http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv
US 'uses incendiary arms' in Iraq - "Italian state TV, Rai, has broadcast a documentary accusing the US military of using white phosphorus bombs against civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4417024.stm
US denies using white phosphorus on Iraqi civilians - "The U.S. military in Iraq denied a report shown on Italian state television on Tuesday saying U.S. forces used incendiary white phosphorus against civilians in a November 2004 offensive on the Iraqi town of Falluja." -- Watch the video above and then decide.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20051108/2005-11-08T204233Z_01_MCC874503_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-USA-WEAPONS-DC.html
The media are minimising US and British war crimes in Iraq - "The reporting of the Iraqi death toll - both in its scale and account of who is doing the killing - is profoundly dishonest."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1636606,00.html
Negroponte won't back Cheney on torture - "U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte is declining to support Vice President Dick Cheney's effort to exempt the CIA from law banning mistreatment of detainees. "It's above my pay grade," he told a secret briefing for Senators last month, Time Magazine reported Sunday, adding that Negroponte then "artfully dodged another question about whether the harsher interrogation tactics Cheney wants the agency to be free to use actually produce valuable intelligence.""
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051107-015539-8991r
White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies' - "Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies. The “enemies list” dates back to Bush’s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President. The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration. ... White House insiders tell disturbing tales of invasion of privacy, abuse of government power and use of expanded authority under the USA Patriot Act to dig into the personal lives of anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state." -- And we continue to allow these criminals to stay in office.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7625.shtml
Kansas State Board Votes to Teach Intelligent Design in Schools - "The Kansas State Board of Education approved a proposal to teach intelligent design along with evolution as a scientific explanation of how life began."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aVeLoLOEyMEI&refer=us
Texas Voters Approve Ban on Gay Marriage - "Texas voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, voters rejected a conservative-backed proposal to repeal the state's new gay-rights law."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ballot_measures;_ylt=A9FJqZcVfHFDX8wATwOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ
Voters Reject Schwarzenegger Initiatives - "In a stinging rebuke from voters who elected him two years ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to reshape state government were rejected during a special election that darkened his prospects for a second term."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051109/D8DOVC380.html
"Watt"'s wrong with this picture? How the Right is twisting the French riots - "But let's be clear about something else. The relevance that most of the rioters are Muslim may not be completely nil, but it's pretty far down the list behind poverty and government indifference. You wouldn't know that from reading the right side of the blogosphere -- where if you weren't paying attention you'd think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Ayman al-Zawahri, carrying lighted torches, were marching a band of future suicide hijackers down the Champs Elysees and under the Arc de Triomphe."
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002466.html
Alito Will Overturn Roe v. Wade - "That Roe v. Wade is the law of the land right now means little. Alito is before us for one reason only: to provide the swing vote to overturn a woman's right to choose. What a tribute to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1108-22.htm
THE OUTRAGEOUS SILENCE OF DUMB AND DUMBER! - "Let’s get our terms straight here. We’re not talking “Dumb” as in lacking intellectual acuity or understanding. We’re talking “Dumb” as in lacking the power or ability of speech. We’re talking about a stunt in which the President and Vice President have turned themselves into non communicative mutes. We’re talking about George Bush and Dick Cheney, the silent duo who will not answer to the people of this nation. We’re talking about two men who scoff at any attempt to hold them accountable for their crimes."
http://tvnewslies.org/html/bush___cheney_-_dumb___dumber.html
White House Initiates Ethics Refresher Courses - "The hour-long briefings, conducted by White House Ethics Officer Richard Painter, were mandatory for all staffers, said spokesman Scott McClellan. Only President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were exempt, he said." -- Thus, I don't see anything changing at the White House.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-110805ethics_lat%2C0%2C6540158.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Notable Events in Influenza History - "Here are some key moments in influenza history:"
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/1999/rahul23/timeline.html
Kansas couple convicted of abusing mentally ill - "A Kansas couple who ran a psychotherapy practice were convicted on Monday of holding mentally ill people as slaves and forcing them to perform sex acts on videotape while billing Medicare nearly $1 million for therapy."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07572192.htm
Doubts Raised About Toilet-Seat Case - "A man who sued Home Depot last month claiming a prank left him glued to a toilet seat made a similar allegation about another restroom more than a year ago, an official told a newspaper."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051109/ap_on_fe_st/toilet_seat_lawsuit;_ylt=A9FJqaSgfHFD5CgBMQvtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA
Quote of the Day
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."
~ Michael Parenti, political scientist and author
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