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Monday – November 13, 2006
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November 13, 2006
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General
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September 9,
2006: “No More Lies! What Really Motivated The 9/11 Hijackers? (Video)
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British MP
George Galloway Speaks Out On Israel, Hezbollah And ‘Zionist State
Terrorism’ (Video)
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Palestine & Lebanon: Watch
The Destruction! (Video)
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Saddam
Hussein: “Thanks For The Memories”, He Was Always Washington’s Man –
Always! (Video)
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Iraq, The
Real Story – BBC Newsnight Report (Video)
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9/11 -
Selective Memory –Parody (Animation)
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 9/11 Vendetta – Past, Present
& Future (Video)
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Don’t
Shut-Up, Stand-Up!
(Video)
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Classic George Carlin Rant – Trenchant and
Profane - Caution,
‘colorful’ Use of Profanity and Much Truth (Spoken)
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Keith Olbermann: The ‘Murder’ of
Habeas Corpus (Video)
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Bush's "Comma" Comment
On Iraq (Video)
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Keith
Olbermann: Military Commissions Act, A Special Comment (Video)
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“Bring ’Em Home” – Bruce Springsteen’s New
Antiwar Anthem (Music-Video)
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September 4, 2006:” John The
Revelator”- Depeche Mode (Music-Video)
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‘Fascist Christ’ - Todd Rundgren
(Music-Video)
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‘Right Now…’ (Music-Video)
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Bush-Blair “Endless Love”
–Parody (Music- Video)
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“Mamas Don’t
Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Pages” (Music)
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‘Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth’ – Willy
Nelson’s New Antiwar Anthem (Music)
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Baghdad's
morgues so full, bodies being turned away
CNN.com
November 12, 2006
With no space to store bodies, some
victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim,
but photographed, numbered and quickly interred in government cemeteries.
Democrats Push
for Troop Cuts Within Months
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MARK MAZZETTI
New York Times
11.13.06
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — Democratic leaders in the Senate vowed on Sunday to use their new Congressional majority to
press for troop reductions in Iraq within a matter of months, stepping up
pressure on the administration just as President Bush is to be interviewed by
a bipartisan panel examining future strategy for the war.
The Democrats — the incoming majority leader,
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada; the incoming Armed Services Committee chairman,
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan; and the incoming Foreign Relations Committee
chairman, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware — said a phased
redeployment of troops would be their top priority when the new Congress
convenes in January, even before an investigation of the conduct of the war.
McCain and
Lieberman Want to Send More Troops to Iraq
McCAIN: The question is, is what’s the solution? And I believe that a
withdrawal or a date for withdrawal will lead to chaos in the region, and
most military experts think the same thing. I believe that there are a lot
of things that we can do to salvage this, but they all require the presence
of additional troops.
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RUSSERT: Should we send more troops?
LIEBERMAN: I think we have to be open to that as a way to succeed,
to achieve a free and independent Iraq, which would be an extraordinary
accomplishment.
Lieberman won't rule out switching
parties
Alex Koppelman
Salon – 11.13.06
A Lieberman defection would erase the slim Democratic majority
in the Senate, leaving it at a 50-50 tie. Since Vice President Dick Cheney
holds the tie-breaking vote, that would essentially give control to the
Republicans.
A scary
thought for the Senate's new Democratic leadership: Joe Lieberman says he
could still jump ship.
On
Sunday's "Meet the Press," host Tim Russert asked Lieberman about
the example of retiring Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords, who crossed party lines in
2001, giving Democrats control of what had been a divided body. According to
the official
transcript, Russert then asked Lieberman, "You're, you're
not ruling that out at some future time?
Lieberman,
who has said he will caucus with the Democratic Party despite having lost
Connecticut's Democratic senatorial primary to Ned Lamont, not to mention the
Democratic vote in the midterm election, wouldn't commit unequivocally to his
party: "I'm not ruling it out," he said, "but I hope I
don't get to that point."
A Staggering New Bill For Iraq?
Jessica Holzer and Matthew Swibel
Forbes Magazine
11.09.06, 6:00 AM ET
The U.S. armed services have
requested a $160 billion supplemental appropriation to fund the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan in the remainder of fiscal year 2007--a staggering amount
that, if approved by the Defense Department, may hasten the showdown between
resurgent congressional Democrats and the Bush administration over the budget-busting
War on Terror.
Blue State
Fascists?
Or can we trust the Democrats on
civil liberties?
Paul Craig Roberts
LewRockwell.com
11.13.06
The Bush regime was a coup d’état against the
Bill of Rights and the jurisdictions of Congress and the courts. Unless Democrats roll back this coup, Americans have seen the
last of their civil liberties.
Judging by Democrats’ statements in the flush
of their electoral victory, Democrats have little, if any, awareness of this
critical fact. Democrats are anxious to get on with their agendas and have
shown no recognition that the first order of business is to repeal the
legislation that permits torture, warrantless detention and domestic spying.
If Bush threatens to veto the resurrection of
US civil liberty, the Democrats can impeach Bush as a tyrant as well as for
pushing America into an illegal and catastrophic war on the basis of lies and
deception.
Bush is the most impeachable president in
American history. However, the incoming Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi,
has declared impeachment to be "off the table." Obviously, this
means that Bush will not be held accountable and that the Bill of Rights is a
casualty of the vague, undefined, and propagandistic "war on
terror."
Do Pelosi and the incoming Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid have the intellect and character to deliver the leadership
required for Americans to remain a free people? Instead of bemoaning the damage Bush has done to civil liberty,
Democrats are up in arms over one child in five being raised in poverty. The
more important question is whether children are being raised as a free people
protected by civil liberties from arbitrary government power.
Do Democrats share the delusion of Bush
supporters that it is only Middle Eastern terrorists who are deprived of the
protection of the US Constitution? One can understand the reluctance of
Americans to extend constitutional protection to terrorists who are trying to
kill Americans. However, without these protections, there is no way of
ascertaining who is a terrorist.
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“People should not be afraid of their government.
Governments should be afraid of their people.”
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Rumsfeld may
face abuse charges
BBC-London
11.11.06
Donald Rumsfeld, who quit as US
defence secretary this week, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged
abuses in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq.
A complaint has been launched by the
US-based Centre for Constitutional Rights, representing a Saudi detained in
Cuba and 11 Iraqis held in Baghdad. German law allows the pursuit of cases
originating anywhere in the world. The centre made a similar request in 2004
but German prosecutors dropped that case.
UN:
Washington’s Israel Ally Killed 116 Children in 2006
UNICEF says 17 children killed in Gaza, and 2 in
West Bank so far in November, 40 killed in July…
AP
11.10.06
Nineteen Palestinian children have
been killed in the past 10 days, making November already the second deadliest
month of the year for young people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNICEF
said Friday. The UN children's Fund said
17 have been killed in Gaza and two in the West Bank so far in November. Only
July - when 40 children were killed - was worse, the agency said.
Palestinian father carries wounded child
Washington
Vetoes U.N. Condemnation of Israel's Gaza Strikes
CNN.com
11.11.06
UNITED
NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution
Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in
Gaza. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John
Bolton said the resolution, which also called for Israel to cease military
operations immediately in the Palestinian territory, was "biased against
Israel and politically motivated."
Qatar proposed the motion, which focused
on Wednesday's shelling in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun that killed
18 people, mostly women and children.
Italy Calls on
the US to Press Israel on Palestinian Conflict
Haaretz –Israel
11.11.06
Italy's Foreign Minister Massimo
D'Alema called on the United States on Friday to refocus its foreign policy
following midterm elections, saying it
was time to stand up to Israeli hawks over the Palestinian conflict. A staunch critic of the Iraq war, D'Alema said he did not
expect a sudden shift in President George W. Bush's foreign policy following
his party's defeat in mid-term elections. But he called on Bush to press Israel, where he said the
military was lashing out in Gaza to prove its might after failing to defeat
Hezbollah in Lebanon.
UN condemns
Washington’s Blockade Against Cuba
183 nations support Cuban resolution; four vote against and one
abstains
Political Affairs Magazine
11.11.06
NEW YORK.— On November 8, the United
Nations General Assembly, for the
15th consecutive time and by overwhelming majority, passed a resolution
condemning the U.S. blockade against Cuba and demanding that it be lifted. The resolution obtained the support of one more country than
last year, with 183 votes for, 4 against – the United States, Israel,
Palau and the Marshall Islands – and one abstention, Micronesia. From 59
countries that supported the resolution in 1992, when it was presented for
the first time, the number rose to 179 in 2004, 182 in 2005 and 183 this
year.
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An extraordinarily prescient TV interview with General Norman
Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National Security Advisor to Former
President George Bush Sr.
Why Invading Iraq Was A Very Stupid Idea…
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