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Charles Babington of The Associated Press reports: "Democrats running Congress for the first time in more than a decade faltered at key points this year as they grudgingly passed important bills opposed by many, or even most, of their House members. When Republicans were in charge, they generally avoided a similar fate."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122207E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP

In "Truth and Consequences," Countdown MSNBC's Keith Olbermann "collects the best of his Special Comments, presented with additional observations and other new material."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122207D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Olbermann

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26926/1.html

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FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics

Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post, reports: "The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122207A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Biometrie
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biometrics
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ellen+Nakashima

In this ignoble chapter in the history of U.S. justice, the American military's own uniformed lawyers have stood out for their attempts to uphold the rule of law.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/20/opinion/edattorneys.php


From Information Clearing House

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122107J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=evangelism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

Citing conversations he had in Israel with officials in Mossad and the Israeli defense establishment, Riedel concluded that "Israel is not going to allow its nuclear monopoly to be threatened."

http://snipurl.com/1vod0



What Will Israel Do?

A unilateral military strike against Iran is much more likely following the latest intel report about Tehran's nuke program.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/81215/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Riedel

Paul Craig Roberts and others talks about the ill health and possible demise of the dollar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18934.htm



The Butcher's Apron

By Mike Whitney

Why do we keep throwing billions of dollars down a black hole just to maintain this pathetic charade that fools no one? Why not just load up the boxcars with pallets of crisp-new hundred dollar bills and ship them off to Crawford where they end up anyway. Let Bush worry about how to distribute the loot.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18935.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dollar+weak
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x626AnWgxYQ


Informant: Frank



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=School+of+the+Americas

Pat Eiding and Ellen Slack for The Philadelphia Daily News write about the historic significance of December as the month that the UN General Assembly adopted in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the right to employment and economic well- being. Eiding and Slack write: "Sadly, the US, a nation that prides itself on being a world leader, has not been a leader in the area of workers' rights - that is, the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122107LA.shtml



Union Protests "Atmosphere of Fear" at FreshDirect

Sewell Chan, The New York Times: "Nearly two weeks after FreshDirect let go of scores of immigrant workers, political leaders, labor organizers and other supporters of the workers rallied outside the company's warehouse and headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, this afternoon, accusing the company of ousting the workers to foil a coming unionization vote."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122107LB.shtml


Nightmare Before Christmas

Bob Herbert, writing for The New York Times, says, "I had a conversation the other day with Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union. He mentioned a poll of working families that had shown that their belief in that mythical dream that has sustained so many generations for so long is fading faster than sunlight on a December afternoon."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122207F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=trade+unions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2229950520071222


Informant: John Calvert



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=videotapes

Article by Charley Reese
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese422.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/reese

says John Keller

Isolationism vs. Militarism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/keller20.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=isolationism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarism

John M. Regan, Jr., on the subprime crisis and justice.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/regan-j4.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subprime+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

VILLAGERS battling to get a mobile phone mast removed from a North Yorkshire village will have their case raised in parliament.

Ryedale Tory MP John Greenway has written to villagers in Sheriff Hutton telling them he will be speaking to the House of Commons in January about a controversial phone mast in the village.

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http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.1922127.0.mp_to_raise_controversy_over_phone_mast_in_parliament.php