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"Staying in Iraq is not an option," write George S. McGovern and William R. Polk. "Many Americans who were among the most eager to invade Iraq now urge that we find a way out. These Americans include not only civilian 'strategists' and other 'hawks,' but also senior military commanders and, perhaps most fervently, combat soldiers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906C.shtml

The editors of the New York Times write: "... we're still waiting for a sign that Mr. Bush has grasped the urgency of the unfolding disaster in Iraq as anything beyond a political problem. Mr. Rumsfeld's departure is merely the first step. It has to be followed by a major change in policy if American troops can be brought home without leaving a disaster behind."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906N.shtml



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5269/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

by Peter Phillips

Published on Wednesday, November 8, 2006
by CommonDreams.org

Human Rights belong to people collectively. To believe in rights for some and not others is a denial of the humanness of people worldwide. Yet, denial is exactly what Congress and George W. Bush did with the signing of the Military Commission Act of 2006. The new official U.S. policy is that torture and suspension of due process are acceptable for anyone the president deems to be a terrorist or terrorist supporter. This act is the overt denial of the inalienable rights of human beings propagated in our Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Our famous words, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," did not declare that some men (and women) are without unalienable rights. Our independence was founded on the belief that all men and women are recognized by this nation as having innate rights derived from their humanness.

Likewise, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created by the United Nations in 1948 and signed and ratified by the U.S. Congress, specifies in its preamble that "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world."

The Universal Declaration of Human rights is a treaty that legally binds the United States government. Article 10 states that "everyone is entitled to full equality, to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him," and Article 5 specifically prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

For the U.S. government to unilaterally declare that our country will not comply with international human rights laws, nor uphold the core values of our nation's foundation is an indication of extremism that supersedes the values and beliefs of the American people. When such an extremism exists, we may need to take seriously the founders' declaration that, " to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The U.S. government is actively torturing people to death. One need only read the 44 official U.S. military autopsy reports on civilian detainees from Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002 to 2004 posted on the American Civil Liberties website to see the horrendous details of deaths by "strangulation," "asphyxiation" and "blunt force injuries."

The Military Commission Act retroactively approved the use of torture to the beginning of the 9/11 Wars. Congress's reaction to the ACLU report in October of 2005 was to pass legislation banning further use of the Freedom of Information Act to request documents on current military operations.

We are in a time of extremism, permanent war, and the unilateral manifestation of ethnocentrism and power by an openly public cabal of people in the U.S. government. Those in power are set on the U.S. military domination of the world. They seem willing to defy the foundational values of the American people to achieve their ends. We have no choice but to declare openly our belief in universal human rights and demand the immediate impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney and a full accounting of those in their administration.


Peter Phillips is a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and director of Project Censored. He is co-editor with Dennis Loo of the new book "Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney," available at: http://www.projectcensored.org/impeach.htm



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By seizing on a conservative strategy, progressives showed what ballot initiative drives can accomplish.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/11/08/using_the_rights_ballot_playbook.php



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A message from Pilvi


Ok.. I snagged this from one of my groups.. Please sign the petitions, this video must get banned.. This guy is one f....ing a....hole..

MySpace.com showing animal cruelty/

This monster needs to be caught. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1168364365

Here's the petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/748505556

Let us be absolutely clear on what has taken place. This was not simply a midterm election, not just a historic running of the table, not just a scathing repudiation of virtually everything the Bush administration has stood for since they swaggered into Washington six long years ago. It was so very much more than this.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906Z.shtml



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

Rather than attacking record, activists painted incumbent as a corrupt servant of businesses.

By Bettina Boxall Times Staff Writer November 9, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-defenders9nov09,1,6713843.story


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

11/08/06

The Bush administration and the Republican Congress could not defend themselves on their public record and urgently needed to change the subject. They required new fields of combat -- not the Iraq war, certainly not convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, convicted Rep. Duke Cunningham, investigated Rep. Mark Foley or indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. So they launched offensives on Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease, Jim Webb's novels and gay marriage. Yet battle-hardened cultural warriors -- Rush Limbaugh, Lynne Cheney and the Rev. Ted Haggard, among others -- did not find themselves triumphant as in the 2004 campaign, but unexpectedly wounded at their own hands." [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/11/08/election/



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Post mortem

The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes

11/08/06

This one is pretty easy to explain. Republicans lost the House and probably the Senate because of Iraq, corruption, and a record of taking up big issues and then doing nothing on them. Of these, the war was by far the biggest factor. Unpopular wars trump good economies and everything else. President Truman learned this in 1952, as did President Johnson in 1968. Now, it was President Bush's turn, and since his name wasn't on the ballot, his party took the hit. The defeat for Republicans was short of devastating -- but only a little short...

http://tinyurl.com/ycxuzj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

National Review
by William F. Buckley, Jr.

11/08/06

It is sobering to remind ourselves that the alternatives open to Congress come down finally to categorical action. When Congress decided to act on the unpopularity of the Vietnam War, it passed a series of resolutions and laws which prevented President Nixon from taking basic tactical steps to thwart the total defeat that lay ahead for us. If comparable laws were passed today they would forbid American money to be used in Iraq for hostile purposes, which would be tantamount to forbidding armed resistance to the claims of the insurgents. Merely to suggest such alternatives is to remind ourselves of the inherent inadvisability of contemplating them. The Constitution makes the president the commander in chief. To permit the continuance of his responsibility while stripping him of the means to act is a device for modifying the Constitution, for which critics would be reluctant to accept responsibility. If a crisis is of such a reach, then the orderly procedure is the impeachment of the president. But the people who went to the polls on Tuesday intending to register opposition to the war are not of revolutionary mettle. Still, they have found the means to make demands that the President will need to appease...

http://tinyurl.com/yffm9z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tennessean
by James Jones

There are more than a half million veterans -- soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coast Guardsmen -- now living in Tennessee, and no single group has a greater stake in today's election than veterans. Veterans have always heeded the call to service for many reasons, but one characteristic unites all -- a deep, enduring love of country. Loyalty and integrity are second nature to veterans, and this loyalty, unlike most jobs, includes a sworn oath to protect the Constitution of the United States. Veterans and their loved ones realize that this higher devotion may demand the ultimate sacrifice. At times, the sense of loyalty and integrity may conflict; soldiers who feel doubts about a superior's decisions may suppress those feelings due to loyalty. For many veterans, the time has come to speak out: Our higher loyalty is to our country and the Constitution...

http://tinyurl.com/ygc2b6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cato Institute
by Neal McCluskey

11/09/06

'Local schools remain under local control,' Bush declared in his radio address, though NCLB dictates everything from how reading is taught to teacher qualifications. Similarly, in response to a question about the expansion of federal power during her tenure, Secretary Spellings recently insisted that 'I'm a good Federalist and a good Republican.' But the billion-dollar question remains: How can the administration hew to the ideal of local control while simultaneously advocating federal intrusion into the classroom? They can't. Either they stick to the Constitution and keep the federal government out of education, or they chuck it and run the schools from Washington...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6763


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe

11/08/06

The Democratic victory last night did not mark the end of the war in Iraq, but it seemed to mark the end of America's patience with the war. President Bush, whose 'stay the course' mantra became a rallying cry for Democratic challengers, now will come under intense pressure to choose a new course. He will have to contend with more than just the demands of a Democratic-led House. Congressional Republicans, who once marched in lock step with their commander in chief, are also likely to break with the White House, having now tasted electoral defeat. 'The Iraq war has opened up some big divisions in the Republican Party and that's the next thing to play out,' said Boston University political scientist Julian Zelizer, author of a book on congressional politics. 'There'll be a lot of Republicans looking toward 2008'...

http://tinyurl.com/ym4xf6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Elkhart Truth

11/08/06

Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Wednesday as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans. The Berkeley, Calif., woman, whose son was killed in Iraq more than two years ago, was arrested along with three other women on the sidewalk outside the White House gate, said Lt. Scott Fear, a U.S. Park Police spokesman. They were charged with interfering with a government function, he said...

http://tinyurl.com/yayqxa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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>From archaeological ruins in Scotland to 13th century mosques in the Sahara, the effects of climate change could destroy some of the world's most important natural and cultural heritage sites, a report has revealed. Heritage sites that have existed for thousands of years "may, by virtue of climate change, very well not be available to future generations," said Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110806EB.shtml

The 21 species of albatross are some of the world's most majestic birds. An adult has a wingspan of up to 3.5 meters and can circumnavigate the world in a single flight. Yet each year, 100,000 of them are killed by longline fishing, where nets up to 80 miles long with thousands of hooks are towed by fishing boats catching birds as well as fish. As a consequence of this indiscriminate slaughter, 19 of the 21 species are under threat of extinction ... But a body of legal opinion is proposing what are being called "wild laws," which would speak for birds and animals, and even rivers and nature.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110806EA.shtml

It has been claimed that CIA is using Britain's air space to carry out "extraordinary rendition" – secret, international transfers of terrorism suspects across the world.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/73920.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=extraordinary+rendition

British policy in Iraq has been a "rank disaster", a former diplomat told MPs on Wednesday as he pledged to reveal secret evidence about the war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6200901,00.html



A shameful vote in the House of Commons

On Tuesday 31 October MPs missed an historic opportunity to pass judgement on the Iraq war. The following MPs voted with the government:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/_Current/Parl31Oct06.htm#VotingWithGovernment


From Information Clearing House

The antiwar wave that has been rising for months crashed and broke over the heads of the Republican Party, sweeping away all but the most entrenched incumbents. This election, in the broadest sense, was a referendum on the Iraq war – and the results are a dramatic rebuke to the War Party.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9981


From Information Clearing House

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The antiwar wave

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/08/06

With a majority in the House and probably the Senate, the Democrats now have it in their power to at least halt the escalation of the war. The War Party is calling for sending as many as 50,000 additional troops to Iraq. If the Democrats sent to Washington in the wake of the November Revolution fulfill their mandate, they'll put a swift stop to this -- and take their opposition to the war one step further. Congress holds the purse strings and can cut off funds for the war whenever it likes: failure to do so will blur the differences between the two parties on this issue and betray the trust of millions who registered their opposition to the war by voting Democratic. The Democrats must either oppose the war and vote to rein in the president with their power of the purse -- or else they must take their share of responsibility for the failed policy of this administration, and also share the blame...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9981


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

By Morton Skorodin

It was no fluke that the reckless faction of the ruling elite picked up the ball and ran with it – the neoconservatives with their Project for a New American Century. These geniuses had and, presumably, still have the utopian plan of establishing permanent military predominance over the whole world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15543.htm



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By Mike Whitney

In the next few months, a financial crisis will arise somewhere in the world which will jolt the American economy and trigger a swift and precipitous decline in the value of the dollar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15545.htm

By Chris Floyd

If anyone thinks the horrors of the Bush Imperium are somehow at an end – or will even be seriously impaired – by the results of yesterday's election, they have a harsh and bitter awakening to come.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15542.htm

By Charles Sullivan

The corporate financing of political campaigns is, in fact, a capital investment in the status quo that benefits the wealthy and marginalizes those with neither wealth nor property. That explains why substantive change is rarely accomplished through the vote in America. It also explains the remarkable consistency and homogeneity of governmental policy through the decades; domestic and foreign, regardless of which party is in power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15540.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/1108-14.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1108-05.htm

Referendum against Iraq War Gaining Ground
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1108-07.htm

Iraq Wins the Election, What Now?
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1108-32.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1108-01.htm

Referendum against Iraq War Gaining Ground
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1108-07.htm

Iraq Wins the Election, What Now?
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1108-32.htm

US Must Get out of Iraq — Now
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1108-22.htm



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Urge Officials to Spare Virginia's Bears

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is getting set to hold a cruel hunt in which as many as twenty bears will be killed in the name of recreation. This hunt is not taking place to curb overpopulation, nor is it to protect members of the public. It is simply to appease hunters' blood thirst and it's just not right.

According to The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and the Nansemond National Wildlife Refuge Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan, "The main purpose of the hunt is to add a priority wildlife-dependent recreational opportunity for the public. There are limited public hunting opportunities in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. By implementing a bear hunt an additional 200 hunting days will be provided to the area."

Please "take action" to urge The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine to call off the hunt. Also, please tell a friend and take a moment to sign our petition to Governor Kaine.

Then download your letters and fax or mail to the addresses indicated below.

Governor Timothy Kaine
Office of the Governor, 14th Floor
One Capitol Square, 830 E. Main Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Tel.: (804) 371-0840
Fax: (804) 371-0935
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/
Please click here for the online feedback form.

Suzanne Baird, Refuge Manager
The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
3100 Desert Road
Suffolk, Virginia 23434
Tel.: (757) 986-3705
greatdismalswamp@fws.gov

Marvin Moriarty, Regional Director
Northeast Regional Office
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
300 Westgate Center Drive
Hadley, MA 01035-9589
Tel.: (413) 253-8200
Fax: (413) 253-8308
northeast@fws.gov

Urge state officials to call off the killing
http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=4347341

Urge Chinese Ambassador to U.S. to stop the killing
http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=4349059

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/greenwald1.html

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The Bush Administration's Torture of U.S. Citizen Jose Padilla

By Glenn Greenwald

In an effort to gain Mr. Padilla’s "dependency and trust," he was tortured for nearly the entire three years and eight months of his unlawful detention. The torture took myriad forms, each designed to cause pain, anguish, depression and, ultimately, the loss of will to live.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15574.htm



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After Rumsfeld: is Cheney next?
http://infowars.net/articles/november2006/081106Rumsfeld_Sacrifice.htm

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Is Cheney Next?

As a federal jury deliberates the fate of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, several watchers agree that if the jury decides Libby knew he was lying to investigators, it could spur investigators to explore further whether Cheney was involved in conspiring to obstruct justice.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207R.shtml



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Le Monde commentator Dominique Dhombres recounts one French news junkie's response to American election night on television.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806H.shtml

A Bulk Rate on Printing Subpoenas?

David Swanson writes: "Chairman John Conyers Jr., Chairman Henry Waxman. Those titles will prove to be the most important outcome of yesterday's elections, even if the Dems get the Senate too. It's investigation and impeachment time."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806D.shtml



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Tom Engelhardt writes: "The wave - and make no mistake, it's a global one - has just crashed on our shores, soaking our imperial masters. It's a sight for sore eyes. It's been a long time since we've seen an election like midterm 2006."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806C.shtml



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Lawyers like Goodman and Warren will continue to pursue justice for Guantanamo inmates. And what about regular people horrified at the trampling of law? Matthew W. Daloisio, a Catholic Worker, emphasizes the need for public education, moral challenge and widespread protest.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806B.shtml



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08.11.06

Das Nürnberger Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) widerspricht der Annahme, dass eine Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes in Deutschland zu einer raschen und deutlichen Senkung der Arbeitslosigkeit führt. "Die Wirkung auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit würde sich im Großen und Ganzen in Grenzen halten", sagte der stellvertretende IAB-Direktor Ulrich Walwei der "Berliner Zeitung". Ein gelockerter Kündigungsschutz würde zwar die Einstellungen erleichtern, aber genau so auch die Entlassungen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14692

"Schaukämpfe" & "Populismus" : Diskussionen um die Verlängerung des Arbeitslosengeldes I (08.11.06)

In der derzeitigen Debatte unter den Parteien findet eine gefährliche Verschmischung von Profilierungsversuchen um eine "sozialere Politik", um die frustrierten Wähler wieder an sich zu binden, mit Diskussionen um Inhalte und Sachfragen statt. So vermutet SPD-Chef Kurt Beck hinter dem Vorstoß des nordrhein-westfälischen Ministerpräsidenten Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) für einen längeren Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld I in erster Linie Parteitaktik. "Er geht auf Stimmenfang", sagte Beck, der möglicherweise wenig anderes im Sinn hat. Auch der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Linksfraktion, Klaus Ernst, meint: "Mit ihren Schaukämpfen um die sozialere Politik versuchen Union und SPD davon abzulenken, dass beide Parteien für die zunehmende Spaltung der deutschen Gesellschaft verantwortlich sind." Zugleich kritisiert die Linke innerhalb der Linkspartei, dass man sich in Berlin mit der SPD erneut auf eine neoliberale Politik einlasse. Jenseits dieser Metaebene findet auch eine Sachauseina ndersetzung darüber statt, ob die Zahlung von Arbeitslosengeld I weiterhin nur 1 Jahr lang oder bis maximal 2 Jahre lang ausbezahlt werden soll.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14689

Post-Election Job Number One

The New York Times editorial staff write: "Whatever this election accomplished, it did nothing to end the rancor and distrust that define current American politics. Yet, as the campaign went on (and on) there was one issue on which people from both parties appeared to be finding common ground: Donald Rumsfeld has to go."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806N.shtml



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

Dean Baker writes: "The Democrats have scored an important electoral gain for the first time in 14 years. It is now incumbent on progressives to ensure that this victory is not squandered. In addition to maintaining pressure for a hasty withdrawal from Iraq, there is a long list of economic items that we should be pushing the Democrats to support. At the top of the list must be the demand to carry through on one of the Democrats' key campaign promises: reforming the Medicare prescription drug benefit."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806K.shtml

Robert Parry writes, "By a surprisingly decisive margin, American voters rejected George W. Bush's designs for transforming the United States into a one-party government run by an all-powerful executive waging endless war abroad and throttling Constitutional liberties at home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806J.shtml



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

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, is resigning after six stormy years at the Pentagon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806X.shtml

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Gates Has History of Manipulating Intelligence

Robert Gates, the former director of the CIA during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, and who was tapped Tuesday by the president to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, is part of Texas's good ol' boy network. He may be best known for playing a role in arming Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein with American made weapons in the country's war against Iran in the 1980s.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806R.shtml

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Iraq exit the No 1 priority for Rumsfeld successor

Robert Gates, the 63-year-old career intelligence officer chosen to replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, takes over with the clearest of missions: get American troops out of Iraq as quickly and cleanly as possible.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2444140,00.html



Robert Gates: A New Perspective on Iran?:

Whatever else he may bring to his new job at the Pentagon, Robert Gates apparently holds a view on the highly sensitive subject of relations with Iran that hasn’t been embraced by all his new colleagues in the Bush administration.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/11/08/a-new-perspective-on-iran/


From Information Clearing House

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Robert Gates, the successor of Rumsfeld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates

Bob Gates not better than Rumsfeld
http://tinyurl.com/yym4h3

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Gates Has History of Manipulating Intelligence

Robert Gates, the former director of the CIA during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, and who was tapped Tuesday by the president to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, is part of Texas's good ol' boy network. He may be best known for playing a role in arming Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein with American made weapons in the country's war against Iran in the 1980s.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806R.shtml

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Rumsfield replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting company
by Bev Harris

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfield will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates.

Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids.

You can find copies of the VoteHere lobbying forms here: http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=0

I can't get them to save to pdf, perhaps you can. Enter search terms in both "registrant" and "client" fields and put in terms "Rhoads" "Livingston" and "Votehere" (one at a time.). Then look at the gravy train while it was in the process of derailing American democracy.

I first became acquainted with VoteHere when I met a source, Dan Spillane, who is the wonderful guy that identified the Diebold source code modules for me after I found the Diebold files. He is the person who introduced me, and subsequently everyone else, to the odd role of The Election Center and R. Doug Lewis in the elections industry.

Spillane also filled me in on The Livingston Group, VoteHere lobbyists, run by Bob Livingston -- the fellow that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt outed during the Bill Clinton blow job days. Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to anyone who could locate a Republican congressman committing adultery, and out popped peccadilloes by Livingston.

Livingston couldn't live that one down, so he resigned his post as House Speaker-Elect and became a lobbyist -- but that's not all! He also launched a group called "Center for Democracy" which was going to "monitor elections." This group also featured several good old boys from the tobacco industry and some mining companies.

Former VoteHere test engineer Dan Spillane was looking into all this because he had been fired after he questioned the certification process on a touch-screen system in which he had identified 250 flaws. It was way back in November 2002 that Spillane told me, "The voting machine industry is a house of cards. And the certification and testing process is the bottom card in the house of cards."

BUT DON'T RUN OUT OF THE ROOM TO TAKE A SHOWER YET. There's more.

VoteHere was a company shilling cryptographic solutions and filled with NSA types (another director was Admiral Bill Owens, another crony of Rummy, Perle and Wolfowitz). For some reason this company claims it was unable to prevent itself from being hacked. In this alleged hack, VoteHere claims that someone stole their source code. Said source code was offered to me in October 2003, an obvious attempt at entrapment which I refused.

Nevertheless, VoteHere claimed to the media that its master security experts had supposedly "tracked" the hacker and had identified the hacker as an activist in the election reform community.

For some reason, it was decided that I should be investigated in connection with this "hack" of VoteHere -- nevermind that I can't remember how to change the password on my own laptop. Therefore I was interviewed by the Secret Service several times about this. Curiously, they never seemed to ask any questions about VoteHere, only my role in finding the Diebold files and publishing the Diebold memos.

This nonsense eventually culminated in a gag order and a letter from the U.S. Attorney to appear in front of a federal grand jury with information on all the visitors to the Black Box Voting Web site. (As if they couldn't get that in less dramatic ways in post-Patriot Act America). Attorney Lowell Finley (now with http://www.VoterAction.org ) went to bat for me on this. A reporter named George Howland from the Seattle Weekly also got wind of it. When it hit the press, and with Lowell Finley's help, their harassment of me stopped.

VoteHere never sold any voting machines that I can find, but apparently did set up some deals to embed its cryptography into some voting systems. We found memos in the Diebold trash about VoteHere's crypto-crap, and Maryland Director of Elections Linda Lamone shows up in VoteHere-related letters. Sequoia Voting Systems signed an agreement with VoteHere, but its not clear to me whether they ever did anything about it.

Robert Gates stepped away from VoteHere shortly before he showed up in Chapter 8 of my book, Black Box Voting, in a short bit about the VoteHere company history. You can read that here: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

I don't know about you, but I'd rather use a paper, pencil, and count by hand at the polling place than have former CIA director Robert Gates fooling around with my vote.

But that's just me.

-- Bev Harris Founder, Black Box Voting

P.S. Since the HBO special, I have plenty of moral support, but even after the Secret Service interviews and all the rest of the nonsense my husband and I have had to put up with, there are others who have had it rougher.


Informant: David Diggins

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The Cheney-Gates Cabal

by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com

If his career is any clue, Rumsfeld's replacement places loyalty above principle.
http://ga3.org/ct/bp20pgF16XyU/

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The Secret World of Robert Gates

Robert Parry writes, "Robert Gates, George W. Bush’s choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary, is a trusted figure within the Bush family’s inner circle, but there are lingering questions about whether Gates is a trustworthy public official."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906A.shtml

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What Rumsfeld’s dismissal means
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5272/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



Contra Gates

The American Prospect
by Eric Alterman

11/08/06

The president announced his pick to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense today: former CIA director Robert Gates. Bound to surface in the coming national scrutiny of Gates is his role in the Iran-Contra affair. One of the great misconceptions of the Iran-Contra scandal is the widely-held belief that when then-Attorney General Meese called a press conference on November 25, 1986, to announce his discovery of the famous 'diversion' of funds from the weapons sales to Iran to pay for weapons for the Nicaraguan contras, he was finally revealing the truth of what took place. As Oliver North pointed out in his memoir, the administration had much to gain by focusing on the diversion...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12195



Rumsfeld's replacement: The Robert Gates file

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

While Donald Rumsfeld was Ronald Reagan’s errand boy to Saddam Hussein in the mid-1980s, Robert Gates, the man named yesterday to succeed him as Secretary of Defense, was at the very heart of the American intelligence apparatus, actively planning and carrying out covert operations in Central America and the Middle East. Gates, a 26-year CIA veteran and the agency's director between 1991 and 1993, has long been accused of undermining competent, unbiased intelligence analysis at the agency during his tenure, opening the way for its role in partisan politics, a reality brought to the fore again as the Bush administration made its flawed and phony case for war with Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/ykn8yr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Gates: Another Bush Constitution Betrayer In The Pentagon
http://www.rense.com/general74/gates.htm


Informant: ranger116



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

Gehirne in einer neurotoxischen Suppe

Wissenschaftler warnen vor einer "stillen Epidemie" durch industriell hergestellte Chemikalien, die vor allem die Gehirne von Kindern schädigen können.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23923/1.html

Bei den "Midterm"-Wahlen haben die Demokraten die seit 12 Jahren herrschende Republikaner-Mehrheit im Kongress zum Einsturz gebracht.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23928/1.html



Langsamer Spurwechsel zur Ausfahrt

Nach dem Wahl-Crash von Bush: Wie geht es weiter im Irak?
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23926/1.html

http://progressive.org/node/4179


Informant: Orval Osborne



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

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

Now the Dems must thunder from the pulpit, threatening to rain down hellfire, hail and brimstone on Republicans who want to stay the course.

http://ga3.org/ct/Md20pgF1gmUW/

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The Iraq Mandate

"For the first time in American history, Americans have gone to the polls in wartime and rejected that war," writes Robert Dreyfuss. "Not only that, but they've done so overwhelmingly. Just as the election of 1932 was a seismic repudiation of the failed economic policies of the Hoover Republicans, the election of 2006 was a landslide against the Bush Republicans and their criminally misguided war against Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906M.shtml

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Democratic To-Do List

by David Corn, TomPaine.com

Now the Dems must act quickly to secure public opinion.
http://ga3.org/ct/Ap20pgF1gmU6/

ACTION ALERT
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

http://www.RainforestPortal.org/
November 8, 2006

TAKE ACTION

After an earlier successful campaign to halt oil road construction, the message must still be sent that oil extraction and protected areas do not mix http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=ecuador .

Caption: Oil Production and Protected Areas Do Not Mix (link)

In two separate letters delivered to the Ecuadorian government, a group of over 40 Yasuni scientists (known as the Scientists Concerned for Yasuni) and 6 international NGOs have criticized Petrobras’ new Environmental Impact Study (EIS) of their new “roadless” plan to build oil production facilities in Ecuador’s world class Yasuní National Park. Although both letters praise Ecuador for stopping Petrobras from building an access road into Yasuni National Park, they emphasize that the new project design (construction and operation of 2 drilling platforms, flow lines, a processing facility and pipeline) will cause major impacts to the region’s biodiversity and indigenous peoples.

A massive new processing facility would be constructed on the alluvial plain of the world renowned Tiputini River. Sixteen hectares of mature, inundated forests along the Tiputini would have to be cleared and drained, completely destroying the habitat. And the rainforest surrounding the proposed sites for the two drilling platforms is home to large mammal species considered indicators of high quality rainforest, such as tapir, giant armadillo, giant anteater, and large monkey species.

Moreover, the processing facility would be built on an important hunting area for the Kichwa community of Chiru Isla, and the drilling platforms would be located within the prime hunting grounds of the Waorani community of Kawimeno. The Waorani representative organizations were never consulted about the project, nor did they grant consent for activities on their ancestral territory.

The Ecuadorian government must be urged to NOT approve the study and to cancel the project, as oil exploration and protected area status are simply incompatible.

Tell them by taking action now: http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=ecuador

Notes: After sending this alert please choose to send a follow- up email regarding rainforest fires in Indonesia. When you do, it is likely you will receive many out of office messages which you can disregard. The emails targeted are the main contact points for the Kyoto meeting's representatives and they ARE being monitored while their government's focal points meet in Nairobi.

Despite widespread problems with electronic voting machines, long lines that stretched several city blocks in some states, hours-long waiting at the polls, and GOP intimidation tactics aimed to drive away predominantly Democratic and minority voters, the public turned out en masse Tuesday and helped shift the balance of power in Washington, DC, to Democrats for the first time in 12 years.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806Z.shtml



Democrats Make Gains as President Suffers Backlash

Democrats took a clear advantage in early results from America's bitterly contested Congressional midterm elections, gaining two Senate seats and making strides in the House of Representatives, where the Bush White House was last night braced for a loss of the 12-year-old Republican majority.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806M.shtml



Democrats Oust GOP in Governing Six States

Democrats won open governor's seats in five states Tuesday and knocked off the Republican incumbent in Maryland, tilting control of the majority of governorships to Democrats for the first time since the 1990s.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806O.shtml



Democrats Take Control of the Senate

Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans Wednesday with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806W.shtml



Senate in balance as Bush battered

Americans delivered a sharp rebuke to President George Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress, sweeping Democrats into power in the House for the first time in a dozen years and dismantling most if not all of the Republican Senate majority.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1962535.ece


From Information Clearing House

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Democrats Sweep US Congress in Election Triumph

Democrats have completed their sweep of the US Congress by capturing control of the Senate, US media reported, handing President George W. Bush a stunning defeat that alters the political landscape for years to come.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906L.shtml



Democrats to Usher in Change in Judicial Nominations, Investigations

Democrats have control of the House of Representatives after 12 years of Republican rule, setting the stage for a series of intensive investigations of the Bush administration by several different House committees. The Democratic Senate victory could also have profound implications for the next Supreme Court pick.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electronic+voting+machine
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=polls

The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes

11/07/06

For sure, the war in Iraq was always going to be a drag on Republicans. And an election in the sixth year of a presidency is often perilous for the president's party, a pattern that's held true in year six of the Bush era. But Republicans have made matters worse by abandoning the reform agenda that animated their capture of Congress in 1994 and helped George W. Bush win the White House in 2000 and keep it in 2004. With scarcely a fight, Republicans gave up on Social Security reform in 2005, immigration reform in 2006, and never really got started on tax reform. Bush also cast aside the overarching theme for his domestic policy -- the Ownership Society -- without an explanation. The consequences have been dire...

http://tinyurl.com/yku6rs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Spectator
by Philip Klein

11/08/06

In assessing last night's results it is important to note that it was not a defeat for conservatism; it was a defeat for Republicanism, or at least, what Republicanism has come to represent. In the past 12 years, Republicans went from the party that promised 'the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money' to the party of the Bridge to Nowhere; it took control of Congress on a pledge to 'end its cycle of scandal and disgrace' and went down in defeat as the party of Tom DeLay and Mark Foley. Having abandoned its core principles, the Republican Party had nothing to run on this year, so its campaign strategy centered on attacking Nancy Pelosi -- a questionable tactic...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10604


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

11/07/06

By a wide margin, Americans who voted Tuesday in the midterm election say they disapprove of the war in Iraq. But when asked which issue was extremely important to their vote, more voters said corruption and ethics in government than any other issue, including the war, according to national exit polls. A large majority of voters also disapproved of how Congress and President Bush are doing their jobs...

http://tinyurl.com/yml9p2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corruption
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election

James Randerson Wednesday
November 8, 2006
The Guardian

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1941739,00.html

The "most significant conservation disaster ever" may be about to repeat itself around the world, according to research by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Conservationists, already dismayed by the death of millions of vultures in India, Nepal and Pakistan, caused by the birds consuming a cattle drug, have found other bird species are also susceptible.

The anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac is toxic to three species of Asian vulture - the oriental white-backed, long-billed and slender-billed. They die from kidney failure if they eat the carcasses of cattle treated with it. Conservationists estimate that 10-14 million birds have died; populations are still declining at 30% to 50% a year. "It's probably the most significant conservation disaster ever in terms of the number of birds lost," said Jemima Parry-Jones at the US National Aviary in Pittsburgh.

Dr Parry-Jones and the RSPB research team set out to discover whether diclofenac and related drugs are toxic to other birds. They asked zoo vets around the world for reports of unintentional bird deaths after treatment with the drugs. Of the 79 scavenging birds they received information on, the drugs were deadly for 30%, including the African white-backed vulture, saw-whet owl from North America, harris hawk, spoonbill, Eurasian gryphon vulture and African maribu stork. The researchers reported their results in the journal Biology Letters.

The manufacture and import of diclofenac was banned in India in August, although it is not illegal to sell off stockpiles. It is banned in the US and Europe, but is still used in parts of Africa and South America.


Informant: binstock

http://tinyurl.com/ykfkdb


Informant: binstock

Protest in Hamburg

„Der Soziologe Thomas Meese beginnt ab 6. November 2006 seinen Protest mit der Forderung auf Entschädigung für geleistete Zwangsarbeit bei der Universität Hamburg. Seine Forderung auf Entschädigung für Zwangsarbeit stützt sich auf das Übereinkommen 29 über Zwangs- und Pflichtarbeit der International Labour Organization (ILO). Die BRD hat dieses Übereinkommen am 13. Juni 1956 ratifiziert…“ Meldung mit weiterführenden Informationen bei Tacheles vom 06. November 2006 http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2006/ein_euro_jobber_protest.aspx


Aus: LabourNet, 8. November 2006

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»Ich unterschrieb nur aufgrund der Drohung«

Ein-Euro-Jobber beklagt Zwangsarbeit und fordert Entschädigung von Hamburger Uni. Ein Gespräch mit Thomas Meese von Sebastian Wessels in der jungen Welt vom 27.11.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/11-27/057.php


Aus: LabourNet, 27. November 2006



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

Entlassungen trotz Gewinn! - Was heißt da "trotz"?

Text der Sendung GegenStandpunkt – Kein Kommentar! im Freien Radio für Stuttgart vom 18. Okt. 2006 http://frs.kumbi.org/redaktionen/keinkommentar/index.php?artikel=061018.htm



Volle Taschen für Bonzen

„Ungefähr dann, wenn die letzten Mitarbeiter der von Siemens und BenQ in den Bankrott gefahrenen Handy-Werke beim Arbeitsamt vorstellig werden, kassiert die Spitze des Münchener Konzerns ab. Siemens-Chef Klaus Kleinfeld und seine Vorstandskollegen müßten nur noch knapp fünf Monate warten, daß sich ihr Gehalt um 30 Prozent erhöhe, berichtete das Nachrichtenmagazin Focus am Dienstag in seiner Online-Ausgabe. Die Bezüge würden zum 1. April erhöht, bestätigte ein Siemens-Sprecher dem Magazin, sechs Monate früher, als bislang angenommen worden war. Das zuständige Gremium im Aufsichtsrat hatte laut Focus beschlossen, die Gehälter schon zum 1. April dieses Jahres anzuheben. Folglich ende der einjährige Verzicht, über den Siemens Anfang Oktober informiert habe, bereits im April des folgenden Jahres…“ Artikel von Arnold Schölzel in der Jungen Welt vom 08.11.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/11-08/058.php


Aus: LabourNet, 8. November 2006

„In einer Reihe von Entscheidungen hat das Bundessozialgericht am Dienstag erstmals die Ansprüche von Hartz-IV-Empfängern präzisiert. Dabei hat das höchste deutsche Sozialgericht den Behörden aufgegeben, bei der Erstattung von Unterkunftskosten weniger pauschal als bisher vorzugehen, sondern die Einzelfälle individuell zu prüfen. Im Ergebnis könnten Langzeitarbeitslose dadurch mehr Unterstützung als bisher erhalten. Zudem stellten die Kasseler Richter fest, daß in "atypischen Fällen" der feste Regelsatz von 345 Euro zwar nicht erhöht werden dürfe, aber außerordentliche Belastungen durch den Sozialhilfeträger ausgeglichen werden könnten…“ Artikel von Corinna Budras in der FAZ vom 08. November 2006 http://www.faz.net/s/Rub6B15D93102534C72B5CF6E7956148562/Doc~E88C8A29A743D4


Gericht kritisiert Teile von Hartz IV

Seit Einführung von Hartz IV wird über die Unterkunftskosten gestritten. Das Sozialgericht hat nun festgestellt, dass Mietkosten an den Verhältnissen der betroffenen Städte gemessen werden müssen. Video der heute-journal-Sendung vom 7.11.06 http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/24/0,4070,3998392-6-wm_dsl,00.html

Siehe dazu:

Grundsätzlich keine neue Übergangsfrist für Suche nach einer angemessenen Wohnung bei Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern

Pressemitteilung des Bundessozialgerichtes Nr. 34/06 vom 7.11.2006 http://juris.bundessozialgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bsg&Art=ps&Datum=2006&Sort=3&nr=9641&pos=0&anz=34

Anspruch auf Arbeitslosengeld II trotz vorhandener Eigentumswohnung

Pressemitteilung des Bundessozialgerichtes Nr. 33/06 vom 7.11.2006 http://juris.bundessozialgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bsg&Art=ps&Datum=2006&Sort=3&nr=9640&pos=1&anz=34


Aus: LabourNet, 8. November 2006

We believe we have just seen the beginning of a more pronounced slowdown that will likely push us into recession. The reason we are more negative than many economists is that high levels of consumer debt make the economy much more interest-rate-sensitive than in past economic cycles.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HK08Dj01.html


From Information Clearing House

The United States is losing substantial numbers of business travelers to Europe because of the stringent security measures it imposes on international visitors, according to a report by a tourism industry group that was released Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/ycwjjt


From Information Clearing House

'Massive revisions' make report 'nonsense'
http://tinyurl.com/ybl4nk


From Information Clearing House

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/468465p-394142c.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

Never in its 230-year history has America been in such peril. It is up to us to keep George Bush from further ransacking of this great nation. We must not wake up the day after the elections and realize -- too late -- that we failed to vote when "Democracy" was the single most important issue on the ballot.

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/11/7/1255/48983


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ballot

John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980's.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm

Washington and Tehran are preparing for a fight to see whether Iran can block the Straits of Hormuz, source of a quarter of the world's oil.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/dilip_hiro/2006/11/post_585.html


From Information Clearing House

A new audit examining 15 contracts signed in Iraq has found new evidence of massive corruption and mismanagement by the US government.

http://tinyurl.com/yxa9ry


From Information Clearing House

He is the victim of a state-sponsored lynching, and so, for many people, he will die a martyr.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/15946295.htm



Move to reinstate Saddam supporters

Iraq's Shia-dominated government has announced a major concession for the Sunni Muslim backers of Saddam Hussein, a day after the former president was sentenced to hang.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1961446.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

By Keith Olbermann

Having frightened us, having bullied us, having lied to us, having ignored and rewritten the Constitution under our noses, having stayed the course, having denied you’ve stayed the course, having belittled us about "timelines" but instead extolled "benchmarks," you’ve now resorted, sir, to this?

Video and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15537.htm



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

As the cost of health care continues to rise, health care-related industries stand to influence key races in Tuesday's election by pouring millions of dollars behind Republican and Democratic candidates.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110706HA.shtml

Inaccurate sample ballots describing Republican governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele as Democrats were handed out to voters in at least four polling sites in Prince George's County this morning. The ballots were distributed by people who said they arrived by buses this morning from Pennsylvania and Delaware.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110706T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ballots

Volunteers Report

Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts Tuesday, delaying voters in several states and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110706S.shtml

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CHAOS: Problems worsen, Dems seek voting extension

On a day already rife with computer glitches, long lines, and legal appeals to extend voting in Denver, provisional ballots are now running out at some Denver voting centers.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4616285



Long Lines, Voting Machine Problems Reported Across State

James W. Marquart of Cleveland said he left an elementary school polling place without voting because election workers told him his name wasn't on the rolls even though he had with him a postcard from the elections board showing that's where they told him to vote.

http://www.nbc4i.com/politics/10263352/detail.html?taf=col



Virginia Voters Report Getting Suspicious Calls

The FBI is looking into allegations from Jim Webb's campaign that Virginia Democrats are getting suspicious telephone calls from so-called volunteers threatening voters with arrest if they go to the polls.

http://www.nbc4.com/politics/10262649/detail.html?taf=dc


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ballots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electronic+voting+machines

November 8th, 2006

You did it! We did it! The impossible has happened: A majority of Americans have soundly and forcefully removed Bush's party from control of the House of Representatives. And, sometime today perhaps, we may learn that the same miracle has happened in the Senate. Whatever the outcome, the American people have made two things crystal clear: End this war, and stop Mr. Bush from doing any more damage to this country we love. That is what this election was about. Nothing else. Just that. And it's a message that has sent shock waves throughout Washington -- and a note of hope around this troubled world.

Now the real work begins. Unless we stay on top of these Democrats to do the right thing, they will do what they've always done: Screw it up. Big Time. They helped Bush start this war, and now they should make amends.

But let's take a day to rejoice and revel in a rare victory for our side -- the side that doesn't believe in unprovoked invasions of other countries. This is your day, my friends. You have worked hard for it. I can't tell you how proud I am to count all of you as part of the greater American mainstream we now occupy. Thank you for all the time you gave this week to get out the vote. Some of you have been at this since the large demonstrations of February 2003 when we tried to stop the war before it started. Only 10-20% of the country agreed with us at that time. Remember how lonely that was? Some people were even booed! Now, 60% of the country agrees with our position. They are us and we are them. What a nice, strange, hopeful feeling.

A woman, for the first time in our history, will be Speaker of the House. The attempt to ban all abortion in the conservative state of South Dakota was defeated. Laws to raise the minimum wage were passed. Democrats were elected to fill Tom DeLay's and Mark Foley's seats. Detroit's John Conyers, Jr. is going to be the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The Democratic governor of Michigan beat the CEO from Amway. The little township next to where I live in Michigan voted Democratic for the first time since... ever. And on and on and on. The good news will continue throughout today. Let's enjoy it. Savor it. And use it to get Congress to finally listen to the majority.

If you want to do one thing today, send an email or a letter to both of your senators and your member of Congress http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ and tell them, in no uncertain terms, what this election means: End the war -- and don't let George W. Bush get away with any more of his bright ideas.

Congratulations, again! Now let's go find a spine for the Dems to do the job we've sent them there to do.

Yours in victory (for once!),

Michael Moore
mmflint @aol.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com

P.S. Thanks for all those photos you sent me of you with your brooms at your polling places. They're still coming in and we're posting them here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmflint/ throughout the day. And for those of you who asked how "Sicko" is coming along, the answer is: better than we ever expected! We're hard at work in the edit room and it will be in theaters in June. Thanks again, everyone, for your support.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election

There have been many coments in the past years on Spanish flu here are some links one of which relates directly to this not that the 1st virus was identified by a brit scientific team in 1933 please read on..... best anyone can do is look after their immune system which of course means avoiding junk food & drinks ....... leave the comfort zone.

Chris


What They Don’t Tell You About Vaccination Dangers Can Kill You or Ruin Your Life http://www.mercola.com/2004/may/12/vaccination_dangers.htm

VACCINE/SIDS CAUSAL LINK

In 1985 Dr. Scheibner, a former principle research scientist for the government of Australia, and her husband electrochemical engineer Leif Karlsson invented the CotWatch breathing monitor for babies who are diagnosed “at risk” for SIDS, or “Cot Death” as it is known in Australia. Over the next three years, the couple monitored hundreds of babies and studied the event reports that their CotWatch produced. “By 1988 we knew that vaccines are killing babies,” said Dr. Scheibner. http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/Eclub%20searchable/011201/VACCINE.htm Vaccinations, Not Virus, Responsible for Spanish Flu

It took a British science team to identify the first virus in man in 1933, yet propaganda says that the virus of Spanish flu killed millions of civilians and soldiers during the pandemic from 1918 to 1920.

Many would have us believe that all those American soldiers who died from non-combatant causes died from Spanish flu. However, U.S. Army records show that seven men died after being vaccinated.

http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/Eclub%20searchable/210603/CTM-spanishflu.htm

VACCINES: NEW PLAGUE FOR A NEW ERA

The vaccine debate maintains a long and sordid history, although too few people are aware of this fact. Due to the controlling interests of government agencies and their puppeteer, the pharmaceutical industry, public awareness has been manipulated, via the media, to its present state of indifference. Why does no one question the authority of injecting agents of unknown toxicity into their body? The general public is apparently satisfied with the information (or more accurately, the lack of information) provided by the government, unless presented with a specific reason not to be. Unfortunately, now is the wrong time for apathy. We are on the verge of vaccine mania, and by the time our wake up call comes, it just may be too late

http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/Eclub%20searchable/200801/vaccinesnewplague.htm

It would seem reasonable to suggest that introducing a toxic vaccine directly into the bloodstream is a dangerous intervention. Surely, if a child gets a naturally-occurring illness such as measles, (not generally a serious condition), the body reacts to that condition in its own natural way. But when you inject a vaccine into the body, you're actually performing an unnatural act because you are injecting a toxic substance directly into the bloodstream. In the case of measles and smallpox, or any disease for that matter, this is not the natural port of entry. In fact, the whole immune system in our body is geared to prevent this from happening. The body has several defence mechanisms to prevent the entry of poisonous and toxic material and takes a lot of care to ensure the purity of the bloodstream. A toxin will smell or taste bad and the nose and mouth should reject them. If it is nevertheless swallowed and not vomited out, the liver and stomach will do their best to neutralise it and the kidneys eliminate it.

http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/Eclub%20searchable/240804/CTM%20-%20an%20unnatural.htm


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

People are preparing to go back into battle with a mobile phone giant which wants to build a giant mast near their homes.

Vodafone has resubmitted plans to put a 20 metre-high mast on land close to the RSPCA animal shelter on Longridge Road in Ribbleton, Preston.

Council planners threw out Vodafone's original plans earlier this year. But the company claims it has changed the proposals from those dismissed in May because of the visual impact it would have had on nearby Grange Park.

However, people living close to the RSPCA shelter say they see very little different with the application and have the same concerns they raised seven months ago.

Martin Teeling, 46, who lives on nearby Acer Road in Ribbleton, said he would have concerns about the impact on the health of his daughters, Niamh, six, and Roisin, four.

He has now drafted an objection letter which he intends to deliver to local people and lobby members of the council's planning committee to vote against the plans.

Coun Brian Rollo, who represents the Ribbleton ward, sat on the planning committee which rejected Vodafone's last application after a wave of protest, including a 225 signature petition.

He said: "The feeling back then was that it would spoil the view of people looking over Grange Park, which is a nationally-recognised green space, and having looked at these new plans, I do not see anything particularly different about them."

A spokesman for Vodafone said it had worked with planners at Preston Council following the previous rejected application and agreed to replace the solid monopole with a more slim-line model in this application.

Do you think mobile phone masts are a health danger? Vote now in the poll on our homepage.
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08 November 2006

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