small-town sheriff. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Cheney in a Box
By Mike Whitney
The Democrats didn’t win anything; that’s all hogwash. Bush
was buried beneath an avalanche of bad news. It was a
carefully-coordinated coup intended to install “adults”
(like Robert Gates) in positions of power, change the policy
in Iraq, and remove Rumsfeld and Cheney from office. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Al Qaeda Leader: Materials Smuggled Across Border
Terrorists trying to blend in with Mexican culture A News
Channel 5 InvestigationA News Channel 5 Investigation
investigation reveals what the feds don't want you to know.
Suspected terrorists are hiding inside the U.S. and they got
here by sneaking across the Mexican border. Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Baghdad: The New Saigon?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the Democrats have now captured Congress, they assume
co-responsibility for the retreat from Mesopotamia. Which i
s as it should be. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
No Exit Strategy
By Ray McGovern
Ret. Gen. John Keane of the “Military Senior Adviser Panel”
takes a different tack. He recommends that 40,000 additional
U.S. troops be sent to secure Baghdad. And Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., too, continues to press for sending more troops to
Iraq as the only way to “salvage” the situation. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Brecher and Smith:
Ten Reasons Congress Must InvestigateBush Administration Crimes
***************************************************
QUOTE:
She Survived Iraq - Then Shot Herself at Home
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann:Where Are the Checks, Balances?
***************************************************
QUOTE:
David Swanson Off the Table:A Farce in One Act
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Paul Krugman: The Great Revulsion
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Robert Dreyfuss: The Iraq Mandate
************************************************
QUOTE:
David Swanson: A Bulk Rate onPrinting Subpoenas?
************************************************
QUOTE:
Truthout: Impeachment and the Table
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Missing Ed Bradley
Andy Rooney shares some personal thoughts about the passing
of his friend and colleague Ed Bradley. More...
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*****************************************************
Monday, November 06, 2006
What's on the Ballot Tuesday? Orwell's "1984" Prediction & War Criminals & America's Future, That's All... Oh, Really...?! Yes, Really. It's Up to You
QUOTE:
GEORGE ORWELL'S: 1984
In case you missed it: : 1984 - The Movie - George Orwell
*********************************************
QUOTE:
By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
War Criminals, Beware :
On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts
will come before the German federal prosecutor and ask
him to open a criminal investigation targeting Donald
Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other key Bush
Administration figures for war crimes.
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Is Bush Next?
Paul Craig Roberts
The show trial of Saddam Hussein was drawn out until
two days before the midterm US elections. The death
sentence imposed on the former Iraqi president may
help the deluded band of Bush supporters find victory
in the defeat that Bush has met in Iraq and motivate
them to support the beleaguered Republicans on
November 7. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Hacking Democracy
HBO Video Special Report
This cautionary documentary exposes the vulnerability
of computers - which count approximately 80% of
America's votes in county, state and federal elections -
suggesting that if our votes aren't safe, then our
democracy isn't safe either. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
The Genocide Election
By Peter Rost
This election is about much more than Democrats or
Republicans, higher or lower taxes, or the war in Iraq.
It is about the survival of millions of people around the
globe. And if candidates supported by the drug industry
prevail, we may become participants in a silent genocide.
Continue
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Elections Or Electrons
What If Anything Will Count Your Vote
By Dom Stasi
This new gang are not only non-Republicans, they’re not
even politicians. Hell, they are not even corrupt politicians.
No. They are criminals. They are criminals and sociopaths
posing as corrupt politicians and dragging the GOP legacy
down with them. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Iraq-Gate
How The United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein
"Spider's Web": The Secret History of How the United States
Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein; a Conversation with
the Journalist Who Broke the Iraq-gate Scandal That
Involved President George Bush, James Baker and
Donald Rumsfeld . This is a must listen
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Bush’s Carnival of Blood
By Mike Whitney
This is a dark day for Americans and Iraqis alike. Killing
Saddam Hussein isn’t justice; its vengeance. Only Bush
believes the two are the same. Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
This was a guilty verdict on America as well
By Robert Fisk
So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for
war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best
friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities
and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course -
yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White
House's words, another "great day for Iraq". Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Are We Winning in Iraq? – A Dark Argument
By James Rothenberg
It is not unreasonable to suggest we are winning the war.
Not won, but winning. Continued
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Rough Justice;
Prowling Baghdad with a sidearm and a defective bulletproof-vest
By Mike Whitney
None of the people who started this war will ever be held
accountable. In fact, the cabal of militarists, think-tank
sycophants, and genocidal nutbars, who operate covertly
behind the scenes, are probably devising their next bloodbath
already. Unless we root them out, the cancer will persist.
Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
The Case for Engagement
By Scott Ritter
I recently returned from a trip to Iran, where over the
course of a week I made the journey from the northern
suburbs of Tehran to the gates of the Natanz enrichment
facility, and in doing so had my eyes opened. The Iran that
I witnessed was far removed from the one caricatured
in the US media. I left with the frustrating realization
that, as had been the case with Iraq, America was stumbling
toward a conflict, blinded by the prejudice and fear born
of our collective ignorance. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Garrison Keillor: The Retiring Type? Not Me
***************************************************
QUOTE:
The American Conservative: GOP Must Go
*************************************************
QUOTE:
William Fisher: Get Over It, Jack!
************************************************
QUOTE:
David Swanson Rumsfeld and Hussein:Partners in Crime
************************************************
QUOTE:
Glenn Greenwald: An Ideology of Lying
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Are YOU the Enemy?
by Joe Wolverton II, J.D.
Under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, you could be.
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Can Outrage and Optimism Coexist?
by Vic LeClair III
Most of us Americans harp on the things that bother us,
but can we balance political discontent with optimism?
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*****************************************************
GEORGE ORWELL'S: 1984
In case you missed it: : 1984 - The Movie - George Orwell
*********************************************
QUOTE:
By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
War Criminals, Beware :
On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts
will come before the German federal prosecutor and ask
him to open a criminal investigation targeting Donald
Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other key Bush
Administration figures for war crimes.
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Is Bush Next?
Paul Craig Roberts
The show trial of Saddam Hussein was drawn out until
two days before the midterm US elections. The death
sentence imposed on the former Iraqi president may
help the deluded band of Bush supporters find victory
in the defeat that Bush has met in Iraq and motivate
them to support the beleaguered Republicans on
November 7. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Hacking Democracy
HBO Video Special Report
This cautionary documentary exposes the vulnerability
of computers - which count approximately 80% of
America's votes in county, state and federal elections -
suggesting that if our votes aren't safe, then our
democracy isn't safe either. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
The Genocide Election
By Peter Rost
This election is about much more than Democrats or
Republicans, higher or lower taxes, or the war in Iraq.
It is about the survival of millions of people around the
globe. And if candidates supported by the drug industry
prevail, we may become participants in a silent genocide.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Elections Or Electrons
What If Anything Will Count Your Vote
By Dom Stasi
This new gang are not only non-Republicans, they’re not
even politicians. Hell, they are not even corrupt politicians.
No. They are criminals. They are criminals and sociopaths
posing as corrupt politicians and dragging the GOP legacy
down with them. Continue
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QUOTE:
Iraq-Gate
How The United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein
"Spider's Web": The Secret History of How the United States
Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein; a Conversation with
the Journalist Who Broke the Iraq-gate Scandal That
Involved President George Bush, James Baker and
Donald Rumsfeld . This is a must listen
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Bush’s Carnival of Blood
By Mike Whitney
This is a dark day for Americans and Iraqis alike. Killing
Saddam Hussein isn’t justice; its vengeance. Only Bush
believes the two are the same. Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
This was a guilty verdict on America as well
By Robert Fisk
So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for
war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best
friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities
and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course -
yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White
House's words, another "great day for Iraq". Continue
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QUOTE:
Are We Winning in Iraq? – A Dark Argument
By James Rothenberg
It is not unreasonable to suggest we are winning the war.
Not won, but winning. Continued
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Rough Justice;
Prowling Baghdad with a sidearm and a defective bulletproof-vest
By Mike Whitney
None of the people who started this war will ever be held
accountable. In fact, the cabal of militarists, think-tank
sycophants, and genocidal nutbars, who operate covertly
behind the scenes, are probably devising their next bloodbath
already. Unless we root them out, the cancer will persist.
Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
The Case for Engagement
By Scott Ritter
I recently returned from a trip to Iran, where over the
course of a week I made the journey from the northern
suburbs of Tehran to the gates of the Natanz enrichment
facility, and in doing so had my eyes opened. The Iran that
I witnessed was far removed from the one caricatured
in the US media. I left with the frustrating realization
that, as had been the case with Iraq, America was stumbling
toward a conflict, blinded by the prejudice and fear born
of our collective ignorance. Continue
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QUOTE:
Garrison Keillor: The Retiring Type? Not Me
***************************************************
QUOTE:
The American Conservative: GOP Must Go
*************************************************
QUOTE:
William Fisher: Get Over It, Jack!
************************************************
QUOTE:
David Swanson Rumsfeld and Hussein:Partners in Crime
************************************************
QUOTE:
Glenn Greenwald: An Ideology of Lying
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Are YOU the Enemy?
by Joe Wolverton II, J.D.
Under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, you could be.
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Can Outrage and Optimism Coexist?
by Vic LeClair III
Most of us Americans harp on the things that bother us,
but can we balance political discontent with optimism?
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*****************************************************
Friday, November 03, 2006
THE "MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006": DOES THAT RING A BELL? WELL, IT SHOULD! WHERE HAVE ALL OUR RIGHTS GONE? C'MON, TAKE A GUESS: FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
QUOTE:
Bush : U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil
By Raw Story
During an interview with conservative pundit
Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush
expressed deep concerns about the possibility
of the United States leaving the Middle East,
raising fears that extremists could topple
governments to "control oil resources." Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
Evil Is As Evil Does
By Paul Craig Roberts
Perhaps Americans don’t notice, but the rest of the
world does see the double standard applied when
Saddam Hussein is put on trial for war crimes and
crimes against humanity, while US, UK, and Israeli
government officials commit far greater crimes by
illegally invading countries, targeting civilian
populations, and torturing detainees. Continue
P.S.--Saddam sentenced to death
Saddam Hussein faces death by hanging for war
crimes in the 1982 killings of 148 people. » More
********************************************
QUOTE:
Fascists
By John T. Flynn
When fascism comes it will not be in the form of an
anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund,
practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form
of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in
the luminous robes of flaming patriotism. Continued
************************************************
QUOTE:
More Troops—or Less Empire
By Patrick J. Buchanan
15 years after the Cold War’s end, to begin dissolving
old alliances and shedding commitments dating to a
time when a Soviet Empire bestrode Europe and
Asia like a colossus? Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Tracked In America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance:
This documentary Web site explores more than two
centuries of surveillance in America. Included are two
hours of audio interviews, 300 photographs and 25 personal
stories beginning in 1917.
***************************************************
QUOTE:
I Want To Hurt Somebody
By Greg Palast
**********************************************
QUOTE:
American Prison Planet
The Bush Administration as Global Jailor
By Nick Turse
The American gulag is so much more than Guantanamo
and so much worse. The combination of U.S. "homeland"
prisons, where "one in 140 Americans, or as many
people as live in Namibia, or nearly five Luxembourgs"
are locked away, the offshore imperial detention facilities,
the shadowy CIA black sites, and the ever-shifting
outsourced detention facilities operated by other nations
adds up to something new in history -- the makings of
a veritable American prison planet. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Blood and money
By John Pilger
The United States promised a democracy when the Civil
Rights Act became law in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act
the following year finally ended slavery. For the next
decade, the civil-rights movement joined the great popular
movement to end the slaughter in Vietnam, and Congress
legislated to restrain the CIA's secretive parallel power. It
was a fleeting intermission. Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Baghdad is Surrounded: “The American Era in the Middle East has ended”
By Mike Whitney
After 3 and a half years of violence and mayhem we still
know as little about the Iraqi resistance as we did in March
2003. This is inexcusable. In addition, there’s been no attempt
to engage the representatives of the resistance in political dialogue.
How can we possibly reach a political solution without dialogue
and negotiation? Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il
By Julian Glover
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest
neighbours and allies, according to an international survey
of public opinion published today that reveals just how far
the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters
since the invasion of Iraq. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black
By Phil Rockstroh
While I harbor little affection for nor feel any affinity with
the corrupt establishment of the Democratic Party, I don't
believe, as is the case with the present leadership of the
Republican party, they're a klavern of insane, death-smitten
apocalypticists. However, I do believe that a craven desire
for power and privilege has transformed them into morally
bankrupt, lickspittle, corporate stooges. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
The Election Farce
By David Pérez
The only reason the Democratic Party is against the fiasco
in Iraq is because the U.S. is losing the war. It’s all about
“bad planning,” or “bad timing,” or whatever. If Bush and
Co. had easily subjugated the nation and controlled the oil
fields, the entire U.S. ruling class and their paid politicians
would be joyous. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
"Hey America, Stop your Bellyaching and get to Work"
By Mike Whitney
What can we expect in the midterm elections? The real
question is: What should we NOT expect in the elections.
We should not expect dramatic change from our present
trajectory. Whether Karl Rove engineers another
electoral-coup or not, is beside the point. The system has
been reshaped to meet the needs and aspirations of the
ruling mandarins. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Foreclosure USA
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
We the people once owned our democracy. We elected
“representatives” to run it for US. Have you noticed?
Somewhere along the way we lost our democracy. It
was foreclosed by wealthy and power elites that corrupted
our “representatives” who literally sold us out. Our homeland
was foreclosed right in plain sight. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Paul Krugman: As Bechtel Goes:
Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity
last month, and much of Iraq’s population lives with
untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel,
having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers’ money and
having lost the lives of 52 employees, has come to the
end of its last government contract.
************************************************
QUOTE:
Gloves come off! : Bush hints Dems love terrorists in late push
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Haggard Case Fuels Debate Over Hypocrisy
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
The New York Times: Avoiding Calamity on the Cheap
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Doris "Granny D" Haddock: Our Eyes Are Wide Open
****************************************************
QUOTE:
William Rivers Pitt: You're Kidding Me, Right?
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Military Newspapers Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann: Bush Owes Troops Apology,Not Kerry
****************************************************
QUOTE:
William Rivers Pitt: Speaking of Apologies
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Sara Rich: A Letter to My Sonand to My Nation
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Bill Moyers: America 101
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
David Rose: Neo Culpa
***************************************************
QUOTE:
While poverty persists, there is no freedom
By Nelson Mandela
Millions remain enslaved and in chains at a time of
breathtaking advances in technology and wealth.
Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Homeland Security Tightens Grip on International Travel
By Ezekiel
The Department of Homeland Security proposed new
rules back in July that would fundamentally undermine
the right of American citizens to travel abroad. Public
carriers--airlines, cruise lines, even fishing boats--will
be required to submit the names of all passengers to
Homeland Security prior to departure and to obtain
permission from Homeland Security to board those
passengers. These new rules will take effect January
14, 2007. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war:
Several prominent neoconservatives have turned on
George Bush days before critical midterm elections,
lambasting his administration for incompetence in the
handling of the Iraq war and questioning the wisdom of
the 2003 invasion they were instrumental in promoting.
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways we know We have Lost in Iraq
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Ocean Life on the Brink of No Return:
Every single commercial fishery in the world will be wiped
before 2050 and the oceans may never recover if over-fishing
continues at its current rate, a four-year scientific investigation
has found.
********************************************************
QUOTE:
No more fish to eat in 40 years:
Fish stocks are declining so rapidly that scientists have
predicted that they will disappear by the middle of the
century unless radical measures are taken to protect them
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
Leftists from across Mexico flood Oaxaca
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Andy Rooney
What are we doing in Iraq?
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Writers find scandal, face jail
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
JIHAD IS FUN! VOTE DEMOCRAT!
BY ANN COULTER
John Kerry is the "botched joke" of American politics.
For those of you keeping score at home, John Kerry has
now called members of the U.S. military (a) stupid,
(b) crazy, (c) murderers, (d) rapists, (e) terrorizers of
Iraqi women and children. I wonder what he'll call them
tomorrow. Whatever Karl Rove is paying John Kerry to
say stupid things, it's worth every penny.
*******************************************
QUOTE:
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF GEORGE W. BUSH
BY RICHARD REEVES
WASHINGTON -- There is an old baseball story that was,
I think, first told about Frankie Frisch when he was
player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1930s:
****************************************************
QUOTE:
KEEPING OUR EYES ON THE BALL
BY MOLLY IVINS
AUSTIN, Texas -- I'm still worried sick. The R's have
seized the news cycle! Which says more about how dim
American politics are than anything I can think of.
************************************************
QUOTE:
Comics: Ted Rall
***********************************************
QUOTE:
O'Connor worries about courts' autonomy
The following comment is:
Copyright (C) 2006 by F. Scott Sinclair.
All Rights Reserved.
Comment: Sandra Day O'Connor shouldd have
thought of that before she retired. And even
before that, when she joined the "Supremes"
majority--known affectionately as the Felonious
Five by many admirers--and stopped the recount
in Florida in 2000. They virutually handed the
White House to Bush on a golden platter. It
doesn't take a brilliant legal mind (or even a
rocket scientist) to figure out the end result of
those two critical decisions: stopping the Flordia
recount, and her premature retirement.
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*****************************************************
Bush : U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil
By Raw Story
During an interview with conservative pundit
Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush
expressed deep concerns about the possibility
of the United States leaving the Middle East,
raising fears that extremists could topple
governments to "control oil resources." Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
Evil Is As Evil Does
By Paul Craig Roberts
Perhaps Americans don’t notice, but the rest of the
world does see the double standard applied when
Saddam Hussein is put on trial for war crimes and
crimes against humanity, while US, UK, and Israeli
government officials commit far greater crimes by
illegally invading countries, targeting civilian
populations, and torturing detainees. Continue
P.S.--Saddam sentenced to death
Saddam Hussein faces death by hanging for war
crimes in the 1982 killings of 148 people. » More
********************************************
QUOTE:
Fascists
By John T. Flynn
When fascism comes it will not be in the form of an
anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund,
practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form
of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in
the luminous robes of flaming patriotism. Continued
************************************************
QUOTE:
More Troops—or Less Empire
By Patrick J. Buchanan
15 years after the Cold War’s end, to begin dissolving
old alliances and shedding commitments dating to a
time when a Soviet Empire bestrode Europe and
Asia like a colossus? Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Tracked In America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance:
This documentary Web site explores more than two
centuries of surveillance in America. Included are two
hours of audio interviews, 300 photographs and 25 personal
stories beginning in 1917.
***************************************************
QUOTE:
I Want To Hurt Somebody
By Greg Palast
**********************************************
QUOTE:
American Prison Planet
The Bush Administration as Global Jailor
By Nick Turse
The American gulag is so much more than Guantanamo
and so much worse. The combination of U.S. "homeland"
prisons, where "one in 140 Americans, or as many
people as live in Namibia, or nearly five Luxembourgs"
are locked away, the offshore imperial detention facilities,
the shadowy CIA black sites, and the ever-shifting
outsourced detention facilities operated by other nations
adds up to something new in history -- the makings of
a veritable American prison planet. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Blood and money
By John Pilger
The United States promised a democracy when the Civil
Rights Act became law in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act
the following year finally ended slavery. For the next
decade, the civil-rights movement joined the great popular
movement to end the slaughter in Vietnam, and Congress
legislated to restrain the CIA's secretive parallel power. It
was a fleeting intermission. Continue
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
Baghdad is Surrounded: “The American Era in the Middle East has ended”
By Mike Whitney
After 3 and a half years of violence and mayhem we still
know as little about the Iraqi resistance as we did in March
2003. This is inexcusable. In addition, there’s been no attempt
to engage the representatives of the resistance in political dialogue.
How can we possibly reach a political solution without dialogue
and negotiation? Continue
********************************************************
QUOTE:
British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il
By Julian Glover
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest
neighbours and allies, according to an international survey
of public opinion published today that reveals just how far
the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters
since the invasion of Iraq. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black
By Phil Rockstroh
While I harbor little affection for nor feel any affinity with
the corrupt establishment of the Democratic Party, I don't
believe, as is the case with the present leadership of the
Republican party, they're a klavern of insane, death-smitten
apocalypticists. However, I do believe that a craven desire
for power and privilege has transformed them into morally
bankrupt, lickspittle, corporate stooges. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
The Election Farce
By David Pérez
The only reason the Democratic Party is against the fiasco
in Iraq is because the U.S. is losing the war. It’s all about
“bad planning,” or “bad timing,” or whatever. If Bush and
Co. had easily subjugated the nation and controlled the oil
fields, the entire U.S. ruling class and their paid politicians
would be joyous. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
"Hey America, Stop your Bellyaching and get to Work"
By Mike Whitney
What can we expect in the midterm elections? The real
question is: What should we NOT expect in the elections.
We should not expect dramatic change from our present
trajectory. Whether Karl Rove engineers another
electoral-coup or not, is beside the point. The system has
been reshaped to meet the needs and aspirations of the
ruling mandarins. Continue
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Foreclosure USA
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
We the people once owned our democracy. We elected
“representatives” to run it for US. Have you noticed?
Somewhere along the way we lost our democracy. It
was foreclosed by wealthy and power elites that corrupted
our “representatives” who literally sold us out. Our homeland
was foreclosed right in plain sight. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Paul Krugman: As Bechtel Goes:
Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity
last month, and much of Iraq’s population lives with
untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel,
having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers’ money and
having lost the lives of 52 employees, has come to the
end of its last government contract.
************************************************
QUOTE:
Gloves come off! : Bush hints Dems love terrorists in late push
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Haggard Case Fuels Debate Over Hypocrisy
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
The New York Times: Avoiding Calamity on the Cheap
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Doris "Granny D" Haddock: Our Eyes Are Wide Open
****************************************************
QUOTE:
William Rivers Pitt: You're Kidding Me, Right?
******************************************************
QUOTE:
Military Newspapers Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann: Bush Owes Troops Apology,Not Kerry
****************************************************
QUOTE:
William Rivers Pitt: Speaking of Apologies
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Sara Rich: A Letter to My Sonand to My Nation
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Bill Moyers: America 101
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
David Rose: Neo Culpa
***************************************************
QUOTE:
While poverty persists, there is no freedom
By Nelson Mandela
Millions remain enslaved and in chains at a time of
breathtaking advances in technology and wealth.
Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Homeland Security Tightens Grip on International Travel
By Ezekiel
The Department of Homeland Security proposed new
rules back in July that would fundamentally undermine
the right of American citizens to travel abroad. Public
carriers--airlines, cruise lines, even fishing boats--will
be required to submit the names of all passengers to
Homeland Security prior to departure and to obtain
permission from Homeland Security to board those
passengers. These new rules will take effect January
14, 2007. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war:
Several prominent neoconservatives have turned on
George Bush days before critical midterm elections,
lambasting his administration for incompetence in the
handling of the Iraq war and questioning the wisdom of
the 2003 invasion they were instrumental in promoting.
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways we know We have Lost in Iraq
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Ocean Life on the Brink of No Return:
Every single commercial fishery in the world will be wiped
before 2050 and the oceans may never recover if over-fishing
continues at its current rate, a four-year scientific investigation
has found.
********************************************************
QUOTE:
No more fish to eat in 40 years:
Fish stocks are declining so rapidly that scientists have
predicted that they will disappear by the middle of the
century unless radical measures are taken to protect them
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
Leftists from across Mexico flood Oaxaca
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Andy Rooney
What are we doing in Iraq?
********************************************************
QUOTE:
Writers find scandal, face jail
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
JIHAD IS FUN! VOTE DEMOCRAT!
BY ANN COULTER
John Kerry is the "botched joke" of American politics.
For those of you keeping score at home, John Kerry has
now called members of the U.S. military (a) stupid,
(b) crazy, (c) murderers, (d) rapists, (e) terrorizers of
Iraqi women and children. I wonder what he'll call them
tomorrow. Whatever Karl Rove is paying John Kerry to
say stupid things, it's worth every penny.
*******************************************
QUOTE:
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF GEORGE W. BUSH
BY RICHARD REEVES
WASHINGTON -- There is an old baseball story that was,
I think, first told about Frankie Frisch when he was
player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1930s:
****************************************************
QUOTE:
KEEPING OUR EYES ON THE BALL
BY MOLLY IVINS
AUSTIN, Texas -- I'm still worried sick. The R's have
seized the news cycle! Which says more about how dim
American politics are than anything I can think of.
************************************************
QUOTE:
Comics: Ted Rall
***********************************************
QUOTE:
O'Connor worries about courts' autonomy
The following comment is:
Copyright (C) 2006 by F. Scott Sinclair.
All Rights Reserved.
Comment: Sandra Day O'Connor shouldd have
thought of that before she retired. And even
before that, when she joined the "Supremes"
majority--known affectionately as the Felonious
Five by many admirers--and stopped the recount
in Florida in 2000. They virutually handed the
White House to Bush on a golden platter. It
doesn't take a brilliant legal mind (or even a
rocket scientist) to figure out the end result of
those two critical decisions: stopping the Flordia
recount, and her premature retirement.
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen, eighteen and nineteen are
now posted of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel:
Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*****************************************************
Thursday, November 02, 2006
AMERICANS HAVE TWO CHANCES TO MAINTAIN THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES & ECONOMIC WELL-BEING: SLIM AND NONE...
QUOTE:
The Dollar's Full-System Meltdown
By Mike Whitney
Everyone in Washington already knew that doomsday
was approaching. That’s the way the system was designed
from the very beginning. It’s all part of the madcap scheme
to “starve the beast” and transfer the nation’s wealth to
a handful of western plutocrats. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Paulson re-activates secretive support team to prevent markets meltdown:
Paulson re-activates secretive support team to prevent
markets meltdown Judging by their body language, the
US authorities believe the roaring bull market this autumn
is just a suckers' rally before the inevitable storm hits
****************************************************
QUOTE:
United States National Debt:
An Analysis of the Presidents Who Are Responsible For
Excessive Spending
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Introduction To U.S. History Uncensored :
I have been and will continue to be accused of hating America
and lacking gratitude for the benefits of being born in this
nation. To this accusation I can only call on the wisdom
of the great American writer Mark Twain who stated
that “We should be loyal to our country at all times
and to our government when it deserves it.”
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Target Iran
This is a must listen
Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh.
The Truth About the White House's Plans for
Regime Change. Click to listen.
**************************************************
QUOTE:
The real problem is that it is illegal for one country to invade another country:
As the Nuremberg Tribunal concluded after World War II:
"War is essentially an evil thing ... To initiate a war of
aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it
is the supreme international crime differing only from other
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated
evil of the whole."
************************************************
QUOTE:
Scott Ritter: Weapons of Mass Delusion :
Ritter gives his analysis of the real reasons for the
invasion and occupation of Iraq
***********************************************
QUOTE:
The way the police treat us verges on the criminal:
Guilty until proven innocent now seems to be the
watchword of a government that increasingly treats
its law-abiding citizens with absolute contempt
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Top accountant says U.S. faces financial ruin:
"This is about the future of our country, our kids and
grandkids," the comptroller general of the United States
warns a packed hall at Austin's historic Driskill Hotel.
"We the people have to rise up to make sure things
get changed."
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Noam Chomsky: US threats to Venezuela:
[T]he US has had two major weapons for controlling
Latin America for a long time. One of them is economic
controls, the other is military force. They have both
been used continually. Both of them are weakening
and it’s a very serious problem for US planners
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Airport screeners fail to see most test bombs:
Screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport,
one of the starting points for the Sept. 11 hijackers, failed
20 of 22 security tests conducted by undercover
U.S. agents last week, missing concealed bombs and
guns at checkpoints throughout the major air hub's
three terminals, according to federal security officials.
************************************************
QUOTE:
The Worst Congress Ever
By Matt Taibbi
How our national legislature has become a stable of
thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps . Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Bush The Cheerleader
By Ray McGovern
When President George W. Bush was asked at his
news conference last Wednesday whether we are
winning in Iraq, he answered, "Absolutely; we're
winning." The disingenuousness was almost enough
to provoke sympathy for the beleaguered president
as he lived through another bad week with further
diminished credibility. Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
Robert Scheer: A truly scary Iraq scenario :
The astounding arrogance that underwrites Bush's
smug determination to keep killing and maiming
tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of people is
no different than that of Presidents Lyndon Johnson
and Richard Nixon. Both knew the war was a failure,
but determined to "stay the course" for a decade
out of a misguided belief in protecting an image
of American infallibility that was paired with
shameful political motives.
***********************************************
QUOTE:
The Spoils of Corruption
By Charles Sullivan
The mainstream media, like organized religion, is
used to program public perceptions-to steer us
away from truth and to perpetuate fairy tales
that extol the virtues of bribery, violence, and
greed. It makes useful idiots of those who cannot
think for themselves and persuades them to act
like fools in the eyes of the world. Continue
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QUOTE:
The Enlightenment of Resistance
By Manuel Valenzuela
Resistance will begin when the many begin the healing
of civilization and the planet, when a massive movement
commences to purge warmongering leadership from
our midst, when a tidal wave of humanity floods the
concrete jungles and steel canyons we live in, marching
to the drumbeats of peace, non-violence and universal
harmony. That is Revolution at the dawn of the 21st
century. Continue
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US-Latin American Relations
By James PetrasMeasuring
The Rise or Fall of US Power : A realistic analysis
demonstrates that political interventions, class
conflict and international markets play a major role
in shaping US-Latin American relations and more
particularly the ascent and decline of US imperial
power, social revolutionary forces and the other
political variants in between. Continue
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US Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting toInterrogation Techniques
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Diebold Demands HBO Cancel Documentary on Voting Machines
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The New York Times: The Fence Campaign
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Norman Solomon: How I Was WrongAbout Thomas Friedman
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Dean Baker: Social Security Is on the Ballot Next Week
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Robert Parry: Al-Qaeda Wants Republicans to Win
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Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
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QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen and eighteen are now posted
of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel: Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
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The Dollar's Full-System Meltdown
By Mike Whitney
Everyone in Washington already knew that doomsday
was approaching. That’s the way the system was designed
from the very beginning. It’s all part of the madcap scheme
to “starve the beast” and transfer the nation’s wealth to
a handful of western plutocrats. Continue
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Paulson re-activates secretive support team to prevent markets meltdown:
Paulson re-activates secretive support team to prevent
markets meltdown Judging by their body language, the
US authorities believe the roaring bull market this autumn
is just a suckers' rally before the inevitable storm hits
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United States National Debt:
An Analysis of the Presidents Who Are Responsible For
Excessive Spending
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Introduction To U.S. History Uncensored :
I have been and will continue to be accused of hating America
and lacking gratitude for the benefits of being born in this
nation. To this accusation I can only call on the wisdom
of the great American writer Mark Twain who stated
that “We should be loyal to our country at all times
and to our government when it deserves it.”
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Target Iran
This is a must listen
Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh.
The Truth About the White House's Plans for
Regime Change. Click to listen.
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The real problem is that it is illegal for one country to invade another country:
As the Nuremberg Tribunal concluded after World War II:
"War is essentially an evil thing ... To initiate a war of
aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it
is the supreme international crime differing only from other
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated
evil of the whole."
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Scott Ritter: Weapons of Mass Delusion :
Ritter gives his analysis of the real reasons for the
invasion and occupation of Iraq
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The way the police treat us verges on the criminal:
Guilty until proven innocent now seems to be the
watchword of a government that increasingly treats
its law-abiding citizens with absolute contempt
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Top accountant says U.S. faces financial ruin:
"This is about the future of our country, our kids and
grandkids," the comptroller general of the United States
warns a packed hall at Austin's historic Driskill Hotel.
"We the people have to rise up to make sure things
get changed."
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Noam Chomsky: US threats to Venezuela:
[T]he US has had two major weapons for controlling
Latin America for a long time. One of them is economic
controls, the other is military force. They have both
been used continually. Both of them are weakening
and it’s a very serious problem for US planners
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Airport screeners fail to see most test bombs:
Screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport,
one of the starting points for the Sept. 11 hijackers, failed
20 of 22 security tests conducted by undercover
U.S. agents last week, missing concealed bombs and
guns at checkpoints throughout the major air hub's
three terminals, according to federal security officials.
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The Worst Congress Ever
By Matt Taibbi
How our national legislature has become a stable of
thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps . Continue
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QUOTE:
Bush The Cheerleader
By Ray McGovern
When President George W. Bush was asked at his
news conference last Wednesday whether we are
winning in Iraq, he answered, "Absolutely; we're
winning." The disingenuousness was almost enough
to provoke sympathy for the beleaguered president
as he lived through another bad week with further
diminished credibility. Continue
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QUOTE:
Robert Scheer: A truly scary Iraq scenario :
The astounding arrogance that underwrites Bush's
smug determination to keep killing and maiming
tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of people is
no different than that of Presidents Lyndon Johnson
and Richard Nixon. Both knew the war was a failure,
but determined to "stay the course" for a decade
out of a misguided belief in protecting an image
of American infallibility that was paired with
shameful political motives.
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The Spoils of Corruption
By Charles Sullivan
The mainstream media, like organized religion, is
used to program public perceptions-to steer us
away from truth and to perpetuate fairy tales
that extol the virtues of bribery, violence, and
greed. It makes useful idiots of those who cannot
think for themselves and persuades them to act
like fools in the eyes of the world. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
The Enlightenment of Resistance
By Manuel Valenzuela
Resistance will begin when the many begin the healing
of civilization and the planet, when a massive movement
commences to purge warmongering leadership from
our midst, when a tidal wave of humanity floods the
concrete jungles and steel canyons we live in, marching
to the drumbeats of peace, non-violence and universal
harmony. That is Revolution at the dawn of the 21st
century. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
US-Latin American Relations
By James PetrasMeasuring
The Rise or Fall of US Power : A realistic analysis
demonstrates that political interventions, class
conflict and international markets play a major role
in shaping US-Latin American relations and more
particularly the ascent and decline of US imperial
power, social revolutionary forces and the other
political variants in between. Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
US Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting toInterrogation Techniques
********************************************
QUOTE:
Diebold Demands HBO Cancel Documentary on Voting Machines
*******************************************
QUOTE:
The New York Times: The Fence Campaign
*******************************************
QUOTE:
Norman Solomon: How I Was WrongAbout Thomas Friedman
********************************************
QUOTE:
Dean Baker: Social Security Is on the Ballot Next Week
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Robert Parry: Al-Qaeda Wants Republicans to Win
********************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Comment: Installments seventeen and eighteen are now posted
of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel: Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
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