http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_whi_060123_iran_92s_oil_exchange_.htm
U.S. accused of spying on those who disagree with Bush policies - "While the White House defended domestic surveillance as a safeguard against terrorism, a Florida peace activist and several Democrats in Congress accused the Bush administration on Friday of spying on Americans who disagree with President Bush's policies."
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/13675006.htm
McCain: Bush Does Not Have “The Legal Authority To Engage In These Warrantless Wiretaps” - "Today on Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program is illegal:"
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/22/mccain-wiretaps-illegal/
Bin Laden: Where is he? Who's protecting him? Why can't we find him? - "The latest audiotape proves the al-Qa'ida figurehead has pulled off one of the most remarkable disappearing acts in history." -- Whatever. I think he's dead and the US just brings him out when they need a boogie-man.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article340218.ece
When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing - "By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner's voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape." -- This should cause you concern.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm
The Other Big Brother - "The Pentagon has its own domestic spying program. Even its leaders say the outfit may have gone too far."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965509/site/newsweek
The Wallet-to-Wallet Chasm - "Despite a lackluster showing in 2005 elections for the GOP, the Republican National Committee raked in better than $100 million last year and enjoys its largest cash-on-hand lead over its Democratic counterpart in more than a decade."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012101057_pf.html
I, Greenspan - "Since I joined the Fed, outstanding home-mortgage debt has jumped from $1.8 trillion to $8.2 trillion. Total consumer debt went from $2.7 trillion to $11 trillion. Household debt has quadrupled. And government debt, too, exploded. The feds owed less than $2 trillion in the second Reagan administration, a figure that had been almost constant for the previous 40 years. But under my direction, the red ink has overflowed like the Nile in flood – to over $7 trillion. During the two terms of George W. Bush alone, the feds have borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than all other American administrations put together, from 1776 to 2000. And more debt will be added in the eight Bush years than in the previous two hundred. The trade deficit, too, more than tripled since I’ve been at the Fed, from 150.7 to 756.8 billion, and will reach $830 billion in 2006. When I came to power, the United States was still a creditor. Now, it is a debtor, with more than $11 trillion worth of U.S. assets in foreign hands, a more than 500% increase since 1987. Who can argue with such a record? Who can compete with it? Who would want to? But that is the smooth, perverse pleasure a cynical old man takes in his achievements. I have practically ruined the nation, and I know it."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner188.html
Abortion rights and the theology of the constitution - "In addition to diminishing overall quality of life, the goal is to set up laws openly in conflict with Roe in hopes of provoking a showdown in the newly reconfigured supreme court."
http://secularfront.blogspot.com/2006/01/abortion-rights-and-theology-of.html
SD Legislature To Consider Abortion Ban - "In the next six weeks, South Dakota lawmakers will decide whether to make abortion a crime. A bill that would ban abortion in the state will be introduced within the next two days."
http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail2817.cfm?Id=0,45410
Impeachment Would Make Matters Worse - "And it doesn't get any better as you go down the line: Condoleezza Rice, who may have once told the truth about something, John Snow, Rumsfeld, Alberto (Torture is Us) Gonzales, and Gale Norton, who would be able to realize her lifelong ambition of putting the entire country west of the Mississippi up for sale. The short of it is that we're stuck with this hive of scoundrels for three more years, unless Pat Robertson can arrange for a heavenly tsunami to sweep up the Potomac tidal basin. Let us pray."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0122-22.htm
US thought control of Middle East studies - "The neo-cons initially urged Congress to reduce the appropriation for Title VI of the Higher Education Act. Since 1958, this legislation has provided federal funding to universities to support the study of less commonly taught languages, such as Arabic, Turkish and Persian. Now they want to set up a political review board to discourage universities and scholars from tolerating bad thoughts."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FD03Aa01.html
Hedge your bets - "The "chatter" in and around the entertainment industry is increasingly consumed by techno-talk, but one very basic reality seems to be emerging: The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups."
http://www.variety.com/VR1117936575.html
University requirement for partner benefits: You must have sex - "University of Florida employees have to pledge that they're having sex with their domestic partners before qualifying for benefits under a new health care plan at the university."
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060120/LOCAL/201200329/1078/GATORS02
Anti-nude law KOd by Fla. court - " Regulations prohibiting public nudity and nudity in places that sell alcohol violate the First and 14th amendments' protections of free speech and equal protection, the judge decided."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/384732p-326562c.html
China to build world`s first "artificial sun" experimental device - "A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China`s Anhui Province."
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=409853
If your suntan oil can change the sex of fish, what can do it to you? - "They fear that people are being exposed to the chemicals several times over, first by putting them on their skin, and then injesting them in drinking water and the fish they eat."
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article340237.ece
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"Sometimes I feel I'm living in someone else's dream."
~ Blue Rodeo
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