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By David Swanson

Lobbying Hitler's Legislature For Peace

....many citizens (myself included) no longer believe Congress has the

power to affect anything other than by removing Bush and Cheney from

office.

 

By Allen L Roland

BUSH'S BAGHDAD PALACE / OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

It's also a highly visible Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush one finger salute to

Iraq, the world and the American taxpayer ~ DEAL WITH IT !

 

By Missy Comley Beattie

Over A Barrel

War rage please!

 

By Mathew Maavak

Games, Cock-Fights And Fandangos In The Persian Gulf

The Fifa World Cup begins next month. It's a quadrennial event that

grips the entire world in a month-long state of frenzy. But there is a

another game going on. Read the chicken trail from 60s nuclear

strategist Herman Kahn to present day Iran.

 

By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Boobs, Panties, And Courage: How Honest Elections Could Change Alabama

Sex sells anything and everything in America. But can sex sell

liberty? A mother of two who makes it her life's work to confront

corruption is going to find out.

 

By Joan Brunwasser, Voting Integrity Editor, OpEdNews

Interesting New Developments With " Invisible Ballots " DVD Project!

I started this project almost eight months ago. Since then, more than

250 individual/group borrowers have been enlisted, one by one. I have

an opportunity to reach eight to ten times that many in the course of

a three-day conference! At the rate I've been going, it would take me

64 months (five years and four months) to get to 2,000 borrowers. In

short, this is a much more efficient, cost-effective way to spread the

word.

 

By Sam Vaknin

The Roots Of Anti-Americanism

The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it

is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or

unprecedented.

 

By Richard Mathis

The Most Radical Story A Liberal Ever Told

Jesus was a radical story teller who challenged organized religiosity

and the establishment.

 

By Tedbohne

IMAGINE A CLOD LIKE DICK CHENEY SLAPPING THE RUSSIANS AROUND ABOUT

DEMOCRACY!

The US had better not start leaning on the Russians!

 

By Steven Leser

Emperor Palpatine Aka Darth Cheney Lectures Putin About Freedom

We now have evidence of one of the big weaknesses of this

administration, memory retention. Yes, I know, there exists a lot of

other, perhaps more important shortcomings, but this one is a serious

one too.

 

By Mark S. Tucker

Easy Nutrition - Part 6

The basics of nutrition are quite simple. You don't need a 300 page

book to understand them. Here's the penultimate installment of a

7-part series proving just that.

 

By Rob Kall

Casey Tanking, As Predicted, But Faster.

Casey continues to drop as OpEdNews predicted.

 

By Lonna Gooden VanHorn

America's Hitler, Part Two

This article attempts to explain how feelings of fear and

powerlessness contribute to a more easily manipulated citizenry. It

continues to compare how both Hitler and Bush used religion and

patriotism to manipulate the people and accomplish their goals. It

touches upon the media's complicity in enabling both leaders to do

what they did.

 

By Joel Wendland

Dick DeVos: Top Ten Things To Know About His Real Agenda

Republican candidate for governor in Michigan Dick DeVos won't tell

the truth about his record, so here it is.

 

By Diane M. Grassi

Congressional Recoil From Latest Dubai Takeover

The national security implications of a foreign entity operating key

factories that are Department of Defense suppliers might well have

demanded the same call for scrutiny from the Congress as the Dubai

ports deal.

 

By Judy Aron

Is Bush Adopting Hitler's Approach To Children And Education?

When is government " help " voluntarily received and when is it forced

upon us? Should we allow laws that will dictate mental screening,

recording and even perhaps micro-chipping of our population? How does

that measure up to what our founders intended in the name of freedom?

 

By Randy Potter

Bob Casey Jr's Free Fall Just Beginning According To Latest Poll "

A Santorum Supporter's Perspective on the Casey Campaign

 

By Jeff Cohen

I'm Tired Of Bushes And Clintons

Jeff Cohen is a media critic and writer. His latest book -- " Cable

News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media " -- will be

available in September.

 

By Rob Kall

Blackwell Wins, Or Steals Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Primary

Blackwell slinks into the general election for Ohio Governor. Ohio--

one of the most corrupt holes on the planet.

 

By Dan DeWalt

The People Take Their Case To The Speaker

Vermonters have delivered the first salvo of impeachment resolutions

to the Speaker of the House

 

By JGideon

'Daily Voting News' For May 03, 2006

a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country

and overseas.

 

By Robert Koehler

Crossing The Border

What bothers me is the hypocrisy at every level of this debate, and

the fact that, even among moderates, " rational " arguments -

particularly economic arguments - to justify draconian policies,

including the breakup of families, are just a cover to mask a

reptile-brain fear of outsiders and the human impulse to exclude.

 

By Don Monkerud

Corruption Reform

Campaign contributions are too high and too lax. Lobbyists solicit

contributions, bundle contributions in networks, host fund-raising

events, and even serve as campaign treasurers on committees and PACs,

major sources of corrupting campaign money within the legal limits.

They control the purse strings of office holders.

 

By Don Monkerud

New Announcement On Gas Tax Rebate

President offers a quarter for gas tax rebates, others in Congress bicker.

 

By Len Hart

A Little Noted Victim Of Bush's Tyranny: The Individual Conscience

A constitutional crisis looms. Bush refuses to enforce provisions of

some 750 statutes and, in other instances, adds " signing statements "

invariably at odds with the intentions of congress. Bush insists that

he has the right to decide which laws are Constitutional and which are

not. Just as important, however, are inumerable crises of conscience

as citizens are forced to choose between what is right and what is Bush.

 

By Mike Whitney

Bush's Hand In The Terror War

Tired of the same old BS about civil war and Zarqawi when you know

something else is going on? Robert Fisk has connected the dots and

fingered intelligence agents as the cause of the violence in Iraq. Who

do you believe; Bush or Fisk?

 

By Randolph T. Holhut

FAREWELL, PROFESSOR GALBRAITH

With John Kenneth Galbraith's passing, we lost a great hero for the

cause of liberalism and I lost a great mentor.

 

By Unknown

Becoming Calm

It works!

 

By Stephen Lendman

Evo Morales Now Joins Hugo Chavez As A US Target

More evidence emerges that the Bush administration is planning hostile

action against the democratically elected governments in Venezuela and

Bolivia

 

By Web, The

Joke: The Seven Kinds Of Sex

 

 

By Doug Thompson

George W. Bush: An American Hitler

In George W. Bush's petty, pathetic, partisan world, laws he doesn't

agree with don't have to be obeyed, Congressional actions that differ

from his political agenda can be ignored and the Constitution of the

United States is just a " goddamned piece of paper. "

 

By Margie Burns

Premature Launch

The administration launched its first PR blitz against Iraq on March

11, 2002, exploiting the six-month anniversary of 9/11. But the launch

failed. Someone must have feared that the blitz would raise questions

about September 11, 2001.

 

By Jim Bush

The Jinn

 

 

By Sam Vaknin

The Clash Of Islam And Liberalism

This is not a clash of civilizations. Western culture is inextricably

intertwined with Islamic knowledge, teachings, and philosophy.

Christian fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants

than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Islam is not merely a

religion. It is also - and perhaps, foremost - a state ideology. It is

all-pervasive and missionary.

 

By Richard Mathis

The Howling Hounds Of Hell

The cultural war is more like a dog fight.

 

By Ron Fullwood

The Idiocy Is Swelling

Bush's continuing aggression threatens to trigger yet another disaster

for working Americans already struggling to absorb the

industry-inflated energy costs.

 

By Teresa Simon-noble

Bush-Tony Snow-The Press

 

 

By Mark S. Tucker

American Rhetoric 101A - Part 15

The snarky and fleering sub-series on `property' concludes - oh, and

be sure to thank the Insurance Industry for many of your property woes.

 

By Tedbohne

TIME FOR A QUICK CHECK

Hmm. I wonder.

 

By Bob Burnett

Iraq - Seeking A Way Out

The Biden-Gelb " three-state solution " gives the American people Iraq

an additional option for Iraq, for a total of four.

 

By Joaquín Ramón Herrera

Fear And Courage - Pt 2.

Part 2 of an essay on xenophobia, fear, America, and HR4437s

consequences, already, on the emotional landscape. Live coverage of a

Human Chain event in NYC's Garment District on May 1, 2006 by yours truly.

 

By Kall, Rob

Wealthiest, Most Educated In US As Healthy As Bottom Economic And

Educational Rung In England

Brits healthier than Americans at half the cost.

 

By Mike Whitney

Take Back The Oil Companies

Here's an energy policy we can all live with. Nationalize the oil

industry and dump the oil mogols in Guantanamo. That way they'll have

plenty of time to think about how they dragged our kids to war to

fatten their companies' bottom line.

 

By Andrew Bard Schmookler

FIGHTING FOR THE SOUL OF OUR COUNTRY! --A Battle Cry For Our Movement

There is more at stake here than just which individuals hold power,

and thus our rallying cry must be more than just " impeachment. " Those

dark forces that have helped empower this presidency must be

disgraced. We are fighting for America's soul.

 

By Bob Burnett

Iran - Inside Bush's Brain

While pundits have explored the policy and political consequences of

an attack on Iran, they've ignored an equally important consideration:

How does President Bush actually make decisions? And, what does this

suggest that he's going to do about Iran?

 

By Jason Miller

SUCCESS IS NOT AN OPTION:

Washington loves to point the finger at " failed states " like Iran and

North Korea....it is time America's ruling elite took a long hard look

in the mirror...

 

By JGideon

'Daily Voting News' For May 02, 2006

a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country

and overseas.

 

By Evelyn Pringle

Karl Rove Indictment Long Overdue

In peddling the story to reporters, a fact not known to most Americans

is that Rove and Libby leaked the identity of a CIA agent who happened

to be an expert on WMDs at a time when the US had supposedly went to

war to eliminate the threat of such weapons being used against our

country.

 

By Allen L Roland

COLBERT SCORES A KNOCKOUT

It took just 15 minutes but Bush never had a chance. Colbert jabbed,

feinted and satirically ridiculed every talking point from the

Cheney/Bush myth machine to utter monsense before a room full of

shocked Washington, D.C. insiders, powerless press corps and a visibly

irritated President ~ it was satire and irony at its glorious best.

 

By Larry Scott

Vets' Commission Chair Gets OK To Study Social Security Benefits

General Terry Scott asked Congress to interpret its own law defining

the charter of the Vet's Commission. Unbelievably, and

unconstitutionally, four key Members of Congress gave Scott the OK to

study vets who get Social Security disability benefits and VA

compensation. Scott's goal is an offset, a reduction, in vets'

benefits. At stake: Veterans' benefits, veterans' privacy and the

constitutional separation of powers.

 

By Evelyn Pringle

Tequin's Serious Injuries - Bristol-Myers Feigns Ignorance

 

 

By Evelyn Pringle

Relentless Drive For Oil Company Profits Threatens Overall Economy

The higher oil prices are a threat to America's overall economy and

the skyrocketing costs of heating public facilities and keeping school

buses, police cars, emergency vehicles and snowplows running are

wreaking havoc on local governments all across the country.

 

By William Fisher

AMERICAN BEDFELLOWS

The " Global War on Terror " has produced the unintended consequence of

bringing the United States ever-closer to some of the world's most

repressive regimes.

 

By Missy Comley Beattie

Mission Impossible

 

 

By DNC

Bush Covering Uninsured Americans With More Failed Policies

This week is " Cover the Uninsured Week, " a time for all Americans to

bring attention to 46 million uninsured in our country. In fact, under

President's Bush's failed leadership, 6 million more Americans have

become uninsured.

 

By Becky Burgwin

Stephen Colbert…The New Jon Stewart

Sorry Jon. Americans need in your face political satire not skits

about why they call sweet rolls Danishes in Denmark.

 

By Richard Mathis

Why Didn't Osama Hit Us After 9/11?

Osama is a far better strategist than W.

 

By Mark S. Tucker

Weekly Music Reviews - May 1-7

Folk and other root musics are an increasingly ignored genre in modern

music and shouldn't be, as these three CDs amply illustrate.

 

By Steven Leser

Bush And The America He Created

I feel like some kid went back in a Delorean and made Biff President,

it screwed everything up, and we are all just waiting for some mad

scientist to get the kid 1.21 gigawatts to go back and fix everything.

 

By Joaquín Ramón Herrera

Fear And Courage - Pt 1.

Part One of a meditation upon the fear that being attacked has bred in

our nation; how that fear has been encouraged and provided us by the

war makers, and how it is turning America into a land split apart by

hypocrisy.

 

By Thaddeus Hoffmeister

Scheduling Rumsfeld's Departure

Discussing when and how Rumsfeld should be let go.

 

By Planned Parenthood

S1955 - Women In Every State Will Lose Health Care Benefits!!

Your immediate action is needed on a bill before the U.S. Senate that

could end basic health insurance coverage you depend on — birth

control, cancer screenings, maternity care, and more.

 

By Progressive States Network

Major Conference To Highlight States' Anti-Corruption Efforts

Author David Sirota, Maine Representative Nancy Smith, New Hampshire

Senator Lou D'Allesandro, and New Hampshire Representative Jim Craig

and other elected officials are slated to speak at an upcoming

conference in Concord, NH, devoted to highlighting state strategies to

fight corruption in government.

 

 

 

Best News Links from the Web

 

By

Are You Tired Of Elections Being Rigged?

Put this system in place, and rigging elections would be virtually

impossible.

 

By

Diebold Disaster: Optical Scan Machines Fail In MI, Officials Forced

To Hand-count Ballots

Our Electoral System Meltdown continues as more and more reports come

in on epidemic Electronic Voting Machine failures around the country.

It's neck and neck right now as Diebold and ES & S battle it out for the

prize of Worst Company, Worst Service, Worst Technology and Best

Excuse Maker. But we've got a long way to go in this Election Year, so

it's still anyone's contest. (Anyone's but the voters, that is.)

....Sound familiar? The Barry County mess, as it's being reported by

WOOD-TV, sounds almost identical to the situation in Leon County, FL

last December where " hackers " had exploited a security vulnerability

in Diebold's optical scanner memory card causing it to print results

that were virtually the opposite of the true results on the paper

ballots. The " hackers " , who were computer security experts, had hidden

all traces of their " crime " in that mock election test, so it would

likely never have been discovered.

 

By

Diebold Disasters Deepen: PA Issues Security Vulnerability Alert For

Diebold Voting Systems!

Several Counties 'Locking Down' Machines as Company Promises Last

Minute Software Fix Just Before Upcoming Primary Election Election

Integrity Advocates Suggest Warning May Stem from Recent Independent

Voting Machine Analysis Revealing Major Security Flaws in Diebold

Hardware and Software

 

By

Diebold Not To Blame For Diebold Disasters Says Diebold

No word yet on whose fault it wasn't that Diebold's paper-trail

printers kept jamming all day, or on the 70 Diebold memory cards

(otherwise known as thousands and thousands of ballots) which went

missing. But we know that wasn't Diebold's fault either. Though

perhaps the part about them being so incredibly easy for anybody to

change the data on those cards in about 30 seconds while they're

" missing " could be Diebold's fault. Nah. It's probably just the humidity.

 

By

Assimilation 101

The secret to blending in for immigrants, according to satirist Rich

Herschlag, is to consume, consume, consume: cell phones, iPods, Grand

Theft Auto, Botox. Then, maybe one day you too can achieve the

American dream -- hiring someone for six dollars an hour.

 

By

Team Abramoff Visited The White House Over 200 Times In Bush's First

10 Months In Office

As Keith Olbermann pointed out last night, someone from Abramoff's

firm was at the White House every business day for 10 months through

October 2001. That's a whole lotta access.

 

By

South Dakota's Abortion Revolt

" An overwhelming majority of South Dakotans believe that the governor

and the Legislature went too far. This legislation is extreme and does

not reflect the values of South Dakotans who want families to be able

to make personal decisions about health care without government

interference, " said Jan Nicolay, former Republican lawmaker and

spokesperson for the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families.

Nicolay's group, formed immediately after the law's passage by

citizens, doctors, clergy and Republican politicians, launched a

campaign to overturn the law with a ballot initiative. If the

necessary signatures are collected by June 19, the law will be

suspended pending the outcome of the November election. Meanwhile, in

Statehouse primaries, Republican lawmakers who voted for the abortion

ban are being challenged by more moderate Republicans who opposed the

ban because they considered it too restrictive and an intrusion into

people's private lives.

 

By

Stephen Colbert's Remarks To The President

For those of you who missed the White House Correspondents' Dinner and

want to see what all the brouhaha is about, the transcript of

Colbert's remarks.

 

By

Colbert Shocks The Media Silent

For days the battle has raged on the Web: Did Stephen Colbert go too

far in lampooning President Bush, to his face, at the White House

Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night? Is that why his barbs did not

generate more laughter around the room of 2700 journalists,

celebrities and other guests? Or was it because he suggested the press

was spineless in failing to confront the president on Iraq?

 

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Electronic Voting " dead In The Water " In Ireland

" This report again reconfirms our opinion that the system is unsafe

and vindicates not using it in the 2004 Local elections. Electronic

Voting has been a disaster since its inception. Following yesterday & #65533;s

PAC report Electronic voting in this country is now 'dead in the

water'. The one ray of sunshine now emerging from this whole sorry

mess is that it may be possible to sell the system as there seems to

be some interest in purchasing it from abroad. The Government has

squandered over 50 million euro of taxpayer's money on the system

which nobody wanted. We along with others at the time opposed the

introduction of Electronic Voting on a number of grounds all of which

have been vindicated. We believed it was too expensive, would lead to

a fall in voter turnout and was unsecure. "

 

By

Chinese Becoming Latest Terror Targets

Chinese workers have been killed in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Now, in response to China's oil deal with Nigeria, rebels declare that

by investing in crude, which they claim belongs to the people, the

Chinese government places its workers in Nigeria " in our line of fire. "

 

By

Help Susan Lindauer: Reporter Held Political Prisoner To Cover Up US

Genocide In Iraq

The hearing to have Susan Lindauer committed and forcibly medicated is

scheduled for May 4, but it might not be beyond the government to move

it to an earlier date to prevent her from getting competent

representation. She needs a good, courageous attorney who is willing

to confront the U.S. government with the evidence presented here,

showing that she is sane, was seeking to save lives, and has been

imprisoned in an attempt to cover up genocidal mass murder.

 

By

US Dollar Starts Big Slide Vs. Major Currencies: Why Should You Care

About This?

Imagine that. George W. Bush and friends created this monumental mess

in just five short years -- a toxic fiscal stew that will take decades

and trillions of dollars to clean up. Nice going George.

 

By

Impeachment Weighed Again

Critics argue that it's wrong to impeach if there is no chance the

Senate will convict. We disagree. This president's constitutional

crimes have never been fully investigated, or, in many cases,

investigated at all. Yet remember, it was only during the Watergate

and impeachment hearings that Richard Nixon's most serious crimes came

to light. Who knows what even Senate Republicans would do once

witnesses, compelled to testify under oath in a House Judiciary

Committee, started to tell the truth about Bush administration

actions? For all these reasons, impeachment should be a key issue this

election year, and a bill of impeachment should be submitted to the

next House Judiciary Committee.

 

By

Surprising Number Of Ohio Repubs Say 'not' To Ney

The soon-to-be-indicted lead pusher of the disastrous Help America

Vote Act (HAVA), Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) had his primary race in Ohio's

18th District tonight. While most congressmen named in four different

criminal indictments and convictions would usually be toast, this is,

after all, Ohio.

 

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Diebold Disaster: Company Gets 'F' From Election Board Chair As

Machines Fail All Over Cuyahoga County OH On Primary Da

Voting Machines Refuse to Power Up, No Paper Ballot Backups, 17,000

Absentee Ballots Must be Counted by Hand Voters Pay the Price,

Investigations Are to Come...

 

By

Diebold Disaster: Cuyahoga County Still Counting As 70 Memory Cards

Missing From 200 Precincts

50 Temp Workers Hired to Count Absentee Ballots which Diebold Machines

Fail to Scan Properly... Problems Also Reported with ES & S and in

Several Other OH Counties... Add this to our previous report on the

Diebold Disaster in Cuyahoga County, Ohio during yesterday Primary

Election. The Cleveland Plain Dealer headlines their story: " First

all-electronic election marred by problems " .

 

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GOP Sen. Specter: Hearing Vowed On Bush's Powers

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White

House of a ''very blatant encroachment " on congressional authority,

said yesterday he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush's

assertion that he has the power to bypass more than 750 laws enacted

over the past five years. ''There is some need for some oversight by

Congress to assert its authority here, " Arlen Specter, Republican of

Pennsylvania, said in an interview. " What's the point of having a

statute if...the president can cherry-pick what he likes and what he

doesn't like? "

 

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Wealthy, Insured Americans No Healthier Than England Lowest Class With

Socialized Medicine

Wealthy, insured Americans at the top of the education and income

scale in the US suffered diabetes and heart disease at a similar rate

to those at the bottom of the socio-economic scale in England.

[Perhaps nationalized medicine focuses more on prevention...?]

 

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Bush Top Economist: Gas Tax Cut Not The Answer

ANOTHER BAD BUSH IDEA... " One of the things we worry about when we cut

the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use, "

said Edward Lazear, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic

Advisers. " Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant

problem ... because what it would do is it would encourage us to use

more oil, not less and that is the way we got to the situation right

now, " he explained. " That probably is one of the policies that we

would like to avoid, " he said.

 

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Cut And Run? You Bet. - Lt. Gen. William E. Odom

Why America must get out of Iraq now. Withdraw immediately or stay the

present course? That is the key question about the war in Iraq today.

American public opinion is now decidedly against the war. From liberal

New England, where citizens pass town-hall resolutions calling for

withdrawal, to the conservative South and West, where more than half

of " red state " citizens oppose the war, Americans want out. That

sentiment is understandable.

 

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Energy Independence Day

George Bush won't ask Congress for permission for torture or domestic

spying. But when it comes to energy policy – he is very, very

concerned about the limits of his presidential powers.

 

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Doonesbury.com Poll: Even Fans Of Bush Think He's Awful

13,755 voters who said they hate Bush, 83% called him the worst

president ever, 10% the second worst, and 6% the third worst. The

really interesting statistic was that among the 319 voters who said

they love Bush, 55% called him the worst president ever, 11% the

second worst, and 33% the third worst.

 

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Dear President Bush; About That " goddamned Piece Of Paper. "

" Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, " Bush screamed back. " It's

just a goddamned piece of paper! " Let us start out with the fact that

the Constitution is actually written on parchment, not paper. A

trivial point, I grant you, but one that reveals (along with your

inability to correctly pronounce the word " nuclear " ) a shocking lack

of education in a head of state. But to get to the point, the

Constitution is not the parchment itself, but the ideas written upon

it; ideas which form the foundations of our nation, ideas which would

carry equal weight if written on stone, glass, metal, or even paper.

These ideas are the soul of the nation...Go over to Arlington National

Cemetery. It's not that far from where you live. Look at those

tombstones. By your statement, you have written across each and every

one the words, " Died for a goddamned piece of paper. "

 

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IRAQ: War On The Cheap

The Iraq war has been the war fought on the cheap - not enough body

armor, not enough armor on vehicles, not enough night vision

equipment. It has been the war in which packages from back home have

had to fill some crucial needs. Now, we have chow call at the

Greenwood Credit Union in Warwick, R.I. It's the latest in home-front

intervention. It's partially in response to the unthinkable image of

U.S. Marines approaching Iraqi citizens and asking for food because

they do not have enough. [i have been told by military personnel that

though Halliburton has billions in contracts to feed and house them

(three hots and a cot are what you are promised when you sign up),

soldiers are having to use their own money to buy food off the local

economy to survive. Where is all that damn money -- being diverted to

the IRAN WAR that is already underway. These guys are pulling 22-hour

shifts on two crappy Halliburton meals. AN OUTRAGE... AL]

 

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Supreme Court: Ginsburg: Says GOP Congress' Watchdog Plan 'Scary,'

Like 'Soviet Union'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that a Republican proposal in

Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts is a " really

scary idea. " Ginsburg told a gathering of the American Bar Association

that lawyers should stick up for judges when they are criticized by

congressional leaders. " My sense now is that the judiciary is under

assault in a way that I haven't seen before, " she said... " It sounds to

me very much like the Soviet Union was .... That's a really scary idea. " s

 

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Bush Lost His Magical Hoodoo - Voodoo Mojo

The Bush administration has a new buzzword. Like Bush, his entire

administration, and the GOP in general, the buzzword is about lame as

can be expected. So, what's the word thought capable of making a

lame-duck criminal failure appear only to be in a rut? Mojo! That's

right, the word chosen to save the entire Bush presidency is, " mojo. "

It is a rather bizarre choice of words for an administration that has

spent the better part of its existence pimping itself out to be Jesus'

very own White House on earth...

 

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Bill To Reauthorize The Voting Rights Act A Bipartisan Affair

On May 2, thirteen Democratic and Republican legislators came together

on the steps of the Capitol to announce their support for legislation

to renew key expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

(VRA). The bill, HR 9/S. 2703, " The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and

Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments

Act of 2006 " was named for three famed heroines of the civil rights

era. Sen. John Conyers Jr., D. Mich., called the bill " the most

important bill I will be working on in the 109th Congress. "

 

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21 Dem Senators Follow Santorum Into War With Iran

 

 

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E-VOTE MELTDOWN: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! Man Smashes Diebold

Touch-Screen Voting System In Ohio!

CLEVELAND -- A 61-year-old man was arrested after an alleged poll rage

incident... Officials said the man was arrested after breaking a

voting machine. He faces disorderly conduct, obstructing official

business and resisting arrest charges. Some might call him a new kind

of hero.

 

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Capitol Hill Joins Criticism Of Smithsonian Film Deal

Even the Smithsonian is not beyond reproach...

 

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FEMA's Follies

FEMA through the lens of political cartoonists.

 

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AZ SOS Office...misinforms...radio Listeners About Diebold Hack, HAVA

The sort of cowardice that this sort of thing -- the unwillingness to

actually discuss these matters on air with someone like myself who

won't allow these officials to get away with their misinformation --

really underscores how the AZ Secretary of State's office (and many

others like it around the country) seem to feel they are not beholden

to the citizens. They seem to forget entirely that they work for those

citizens for whom they are elected or appointed to provide free, fair,

accurate and transparent elections in which confidence can be had by

all of the voters. Instead, Brewer and others like her, seem to have

sold their allegiance to the Voting Machine Companies. It's bizarre.

Why wouldn't these people want to talk to the voters? Why wouldn't

they be concerned about them having confidence in elections and

election equipment that they have been designated to select and

oversee? If they have so much personal confidence in them, why are

they so afraid to answers ! questions directly about them? If they

have nothing to hide, and have real confidence in the way they are

running elections, shouldn't they be more than willing to answer any

and all questions about their equipment and elections?

 

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If Not Now... When?

So, Bill Frist, Harry Ried, pull together a bipartisan panel made up

of your toughest, most skeptical prosecutional-minded members, hire a

couple of junkyard dog lawyers to act as GOP and Dem counsels, and let

the long overdue hearings begin. Subpoena everyone who had anything to

do with those meetings, including secretaries who transcribed the

original minutes. Oh, and when you call oil industry execs back, put

them under oath this time. Because they lied last time when they said

they had no idea...

 

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A Turning Point By William Rivers Pitt

Newly-minted White House chief of staff Josh Bolten has signaled his

desire to end the traditional publicly-televised daily press

conferences with the White House press secretary. This will take a

load off Tony Snow's mind, to be sure, and will save the rest of us

from having to hear so many sad, disquieting, disturbing facts. Bill

Maher, host of the HBO program " Real Time, " threw a thought for George

W. Bush against the wall during his closing monologue the other night.

" You govern like Billy Joel drives, " said Maher to Bush. " You've

performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a

medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was

a s****y president, but even he never conceded an entire city to

rising water and snakes. On your watch, we've lost almost all of our

allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the

Pentagon, and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky.

I'm not saying you don't love t! his country. I'm just wondering how

much worse it could be if you were on the other side. " Indeed.

 

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Cheney's Office Knew Plame's Work Was Sensitive

MSNBC David Shuster's Tuesday report suggested that the Office of Vice

President Dick Cheney was aware of the sensitivity of Plame's work,

though there are no indications he knew she was working on Iran. His

report Monday, which can be read here was the first television report

to identify Plame's Iran work.

 

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After Reports, New Jersey Senator Calls On CIA Director To Conduct

Plame Damage Assessment

In light of reports that CIA Agent Valerie Plame was working to track

Iran's effort to obtain nuclear weapons when her identity was leaked,

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) today called on CIA Director Porter

Goss to provide an assessment of the damage to national security from

the incident

 

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Funeral Protest Ban Approved

Minnesota: A bill intended to stop protesters from disrupting funerals

is on its way to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's desk. The Legislature on Monday

approved the measure, with only two votes against it in the House and

one in the Senate. The bill would require demonstrators to stay back

at least 500 feet from funerals and graveside ceremonies. Violators

would face gross misdemeanor charges. Legislators pushed the bill

after anti-gay protesters disrupted a soldier's February funeral in Anoka.

 

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9-11 LAWSUITS SUPPRESSED

While the media plays up the significance of the government show trial

of the seemingly deranged " 20th hijacker " Zacharias Moussaoui, not one

9-11 victim's lawsuit has been allowed to be heard in a trial by jury.

Why have the 9-11 victims' families not been given the same right to

have their cases heard in an open trial?

 

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Secret Service Will Release Abramoff's White House Visitor Logs

Abramoff, who represented Indian tribes in their dealings with

Washington politicians, once was one of the city's most successful

lobbyists. He pleaded guilty in January in Washington to federal

charges stemming from an investigation into his ties with members of

Congress and the Bush administration. He also pleaded guilty to fraud

charges in Miami concerning a multimillion-dollar purchase of SunCruz

Casinos gambling fleet in 2000. Administration officials have refused

to say how many times Abramoff, who raised at least $100,000 for

President Bush's re-election, has been to the White House. Bush has

said he doesn't know Abramoff.

 

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How Bush Hides The True Cost Of His Iraq War

The Senate is expected to pass an emergency spending bill this week to

provide $71 billion for military costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, with

the bulk of it going to Iraq. The new money would bring to at least

$320 billion the total cost of a war that senior Bush aides once

promised would be financed largely by Iraqi oil revenues. The spending

measure is the fourth emergency appropriations bill Bush has asked

Congress to pass to pay for the war in as many years, with each

legislative initiative larger than the last.

 

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GOP, LOBBYISTS, PROSTITUTION RING?

The FBI has discovered that several Republicans may be involved in a

lobbyist-supported prostitution ring at the Watergate Hotel in

Washington D.C., according to a Wall Street Journal story that broke

Thursday. The Journal reports that there is so much evidence that

investigators are spreading across D.C. to see exactly how many

lawmakers are involved. Mitchell Wade tipped off prosecutors about the

sex-for-favors scheme, according to Daily Kos. Wade has already

pleaded guilty to bribing Randy " Duke " Cunningham, former

representative to Congress from San Diego, and is cooperating with

investigators.

 

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Congressional Sex Scandal?

sources close to the investigation tell us, as well as the Washington

Post and the Wall Street Journal, that sexual favors may have been

part of the deal. The allegations include descriptions of Washington,

D.C. poker parties in hotel suites, where prostitutes were brought by

limousine as part of the entertainment. No comment from the owner of

the limousine company, a man with a long criminal record who just

happened to get a $20 million contract to provide limousine service

for the Department of Homeland Security. Typical Neocon Right Wing

Fundamentalist Hypocracy!! Will we be hearing about Gannon, Gluckert

and the midnight rides of Karl Rove??

 

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Electronic Voting Swithc Threatens Mass Confusion: Financial Times

(London)

(Why does it take a British paper to cover this?)With about 8,000

separate election authorities managing approximately 175,000 polling

places and perhaps as many as 150,000 different ballot forms that

include choices for everyone from senator to dogcatcher, American

elections are complex even when all goes well. But this cycle sees

many states and smaller jurisdictions making last-minute efforts to

switch to electronic voting, and early signs of trouble are appearing.

 

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I'm The Decider (Bush Through A Beatles-esque Lens)

Here's a song spoof for your listening pleasure.

 

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Hypocrite-In-Chief Bush At It Again...

National Anthem Sung In Spanish At First Bush Inaugural

 

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The Science Of Happiness

and test your happiness with this short, easy test.

 

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Lay Wraps Up Testimony At Enron Trial

After exchanging some parting shots with his prosecutor, Kenneth Lay

finished six days of testimony at his federal fraud and conspiracy

trial Tuesday.

 

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The Best Brokerage Analysts

Wall Street has 3,400 sell-side analysts covering U.S. stocks.

Consensus projections aggregate and simplify this mountain of research

but may not provide the best information for making investment

decisions. The truth is that consensus earnings forecasts are accurate

to the penny a mere 14% of the time. That's why the updated

Forbes.com/StarMine rankings of the best security analysts are so

important: They identify the men and women who have proved their

mettle for accurately forecasting earnings or for advising investors

on when to buy, sell or hold.

 

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Book: Homeland Security Not Doing Enough

The Homeland Security Department has made the nation only marginally

safer than it was before the 2001 terror attacks that spawned its

creation, the agency's former internal watchdog charges in a new book.

The memoir released Monday byformer Homeland Security inspector

general Clark Kent Ervin also accuses Tom Ridge, the department's

first secretary, of shutting down critics instead of focusing on

terrorists. His book, " Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to

Terrorism, " outlines security gaps at U.S. airports, in mass transit

systems, and at borders. It points to the department's sluggish

response to Hurricane Katrina as proof that Homeland Security remains

unprepared for threats.

 

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Bush In `ceaseless Push For Power'

Bush had shown disdain and indifference for the US constitution by

adopting an " astonishingly broad " view of presidential powers, a

leading libertarian think-tank said on Monday. The critique from the

Cato Institute reflects growing criticism by conservatives about

administration policy in areas such as the " war on terror " and

undermining congressional power.

 

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Internet Freedom Gains Big Momentum

New York Times Endorses Net Neutrality, Internet Freedom Bills Offered

in Congress, SavetheInternet.com Coalition Passes 500,000 Petition

Signatures

 

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Galbraith: The Predator State

Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government? Today, the signature

of modern American capitalism is neither benign competition, nor class

struggle, nor an inclusive middle-class utopia. Instead, predation has

become the dominant feature—a system wherein the rich have come to

feast on decaying systems built for the middle class. The predatory

class is not the whole of the wealthy; it may be opposed by many

others of similar wealth. But it is the defining feature, the leading

force. And its agents are in full control of the government under

which we live.

 

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No Bar Code

A Virginia farmer says a revolution against industrial agriculture is

just down the road.

 

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Reports: Plame Was Monitoring Iran Nukes When Outed By Rove, Libby, &

Novak

MSNBC correspondent David Shuster reported that intelligence sources

told him thatr Wilson was part of an operation three years ago

" tracking the proliferation of nuclear weapons material into Iran. "

And the sources asserted, he said, " that when here Wilson's cover was

blown, the administration's ability to track Iran's nuclear ambitions

was damaged as well. " Plame's outing resulted in " severe " damage to

her team and " significantly hampered the CIA's ability to monitor

nuclear proliferation. "

 

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Iran And America's Dangerous Brinkmanship

Insider -- " What I learned from this foreign minister last night and a

room full of extremely smart people is that there are forces

escalating America's and Iran's tensions -- and a single serious

miscalculation could dramatically alter America's position in the

world -- and yet miscalculations are already abounding. "

 

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Exporting The American Model

The gap between preaching and self-deception in the way we promote

democracy abroad is even greater than in selling our economic

ideology. Our record is one of continuous (sometimes unintended)

failure, although most establishment pundits try to camouflage this

fact. The Federation of American Scientists has compiled a list of

over 201 overseas military operations from the end of World War II

until September 11, 2001 in which we were involved and normally struck

the first blow. The current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not

included. In no instance did democratic governments come about as a

direct result of any of these military activities.

 

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New Army Documents Reveal US Knew Of And Approved Torture Before Abu

Ghraib Scandal

New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union

today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered

interrogators to " go to the outer limits " to get information from

detainees. The documents also show that senior government officials

were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu Ghraib

scandal broke.

 

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Ted Rall: HIGH PRICES CAUSED BY IRAQ WAR

Bush Could Ease Pain at the Pump--If He Wanted...

 

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Think All Illegal Immigrants Are Sneaking In? Think Again.

Here's a fact you don't hear much about: Between a third and a half of

the nation's illegal immigrants - at least 3.8 million people -

entered the USA legally. That's right. They didn't slip across the

border in the dead of night. They came from all over the world, stayed

longer than their visas or entry documents allowed, and melted into

society. There's little to stop them, despite millions spent on a

post-9/11 program supposedly aimed at those who " overstay. " That's

what four of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers did, according to a 2004 report

by Congress' GAO.

 

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Most US Young People Can't Find Iraq On Map: Study

Most American young people can't find Iraq on a map, even though U.S.

troops have been there for more than three years, according to a new

geographic literacy study released on Tuesday. Fewer than 4 in 10

Americans aged 18-24 in a survey could place Iraq on an unlabeled map

of the Middle East, a study conducted for Natl Geographic found. Only

about one-quarter of respondents could find Iran and Israel on the

same map.

 

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Mexico's Fox To OK Drug Decriminalization Law

Mexico's president will approve a law that decriminalizes possession

of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs to concentrate

on fighting violent narco gangs, the government said on Tuesday. [Now

Mexico will have to build a wall to keep Americans out...]

 

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Gasoline Prices A " crisis " Says US Energy Sec.Bodman

Bodman said on Tuesday that high gasoline prices which have

skyrocketed to a near record are a " crisis " for Americans. " It is a

crisis in the sense of the individual. "

 

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Bush Buddy, Italian Leader Berlusconi Resigns

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the longest-serving leader in

postwar Italy, resigned Tuesday to make way for a center-left

government led by Romano Prodi that must re-energize a moribund economy.

 

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U.S. Diplomat Joins Darfur Peace Talks

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick headed into a

conference room with African Union mediators and delegates from the

warring parties.

 

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From King George Of 1776 To King George Of 2006, It's Time Declare Our

Independence From Monarchal Rule

When you read the document that was the birth certificate of this

great nation, you can't help but be struck by how the Busheviks would

regard it as a radical, perhaps even terrorist call to arms. The

crimes and oppressions detailed in the Declaration of Independence

vary in particularity from the King George of 1776 to the King George

of 2006, but the essence of the grievances remain the same. We could

list the bill of particulars stating the case for removing King George

W. Bush from office, but it would be too long for your morning's

breakfast reading. But it would include:

 

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Iran Threatens Israel If U.S. Attacks

A top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday that Israel

would be Iran's first retaliatory target in response to any U.S. attack.

 

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10 States Sue Bush Over Fuel Economy Rules

Ten states, led by California, sued the federal government Tuesday to

try to force the Bush administration to strengthen gas mileage

requirements for sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks.

 

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MSNBC Confirms: Outed CIA Agent Was Working On Iran

According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson,

who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of

Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an

operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass

destruction technology to and from Iran. TRANSCRIPT

 

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Stocks Turn Lower On Report Bernanke Feels 'misunderstood'

Noted CNBC news anchor Maria Bartiromo announced on the air that she

had a private conversation with Bernanke at a Washington dinner on

Saturday and Bernanke told her that the media misunderstood his remarks.

 

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Qatar Grants Millions In Aid To New Orleans

Qatar was one of several Persian Gulf nations to donate tens of

millions of dollars. Saudi Arabia, for instance, gave more than $100

million, and the United Arab Emirates pledged $100 million. Poor

nations also donated. Less than a year after the Indian Ocean tsunami

engulfed it, Sri Lanka gave $25,000 to the American Red Cross.

Bangladesh gave $1 million, Cyprus $50,000, Ghana $15,000 and the

Dominican Republic $50,000.

 

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Common Cause Seeks Justice Probe Of Katherine Harris

A congressional watchdog group asked the Justice Department on Monday

to investigate whether Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., attempted to

obtain a $10 million appropriation for a defense contractor in return

for his financial support. Common Cause filed a complaint with the

Justice Department, citing information provided by contractor Mitchell

Wade, as part of a plea agreement in the bribery case of convicted

former Rep. Randy " Duke " Cunningham, R-Calif.

 

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Sen. Spector: The [Republican] Party Needs Somebody To Stand Up To The

President "

Specter is questioning the legality of the National Security Agency's

domestic surveillance of suspected terrorists without court warrants.

 

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Boot Camp, Booted Spirits

I'm not going to rag on the military, though I deeply hate the concept

of killing. Yet, if my own children were threatened I might indeed

eliminate the threat if I knew how. So, as they say, " God's not

finished with me yet. " I haven't worked out the details of the scene

where the mama bear has a conversation with Mahatma Ghandi. In

addition, voices not too geographically distant from me would suggest

that since I've never been in the military, anything I might say about

it would be discounted. That, to me, is lame. If that were the case,

then nobody could talk to anybody about anything other than their own

personal experiences and it would eliminate any attempt at intelligent

conversation and the hoped for goal of understanding the big issues in

the world today. But wait! That's what's happening! And as long as we

agree to that mindset, we remain cattle. Lemmings. Cannon fodder...

Whether it's a church demanding compliance with a group sacramental

ritual, a college loc! ked into recognizing only certain categories of

teachers, or a military with a program that results in one out of

sixty recruits attempting suicide, the goal is the attempted

annihilation of the individual spirit.

 

 

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