October 24, 2005

News -- October 24, 2005

Plame plans to sue White House officials - "Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame are preparing to file a civil suit against Bush administration officials."
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051020-113650-5684r

CIA leak has always pointed to Cheney's office - "No prominent member of the administration had more to lose than did Cheney as a result of the 2003 revelation by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, that the White House's pre-war claims regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction had been inflated. To a far greater extent than George Bush, Cheney had a hand in shaping the arguments for going to war. He plugged them in media appearances and defended them after all evidence suggested his pronouncements had been wrong."
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=58437&ntpid=1

Bush Won't Release All Miers Records - "President Bush said Monday that he will not release any records of his conversations with Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers that could threaten the confidentiality of the advice that presidents get from their lawyers."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1245302

Ann Coulter Doesn't Like the First Amendment - "She also criticized the media for being liberal and Democrats for whining about their rights under the First Amendment. "They're always accusing us of repressing their speech," she said. "I say let's do it. Let's repress them." She later added, "Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment."" -- Shut up, Ann. That First Amendment allows you to get paid for being a vile individual.
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/051021coulter.php

Bush taps Bernanke to Replace Greenspan - "President Bush announced Monday that he intends to nominate Ben Bernanke, his top economic adviser and a leading member of the Federal Reserve fraternity, to succeed Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman."
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BF43DECC6-01E8-4563-A769-A12AFDB21982%7D&siteid=google

The Troops Don’t Defend Our Freedoms - "How often do we hear the claim that American troops “defend our freedoms”? The claim is made often by U.S. officials and is echoed far and wide across the land by television commentators, newspaper columnists, public-school teachers, and many others. It’s even a common assertion that emanates on Sundays from many church pulpits. Unfortunately, it just isn’t so. In fact, the situation is the exact opposite — the troops serve as the primary instrument by which both our freedoms and well-being are threatened."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0510g.asp

"No One Died When Clinton Lied" - "Even so, the conservatives are stuck in a place where they must separate what President Clinton did during the Monica Lewinsky affair and what Bush/Cheney/Rove/Libby have done in the Plame affair. They don’t get the difference but are still caught in trying to explain why Clinton should have been impeached but the White House is the "victim," in Rush's words, of making "policy differences a crime.""
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donnie-fowler/no-one-died-when-clinton-_b_9410.html

Able Danger Cover Up Continues - "At least 7 former Able Danger team members have volunteered to testify before Congress that former Clinton Administration officials were warned ahead of time of both the USS Cole bombing and of Mohammed Atta’s presence in the US a year before 9/11/2001. These individuals have also been placed under gag-orders and are not allowed to speak to any Senate Committees or the media."
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=9181

Young Singers Spread Racist Hate - "Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans. They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate."
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1231684&page=1

Who decides what is hate and what isn't? - "Prussian Blue expresses the desire that whites marry whites. So that's hate. But when Jews express a desire that Jews marry Jews, that isn't hate?"
http://holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2005/10/who-decides-what-is-hate-and-what-isnt.html

Christian group wants to 'redeem' US states - "Cory Burnell wants to set up a Christian nation within the United States where abortion is illegal, gay marriage is banned, schools cannot teach evolution, children can pray to Jesus in public schools and the Ten Commandments are posted publicly." -- Go away, Cory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051024/od_nm/religion_secession_dc;_ylt=A9FJqaMyql1Dcg4AOgntiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA

Big brother on campus - "The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications. The action, which the government says is intended to help catch terrorists and other criminals, has unleashed protests and the threat of lawsuits from universities, which argue that it will cost them at least $7 billion while doing little to apprehend lawbreakers."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/231005bigbrother.htm

TAMIFLU GILEAD CHAIR WAS ... RUMMY - "Readers can be helpful, and one just wrote in to inform us of a link that we had never imagined - Donald Rumsfeld, until he resigned and joined the Bush Administration, was the chairman of something called Gilead which just happened to make something called Tamiflu."
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=1443

U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index - "The annual worldwide press freedom index from Reporters Without Borders shows the United States, which is supposedly spreading freedom and liberty throughout the world, is in a fast decline regarding the freedom of its own press."
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=254376&rel_no=1

When the votes don't add up - "What would it do to Americans' image of themselves, their country and their democracy if it turned out that a presidential election had been stolen?"
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/booksmags/sfl-bktimmilleroct23,0,1064045.story?coll=sfla-features-books

More lawmakers back U.S. control of Internet - ""Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today," said California Republican Rep. John Doolittle in a statement."
http://today.reuters.com/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=uri:2005-10-21T171310Z_01_ROB160456_RTRUKOC_0_US-CONGRESS-INTERNET.xml

Web snooping vital, spy agency boss says - "The head of Canada's eavesdropping agency says it needs to own the Internet to combat terrorism."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1129931411927&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes

Inventions: Sex drive patch to sideways bike - "Inventor Liz Paul claims that her Scentuelle -- a tiny transparent patch that exudes dopamines and is worn by a woman on her wrist to recharge her sexual battery -- is just what today's stressed and multi-tasking females need."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051024/od_nm/britain_inventions_dc;_ylt=A9FJqaMyql1Dcg4AMgntiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA




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