Clinton, Edwards and Obama: Strike Iran - "Times like these require bravery. They require a fight. A fight against immoral and illegal policies. A fight against tyranny. A fight for freedom. Freedom from hatred. Freedom from occupation. Americans and the people of the Middle East deserve better than Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama. They deserve to live their lives without the threat of warfare and bloodshed. They deserve to live without fear."
America Marches Toward a Military State - "President Bush’s 2008 budget includes a $625 billion request for the military, up from $295 billion the year Bush was elected — a 112 percent increase. It’s about $100 billion more than all other military budgets in the world, combined. Plenty of attention is being paid the exhausted military fighting president Bush’s various wars. There’s no denying it. It’s overstretched and undermanned. It makes you think the Pentagon needs more money, not less. But little attention is paid the flip-side of that story — the squandering of money down the drain of defense contractors’ swindles, ... "
The Bush Torture Memos - "Americans must pay closer attention to the words of their rulers. These memos trumpet the Bush administration’s determination to be restrained by no law or by any accepted standard of decency. Americans cannot say that they were not warned about their government’s descent."
Making an Example of Ehren Watada - "The people running the Iraq war are eager to make an example of Ehren Watada. They've convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on trial is setting a profound example of conscience -- helping to undermine the war that the Pentagon's top officials are so eager to protect."
US should weigh war on terrorism tax - Lieberman - ""When you put together the (Pentagon) budget and the Homeland Security budgets, we need to ask people to help us in a way that they know when they pay more it will go for their security," he said during a Senate panel hearing on the defense budget request."
Bush administration dismisses seven federal prosecutors - "The dismissals are unusual and that has prompted several Democratic senators to accuse the White House of taking undue aim at U.S. prosecutors, either to make way for up-and-coming Republicans or even to punish those who aggressively prosecuted friends of the administration."
PRESIDENTIAL FRONTRUNNERS WOULD SURRENDER AMERICA'S BORDERS - "Not one of the presidential frontrunners from either party would protect our borders against illegal immigration. Just the opposite. They would continue George Bush's policy of wide open borders, including his determination to grant amnesty to illegals. In other words, when it comes to protecting our borders, there is not a nickel's worth of difference between the two major parties' leading presidential contenders."
Bush budget trims health care funds - "The recommendations, if adopted, would trim Medicare spending by $66 billion over five years." -- That's just about 7 months worth of spending time in Iraq.
Bush wants to make tax cuts for the rich permanent - "President George W. Bush’s budget proposal calls for making permanent the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts scheduled to expire at the end of 2010. This would further widen the chasm between the wealthy elite and the rest of the population." -- Isn't that the point?
Political Power and the Rule of Law - "The problem is that politicians are not supposed to have power over us – we're supposed to be free. We seem to have forgotten that freedom means the absence of government coercion. So when politicians and the media celebrate political power, they really are celebrating the power of certain individuals to use coercive state force. Remember that one's relationship with the state is never voluntary. Every government edict, policy, regulation, court decision, and law ultimately is backed up by force, in the form of police, guns, and jails. That is why political power must be fiercely constrained by the American people."
Army made video warning about dangers of depleted uranium but never showed it to troops - "A special investigation on the effects of depleted uranium reveals the Army made a tape warning of the effects of depleted uranium which was never shown to troops despite the fact the Pentagon knew the agent to be potentially deadly, CNN reports Tuesday."
Kentucky Teacher Placed In Psych Ward For Declaring 9/11 Was An 'Inside Job' - "His story is just another in a long line cases where law abiding citizens have been systematically deprived of their due process rights and trampled on by a fascist mindset controlling America."
Who Watches The Watchers In Surveillance Society? - "The encroachment on privacy in what civil libertarians call a "surveillance society" may be a price willingly paid by citizens who fear terrorism and crime. But ever-alert software capable of maintaining a continuous "watch" on security cameras multiplies the risks of harassing innocent people, privacy experts say."
Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images - "A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police. The proposal, which Sen. John McCain is planning to introduce on Wednesday, also would require ISPs and perhaps some Web sites to alert the government of any illegal images of real or "cartoon" minors. Failure to do would be punished by criminal penalties including fines of up to $300,000."
Huge global child porn ring found - "Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos depicting young children being sexually abused."
Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids - "An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. ...
Under the initiative, marriage would be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would be required to prove they can have children in order to get a marriage license, and if they did not have children within three years, their marriage would be subject to annulment. All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized" and people in those marriages would be ineligible to receive any marriage benefits."
Living the American Dream ... in a One-Bedroom Apartment - "The middle class is clinging to its precious status by contending with far smaller living spaces than those of previous generations."
Ancient boy's skeleton sparks evolution debate - ""I did not evolve from Turkana Boy or anything like it," says Bishop Boniface Adoyo, head of Kenya's 35 evangelical denominations, which he claims have 10 million followers. "These sorts of silly views are killing our faith.""
Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see - "The pictures remained classified 'top secret' for many years. Some of the images have been published later by different means, but it's not usual to see them all together. This is the horror they didn't want us to see, and that we must NEVER forget:"
Declassified, But Still Unavailable - "At the stroke of midnight on December 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret government documents—including 270 million pages of FBI files—were instantly declassified, promising to shed light on everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis to government surveillance of antiwar and civil rights activists in the ’60s and ’70s. It was to be a “Cinderella moment,” said the New York Times, for researchers of the government’s secret history. But upon contacting the National Archives, researchers learned that declassification is not the same thing as release—none of the documents were publicly available for review."
How Generous Is the Bill Gates Foundation? - "If the Gates Foundation is so generous, why does it invest millions in companies that pollute the land in the very places the foundation was designed to help?"
Ban Proposed On Walking While Talking, Listening To iPod - "A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in either New York City or Buffalo."
Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave - "If you have a credit card or just bought a copy of Windows Vista, you're familiar with security holograms -- those sparkly bits of film that vouch for the validity of everything from driver's licenses to software and sports league items. It turns out, they're aren't as secure as they are sparkly."
Education Reform: Pass or Fail? - "As No Child Left Behind comes due for reauthorization, questions remain about whether it really helps children learn."
Petsmart -- Big Suffering for Small Animals - "For years, PetSmart has assured PETA that sick and injured animals in its stores are provided with veterinary care when they need it. We didn't take their word for it. During an undercover investigation at the PetSmart store in Manchester, Connecticut, a store that has a Banfield Hospital right inside it and that PetSmart boasts of as having an "outstanding pet care team" and an "exceptional pet care record," PETA documented more than 100 small animals—including hamsters, domestic rats, lizards, chinchillas, and birds—deprived of effective veterinary care and slowly dying, out of customers' sight."
Being lonely when you're older doubles the risk of Alzheimer's - "This is not the first study to suggest that social isolation is linked to diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease, but this latest study shows loneliness doubles the risk."
Weight-loss surgeries more common for teens, younger - "As the popularity of stomach surgery has skyrocketed among obese adults, a growing number of doctors are asking, "Why not children, too?""
Study: Video games are good for eyes - "These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
Was Prince's Super performance too revealing? - "Prince's acclaimed performance included a guitar solo during the "Purple Rain" segment of his medley in which his shadow was projected onto a large, flowing beige sheet. As the 48-year-old rock star let rip, the silhouette cast by his figure and his guitar (shaped like the singer's symbol) had phallic connotations for some."
America Marches Toward a Military State - "President Bush’s 2008 budget includes a $625 billion request for the military, up from $295 billion the year Bush was elected — a 112 percent increase. It’s about $100 billion more than all other military budgets in the world, combined. Plenty of attention is being paid the exhausted military fighting president Bush’s various wars. There’s no denying it. It’s overstretched and undermanned. It makes you think the Pentagon needs more money, not less. But little attention is paid the flip-side of that story — the squandering of money down the drain of defense contractors’ swindles, ... "
The Bush Torture Memos - "Americans must pay closer attention to the words of their rulers. These memos trumpet the Bush administration’s determination to be restrained by no law or by any accepted standard of decency. Americans cannot say that they were not warned about their government’s descent."
Making an Example of Ehren Watada - "The people running the Iraq war are eager to make an example of Ehren Watada. They've convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on trial is setting a profound example of conscience -- helping to undermine the war that the Pentagon's top officials are so eager to protect."
US should weigh war on terrorism tax - Lieberman - ""When you put together the (Pentagon) budget and the Homeland Security budgets, we need to ask people to help us in a way that they know when they pay more it will go for their security," he said during a Senate panel hearing on the defense budget request."
Bush administration dismisses seven federal prosecutors - "The dismissals are unusual and that has prompted several Democratic senators to accuse the White House of taking undue aim at U.S. prosecutors, either to make way for up-and-coming Republicans or even to punish those who aggressively prosecuted friends of the administration."
PRESIDENTIAL FRONTRUNNERS WOULD SURRENDER AMERICA'S BORDERS - "Not one of the presidential frontrunners from either party would protect our borders against illegal immigration. Just the opposite. They would continue George Bush's policy of wide open borders, including his determination to grant amnesty to illegals. In other words, when it comes to protecting our borders, there is not a nickel's worth of difference between the two major parties' leading presidential contenders."
Bush budget trims health care funds - "The recommendations, if adopted, would trim Medicare spending by $66 billion over five years." -- That's just about 7 months worth of spending time in Iraq.
Bush wants to make tax cuts for the rich permanent - "President George W. Bush’s budget proposal calls for making permanent the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts scheduled to expire at the end of 2010. This would further widen the chasm between the wealthy elite and the rest of the population." -- Isn't that the point?
Political Power and the Rule of Law - "The problem is that politicians are not supposed to have power over us – we're supposed to be free. We seem to have forgotten that freedom means the absence of government coercion. So when politicians and the media celebrate political power, they really are celebrating the power of certain individuals to use coercive state force. Remember that one's relationship with the state is never voluntary. Every government edict, policy, regulation, court decision, and law ultimately is backed up by force, in the form of police, guns, and jails. That is why political power must be fiercely constrained by the American people."
Army made video warning about dangers of depleted uranium but never showed it to troops - "A special investigation on the effects of depleted uranium reveals the Army made a tape warning of the effects of depleted uranium which was never shown to troops despite the fact the Pentagon knew the agent to be potentially deadly, CNN reports Tuesday."
Kentucky Teacher Placed In Psych Ward For Declaring 9/11 Was An 'Inside Job' - "His story is just another in a long line cases where law abiding citizens have been systematically deprived of their due process rights and trampled on by a fascist mindset controlling America."
Who Watches The Watchers In Surveillance Society? - "The encroachment on privacy in what civil libertarians call a "surveillance society" may be a price willingly paid by citizens who fear terrorism and crime. But ever-alert software capable of maintaining a continuous "watch" on security cameras multiplies the risks of harassing innocent people, privacy experts say."
Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images - "A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police. The proposal, which Sen. John McCain is planning to introduce on Wednesday, also would require ISPs and perhaps some Web sites to alert the government of any illegal images of real or "cartoon" minors. Failure to do would be punished by criminal penalties including fines of up to $300,000."
Huge global child porn ring found - "Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos depicting young children being sexually abused."
Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids - "An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. ...
Under the initiative, marriage would be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would be required to prove they can have children in order to get a marriage license, and if they did not have children within three years, their marriage would be subject to annulment. All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized" and people in those marriages would be ineligible to receive any marriage benefits."
Living the American Dream ... in a One-Bedroom Apartment - "The middle class is clinging to its precious status by contending with far smaller living spaces than those of previous generations."
Ancient boy's skeleton sparks evolution debate - ""I did not evolve from Turkana Boy or anything like it," says Bishop Boniface Adoyo, head of Kenya's 35 evangelical denominations, which he claims have 10 million followers. "These sorts of silly views are killing our faith.""
Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see - "The pictures remained classified 'top secret' for many years. Some of the images have been published later by different means, but it's not usual to see them all together. This is the horror they didn't want us to see, and that we must NEVER forget:"
Declassified, But Still Unavailable - "At the stroke of midnight on December 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret government documents—including 270 million pages of FBI files—were instantly declassified, promising to shed light on everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis to government surveillance of antiwar and civil rights activists in the ’60s and ’70s. It was to be a “Cinderella moment,” said the New York Times, for researchers of the government’s secret history. But upon contacting the National Archives, researchers learned that declassification is not the same thing as release—none of the documents were publicly available for review."
How Generous Is the Bill Gates Foundation? - "If the Gates Foundation is so generous, why does it invest millions in companies that pollute the land in the very places the foundation was designed to help?"
Ban Proposed On Walking While Talking, Listening To iPod - "A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in either New York City or Buffalo."
Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave - "If you have a credit card or just bought a copy of Windows Vista, you're familiar with security holograms -- those sparkly bits of film that vouch for the validity of everything from driver's licenses to software and sports league items. It turns out, they're aren't as secure as they are sparkly."
Education Reform: Pass or Fail? - "As No Child Left Behind comes due for reauthorization, questions remain about whether it really helps children learn."
Petsmart -- Big Suffering for Small Animals - "For years, PetSmart has assured PETA that sick and injured animals in its stores are provided with veterinary care when they need it. We didn't take their word for it. During an undercover investigation at the PetSmart store in Manchester, Connecticut, a store that has a Banfield Hospital right inside it and that PetSmart boasts of as having an "outstanding pet care team" and an "exceptional pet care record," PETA documented more than 100 small animals—including hamsters, domestic rats, lizards, chinchillas, and birds—deprived of effective veterinary care and slowly dying, out of customers' sight."
Being lonely when you're older doubles the risk of Alzheimer's - "This is not the first study to suggest that social isolation is linked to diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease, but this latest study shows loneliness doubles the risk."
Weight-loss surgeries more common for teens, younger - "As the popularity of stomach surgery has skyrocketed among obese adults, a growing number of doctors are asking, "Why not children, too?""
Study: Video games are good for eyes - "These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
Was Prince's Super performance too revealing? - "Prince's acclaimed performance included a guitar solo during the "Purple Rain" segment of his medley in which his shadow was projected onto a large, flowing beige sheet. As the 48-year-old rock star let rip, the silhouette cast by his figure and his guitar (shaped like the singer's symbol) had phallic connotations for some."
Quote of the Day
"I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe."
~ Jango Fett, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
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