Why Most Americans Don't Care About Guantanamo - "These arguments are all valid. However, the problem is that they are either sentimental or unrealistic—and most Americans sense that. Americans like thinking they’re the world’s nicest, most democratic people, but they’ll abandon that warm and fuzzy feeling if being nice and democratic will increase their risk of being blown up by terrorists. Americans don’t worry about being hypocrites, because “everything changed” after 9/11; we’re fighting a “different kind of war,” and history will judge us as prudent, they believe. Most Americans know that our soldiers probably won’t be captured: enemies are barely able to kill our troops, much less capture them. And as we saw with Jessica Lynch, we can just go rescue them anyway. Moreover, what country would dare mistreat US troops and incur our (perhaps nuclear-tipped) wrath? As for the classic argument that we need rigorous legal process in case we’re arrested by mistake, well, most Americans know that it’s highly unlikely they themselves will ever be caged at GTMO: most Americans aren’t radical Muslims."
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/5871/Why_Most_Americans_Don_t_Care_About_Guantanamo
Bush Adviser Says Policy Forbids Torture - ""Once again, it appears to me that the White House has dictated that the Republican-controlled Congress not conduct oversight of an important national security matter," Rockefeller said. "They have made it clear that anyone who suggests that oversight is needed should be labeled as unpatriotic.""
http://www.wral.com/apnationalnews/5235359/detail.html
Lawmaker: Italy Warned U.S. That Documents About Purported Iraq Uranium Deal Were Fake - "Italian secret services warned the United States months before it invaded Iraq that a dossier about a purported Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium in Africa was fake, a lawmaker said Thursday after a briefing by the nation's intelligence chief." http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBKH0NDLFE.html
Thanks to Bush,bad could get worse - "The war in Iraq has hardly made the Mideast more stable. Assurances from the Bush administration must now be held to a new post-Iraq standard because just about everything Washington said was happening (WMD) and would happen (an easy occupation) has turned out to be utterly false."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/361893p-308183c.html
The Gun is Smoking: Ohio Exit Poll Data Provides Virtually Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount - "New analysis of the precinct-level Ohio exit poll data provides virtually irrefutable evidence of large scale vote miscounts in Ohio during the 2004 presidential election. 6% of Ohio's exit-polled precincts had impossible vote counts and 57% had significant discrepancies (a less than 5% chance of occurring in any one precinct). The pattern of Ohio's exit poll results is not consistent with any exit poll error hypothesis. However, it is consistent with pro-Bush vote miscounts."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_the_nati_051102_the_gun_is_smoking__.htm
Pre-Pandemic-Intelligence - "And while I'm at it, why is Donald Rumsfeld a major stockholder in the company that owns the patent to one of the drugs for avian flu? (A company called Gilead. The drug is Tamiflu. A majority stockholder. He was made Chairman in 1997.) Yes, he's recused himself from any government decisions about the handling of the possible "avian flu pandemic". But even if he's not responsible for the panic (which some consider a hoax) when he had "insider information" about its upside, ought he to have divested himself of it, rather than recusing himself from a situation where he stood to personally make millions of dollars, rather than do his job, which I thought had something to do with protecting us? Just asking."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-ephron/prepandemicintelligence_b_10049.html
Where is the (North) American Press? - "A friend from Argentina sent me the following picture today. It is self explanatory and has been seen everywhere in the world except in the United States. Why? In analyzing Bush for several years I keep finding that it is not only his immediate circle that insulates him -- the press insulates us."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank/where-is-the-north-amer_b_9932.html
Historic Vermont Meeting in State Capital Passes Resolution to Secede from the U.S. - "The neo-con band of criminals running Washington, trampling on civil rights at home and invading countries at will overseas, has led a large group of strong-minded Vermont freedom-fighters with no choice but to secede from the United States. ... Most people think of secession as impossible if not treasonous, but the concept is deeply rooted in the Declaration of Independence, reminding us that “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute new government.” ... “First and foremost, we want out of the United States. It’s not just an anti-Bush statement and if Kerry was elected, we still would have wanted out,” said Naylor. “The reality is that we have a one party system in this country, called the Republican party, that is owned and operated and controlled by corporate America. So it’s not just a Bush protest, but a protest against the Empire."
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/36584.htm
Texans Gear Up to Decide on Gay Marriage - "The tactic has supporters of the same-sex marriage ban crying foul. It has opponents boasting that they may have a chance at defeating the measure _ in Texas, of all places, the conservative home state of President Bush."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110300257_pf.html
Lesbian lover equal to traditional parent - "The lesbian lover of a child's biological mother has equal legal rights with traditional parents, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled today."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47206
Congressman to propose fence for U.S.-Mexico border - "A leading House Republican wants to build a fence along the entire 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, a plan that could cost billions of dollars and that critics say would do little to stop illegal immigration."
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/1943262.html
Australian Senate rushes anti-terror changes after attack warning - "The Australian Senate has held a special sitting to rush through amendments to anti-terrorism laws, a day after Prime Minister John Howard said he had received credible reports of a possible attack. ... The lack of detail has led critics of the conservative government to accuse Howard of issuing the warning to help push through a raft of new anti-terrorism laws that have been labelled by critics as a threat to civil liberties." -- Ah. Fear at work.
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/11/02/afx2315201.html
Pay Gains Are Lagging Inflation: Just A Blip Or Enduring Trend? - "Payday isn't what it used to be. The economy has ticked along at a healthy 3%-plus growth rate for 10 straight quarters, unemployment has fallen to 2001 levels and corporate profits are running strong. But wage and salary growth has been sluggish. When energy-fueled inflation is taken into account, wages actually are falling."
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/051102/general.html
Scientists prove blind people can 'see' with sixth sense - "In tests, the blind have been able to distinguish basic shapes of objects they cannot see, as well as their orientation and direction of motion. On other occasions a blind person has reported experiencing a "feeling" that an object is present, while not being able to see it."
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=2176562005
Two former Hilo Wal-Mart employees file suit against company - "Two former Hilo Wal-Mart employees have filed a class action lawsuit against all Hawaii Wal-Marts, alleging the company shaved time from its employees time cards from 1997 to 2004. The lawsuit states there is a videotaped admission of a Wal-Mart executive and Wal-Mart memoranda, showing that Wal-Mart deleted thousands of hours of time worked from employees' payroll records, resulting in millions of dollars of labor savings."
http://khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=8575&sid=1152
Schoolgirl blogger poisons mother in homage to killer - "A HIGH-SCHOOL girl has been arrested for gradually poisoning her mother to the brink of death and keeping a blog of her progress — all done as a grim homage to a British serial killer whom she idolised."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1854972,00.html
MIT examines mores of 'Sex and the City' - "This semester, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving its best scholarly treatment to a slice of popular culture each Tuesday evening when 24 undergraduates gather to ponder HBO'S ''Sex and the City."" http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/11/03/deconstructing_carrie/
Colorado man glued to toilet seat, sues store - "A Colorado man who had a panic attack when he found he was glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot restroom has sued the home improvement giant for negligence, saying staff ignored his plight."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051103/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_glue;_ylt=A9FJqamEpGpD88YAzAbtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA
Quote of the Day
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
~ Krishnamurti
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