November 3, 2005

News -- November 3, 2005

BIGGER THAN WATERGATE - " To weigh the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame against historical standards, consider that no leader of the Soviet Union--including that master of ruthlessness, Josef Stalin--ever arranged for the name of a KGB operative to appear in a newspaper. Adolf Hitler had countless millions murdered, yet getting at a political enemy by endangering agents of the Sicherheitsdienst, the Nazi intelligence service, didn't cross his mind. In this respect, not even the worst tyrants have stooped to the level of George W. Bush."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20051101/cm_ucru/biggerthanwatergate

Anatomy Of Miscommunications Inside The White House - "Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby lied to Scott McClellan when the Bush spokesman asked the two top White House aides in 2003 whether they were involved in the CIA leak case. Says who? Says McClellan. And you don't even have to read between the lines."
http://kingpublishing.com/fc/white_house/story2.htm

Is Rove a Security Risk? - "The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that Karl Rove is out of the woods. But while an indictment against him in the Valerie Plame leak case is now unlikely, he may be in danger of losing his security clearance."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9899512/site/newsweek/

Bush War Policy Is Now in Play - "For months, the politics of the Iraq war have been frozen in place, with stalwart Republicans defending President Bush's policy and most Democrats shunning a direct challenge. Now the ice has begun to crack." -- And it has taken way too long.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-iraqassess3nov03,0,5313515,full.story?coll=la-story-footer

Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides - "An uncivil war rages inside the walls of the West Wing of the White House, a bitter, acrimonious war driven by a failed agenda, destroyed credibility, dwindling public support and a President who lapses into Alzheimer-like periods of incoherent babbling."
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7606.shtml

CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons - "The CIA and the White House, citing national security concerns and the value of the program, have dissuaded Congress from demanding that the agency answer questions in open testimony about the conditions under which captives are held. Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9890829/

Experts dismiss scare over bird flu - ""Realistically, avian influenza is not a threat to people, but everywhere you go, it has turned into a circus." ... "If anything is contagious right now, it's judgment clouded by fear," Siegel said. And if Americans are scared of avian flu now, Siegel continues, "imagine what will happen if a single scrawny, flu-ridden migratory bird somehow manages to reach our shores."That, he maintains, is how the fear epidemic - as opposed to a flu pandemic - spreads."
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051101/LOCAL/51101021/1078/news

Forced Inoculations Beginning of Bush's Bird Flu Plan - "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." -- The US government at work.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/021105birdfluplan.htm

The State Thrives On Hate, Genocide and Racism - "Dr. Kamau Kambon. a Raleigh, N.C., activist, book store owner, and former professor at North Carolina State University recently advocated the "extermination of white people" while speaking at a Pro-black Media Forum at Howard Law School, in an event that was covered in its entirety by C-SPAN. ... How is it that such racist hate can be broadcast in its entirety on a national television channel and no one batters an eyelid?"
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/021105hate.htm

U.N. approves Holocaust Day - "The United Nation's General Assembly unanimously approved Israel's resolution and set January 27th as the international Holocaust commemoration day. ... The resolution asks all countries to reject any full or partial denial of the Holocaust and condemn "all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur.""
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3162450,00.html

Consumer ire grows over oil profits - "Critics understand the companies' priority is to make money but say that is not going to block public outrage with oil at $60 a barrel and companies seeking incentives to repair infrastructure damaged by the hurricanes and build new refineries. “They don’t know when to stop asking,” says an energy analyst. “The numbers are obscene.” Yet Exxon believes the oil industry is being targeted unfairly."
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5033a296-4bdf-11da-997b-0000779e2340.html

'Hundreds of years' of oil available - ""We currently have 1.28 trillion barrels of proven reserves, which are the highest in our history. And if, in fact, we are depleting the giant oil wells, how come the reserves are continuing to increase? … I just don't buy the theory that we're running out of oil.""
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47169

The Income Tax Gulag - What Happened in VegasMust End In Vegas - "Imagine writing a book containing information so offensive and damaging to the government that the government prosecutes you for running a “fraudulent tax shelter” and the book is subsequently banned by a federal judge - without the government ever citing a single sentence that is false, misleading or fraudulent."
http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/Update2005-10-31.htm

U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather - "While some consider the idea farfetched, some military tacticians have already pondered ways to turn weather into a weapon."
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_mystery_monday.html

Denver voters OK marijuana possession - "Residents of the Mile High City have voted to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults. Authorities, though, said state possession laws will be applied instead."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1135AP_Denver_Marijuana.html

Al Franken, Hillary, Kennedy, Caught! - "In "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," Hoover Fellow Peter Schweizer reveals the glaring contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of prominent liberals including Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Ralph Nader – among others. "Hypocrisy has proved to be a wonderful weapon for liberals in their war against conservatives," Schweizer writes in the November issue of NewsMax Magazine. "Yet for all the talk about conservative hypocrisy, there has been very little investigation into the prevalence of hypocrisy on the left." After two years of research into liberal hypocrisy, Schweizer said, "what I discovered was just stunning.""
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/1/162756.shtml

Michael Moore Owns Halliburton Stock - "He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11.""
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/021105ownsstock.htm

U.S. fears prospect of Saudi coup, weighs invasion plans - "The United States has raised the prospect of a military invasion of Saudi Arabia."
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2005/ss_saudi_11_01.html

Students start walkout to protest war, recruiting - "Students from Twin Cities area high schools walked out of school this morning to protest the war in Iraq and military recruiting in their schools."
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1592/5704030.html

Oliver Stone Begins Shooting 9/11 Movie in N.Y. - ""We're not doing the `Towering Inferno-Titanic' version," said Michael Shamberg, who's producing the Paramount film with his partner, Stacey Sher." -- Is a movie really necessary?
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/02/D8DKKON01.html

Guide for girls sparks Spanish sex storm - "For its proponents, it was supposed to be a woman's pocket guide to relaxation and discovering one's inner self, but for its critics, a Spanish "guide for girls" looks more like the main road to sexual hell and damnation. ... According to the Institute, the reason behind the guide, aimed at 11 to 18-year-olds was to "modify thinking and discriminatory conduct to arrive at a new model of woman.""
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/02/051102163433.opvik71t.html

Smearing skin with broccoli can help reduce risk of cancer - "Eating cabbage, cooking meat with garlic and smearing your skin with extract of broccoli can all help reduce the risk of cancer, scientists have found."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article323795.ece




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