News -- December 1, 2005

Confusing Goals With Plans, Bush to America: DROP DEAD - "When asked for a “plan”, Bush has responded with what we call in the English language, as goals. Saying you have a plan is quite different then actually having one. Bush was high on rhetoric today, trying to buy time for his failed war by stating his plan was to have “complete victory” and to not leave until “Iraq is a democracy.” Memo to the president: those are GOALS, not plans. If you have a goal of complete victory, America needs to know what the PLAN is to achieve that goal. If you have a goal of establishing Iraq as a democracy, then America needs to know your PLAN to achieve that. No, the fact seems apparent that President Bush does not actually have any plan other than to continue the rhetoric. Bush’s plan is to confuse the word insurgent with terrorist. The fact is that only 7% of the people fighting in Iraq are terrorists, the rest are Iraqis. They are fighting the very civil war Bush claims will occur if we dare leave. We simply are using our troops, our children; to die in that civil war because we have chosen which side we want to win. Knowing that would never go over with the American people, Bush interchanges the word insurgent with terrorist in every speech and has his minions do the same."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__051130_confusing_goals_with.htm

RUMSFELD BANS THE WORD 'INSURGENTS' - "The US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has banned the use of the word 'insurgents' when referring to the militants operating in Iraq. "Over the weekend I thought to myself. 'You know, that gives them a greater legitimacy than they seem to merit," he told journalists during a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday. "It was an epiphany," he said, throwing his hands in the air." -- Why does this man still have his job?
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.234884296&par=

Who Made America Right? - "WHO exactly tells us we are right? Who is it that has decided that our side is right? ... America is not free. Americans don’t know freedom. Americans know fear –and so America goes to war. We will continue to imprison or destroy anyone who disagrees – as long as we fear facing the question of being wrong. Who made America right? What will it take to make America free?"
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1130-32.htm

The World Is Tilted - "The popular idea that America is one step smarter and more sophisticated than its rivals is a dangerous myth, and a threat to the global economy."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10206250/site/newsweek/

Fed Center flap draws a busload of support - "Davis, 50, of Arvada, refused in September to show her identification when federal police boarded RTD's No. 100 bus when it entered the Federal Center. Davis wasn't getting off there but riding through on her way to work elsewhere, as were some other passengers. Federal police removed her from the bus and handcuffed and ticketed her for refusing to show her ID. She is scheduled to appear in federal court Dec. 9." -- Welcome to the New and Improved Amerika.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4279299,00.html

Sharon: Israel will not accept nuclear Iran - "Prime minister says Israel is making all necessary preparations to handle with such a situation; warns that nuclear Iran also threat to Arab world and other western countries."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3177833,00.html

Republican Morality - Show Me the Money - "Simply stated, the reason why rich folks continue to get tax cuts is that they are able to make huge political contributions to powerful Republicans. They can afford to retain influential GOP lobbyists. America's wealthy can grease the palms of Washington insiders in order to take a bigger share of the "pie." The gap between the rich and poor grew again last year, as it has for every year of the Bush Administration. Republicans made this happen."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1130-27.htm

The growing problem of defense industry profiteering - "If you thought it impossible to top the image of Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) driving around a Rolls Royce and living on a yacht thanks to defense industry cash, just stop and take a look Lloyd Grove's story today in the New York Daily News. Yes, you are reading it right – a defense contractor has gotten so rich off taxpayer cash he actually held a $10 million bat mitzvah for his daughter, featuring 50 Cent, Tom Petty and Aerosmith, among others. That's right - a $10 million. On a bat mitzvah. What do the Cunningham and $10 million bat mitzvah stories have to do with each other? In their own ways, they each touch on a subject that we rarely ever discuss in America: defense industry profiteering."
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=DE9A4BBB-9940-06E5-3F47BDF5FCFA25AE

Bush Science Policies Hurt U.S. - "Fallout from the corruption of secular science by the Bush administration and its religious allies continues to pile up. The latest is a particularly harmful blow: Two of the world's best geneticists will leave the National Cancer Institute and move not to Stanford University, which had heavily recruited them, but to Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. The reason is simple: They will face far fewer restrictions on their research, which involves stem cells."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1130-25.htm

'Holocaust Denial' Laws are Disgraceful - "Some people may be offended by those who play down Jewish death and suffering during World War II. But free and open societies protect even offensive speech. That’s why western countries defend the right of their citizens, for example, to praise Communism or promote atheism. “Holocaust denial” laws violate ancient and universal standards of justice. They criminalize even factual or truthful statements that “play down” or “whitewash” the Holocaust. They are selective and one-sided. In countries where they are on the books, the Holocaust is the only chapter of history that cannot be freely discussed. They inhibit historical inquiry and restrict free speech. They are a disgrace, and should be repealed."
http://www.ihr.org/news/112705HoloDenial.html

Donated organs rejected because man is gay - "Albert Soto, a Tucson actor and community activist who died Saturday, intended to donate his eyes and tissue after death, but both were rejected because he was gay. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established guidelines allowing centers to reject donations from men who have had sex with men within the past five years, said Sara Pace Jones, a spokeswoman with the Donor Network of Arizona."
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/112905a1_albertsoto

Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way - "They even have a diagnosis: Internet addiction disorder. These specialists estimate that 6 percent to 10 percent of the approximately 189 million Internet users in this country have a dependency that can be as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction, and they are rushing to treat it. Yet some in the field remain skeptical that heavy use of the Internet qualifies as a legitimate addiction, and one academic expert called it a fad illness."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/fashion/thursdaystyles/01addict.html?ei=5090&en=1a8916920717f083&ex=1291093200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1133413383-J53j7QfyILjNUmI3obCSLw

Rowdy teenagers beware: the Mosquito is coming - "A Welsh inventor claims to have found the perfect solution to rowdy youngsters -- noise. Howard Stapleton says his device, the "Mosquito", emits an uncomfortable high-pitched ultrasonic sound that can be heard by children and teenagers but almost no one over 30. It has successfully driven away noisy teens from a grocery store in the Welsh town of Barry and a shop in Stapleton's home town Merthyr Tydfil, making smoking, lounging and foul-mouthed youths a thing of the past."
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2005-11-30T185611Z_01_MCC068118_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-BRITAIN-TEENAGERS.xml&rpc=22




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