http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101832.html
Martial Law - "Many folks accept, some with a sense of high probability, that the US will suffer a terrorist attack, perhaps of horrific proportions. If that happens, as General Tommy Franks and others have suggested, democracy could well fail and the US Constitution could be brought down and replaced by martial law. An attack would leave a terrified US populace, many of them so desperate for a sense of order, so lustful for revenge against the terrorists (to be identified by the War Machine, of course) that they will follow the US Government in lockstep. Nuke Iran and Syria immediately (as neocons have wanted to do for quite some time)? No problem. Arrest and intimidate anyone who dares speak out against the government? Hey, national security is at stake. Vigilantism waged against dissident “traitors”? We’re fighting for the survival of Western civilization, for God’s sake. But that can’t happen here! Well it can happen here."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/nolan-m2.html
Is America above the Geneva Conventions? - "Inside the Pentagon, officials are arguing with Vice President Dick Cheney about a new set of US Defense Department guidelines for interrogating suspected terrorists. The debate over an anti-torture bill is a sad moment for a country that once stood for human rights."
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,384163,00.html
What’s wrong with cutting and running? - "Everything that opponents of a pullout say would happen if the U.S. left Iraq is happening already, says retired Gen. William E. Odom, the head of the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration. So why stay?"
http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=129
Who Is Lying About Iraq? - "Among the many distortions, misrepresentations and outright falsifications that have emerged from the debate over Iraq, one in particular stands out above all others. This is the charge that George W. Bush misled us into an immoral or unnecessary war in Iraq by telling a series of lies that have now been definitively exposed."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007540
U.S. 'can't maintain Iraq troop levels' - ""It has become clear that if we still have 140,000 ground troops in Iraq a year from now, we will destroy the all-volunteer army," said the a report written by the center's Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis. Korb served as assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan."
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051110-125019-8225r
The President Betrayed Us - "Bush went to war on a claim that Iraq was about to attack us with WMD. When it became clear there were no WMD the honorable thing to do would be to resign. War is serious business, and there is no room for mistakes - or lies. If you go to war over WMD and there aren't WMD the right thing to do is step aside and let someome else take your place. Simple as that. But what happened with Iraq is far worse than that."
http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2005/11/the_president_b.htm
Let them eat pork - "Congressional leaders say it's time to get serious about the deficit, so they cut $36-billion in spending on the country's working poor. And then they give the wealthy $70-billion more in tax breaks."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/06/Opinion/Let_them_eat_pork.shtml
Feds' Net-wiretap order set to kick in - "According to a final order issued by the Federal Communications Commission in late September, all broadband Internet service providers and many Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, companies will have 18 months--until spring 2007--to ensure their systems have backdoors that allow police to eavesdrop on their customers' communications for investigative purposes."
http://news.com.com/Feds%20Net-wiretap%20order%20set%20to%20kick%20in/2100-1028_3-5946880.html?part=rss&tag=5946880&subj=news
FORCED INOCULATIONS BEGINNING OF BUSH'S BAD BIRD FLU PLAN - "The bill (S. 1873) -- a big congressional wet kiss to the drug industry -- is dressed up in a noble-sounding title: "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act." In essence, however, it would force Americans to receive inoculations against a disease that has yet to kill one of them, while removing their constitutional right to seek redress in our courts in case of injury or death from the shots because of company negligence. The proposal, now moving its way through the Senate, would also ban citizens from using the Freedom of Information Act and other popular informational laws to discover whether the new vaccine (when it is finally produced) was effective and safe, and even whether anyone had suffered adverse reactions to it."
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/hanchette179.html
Why the avian flu is so lethal in humans - "The bird flu virus that has raised the spectre of a new flu pandemic causes 10 times as much inflammation in human lung cells as regular flu, according to new research."
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ef1848d9-6a93-4fc5-a0a5-687c30dde398
Tamiflu linked to deaths of 2 teens - "The drug in Japan carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors, hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible serious side effects."
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=355181
Doctors baffled as HIV man ‘cures’ himself - "It was claimed last night that Andrew Stimpson, 25, may have shaken off the virus with his own immune system after contracting HIV in 2002. If proved, the NHS has said the case would be “medically remarkable”. It could provide vital information to researchers looking into treatments for HIV and Aids, which has killed about 3,800 people in Britain since the 1980s. The worldwide annual death toll is more than 3m."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1870340,00.html
STUDY SHOWS MARIJUANA INCREASES BRAIN CELL GROWTH - "Many drugs --- heroin, cocaine, and the more common alcohol and nicotine -- inhibit the growth of these new cells. It was thought that marijuana did the same thing, but this new research suggests otherwise."
http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v05/n1728/a04.htm?134
'In God We Trust' to come off coins? - ""I am about to file to get 'In God We Trust' off the front of our currency," he told the Oklahoman. "I plan to do that this week.""
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47387
Electric bills set to shock - "U.S. electricity rates are 46 percent higher than a year ago, an industry group said Friday."
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=0a4626557d5c57ad
Petrick Googled 'Neck,' 'Snap,' Among Other Words, Prosecutor Says - "Robert Petrick searched for the words "neck," "snap," "break" and "hold" on an Internet search engine before his wife died, according to prosecutors Wednesday. More than two years after Janine Sutphen's body was discovered floating in a Raleigh lake, investigators continue to find new evidence on computers seized from Robert Petrick's home that prosecutors say support their arguments that Petrick killed his wife."
http://www.wral.com/news/5287261/detail.html
AMERICA’S GROWING EDUCATIONAL AND JOB NIGHTMARE - "The facts show American students rank 28th in math while trailing China, Finland and Korea. America is no longer the most college educated nation in the world." http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty96.htm
Calif. May Build Tunnel in Quake Region - "Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable - an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051113/D8DR8Q4G0.html
1 Square Inch of Land for Sale at $1,500 - "A tiny parcel of land in southwest Indiana is some of the priciest real estate in the world. Owen County officials are trying to sell a 1-square-inch plot of land for $1,500. At that rate, an acre of land would cost nearly $7 billion."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111200636_pf.html
Loneliness could be in your genes - "Teams from the Free University in Amsterdam and the University of Chicago looked at data on 8,000 identical, and non-identical, twins. They found genetics had a significant influence on loneliness."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4426184.stm
Should You Be in Pictures? - "Have you ever participated in an adult chat room? If so, you probably agreed to something like the terms above -- possibly without reading them. And if that's the case, you might want to get a copy of the new book webAffairs (NSFW), published by Eighteen Publications, as soon as possible to see whether you're in it. To describe webAffairs as one woman's journey into adult cyberspace is like describing Elvis as a singer. It's true, but it hardly conveys the full impact of the art. ... The book is a large hardback, printed on heavy paper, each page a meticulously designed collage of webcam windows, chat excerpts, the author's narrative and snippets of conversation between the author and her husband. It raises questions of privacy in public spaces, of fidelity, of emotional and sexual involvement with lovers onscreen and off."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69545,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
Judge Allows Lawsuit Against KISS' Simmons - "A woman who claims to be a former girlfriend of KISS rocker Gene Simmons can proceed with a defamation lawsuit in which she says he made her sound like a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac" during a VH1 television show, a judge has ruled. ... Ward's papers say that because a photo of her with Simmons — though her name is never mentioned — was shown during remarks about his sexual adventures, she was in effect portrayed as "wild" and "unchaste.""
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175371,00.html
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