Guest guest Posted May 21, 2006 Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 Sun, 21 May 2006 15:20:24 -0400 (EDT) OpEdNews Daily 5/21/06 rob click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060521_1.html Newest Articles By David Swanson Be A Part Of The Growing Pro-Impeachment Grassroots Movement Republicans are beginning to understand that being associated with Bush and Cheney is a liability. By Dan DeWalt Keep Move-On Moving Forward Lets not allow Move-On's search for a " positive " progressive agenda be a smokescreen for avoiding impeachment By Hobie Morris The Selling Of America The Musings of a Simple Country Man: The National debt is now $8.2 trillion and rising. If by some miracle George Bush decided to mend his ways and pay off the debt, it would require that every American write a check in the amount of $28,000. By Charles Sullivan Fruit Of The Poison Tree Millions of citizens are rightly calling for the impeachment of George Bush due to his criminal and unethical policies. But when Bush is gone the system that produced him will remain in place, as healthy and viable as ever. It will continue to bear a plentiful crop of poison fruit, perhaps even more sinister than Bush. That is why we must think revolution rather than reform. By R. Lippitz, Author Unknown Why God Made Moms Brilliant answers given by 2nd grade school children. This missed Mother's Day but will still bring a belated smile to the maternal lips... By Ted Titteron How To Talk Right Why Blair supported Bush By Mark Lloyd America Is Not At War! By James Brown Michael Hayden: This is the man who has been listening to all of your phone calls, reading all of your emails, and trivializing the fourth amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. By James Brown Internet Opinions: Outside the box thinking to obtain foriegn opinions on the internet. By Jim Bush I Bite The Bullet By Jim Bush " All You Need Is Love " By James Richard Brett Nancy Pelosi The Minority Leader knows perfectly well what she is doing. By Thepen Impeach Team Day 2 With the help of your donations the Impeach Team candidates are starting to run " call to action " ads, to encourage more people to take a stand on the ISSUE of impeachment. By Jon Faulkner Human Or Machine. Heads Or Tails What will tomorrow's technologies bring us? By Frank J. Ranelli America Is Teetering On The Brink Of Democratic Extinction A radical and aggressive revision of our society has been underway and under wraps for over five years now during Bush's reign. Where systematic brainwashing, fear mongering and forceful secrecy have imprisoned a whole nation and threatens our ability to self-govern. Part I of how a paradigm shift is needed now and why each one of us is responsible for the rebirth of a peaceful nation built on trust and hope not lies and fear. By Tedbohne LET'S TALK CREDIT FOR A MOMENT! Kids with credit cards? By Fritz Rudi Toxifying Communication: Human And GAIAN Human-generated carbon dioxide (HUGECOD) is analogous to a toxin (like PCBs) in the human body, the former disrupting communication in the earth's (GAIA's) BiogeochemNet, the latter in the human body's InnerNet. The remedy in both cases—DETOXIFY! By Debby Bodkin Clergy Sex Abuse Scandals & Modern Day Hate Crimes Is there a connection between hate crimes and the clergy sex abuse scandals? You decide. By Monica Reinagel Arthritis Drug Might Reduce Risks Of Obesity--but At What Cost? Drug companies train doctors and patients to reach for pills instead of making better lifestyle choices. By Joel Wendland Immigration Reform: Bush And Republicans Appeal To White Supremacy As the immigration policy debate heats up in Congress, the US public has been bombarded by a steady stream of racist, anti-immigrant sentiments. By Franklin On The Electoral College By Jeanyne Wanner Psychiatric Stigma - Legitimizing Abuse, Degradation And Death The more you look, the more obvious it should become that no amount of political correctness or de-stigmatizing of mental illness will make wrong solutions right! Fictitious labels and murderous drugging for profit are not humanitarian activities no matter how you look at it. By International Space Agency (ISA) International Space Agency (ISA) Open Letter To Global Community From The International Space Agency (ISA) Organization. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For May 20, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Missy Comley Beattie A Few Good Men...and Women We need better choices for leadership. When will good men and women step up? By Mark S. Tucker Progressive Rock / Progressive Thought - Part 13 You knew the Beatles had to figure in here somewhere. By Teresa Simon-noble When Everything Else Goes Where will you be when Bush takes the last drop of liberty away By Mark S. Tucker Of The Money, By The Money, For The Money: Ladies And Gentlemen, Jane Harman A Congresswoman so disfavored that she's had to fight for her political life damn near every time she's run, Jane Harman faces another challenge, the one that should end her tenure permanently. The country may well want to interest itself in this battle. By Mike Whitney Chavez: " Bush Is A Terrorist, A Drunkard, And A Donkey. " Chavez says, " The worst genocidal leader in history is the President of the United States. Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W Bush… He is a terrorist, a drunkard, and a donkey " . Ouch...rip off the band-aid! By David Swanson What Happened At Rumsfeld's House Account of May 18th Action By Greg Moses A Little Fascism Still Goes A Long Way It was another pander-to-fascists week in Washington, with nationalism and militarism growing at the home front. What do we not get about what's wrong with troops at the border? By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For May 19, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Bob Burnett Islamophobia The Bush Administration fueled a new wave of bigotry: first against gays and lesbians. Then it extended to the poor who were demonized as shiftless, " irresponsible. " More recently it has focused on Muslims. By Stephen Dinan A New Constitutional Convention? What would a practical framework drawn up now that includes the best wisdom, insights, and practices from those two hundred years look like? By Sam Vaknin Just War In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. By Matthew Cardinale Gore May Run For President In 2008, Warns Of Global Warming Al Gore may be a " recovering politician, " but " You always have to worry about a relapse, " Gore told Atlanta Progressive News. By Betty Clermont US Senator Menendez And Others Looking Closely At Bush Censure US Senator Menendez (D-NJ) is " looking closely " at signing on to US Senator Russell Feingold's (D-WI) bill to censure President Bush, Senator Menendez told Atlanta Progressive News during an in-person interview. By Michele Gregory, With Forward By Gary Houston, Chicago Actor Art As Political Tool: Help Stephen Heller With A Night At The Theatre " Straight Up with a Twist " is returning to L.A. for a brief run at GTC Burbank. Paul Stroili, along with the local producers, has graciously decided to dedicate 100% of all ticket sales from his Friday, June 2 performance to my legal defense fund. Stephen and I are deeply touched by his generosity and kindness of spirit. By Michael Leon Hector Jordan - Trail-blazing Hispanic Hero Amid the national mobilization of Mexican-Americans asserting their humanity, a Mexican-American hero was recognized today: Hector Jordan. By Richard Mathis TGIF Slavery still exists worldwide and in America. By Thepen SPECIAL ALERT: How To Impeach A President (And A Vice-President) We must make impeachment a campaign ISSUE, and have candidates taking strong stands on that, to mobilize our own base enough to achieve the seat gains to make it actually happen even after November. By Mark S. Tucker American Rhetoric 101A - Part 18 George Lakoff and Jeffrey Feldman are contributing much to a street-level understanding of semantics and metaphor, but...they're kinda missing the boat. In fact, I'm not sure the pier's even in sight. By Allen L Roland WHAT 9/11 PENTAGON VIDEO SHOULD HAVE SHOWN ( But Didn't ) The 9/11 video released by the Pentagon has been available on the Internet for over two years and explains nothing ~ for no aircraft is clearly seen and the explosion could have been caused by a missile or internal detonation ( as many believe ). By Don Williams Just In Time, Dubya Discovers Mexico Surprise. Dubya has discovered our southern boarder. Never mind that citizens from places like Morristown, Tennessee—an agriculture-based town--have been complaining about the Mexican border for years in ever more angry emails. Now Bush is complaining too. Nice timing, Dubya. Maybe this'll draw attention away as you waltz us three steps closer to an imperial presidency. By Mickey Z. Challenging The Auto-dependant Lifestyle An interview with Ken Coughlin of Transportation Alternatives click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060521_1.html Best News Links from the Web Interview With John Dean Dean was Nixon's White House counsel for three years and then testified against him. He is the author, most recently, of " Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. " The interview was conducted on April 28 by Matthew Rothschild, the editor of The Progressive magazine. White House In Disarray Contradicting Snow, Gonzales Says Bush Opposes Making English The National Language ABC's Ross: Surveillance Of Journalists `Makes Me Feel…As If We Are Drug Dealers Or Terrorists' This morning on CNN's Reliable Sources, ABC's Brian Ross — who this week learned he was the target of federal surveillance operations — described the effect that unchecked spying is having on journalists VIDEO Hey Millennials, Debt Becomes You Twenty-somethings face a life of looming loans...The children of baby boomers are the new debtor class. Buckling under a heavy weight of debt, new workers step into an economy of low-wage and contingent work, a combination that makes the basics of adulthood increasingly unattainable. Kuwait Court Clears Guantanamo Inmates A Kuwaiti court has acquitted five men formerly held at the US Guantanamo Bay facility who were accused of fundraising for al-Qaida. Israel Resumes Talks With Abbas The Palestinian president and Israel's foreign minister have met the highest-level talks between the two sides since the Islamist group Hamas formed the Palestinian government in March. Plea Of The Democratic Pariah: Forgive My Defeat As a general rule, it can be an unpleasant career move for a Democrat to run for president, streak to primary victories, win his party's nomination and, ultimately, fall short. For his troubles, he will automatically be consigned by large sectors of his party to a distinctive Democratic pariah status... Kuwaiti Emir Dissolves Parliament The emir of Kuwait has dissolved parliament and called elections, a week after lawmakers and the government clashed over an election reform bill. Warning On Market Risks As Prices Fall A turbulent week in the financial markets ended on Friday with sharp falls in gold, oil and copper prices and warnings from central bankers and Wall Street strategists that investors are misreading the risks. Rushed Social Services Privatization Condemned In Indiana, critics are condemning a rushed $1 billion privatization of the states' social services work -- despite the fact that the companies bidding on the contract have mismanaged similar contracts in other states and, more tellingly, no one even bothered to determine whether the companies could do the job cheaper than current state employees Iraq Is Disintegrating - Ethnic Cleansing Takes Hold Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale. An Immigration Bottom Line Months of debate have come down to this: whether the comprehensive solution at the core of the Senate bill will survive the hostile attentions of those who do not want real reform at all. Hayden Looks Good To Go For Confirmation Big Mistake...he forced Bush illegal wiretappings at NSA Gitmo Prisoners Reportedly Ambush Guards 6 detainees hurt after luring guards with fake suicide attempt, military says Growing Number Of GOP Seats In Doubt Some Republican veterans of the 1994 GOP takeover of Congress see worrisome parallels between then and now, in the way once-safe districts are turning into potential problems. Incumbents' poll numbers have softened. Margins against their Democratic opponents have narrowed. Republican voters appear disenchanted. The Bush effect now amounts to a drag of five percentage points or more in many districts. McCain Speech Heckled By Graduates The jeers, boos and insults flew, as caustic as any that angry New Yorkers have hurled inside Madison Square Garden. The objects of derision yesterday, however, were not the hapless New York Knicks, but Senator John McCain, the keynote speaker at the New School graduation, and his host, Bob Kerrey, the university president. Kentucky Town Mourns 5 Coal Miners The cause of the blast at the Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County was not immediately known. Mexico Works To Bar Non-Natives From Jobs Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies ``xenophobic,'' Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory. Nurse Exodus Leaves Kenya In Crisis Poor pay and lack of jobs are forcing workers to abandon their country's health service to seek work in the UK Baghdad Deal Raises Hope For British Troop Cuts Iraq's first democratic postwar government was finally sworn in yesterday, a critical step raising the prospect of British troop withdrawals. Roughly 10 Percent Of Mexico's Population Living In US The current migration of Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States is one of the largest diasporas in modern history, experts say. U.N. Panel Presses The U.S. To Close Guantanamo Prison Panel urges Bush to outlaw torture, transfer of suspects McCaskill Proposes Military Bill Of Rights Even after three years of fighting in Iraq, thousands of troops are still without adequate body armor to protect them in combat. McCaskill's Military Bill of Rights will put an end to unnecessary fatalities by demanding adequate funding for body armor for all of our servicemen. Bush Exercising His Options In Interpreting Laws Bush signed a military spending bill in December that included a hard-fought amendment banning the cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of foreign prisoners. Then he put a statement in the Federal Register asserting his right to ignore the ban when necessary, in his judgment, to protect Americans from terrorism. More than 700 memos amount to partial vetoes... Despite Bush Pledge, Taxes Increase For Teenagers The $69 billion tax cut bill that President Bush signed this week tripled tax rates for teenagers with college savings funds, despite Mr. Bush's 1999 pledge to veto any tax increase. `Saddam's' Mercedes Seized From U.S. Soldier Reservist says he paid $5,000 for armored luxury car while serving in Iraq Libby Lawyers Oppose Cheney Notes As Evidence Defense attorneys argue vice president's ex-aide hadn't seen document - Attorneys for I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby attacked plans by prosecutors in the CIA leak case to submit a New York Times op-ed containing handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney. FBI Searches Congressman's Office FBI agents searched the congressional office of Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana Saturday evening in connection with a public corruption investigation that has already netted two guilty pleas by two associates More Bush Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans For Iraqi Police As chaos swept Iraq after the American invasion in 2003, the Pentagon began its effort to rebuild the Iraqi police with a mere dozen advisers. Overmatched from the start, one was sent to train a 4,000-officer unit to guard power plants and other utilities. A second to advise 500 commanders in Baghdad. Another to organize a border patrol for the entire country. IDIOTS EU Hasn't Presented Iran Plan To US Yet Europe wants the United States to back some kind of security framework in nuclear talks with Iran despite Washington's insistence it will not provide a security guarantee. Iraq Vows " maximum Force " As Bombs Kill 19 Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki vowed to use " maximum force against terrorism " on Sunday, as bombs killed at least 19 people in Baghdad during the first meeting of his national unity cabinet. Voters Re-elect Nagin As Mayor Of New Orleans C. Ray Nagin, the unpredictable mayor who charted a sometimes erratic course for his city through Hurricane Katrina and after, won a narrow re-election victory here Saturday. Afghanistan Gripped By Worst Fighting Since 2001 Two French special forces troops and a US soldier were among 34 combatants killed in Afghanistan in a fresh upsurge of the deadliest fighting since the removal of the Taliban in 2001. In the worst clash, militants hiding in a vineyard ambushed an Afghan army convoy, shooting dead four soldiers but losing 15 of their own. The ''Moderate'' Arlen Specter - Bush And GOP Front Man In Republican and media circles, Specter is considered a " moderate, " which is coded language for a GOPer willing to do and say whatever it takes to appear to be mainstream, while in reality furthering the most stygian policies of the Party. Diebold Disaster: Newsweek Jumps In, Covers Latest E-Voting Debacle! " If Diebold had set out to build a system as insecure as they possibly could, this would be it, " says Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer-science professor and elections-security expert. Things aren't looking good for our friends at Diebold. Even NEWSWEEK is finally paying attention as Steven Levy files a report for this week's issue on the story we broke two weeks ago. Huge Victory In Suit Vs. Diebold Voting Machines (CA) A precedent-making lawsuit against Secretary of State Bruce McPherson and 18 county voter registrars has prevailed as seven counties have converted or have agreed to convert to paper ballots. McPherson and 18 California county registrars are called on in the suit to ban the use and purchase of Diebold voting machines in the state of California. NPR's Weekend Edition Covers The Latest Diebold Security Issues Diebold spokesman Radke says the physical security of the machines would make it impossible to exploit the security hole. Radke, of course, knows he's just spinning. Aviel Rubin makes that clear in his response, explaining how he could have compromised an election in about 5 seconds as a poll worker through this ridiculous vulnerability. Why Is The Media Downplaying Our Voting Scandal? Compared to corporate machinations, or even military-industrial decisions, politics is over-covered, And yet the actual process of voting—the machines, the counting, the verification, and the questions raised by well informed journalists and analysts about voting fraud seem to bore the punditocracy. PA Voters' Dirty Write-In Votes & A Better Idea Wait a minute! They have to report what is written in on the computers! Well, then, let's not waste this opportunity on juvenile behavior and offensive language. Put the " write in " feature to good use. Why not write in your " vote " for one of these candidates (especially in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida or anywhere that the lawmakers and election officials refuse to listen to the voters) ... McCain At New School: Honeymoon Is Over The school's tradition of dissent carried on today. Scores of New School students held orange signs, and a few banners, reading " McCain Does Not Speak For Me, " and " Our Commencement Is Not Your Platform. " What began as mild rumblings of disapproval before McCain's speech soon exploded into boos, catcalls and turned backs. What's All The Fuss About Interpreted Code In FL And CA? What in the world is interpreted code and what's wrong with it anyway? Reprint of a must-read article by Josh Washburn for VoteTrustUSA. It brings us up to speed on interpreted code. Understanding this will put the whole Diebold debacle into perspective. Read on... The Fat's In The Fire - Now There's Only Hell To Pay ....On the other hand the folks we send to Washington ...not only miss the point, but the kind things that actually create such problems, then they proceed to do things to make them worse, not better. The public record on this irrefutable and unambiguous. I'm not suggesting we send college flunk-outs to Washington, but it does leave one wondering if things could be any worse if we did. Opposition To Iraq War At 62% In U.S. More adults in the United States are disappointed with their government's decision to go to war in Iraq, according to a poll by TNS released by the Washington Post and ABC News. 62 per cent of respondents think the conflict was not worth fighting. Rise Of The Neo-Greens Solar panels on the roof. Hybrid car in the garage. Organic-cotton clothes in the closet. Today's eco-radicals are voting with their dollars. Scalia Tells Congress To Mind Its Own Business - Tell Him To Take A Retirement! Scalia dissented from the court's recent decisions that invoked foreign law to help strike down the death penalty for juveniles and laws against consensual homosexual conduct. Conservative Republicans responded angrily to the rulings and introduced bills that would either condemn or ban the court's use of foreign legal authorities. Time to retire Supremes who get too big for their Constitutionally fitted-shoes. Justice Dept. Accuses Abbott Labs Of Fraudulent Drug-pricing Scheme Just doing what Congress and Bush enabled them to do with their 'stinking, lying' legislation for Medicare reform. Now US taxpayers get to spend millions prosecuting the $@# & *... US Ally, Egypt, Not So 'Good' To All Egyptian police and prosecutors launched an offensive against detractors. At a nearby market, police pursued, clubbed and beat demonstrators gathered to support the judges. They arrested about 250 protesters... Hayden: The Good Soldier Despite General Hayden's unimpressive performance, the Bush White House thinks it has the votes to secure his confirmation. Bush will have a Good Soldier at the helm at CIA. Americans will have that much more to worry about. Miller And 'NYT' Had A 9/11 Warning Tip " Ultimately, Miller never wrote that story, " the Alternet piece continues. " But two months later -- on Sept. 11 -- Miller and her editor at the Times, Stephen Engelberg, both remembered and regretted the story they didn't do. " Democrats And The Defense Budgets A Republican White House and Congress have produced, at increased cost, a military establishment that is shrinking, aging and less ready to fight. The ruinous effects have shown up again and again, in the form of over-stretched, poorly supported forces in Iraq. There is, however, no debate. The Democratic Party, while happy to take easy potshots, is advocating more of the same. Marriage Ban Closes The Gates To Palestinians By a wafer-thin majority, the highest court in the land ruled that an amendment passed in 2003 to the Nationality Law barring Palestinians from living with an Israeli spouse inside Israel -- what in legal parlance is termed " family unification " -- did not violate rights enshrined in the country's Basic Laws. Iran Report Of Holocaust-style Badges Questioned The National Post is sending shockwaves across the country this morning with a report that Iran's Parliament has passed a law requiring mandatory Holocaust style badges to identify Jews and Christians. But independent reporter Meir Javedanfar, an Israeli Middle East expert who was born and raised in Tehran, says the report is false. Iran Passes New Law Requiring 'Jews, Christians, And Other Non-Muslims " To Wear Badges Iran's roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth. " There's no reason to believe they won't pass this, " said Rabbi Hier. " It will certainly pass unless there's some sort of international outcry over this. " Senate OKs 'Racist', 'Divisive, And Anti-American' Amendment Declaring English " National Language " After an emotional debate fraught with symbolism, the Senate yesterday voted to make English the " national language " of the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except for those already guaranteed by law. 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