Guest guest Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:15:21 -0500 (EST) OpEdNews: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 rob http://www.Opednews.com Newest Articles By Charles Sullivan Ignorance By Content And Omission In terms of democracy creation the commerical news is useless if its intent is to inform and to educate. It is effective and useful if its intent is to purvey propaganda and to deceive the masses. Consumption of commercial media may be hazardous to your health. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_charles__060331_ignorance_by_content.htm By Stephen Lendman The War Drums Are Getting Louder And Sounding A Clear Message Why would those in charge in Washington ever want another war or maybe two of them. Already they're embroiled in two out-of-control debacles leaching multi-billions we don't have to pay for them. Now it looks almost certain we're now headed for a new one with Iran and may try to " double our displeasure " by adding still another with Venezuela to remove their twice democratically elected President Hugo Chavez. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_stephen__060331_the_war_drums_are_ge.htm By Steve Bhaerman Shoot Out At The Last Chance Corral A response to the Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises campaign from a responsible Democrat grassroots organizer. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steve_bh_060331_shoot_out_at_the_las.htm By James Richard Brett The " Unitary " Executive The assertion of a " Unitary " Executive is nothing less than a revolution, a putsch, a coup d'etat. There is nothing in the English language or the Constitution to justify it. It is part and parcel of the arrogant disdain for a rule of law that defines Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, and now Bolten. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_james_ri_060331_the__22unitary_22_execut\ ..htm By Allen L Roland THE DEMOCRATS ARE GELDED DONKEYS Robert Freeman, Common Dreams, brilliantly and systematically writes how the Democrats have become worse than useless ~ http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__060331_the_democrats_are_ge.htm By JERRY TENUTO WE'RE NOT ALL THAT STUPID Jerry Tenuto: OUT OF THE BLUE -- Which takes more effort, staying stupid or achieving enlightenment? History will show we have been saddled with the laziest prez, veep, and cabinet in history. http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jerry_te_060331_we_re_not_all_that_s.htm By Don Williams Bush And The End Times--Practically Speaking If Bush believes Jesus is returning soon, this explains a lot. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_don_will_060331_bush_and_the_end_tim.htm By Stephen Dinan Honoring The Sacred Core Of Islam If we are able to truly celebrate the sacred power in the life of the Prophet Mohammed and the religion that has flowered from him, healing the roots of our relationship with the Islamic world will begin to become possible, which in turn can allow the softening of positions required for political bridges to rebuild. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_stephen__060331_honoring_the_sacred_.htm By Jane Stillwater My 15 Minutes Of Fame: Auditioning To Be On " The Apprentice " When I tried out to be on next season's " Apprentice " TV show, they asked us contestants how we felt about 9-11 -- just to see if we knew how to speak up. Boy did I ever! " Remember the photo of the woman standing on the steel beam in the North Tower? The one that was supposed to have been so hot that it melted? " http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jane_sti_060331_my_15_minutes_of_fam.htm By Tedbohne An Unclear Set Of Priorities Perhaps? Why not gather in these numbers to dump Bush. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_tedbohne_060331_an_unclear_set_of_pr.htm By Gene C. Gerard Housing Cuts For The Poor, Tax Cuts For The Rich President Bush's 2007 budget includes significant cuts in housing assistance. Although the Republican Congress has debated the cuts affecting the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), it appears unlikely that Mr. Bush's cuts will be opposed. Ironically, Congress is also considering yet another tax cut for the wealthy. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_gene_c___060331_housing_cuts_for_the.htm By Joan Brunwasser, Voting Integrity Editor, OpEdNews A Bit Of A Quandary We CAN take back our elections and create an informed, mobilized public that is actively involved in determining the course of our country and our future. That will be a bonus, for healthy democracy depends on the vigor of its debates and the degree of involvement of its citizens. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_joan_bru_060331_a_bit_of_a_quandary.htm By Mary Howe Kiraly, Voting Activist The Long Week Marches On Paper ballot legislation has support from the Governor, the House of Delegates, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and MoveOn.org. Major publications, in other states, are getting ahead of the action and congratulating Maryland on its courageous decision to discard its pricey touchscreen system. But it cannot budge one long-term Committee Chairwoman whose name is on the Senate bill. http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mary_how_060331_the_long_week_marche.htm By Evelyn Pringle Gambro Healthcare - Dialysis Fraud Pays Big Bucks http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_060331_gambro_healthcare___.htm By Doug Thompson 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Don't Pass The Smell Test The conspiracy claims by those who say Osama bin Laden and is rabid band of followers could not possibly have planned and executed the attacks that killed more than 3,000 Americans on that fateful day are, in my opinion, just plain wrong. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_doug_tho_060331_9_2f11_conspiracy_theo.h\ tm By James Parker A Man For Our Times Vincent Harrington ran for office promising that if he ever voted for America to go to war, he would go himself. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, he kept his word, resigned and enlisted., Unlike politicians and most Americans today, he paid the price of a vote to go to war. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_james_pa_060331_a_man_for_our_times.htm By Allen L Roland THE DAGGER IN THE HEART OF MEASURE C The Sonoma County Taxpayers' Association, founded in 1945, was formed to protect the interests of all county taxpayers. It is not against all taxes, just those that cannot be justified. We believe Measure C falls into that category:Fred Levin, Executive Director, Sonoma County Taxpayers' Association http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_allen_l__060331_dagger_in_the_heart_.htm By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For March 31, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jgideon_060331__daily_voting_news__.htm Best News Links from the Web http://www.opednews.com By John Dean Blasts Warrantless Eavesdropping Nixon White House counselor John Dean, testifying in favor of a Democratic resolution to censure Bush, asserted Friday that Bush's conduct in connection with domestic spying exceeds the wrongdoing that toppled his former boss, Nixon, from power. By Testimony Of John Dean On Censure But I do fear the Bush/Cheney government (and the precedents they are creating) because this administration is caught up in the rectitude of its own self- righteousness, and for all practical purposes this presidency has remained largely unchecked by its constitutional coequals. By Google Goes K Street The web giant has gone to great lengths to keep the internet open to all, but by teaming up with Republican lobbyists, it's politics as usual. By Wingnuts Finally Concerned About E-voting Since Discovering Hugo Chavez May Own Sequoia Voting Systems! While we're glad to see the Wingnuts suddenly giving a damn about Electronic Voting -- now that they're concerned about their own ox being gored by a company which may have left-leaning ownership -- we're hardly surprised that the anonymous blogger who calls him or herself " AcademicElephant " (we'll presume it's a " he " ) didn't seem to have such concerns about another Voting Machine Company with " connections to the George W. Bush regime [being] selected to run elections " all over our country in 2004 during one of the most contentious elections in our country's history. By Dems Pick Up Serious Steam In Latest Zogby Polls Of 10 states Zogby conducted polls this month, Democrats were ahead in 10, Republicans in six. By Helen Thomas: Bush Takes Potshots At Messenger President Bush seems to believe the news media's coverage of the Iraq war is why many Americans fail to see that everything is coming up roses there. That's an old ploy: " Kill the messenger who brings the bad news. " By Feds Looking At Knight Ridder/McClatchy Deal Antitrust regulators are reviewing the McClatchy Co.'s proposed $4.5 billion takeover of Knight Ridder, including its plan to sell 12 newspapers it is acquiring. By 14,000 Lobbying Docs Missing; 300 Lobby Without Registering According to Center for Public Integrity research, while under the oversight of the Senate Ethics Committee, lobbying disclosure has been glaringly un-enforced. * Nearly 14,000 lobbying documents that should have been filed periodically with the Senate Office of Public Records are missing; * Nearly 300 individuals and entities lobbied without registering; * 49 of the top 50 lobbying firms failed to file required forms; * Almost one in five companies have missing lobbying forms; and, * Almost 20 percent of all forms are filed late. By ETHICS -- FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ACCEPT FAVORS FROM THE INDUSTRY THEY OVERSEE A Center for Public Integrity (CPI) investigation has found that since 1999, the FDA has allowed hundreds of its employees to accept $1.3 million in sponsored travel from nonprofit groups closely tied to pharmaceutical and medical device companies. These nonprofit associations " draw their members, their boards and even some of their funding from medical and pharmaceutical-related companies " who often have business before the FDA. By Study: Red Bull And Alcohol Don't Mix A popular urban myth among young people is that combining energy drinks with alcohol will improve their stamina when they go " clubbing. " New findings indicate that when the popular Red Bull energy drink is consumed with alcohol, it actually reduces the user's ability to recognize loss of motor skills. By G.O.P. Is Taking Aim At Advocacy Groups/527s - MoveOn.Org Dodges To many Republicans, the liberal activist organization MoveOn.org is a political boogeyman that they hope to chase off with new restrictions on so-called 527 groups. But the pursuit may turn out to be fruitless. Like other major groups planning to inject themselves aggressively into the midterm elections through advertisements, voter drives and issue fights, MoveOn.org has already figured out what it thinks is a better, and less controversial, way to spend its millions. Its 527 — named for a section of the tax code — is being put on ice. By UN Nuclear Chief Urges Calm In Iran Debate Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N. nuclear agency chief, sees no imminent danger from Tehran and asks those discussing the issue to 'lower the pitch.' By Primary Voting-machine Troubles Raise Concerns For '06 Problems using voting machines in the Texas and Illinois primaries this month have reinforced fears that the 2006 elections may be beset with glitches. By Peddling Deception Federal funds are supporting " clinics " that use dishonesty to push an anti-choice agenda to pregnant women By States Pressured To Certify Voting Machines The 2006 deadline has passed, and pressure is being placed on states to comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). HAVA requires states to transition all voting machines to electronic and optical scan technologies in time for primary and mid-term elections of this year. As states are rushing to spend millions of dollars for this transition, controversy over the accuracy and security of the new machines is creating obstacles to reaching this deadline. By Violence Erupts In Gaza After Killing Three Palestinians have been killed in clashes in Gaza between armed men and security forces after a top fighter died in a car-bomb explosion on Friday, medics said. By Rice: US Not A Global Jailer The US secretary of state has defended the US invasion of Iraq and hinted that the US will not release prisoners from Guantanamo Bay until it is certain they pose no threat. By Taming Global Capitalism Anew One of the greatest achievements of the twentieth century was a social contract that provided far more economic security and prosperity for working Americans than had existed in any previous period. But successive waves of changes in the world economy, together with the ascendancy of a strain of economic philosophy that puts the freedom of capital above the interests of society, have placed enormous strain on the postwar social contracts of all Western countries, resulting in stagnating wages, greater insecurity and levels of income and wealth inequality not seen since the early 1900s. And even more far-reaching challenges arising from the current pattern of globalization, with its emphasis on the outsourcing of service as well as manufacturing jobs, may lie ahead. By ACS V. Federalists The American Constitution Society is a new force, full of optimism and ideas that challenge the conservative agenda and promote progressive political principles. By Poll Vault - Book Review Of " Conned " In Conned, reporter Sasha Abramsky sets out to highlight a growing population of disenfranchised Americans. By First Amendment Issues Raised About Espionage Act The federal judge overseeing prosecution of two former lobbyists charged with receiving and transmitting national defense information under the 1917 Espionage Act has given the government until today to respond to defense claims that the statute is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad and may violate the First Amendment. By Hold The Bush Administration Accountable For Flauting International Law Many, many other governments--even friends of the United States -- at their highest levels believe that the United States is very harmful for international law and must be forced to change through outside pressure. Some believe this pressure must be radical, others believe that this pressure must be slow and careful. But that there is a significant international consensus that recognizes the harm the United States is doing and recognizes the need for it to change, is something that I hope will encourage you. By Mortar On Baghdad Street Kills Three Women - Six Found Executed A mortar round slammed into a street in northeastern Baghdad Friday, killing three women when shrapnel hit their home, and soldiers discovered the bullet-riddled bodies of six men wearing handcuffs in western Baghdad, police said. By Judge Throws Out Ky. Sodomy Conviction A judge threw out the conviction of a man after he spent five years in prison on charges of sodomizing his teenage daughter, who had claimed repressed memories of a childhood attack. By Summit Papers Over Immigration Dispute - Fails To Ease Tensions Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada will try to paper over their immigration and trade disputes on Friday as they wrap up a North American summit with little progress in easing tensions. By Iraq Shi'ite Ayatollah Wants US Envoy Sacked A leading Iraqi Shi'ite cleric on Friday demanded the United States sack its envoy and accused him of siding with fellow Sunni Muslims in the country's growing sectarian conflict. By Airports Warned Over Screening Problem U.S. airports were warned about possible screening equipment problems Friday after a software glitch knocked out the metal detectors, x-ray machines and security checkpoint computers at Nashville International Airport for five hours Friday. By Prayer Does Not Heal The Sick, Study Finds American doctors measured the impact of prayer on 1,800 heart-surgery patients and found no benefits at all By Antarctic Air Is Warming Faster Than Rest Of World New finding could have implications for sea level rises By Church Fires Photog Over Scalia Picture: Freelancer Pays For `right Thing' A freelance photographer has been fired by the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper for releasing a picture of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia making a controversial gesture in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Sunday. By Rice Admits " thousands " Of Errors In Iraq Amid Anti-war Protests U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accepted on Friday the United States had probably made thousands of errors in Iraq but defended the overall strategy of removing Saddam Hussein. By Statement Of Bruce Fein, Deputy Attorney General To Ronald Reagan Censure now seems to me a legitimate _expression of Congress about the conduct of the President that contributes to enlightened public opinion and debate. With regard to my former unsound view, I can cite President Abraham Lincoln for the proposition that a man who does not grow wiser by the day is a fool, and Justice Robert H. Jackson who explained a similar recantation with the observation that he was astonished that a man of his intelligence had been guilty of such foolishness. By Feingold To Judiciary Committee: 'Under This Theory... We Have A Monarchy' Statement of Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) to Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On the Call to Censure the President... By House Ethics Committee, Despite Abramoff Fallout, Still Investigating Democrat Over Gingrich After the House ethics committee took limited action at the conclusion of a six-hour meeting Thursday, ranking member Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) issued a statement highly critical of the panel. Ethics members announced only the continuation of an investigative subcommittee probing Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), initially established in 2004, ROLL CALL reported late Thursday. By Blair Will Be Gone By Christmas, Say Friends The Prime Minister's closest aides feel that, following a series of damaging rows over education and sleaze, he will quit within nine months. Blair's Legacy - rhetoric & fact By Superpowers In Disarray Over Iran Sanctions Attempts by the world's leading powers to join forces and stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons fell into disarray yesterday as they disagreed in public over whether Teheran could face sanctions. By Shiite Ayatollah Ignores Letter From Bush A letter from President Bush to Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key al-Sistani aide told The Associated Press on Thursday. By U.S. Raid On Iraqi Shiite Shrine Served As A Warning The U.S. military was trying to send a " little reality jab " to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr when American and Iraqi troops raided a Shiite community center and shrine over the weekend, says a top U.S. military official. [Winning hearts and minds in the Arab world one religious shrine after another?] By Rice Brushes Off Anti-war Protests Threat Anti-war campaigners have threatened to stage demonstrations throughout her stay, and a visit to a mosque in Mr Straw's constituency of Blackburn, Lancashire, has already been cancelled because of the threat of protests. [bushCo. unwelcomed everywhere these days...not good, not good at all. These Neocons freak too easily and have all the weapons.] By Obese Americans Get Super-size Ambulances Las Vegas's local authority has become the latest in the US to put into service a new super-size ambulance, specially equipped to handle massively overweight and morbidly obese patients. By Soil Crisis Is Holding Back African Recovery The fertility of Africa's soil is being depleted at a rate that threatens to undermine the continent's attempts at eradicating hunger with sustainable agricultural development. A study has found three-quarters of Africa's farmland is plagued by severe soil degradation caused by wind and soil erosion and the loss of vital mineral nutrients. By Mosul Slips Out Of Control As The Bombers Move In When the 3,000 men of the mainly Kurdish 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Iraqi Army go on patrol it is at night, after the rigorously enforced curfew starts at 8pm. Their vehicles, bristling with heavy machine guns, race through the empty streets of the city, splashing through pools of sewage, always trying to take different routes to avoid roadside bombs. " The government cannot control the city, " said Hamid Effendi, an experienced ex-soldier who is Minister for Peshmerga Affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government. By Bush's Top 10 'Vietnam' Mistakes Because the Bush administration, almost from the start, has eschewed any comparison of Iraq with Vietnam, officials apparently never read the history of the nation's heretofore worst war and have made the same 10 major mistakes... By Conservatives Pissed Over Immigration Bill House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws. By 3 Strong Quakes Kill At Least 66 In Western Iran At least 1,200 injured in temblors; 200 villages damaged or flattened By Blacks Turn To Internet Highway, And Digital Divide Starts To Close African-Americans are steadily gaining access to and ease with the Internet, signaling a remarkable closing of the " digital divide " that many experts had worried would be a crippling disadvantage in achieving success. By 9-11: In Operators' Voices, Echoes Of Calls For Help The recordings, contained on 11 compact discs, also document a broken link in the chain of emergency communications. The voices captured on those discs track the unseen callers as they are passed by telephone from one agency to another, moving through a confederacy of municipal fiefdoms — police, fire, ambulance — but almost never receiving vital instructions to get out of the buildings. By New New Orleans Levee Plans Fall Short Of FEMA Standards New Orleans's levees do not meet the standards that the Federal Emergency Management Agency requires for its flood protection program, federal officials said yesterday — and they added that the problem would take as much as $6 billion to fix. By Ex-DeLay Aide To Plead Guilty Tony Rudy, a former top aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, has agreed to plead guilty to charges in the widening federal investigation of lobbyist fraud, a law enforcement official said Friday. By Senate Panel Set To Consider Bid To Censure Bush Former White House counsel John Dean, who helped push Nixon from office during the Watergate scandal three decades ago, heads to Capitol Hill on Friday to back an uphill attempt to censure Bush. By Maps: GOP Starts To Sour On Bush This is not Bush Country. It's blue from sea to shining sea. Yes, that's right, you can now travel through the US from the Atlantic to the Pacific without setting foot in a state where Bush's approval tops 45%, according to the March Survey USA polls By Fool Me Twice The unfolding administration strategy appears to be an effort to repeat its successful campaign for the Iraq war. It is now trying to link Iran to the 9/11 attacks by repeatedly claiming that Iran is the main state sponsor of terrorism in the world (though this suggestion is highly questionable). It is also attempting to make the threat urgent by arguing that Iran might soon pass a " point of no return " if it can perfect the technology of enriching uranium, even though many other nations have gone far beyond Iran's capabilities and stopped their programs short of weapons. By Administration Mounting PR Campaign To Soften Up Public For Attack On Iran Sources in the Pentagon and executive branch have confimed to Foreign Policy magazine's Joseph Cirincione what he's suspected from the administration's own statements: it's off the fence about Iran and all systems are go for a military strike. By BushCo. Changed Law Before Signing - Waxman Wants To Know Why ONCE AGAIN - BUSH SIGNS LAW THAT ISN'T A LAW Rep. Waxman and other committee members announce they will introduce a Resolution of Inquiry directing the President to submit to Congress all documents relating to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which the President signed on February 8. The version the President signed was different in substance from the version the House passed on February 1, 2006. By Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry GOP At a messianic " War on Christians " conference, Tom DeLay warned that " the future of man hangs in the balance " as other righteous souls demanded that gay sex be explicitly described to restore " shame. " By Whistleblowers Allege Influence Peddling By Members Of Congress, VP Cheney In Mexico Wastewater Project According to documents and whistleblowers concerning a San Diego wastewater treatment plant to be built in Tijuana, Mexico, Vice President Dick Cheney, Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA) and former congressman Brian Bilbray (R-CA) have allegedly advanced the project despite serious concerns from those involved. By The Broken Branch: An Unusual Lawsuit Takes Congress To Task For Shoddy And Partisan Lawmaking Two seasoned non-partisan Congress-watchers have teamed up (again) to report some bad news about Congress, assessing a decade of Republican rule. Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, and Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, have written a new book, The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track. By Bush Wants To Streamline Arms Sells To India, Others The Bush administration, looking to build stronger military ties to India and other countries, wants to speed up arms export procedures and better share information, U.S. officials said on Monday. " To improve security cooperation more broadly, the department is taking steps to improve its ability to be a good partner, " Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told a Defense Security Cooperation Agency conference. " The U.S. cannot predict with any certainty when and where we will need friends. " By New Docs Dick Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force Plan For Iraq Resource Sharing Before 9-11 These are documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under a March 5, 2002 court order as a result of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force. The documents contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and " Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts. " The documents are dated March 2001. View docs here. By Buy Australian Dollar, Sell U.S., N.Z. Currencies, Goldman Sachs Says Goldman Sachs Group Inc. recommends investors buy the Australian dollar versus both the U.S. and New Zealand currencies, because of an improving domestic economy and recovering commodity prices. By David Walker, The US Comptroller General, Predicts Economic Disaster For The U.S. (with Video) FEDERAL RESERVE ORDERS $2 TRILLION TO BE PRINTED AND PUT INTO CIRCULATION: US TREASURY FLABBERGASTED http://www.opednews.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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