Friday, June 11, 2004

Latest Headlines


I am going to busy the next several days so here are headlines and not digests to tide you over if I can't post.

White House Requested The Information From Iraq Prisoners

INTERNAL PENTAGON REPORT OUTLINING FRAMEWORK FOR USE OF TORTURE

Justice Department lawyers believe they are facing defeat on Supreme Court terror cases

Very Hot Summer but Iraq has major power Woes

HOWARD DEAN - Press is a failed institution and holding President Kerry's feet to the fire.

Transforming Where in the Middle East Exactly?

Fed Warns It May Raise Interest Rates Rapidly

Blair's party has historical defeat (3rd place) in local elections

Howard Stern will have more influence than Rush Limbaugh

Clashes continue in chaotic Iraq

Who Rules America - Six top lobbyists meet weekly with top GOP aides

Trouble for Bush, more swing voters get their news from the internet than radio

Take Action - Senator Rick Santorum Launches Attack on Civil Rights and Health Care With Poorly Drafted Bill

Morford Investigates Internet Rumors of End of the World. More Here. (el - Nonsense, wait till 2012.)

Public Broadcasting Veers to the Right - Adding Conservative Shows, Pressure On Liberal Shows With Bush New Board Members

New Details Of Plans For War Before 9/11 in A PRETEXT FOR WAR

Liberals See Signs Of a Political Comeback

Hightower's Dirty Dozen - Corporate Industry Nows Runs Federal Departments

If She's Horny She's Likely Fertile Shows New Research

Taking America Back By The Grassroots, Dean's Latest Dozen Candidates

Dogs Smarter Than Thought, Better At Understanding Communication

WORLD MILITARY 2003, U.S. Accounts For 47% of all world military spending, China 4%, Russia less, Iraq invasion made nuclear weapons desirable for North Korea, Iraq instability could spread

SUMMARY SIPRI REPORTS

Swing Voters in Swing States Strongly Oppose Bush's Policies

The Bush administration routinely bypassed or overruled Pentagon experts on international law and the Geneva convention to construct a sweeping legal justification for harsh tactics in the war on terror.

Torture Began With Lindh - Rumsfeld ordered 'take the gloves off' in interrogating him.

Religious Left Seeks Stronger Voice In Political Debate

The Armageddon Plan - Cheney, Rumsfeld Developed Plan In Reagan Years To Takeover Power if Washington Destroyed

Economy Provides No Boost for Bush

Iraq Today - Lawless, Chaotic, Deadly

Reagan and Saddam: The Unholy Alliance

"Transfer of Sovereignty" Condemned as Farce, U.S. war crimes routine policy

Political Ads - Dumb and Dumber
"Can you imagine if there was going to be a vote in November and there would only be one light beer?" he mused, seeming to relish the prospect. We considered how the conventions of negative campaigning might apply. ("There they go again. Flip-flopping Miller Lite says it's 'less filling' and that it 'tastes great.' So which one is it? We're Bud Light, and we approved this message.")

Schisms From Reagan Administration Lingered for Years

State Department Concedes Lies or Mistakes, Last year most terrorist attacks in 20 years instead of least in 34 years

Krugman - False Claims For Reagan Economics

How Reagan Beat the Neocons

Three on supreme court reveal partisan politics
(el - Friedman has another 'No shit, Sherlock' moment.)

Reagan White House On AIDS, a great joke

TOM DELAY - SCUMBAG, Helping himself with Charity

Charity Begins At Home For DeLay

A Tough Time for 'Neocons'

"Born In The USA" Anti-Bush

Check out "The Backbone Campaign" to take back America

Amy Goodman Interviews Chomsky on Reagan's Legacy

Today she interviewed a victim of the South African hit squads which Reagan supported while calling Nelson Mandela and the ANC terrorists. (Website now offline.)

Why Democracy Now and Pacifica is Important. (Even when I disagree with them like last night on The Other Side.)

Is this MATRIX in action? Secret Service visit after email wishes Bin Ladan would rid the earth of Bush's filth.

USDA preventing Japan from Buying US beef

White House Lies Exposed - Saudis Flew Out When All Planes Grounded

TIME - Bamford's Book Reveals CIA's "spectacular intelligence failures" leading to 9/11, Iraq War

How Reagan Built Up Al Qaeda

'United States of Amnesia' for Ronald Reagan's death

The Nation reports subscriptions rising, now America's most read political weekly. (link to current articles)

Liberals Can Learn From Reagan

Slate: Reagan Won The Cold War by convincing Gorbachev he wouldn't attack

In a general preference congressional ballot, Democrats are up 54-35.

South Africa - Reagan's heart of darkness

Cuban Cigars Cost man Three years In Prison

Time to come clean - reservists really were just following orders.

Generation Kill - two months on the frontlines with the Marines at War

Is U.S. like Germany in the 30's?
The strongest criticism that the administration levels at Sen. John Kerry is that he changes his mind. In fact, instead of a president who claims an infallibility that exceeds that of the pope, America would be much better off with a president who, like John F. Kennedy, is honest enough to admit mistakes and secure enough to change his mind.

Another Election 2004 Model - Kerry 301 - Bush 237

First Instant Book Printing Machine In Bookstore


Customers pay AuthorHouse (www.authorhouse.com) a minimum of $698 to prepare a black-and-white paperback book for printing and to obtain an ISBN number to make the work available at retail outlets. IUniverse (www.iuniverse .com) charges $459 for its basic package, which includes, among other items, five paperback copies, an ISBN number and availability through online and retail merchants. The $500 Xlibris package (www .xlibris.com) includes an ISBN number and bar code, registration with Amazon and other online merchants, a Web page and one author copy.

But the Bookends store in Ridgewood charges $150 for printing 10 copies of any work up to 200 pages. Larger books are priced higher, and and subsequent 10-book orders are discounted. All royalties are kept by the author. The store also offers editing and marketing services through associates at an additional cost.

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