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Cops write tickets for warming up cars
 with comments by Aaron S.
"Any demonstration against the government
or coalition forces will be fired upon"Excerpt: Demonstrators risk a year in jail and, if they work for the state as civil servants or teachers, they will loose their jobs, the message said. All demonstrations are illegal in the U.S.-occupied province.
A question of dates on Saddam's captureKurds captured Saddam, newspaper says
Saddam was 'actively involved' in directing attacks on the U.S. forces
with comments by John C. and Helen & Harry Highwater
Yeah, let's put Diebold in charge of elections
. Diebold used uncertified, untested software to count California votes
. Felons in five Diebold management positions
. More states and politicians demand paper trail
Background information —
Voting machines open new avenues for massive vote fraud
Ashcroft campaign "fined" for funny money tricks
Ashcroft's run for the Senate broke campaign finance laws, but was only fined $37,000 for getting $110,000 illegally. In other words, you're free to disregard campaign finance laws entirely as long as you don't mind giving the Federal Election Committee it's 33.6% cut.=Madeline Zane=
From the archives, Dec. 16 —
Judge "admonishes" Ashcroft,
but no penalty for violating court order
Bush gives tentative, waffling support to anti-gay Constitutional amendment
Why on earth would these guys go to the trouble of amending the Constitution, since they show absolutely no regard for the Constitution in any of their other policies? If this amendment passes, could gay people get married anyway as long as they claimed that it was part of the "War on Terror?" =Madeline Zane=
Court ends denial of pension for gays (in Canada)Same-sex benefits victory a 'world first'
Halliburton says it saved Pentagon money
Doublespeak at it's best. =Marshall=
Pentagon awards another $222 million worth of Iraq reconstruction work to Halliburton
Corporate Warriors:
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Life sentence for libidoExcerpt: A court in southern China's Zhuhai city sentenced two of the accused organizers of an orgy between Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes to life imprisonment, state media said.
Twelve other people were sentenced to between two and 15 years in jail for "organizing prostitution" or "assisting the organization of prostitution," the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday.
Courts rules that Bush & Co. cannot completely obliterate Constitution and Geneva Convention by hysterically screaming "terrorist" over and over and overCourts to Bush: Follow the Constitution
Disorganized.org
Excerpt: As expected, the Administration. was unamused by the rulings. Regarding the Padillo ruling, the White House spokesman — presumably speaking Bush policy — called the ruling "flawed" and misguided, and in reference to Bush said, "His most solemn obligation is to protect the American people"
BZZT! Wrong! His most solemn obligation — the one he swore to uphold — is embodied in his Oath of Office. HINT: It speaks of upholding and defending the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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These Canadians prefer Clark for U.S. President
(and they might be in trouble for it)
by Tim Harper, Toronto StarExcerpt: "Canadians care about the upcoming U.S. elections — because when the presidency is returned to an intelligent, honest, and honorable man who is fit for the challenge of running the world's most powerful nation, Canadians will once again respect the country that we once trusted and respected to an immensely greater degree."
Saddam's capture bodes ill for Bush's re-election
by Wm. Pfaff, syndicated columnist Excerpt: Saddam's ignominious circumstances when he surrendered - hiding in a hole in the ground when he wasn't living in a shed heaped with dirty clothes, eggshells and unwashed pans, with a refrigerator stocked with candy bars and soft drinks - made it clear to all that the resistance to the American occupation was not being commanded from there. So it is wishful thinking to expect his capture alone to slow or end the violence. It may spur the resistance.
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Welcome to scenic Uzbekistan
Tales of torture, oppression, genocide
with comments by XW
E.U. will give U.S. background info on all passengers
with comments by Liberez L'Ours
IBM takes a crap on America
with comments by Grandma and Heather G.From the archives, Dec. 15 —
IBM to export highly paid jobs to India, China
with comments by Liberez L'Ours
Bush presses for more, more, more nuclear weapons
Is George W. Bush insane?
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Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S.
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Rumsfeld's Murder Inc.
by Charley Reese, syndicated columnist Excerpt: Another friend of mine, on loan to the CIA from the Green Berets, paid Nung mercenaries $5 for each Vietnamese head they brought in. They brought them in by the croaker sack full, but of course a severed head can't tell you if the person who used to wear it was a Viet Cong or just a poor farmer the Nungs happened upon. After all, they hated all the Vietnamese without regard for ideology.
The same thing will happen in Iraq. Our paid evildoers will finger people they have a personal grudge against or, if they are smart, innocent Iraqis actually on our side. That way our death squads will endear us to the Iraqi people just as the Israeli death squads have endeared them to the Palestinians.
Think of a wrong way to conduct an occupation, and the Bush administration will adopt it.
Counting the cost in lives lost
by Rick Anderson, Seattle WeeklyExcerpt: The Reuters news service recently noted that the U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed (392) during the first three years of the Vietnam War, 1962 through 1964. The Orlando Sentinel, relying on Pentagon figures, calculates that since the war began, almost 10,000 U.S. troops have been killed, wounded, or injured or become ill enough to require evacuation — the equivalent of almost one Army division. But that is based on figures through only October, and November was the deadliest month yet, with 79 U.S. soldiers killed and hundreds more wounded, many suffering the loss of limbs from suicide bombings.
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White House admits pre-9/11 warnings; Bush still denies itExcerpt: At his press conference yesterday, President Bush was asked about charges that he had received warnings prior to the September 11th attacks that a terrorist incident was imminent. He answered that even asking such a question was "an absurd insinuation." It was the same sentiment expressed by Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who said in May of 2002 that "[no one predicted] that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane."
The problem for the president and the administration is that the White House has previously admitted that the president had personally received such specific warnings. ...
Background information —
Sept. 11, 2001
Dirtbags, money, and Hussein's convenient invasion of Kuwait
by Russ W. Baker, Columbia Journalism Review
Free speech shut down at Toronto school
by Max Silverman, rabbleExcerpt: I got to school rather early on the morning of December 10 and went straight to the office of this staff advisor. I found him looking rather distraught on the phone. I found out after he hung up that he had been on the phone with Len Rudner of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The staff advisor told me that Rudner objected to the showing of the movie as it was too one-sided and potentially anti-Semitic. When asked by this teacher whether or not Rudner objected to the showing of Relentless, he had no objections. When asked whether or not Rudner had seen Jenin Jenin, his answer was that he had not seen it.
Natural gas prices soar, spark question of gouging
Judge "admonishes" Ashcroft, but no penalty for violating court order
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Iraq:
Saddam's capture will not stop the relentless killings
by Robert Fisk, The Independent [London, UK] Excerpt: More and more Iraqis were saying before Saddam's capture that the one reason they would not join the resistance to US occupation was the fear that — if the Americans withdrew — Saddam would return to power. Now that fear has been taken away.
Afghanistan:
Most of U.S.-ghanistan is in chaosExcerpt: Authorities have lost control of 80% of one of Afghanistan's most troubled southeast border provinces Zabul, the deputy governor said on Thursday...the Zabul administration was "weakening day by day", and that almost 30% of government employees had abandoned their posts, according to AIP.
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... when I see someone sell their conscience, their ethics, their integrity, shoot, let's call it what I think it is, when people sell their SOUL to be obedient without question, without needing to know, without consulting their conscience, without challenging, developing, and thinking through their conscience, it is upsetting.
Preemptive self defence is not morally valid for the simple reason that it can be arbitrarily extended to the killing of virtually anyone you are afraid of for some reason. More than that, if you want to kill someone, but don't want to do it yourself, all you have to do is tell someone else they are being attacked, and they will do the work for you, and they will even die for you if necessary.
The recruiters don't tell the whole truth about what you're getting into. They sell you on: school, chicks love uniforms, job, training, travel, loyalty, country, etc......They don't show you real war footage and say "here this is what it's about. There's not any wars right now, but if there is this is what you'll be doing. This is what a dead body looks like, smell it?"
In the old days when I was a young newspaperwoman, I had a great editor. He pulled me aside on my very first day on the job and said: "The first and only question you need to ask when covering a news item is: "Who benefits?"
He looked at me with piercing blue eyes, shaded behind thick glasses, "When you find the answer to that question," he said, "you have your story."
Stringent obedience and rigid conformity DOES NOT MAKE BETTER MIDSHIPMEN, it just makes interchangeable ones. Easily replaced, like worn out shoes.
During the time she was over there we had an "Awareness rally" about the situation in Palestine. It was a rally and a prayer circle for understanding, compassion and community. I organized the rally and some one came up to me very angrily and called me an anti-Semite. Pardon my language here but you would have thought he had said, MOTHER FUCKER!
For decades now we have declared ‘war’ on crime, poverty, drugs, child abuse, and now terrorism. In war, the innocent are blithely killed in order to destroy the guilty.
I don't get it. We were told over and over that America was attacking Iraq for reasons that were constantly changing like the wind, but for the most part because Hussein was hiding WMDs and wasn't complying with UN inspectors. Oh, I know it was a load of crap, but if you play the game you still have to go back to that one, at least I do.
My brother was a dupe. He got duped by the U.S. military, and by millions of dupes like Sander who've been duped themselves into thinking it's not really getting duped — no, it's PATRIOTISM and HEROICS — when the U.S. military does the duping.
This corrupt purchasing of your government is the single most important reason that America is being lost to the common person, and that the values that now are permeating our culture are corporate bottom line values, and not the family values that only a few short years ago we all enjoyed.
Funny how many Americans seem to believe that having a clueless little monkey boy with a long, proven record of failures and debacles is going to keep them safe! Fact is, the chimpident is increasing the dangers, sic, by weakening America, inspiring new enemies and destroying the legal foundations for peace and freedom, the American Constitution and international law!
Why can't we be sympathetic to the Palestinians without our integrity being assaulted? I felt like I had been squashed like a bug.
While I was listening to Nader I was thinking how Bush could never talk with such conviction, clarity, purpose, or honesty. It was sad because Nader has worked for other people all of his life while Bush has always worked only for Bush.
My big question for the Bush crime family: How do you sleep? Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night screaming, drenched in sweat, twisting and turning in panic because of what you have done? Do you ever have any small, quiet moments of conscience that nag at you because of all the suffering you have caused? How do you look yourselves in the mirror? What do you see when you look at yourself?
Every bulldozer which has overturned Palestinian homes has been a gift from the American taxpayer, in addition to the missiles, bullets, guns, bombs, planes, tanks, armored personnel carriers, etc., on and on, ad nauseum.
I do not believe it will make much difference whether — or if — I vote Demopublican or Repocratian next year. Things have progressed too far for such matters to have any semblance of relevance.
I give Saddam 2 weeks before he expires due to a heart attack or stroke. The last thing the Bush administration wants is for Saddam to start talking. Then the world would get it straight from "the evil dictator" how the US supplied him with chemical weapons, how Halliburton sold equipment to Iraq during sanctions, and what a good buddy Rumsfeld was to him.
You know, carrying a few posies in your pocket prevents the stench of the bubonic plague, and a few daisies in your hair can remove the stench of social darwinism...
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