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Rob Kall click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060515_1.html Newest Articles By Rob Kall Jason Leopold Update On Rove Indictment Story wondering why the mainstream media haven't reported on Rove's indictment yet? Having doubts about the veracity of Jason Leopold's report. Read on... By Rob Kall Urgent! May 16 Is Last Chance To Help Insure A Santorum Defeat And Elect A Progressive US Senator From PA. YOU Can Help YOU can make a difference in the May 16th PA primary and can help put a strong progressive in the primary instead of a centrist, anti-abortion, pro-Alito pick of the DLC leaders. Forward this article and phone everyone you know in Pennsylvania By JGideon E-VOTING TRAIN WRECK 2006: The Wheels Begin To Come Off Yes, the wheels are wobbling on the locomotives. The vendors --ES & S, Diebold, and the rest -- attempt to keep a stiff upper lip as they both fail to perform, yet continue collecting tax-payer dollars from the county election coffers. By Andrew Bard Schmookler Where Are Our Watergate Hearings? If Congress Won't Do It, Maybe There's Another Way The pattern of lawlessness of the Bushite regime must be presented to the American people. And maybe we don't have to stand by helplessly in the face of the corruption and cowardice of the major parties. By Bob Burnett 2006 - Another Year Of The Woman? 2006 Is shaping up as another historic year for women, as Democrats are poised to take back the House of Representatives and make Nancy Pelosi the first-ever female Speaker of the House. At least, that was the prevailing opinion at the annual Emily & #65533;s List gathering May 11th and 12th. By Allen L Roland NSA SPYING THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG NSA domestic spying is the tip of the iceberg pursuant to the data that is being accumulated by this government on its citizens. And this extensive information is being gathered by people with strong right wing Republican affiliations. By Rob Richie Will Louisiana Lead The Nation? A new bill in Louisiana could make the state the first of what promises to be dozens of states entering into an interstate agreement to guarantee election of the national popular vote winner in presidential elections -- and ensure every vote is equal no matter where it is cast. By Bruce Holland Rogers The Chief Executive & #65533; By David Swanson Iraq War Images Uncensored This collection of photos is the most complete we are aware of. Many of them are being made public here for the first time. Many of them are extremely gruesome. By Bob Fitrakis And Harvey Wasserman Will The Major Media Finally Cover The Electronic Election Fraud Issue? The next major e-vote meltdown should occur during the May 16 primaries in Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania. There's still time to move to hand-counted paper ballots for the November 2006 election. And if current trends continue, some of the mainstream media may actually start reporting on the issue. By Sam Vaknin The Argument For Torture Should physical torture be applied - where psychological strain has failed - in order to discover the whereabouts of a ticking bomb and thus prevent a mass slaughter of the innocent? By Harri Hursti For Black Box Voting, Inc. Critical Security Alert: Diebold TSx And TS6 Voting Systems A short synopsis, easy to understand, about the Hursti report on the Diebold electronic voting machines which is putting many states in a panic. (As well it should!) What can be accomplished in a few minutes... By Allen L Roland ROVE INDICTED / CHENEY NEXT Rest assured, Fitzgerald's sights are now aimed at Dick Cheney whose finger prints are all over every abuse of power, lie and deception of the Cheney/Bush administration for the past four years. By Steven Leser Karl Rove Indictment An Elaborate Hoax? Did Jason Leopold Get Rolled? If his story on the Rove indictment is incorrect, and I want to stress that we do not know either way right now, I have a theory as to what might have happened. By Shlomo Boudreaux We Democrats For far too long in the face of fear, we have lived by a policy of appeasement. As the reactionary right has ascended to dominance, we Democrats have softened our beliefs to fall in line with Republican values. In the 2006 Pennsylvania Democratic primary election, voters must rebuff this failed tactic. The only real Democrat in Pennsylvania's US Senate race is Chuck Pennacchio. By Mark T. Harris Border Guards Are Not The Answer Because Immigrants Are Not The Enemy President Bush has apparently been advised that leadership on the immigration issue means being pro-active, which is another way of saying send in the troops. The White House Deciderator's latest stab at deciding something involves plans now to significantly increase the presence of National Guard troops along the southwestern border. It's another clueless move by the White House. By Richard Neville BOMBOCRACY: The Musical, Plus Three Men In A Boat Like tobacco ads, the evening news should carry an alert, & #65533;any connection between our edited footage and what really happened is accidental & #65533;. Be the first to know & #65533; & #65533; and the last to understand By David Sirota Supreme Court Helps Corporate America Emasculate Taxpayers In a unanimous decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a lower court ruling that would have invalidated massive taxpayer giveaways to Corporate America. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For May 14, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Idealistlefty When Absolutes Clash When Absolutes Clash - the abortion debate By Fritz Rudi Healing The Heroes Of 9-11, Part 3 Exposed to the toxic vapors and particulates of WTC debris at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island in 2001, Jonette Kraft spent 3 years with a progressive MS-like illness that claimed her ability to walk, her memory, and cognition. Like Major Sean Donahue in Part 2 of this series, her life was saved by the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project. http://www.nydetox.org By Mark S. Tucker American Rhetoric 101A - Part 17 Why use bullets when words are so much more effective? A pense & #65533; upon a war you might not know is raging in front of your eyes and in your ears. By Laurie Frisch Women's Liberation With men saying they want to " opt-out " of fatherhood and adoption agencies implementing new tactics to get babies for paying customers, it's time to do more to protect women's choices and single mother's rights. By Steven Leser John McCain & #65533; Remember When People Thought He Wasn & #65533;t A Sellout? According to a recent Newsweek article, & #65533;McCain & #65533;s aids say & #65533;He has an 80-plus percent approval rating from the National Tax Limitation Committee. He enjoys similarly high marks from the Christian Coalition. His legislative record is pro-life and pro-gun, his aides say. " Has he ever not voted for a conservative jurist? There may be one or two cases, " says McCain's chief of staff, Mark Salter. & #65533; By Kent Welton Immigration & The Pope's Children A discussion of religious dogma is missing from the debate on imigration. Yet we cannot solve the many problems generated without facing its meaning and consequences. click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060515_1.html By & #65533; Federal Source To ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources. " It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick, " the source told us in an in-person conversation. By & #65533; AEI Scholars Call For Iran Regime Change And Possible War As tensions with Iran increase, many of the neoconservatives who laid the ideological and strategic frameworks for the invasion of Iraq are calling on the Bush administration to prepare for a preventive war against Iran and to immediately implement a " regime change " strategy. [You can bet your ass that none of the Neocon kids will be running to the recruitment office] By & #65533; Pro-Lifers Lure Teens Into Fake Abortion Clinics Thousands of " crisis pregnancy centers " turn unwanted pregnancies into bigger crises than they already are, a professor of reproductive biology warns us. Once inside, women are propagandized and intimidated by " clinic " staff. By & #65533; US Renews Ties With OPEC Member, Libya restored full diplomatic ties with Libya on Monday, rewarding the longtime pariah nation for scrapping its weapons of mass destruction programs and signaling incentives for Iran and North Korea should they do the same. By & #65533; US Bans Arms Sales To Venezuela: Official Washington banned all U.S. arms sales to Venezuela on Monday, citing the major oil supplier's lack of help in the fight against terrorism -- however, Venezuela has been buying its arms/weapons from Spain to replace US ones. By & #65533; A Final Word From Karl Rove? At a Michigan Trial Lawyers & #65533; Association dinner Saturday night in Dearborn, Mich., the group's vp announced that President Bush & #65533;s longtime strategist had just been indicted. The announcement reportedly prompted a standing ovation by the crowd of 700...however, Karl was at American Enterprise Monday morning. If indictment this week, his swan song? By & #65533; Karl Rove Gives Lecture Today, Won't Answer Questions About PlameGate Karl Rove gave a lecture this morning at American Enterprise Institute. During the Q and A, reporter David Corn asked him why he denied to Scott McClellan that he was involved in the Valerie Plame leaks probe. VIDEO By & #65533; Joe Wilson Received Same Rove Indictment Info As Jason Leopold Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson writes that " it is not just Jason Leopold. Joe Wilson heard the same from other sources... " By & #65533; Leopold Responds To Corallo's Denial Of Fitzgerald - Luskin Meeting Last night, I spoke to Jason Leopold on the phone for a half hour or so. Here's what he had to say... By & #65533; Updating The Rove Indictment Story " Bottom line: I believe Jason's sources told him what he reported. Were the sources accurate? Were they basically right but just mistaken on a few of the legal technicalities due to an unfamiliarity with the jargon? Time will tell. If they lied, Jason has promised to disclose their identities. I would just caution everyone not to be impatient. Let it play out. " By & #65533; EU Proposes To Barter For Civilian Iran Nuclear Programme The European Union will propose a " bold package " of incentives to Iran, including possible security guarantees, if Tehran can ensure that its nuclear programme is not used to produce weapons. By & #65533; A New Report Says The Pentagon's Finances Are In Disarray The DOD accounting practices are in such disarray that defense officials can't track how much equipment the military owns, where it all is or exactly how they spend defense dollars every year says report - calls the Pentagon's financial-management practices " an embarrassment " that wouldn't pass muster in the private sector. By & #65533; Africa Climate Change 'could Kill Millions' Developing countries must wean themselves off oil and fossil fuels and turn as quickly as possible to solar, wind and water power if they are to avoid disastrous climate change effects and continue to develop By & #65533; Shell Chief Warns Of & #65533;new Reality & #65533; Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, has warned that the increasingly nationalistic position of oil-rich countries and their redrawing of contracts is a & #65533;new reality & #65533; that international energy companies have to accept. However, not all his competitors share his view. By & #65533; Turkey's Detente With Kurds Wavers Repression of the minority was reduced as the nation sought to woo the EU, but a wave of nationalism is holding back reform efforts. By & #65533; Politics Stalls Plan To Bolster Flood Insurance The drive to restructure the perennially underfinanced program -- another casualty of Katrina -- has been blocked by real estate interests, who worry that requiring millions more people to buy flood insurance would stifle development, and by lawmakers from areas that rarely flood who see their constituents as supporting those who are frequently flooded, particularly in the South. By & #65533; Operation Regime Change Bush's administration pushes for a showdown over Iran's nuclear program in the U.N. Security Council, it has presented the issue as a matter of global security & #65533;an Iranian nuclear threat in defiance of the international community...but the dispute is really about the administration's drive for greater dominance in the Middle East and Iran's demand for recognition as a regional power. By & #65533; Turkish, Iranian Armies Build Up Forces Along Iraq's Only Quiet Area Hundreds of Kurds had to flee their homes in the mountain village of Razqa, Iraq, when artillery shells came whistling down from Iran early this month, blowing apart their homes and livestock. Turkey has sent tens of thousands of fresh soldiers in the last few weeks to beef up an already formidable force there. By & #65533; Shiite Lawmaker Threatens To Form Government Unilaterally Efforts to create a national unity government in Iraq stumbled Sunday as a member of an influential Shiite alliance bloc threatened to form a new government unilaterally if rival groups did not scale back their demands. Sunnis said they may withdraw from the process entirely. By & #65533; Desperation And Insanity: Military On The Border George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans are desperate as any political party could ever possibly be. For some reason, they believed passing a $70 billion tax-cut for the wealthy would inspire their base...The real sign of desperation, however, is Bush's plan for using U.S. military on the Mexican border. By & #65533; Charity Begins At Home, But Must It Stay There? Whatever its flaws, the Ford Foundation is a private institution in a free society. It should not have to endure political shakedowns, even when they come from well-meaning conservatives & #65533; as is happening right now in MI. Conservatives may be tempted to think they stand to gain from any attack on the Ford Foundation, but in reality they have much to lose. Everybody does, in fact, no matter what his politics. By & #65533; Christian Right Threatens GOP - Do More On Same Sex Marriage, Abortion So Some Old White Men Can Control Others Hey, when do we get the Office of Uterine Control??????? With all the REAL problems in America and the world, these are YOUR ISSUES? Get a life, please. How many you Christian right adopted a kid this year? Such nut cases, you probably don't qualify. By & #65533; Pro-Internet Democracy Blogs Run Ads For Corporate Takeover Of Net: Right now there is a fierce Capitol Hill war being waged over whether the Internet will continue to belong to the citizens of America or will start to move down the path that cable television went: only the big players will survive as fully accessible content providers, as the Telecom broadband providers start to set up toll gates on the Net. By & #65533; Social Networking Sites Grow 47%, Year Over Year, Reaching 45% Of Web Users The ten most popular social networking sites -- MySpace, Blogger, Classmates Online, YouTube, MSN Groups, AOL Hometown, , MSN Spaces, Six Apart Typepad, and Xanga.com -- collectively reached an unduplicated unique audience of 68.8 million in the U.S. during the month of April, an increase of 22 million over April 2005. If you haven't connected to the internet's social networking world yet, you will. By & #65533; Budget Cut Would Shutter EPA Libraries Proposed budget cuts could cripple a nationwide system of Environmental Protection Agency libraries that government researchers and others depend on for hard-to-find technical information, library advocates say. By & #65533; Dixie Chicks: Not Ready To Make Nice Not since Jane Fonda & #65533;s trip to Hanoi had an entertainer enraged so many people with a political statement. The uproar in the conservative country music clan drove their songs off the charts, their music off the radio and the Dixie Chicks into self-imposed exile. You haven & #65533;t heard much about them, but that is about to change. By & #65533; Halliburton Moves Stockholders' Meeting, Draws Fire " They're relocating to a city where they don't actually have to be accountable to their own shareholders, " said Maureen Haver, spokeswoman for the Houston Global Awareness Collective and one of 15 protesters arrested at Halliburton's meeting last year. " They're going to a town they have in their pocket. " By & #65533; Bush's Tax Cuts Far Outweigh Congressional Pork Earmark reform would fit well in an overall bipartisan plan to return the budget to balance. But a crusade against pork can't substitute for a genuine deficit-reduction strategy that uses all the tools required for the job. If Bush and Congress pretend otherwise, pork-busting will become not an act of leadership but its opposite & #65533; an excuse for avoiding the real decisions that fiscal sanity demands. By & #65533; Court Slows EFF Efforts To Address Ohio E-voting Malfunctions The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that a critical lawsuit aimed at improving the security and integrity of Ohio's voting technology will be put on hold indefinitely. The ruling halts case proceedings until the appeal of the government's motion to dismiss is decided and seriously jeopardizes the chances that critical procedural improvements will be in place by the time voters enter polling places in November. By & #65533; Cheney's Notes On Joe Wilson Report - Photocopy A copy of Joseph Wilson's July 6, 2003 New York Times Op-Ed with Handwritten Notes by Vice President Cheney By & #65533; IMF Acts To Avoid Markets Meltdown The International Monetary Fund is in behind-the-scenes talks with the US, China and other major powers to arrange a series of top-level meetings about tackling imbalances in the global economy, as the dollar sell-off reverberates through financial markets. By & #65533; Action Alert: Professor Fights To Expose Alleged Vote Fraud In hoping to get the analysis more publicity, Baiman hopes to convince statisticians at the AAPOR of its validity. The ultimate goal is to make future elections fair by eliminating the conditions that opened the 2004 election to vote fraud. Baiman needs to raise $500 to attend the meeting... Contact info within article. By & #65533; The Scoop " - Jason Leopold's New Book, Chapter 2 Chapter 2 of Jason Leopold's book is entitled " The Scoop " . Be forewarned, if you don't like reading the f-word and think that liberal, leftie journalists like Leopold (whose columns you'll know from our own Scoop) are polite, well-mannered, nice folks, don't go there. The book, News Junkie, will be released this month. By & #65533; The WORST Bush Idea Yet!!! US Military Troops Deployed On Border Of Mexico For Anti-immigration will call for thousands of National Guard troops to be deployed along the Mexico border in support of patrols aimed at keeping out illegal immigrants/ This is a very BAD idea... " Posse Comitatus " Some of these guys are just getting back from Iraq...bad shit will happen. By & #65533; Frank Rich: Will The Real Traitors Please Stand Up? What really angers the White House and its defenders about both the Post and Times scoops are not the legal questions the stories raise about unregulated gulags and unconstitutional domestic snooping, but the unmasking of yet more administration failures in a war effort riddled with ineptitude. Journalists and whistle-blowers who relay such government blunders are easily defended against the charge of treason. It's often those who make the accusations we should be most worried about. By & #65533; When A Columnist For The NYT Goes BuzzFlashian, We're Either Making Progress Or... Thank you, Frank Rich, after six years online, it's nice to see someone coming up from the rear to the front lines of the battle for the future of democracy and out national security -- with a fierce sense of outrage, patriotism and common sense. By & #65533; Cheney Pushed US To Widen Domestic Spying In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according to two senior intelligence officials. By & #65533; Where's The Beef? If the Democrats don't know what they believe in yet & #65533; if they're still figuring that out & #65533; they don't deserve to win. Politicians are supposed to lead, and the U.S. has seldom been in more desperate need of leadership than now. It's time to climb off the couch, Democrats, present yourselves to the public, and take a stand. If you're personable, and possessed of just a little bit of courage, you're halfway home. By & #65533; Clarity Vs. Celebrity With superhawk Republicans like John McCain and Rudy Giuliani making their way toward the starting gate for the 2008 White House run, the terminally timid Democrats continue to obsess about what they ought to be saying, neurotically analyzing every syllable they hesitantly utter, as opposed to simply saying what they really believe. By & #65533; Father And Son Reunion After trying not to emulate his father's presidency in any way, W. emulated it in the worst possible way. He came out of a conflict with Saddam as a towering figure with soaring approval ratings and ended up as a shrunken figure with scalding approval ratings. By & #65533; Row Delays Iraq Cabinet Talks An influential Shia alliance bloc member has threatened to unilaterally form a new government if rival groups do not scale back their demands. By & #65533; N. England Rains Force Hundreds From Homes Torrential rain forced hundreds of people from their homes in New Hampshire and Massachusetts on Sunday, flowing over dams and washing out roads. By & #65533; Specter On Domestic Spying: & #65533;There Has Been No Meaningful Congressional Oversight On These Programs & #65533; On Face the Nation, Specter said that Bush and others in the administration & #65533;still haven & #65533;t complied with the act to inform the full intelligence committees as required by law. & #65533; & #65533;[T]here really has to be in our system of law and government, checks and balance, separation of powers, congressional oversight, & #65533; Specter added, and & #65533;there has been no meaningful congressional oversight on these programs. & #65533; Full transcript. By & #65533; Chavez Offers Oil To Europe's Poor Venezuelan President promises fuel to the needy and proclaims 'final days of the North American empire' before visit to Britain today By & #65533; Condoleezza Rice At Boston College? I Quit I am writing to resign my post as an adjunct professor of English at Boston College. I am doing so -- after five years at BC, and with tremendous regret -- as a direct result of your decision to invite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at this year's graduation. By & #65533; Mothers Say No To War -- Silent Vigil In DC Code Pink has launched a 24-hour Mother's Day peace vigil in front of the White House. VIDEO By & #65533; At Falwell's University, McCain Defends Iraq War With the Rev. Jerry Falwell at his side, Senator John McCain offered a spirited defense of the Iraq war on Saturday, telling graduating students at Liberty University that victory there was crucial to world security. But Mr. McCain urged opponents of the war to vigorously " state their opposition " in the interest of critical debate on this increasingly unpopular conflict. By & #65533; Will The Real Traitors Please Stand Up? - Frank Rich Abe Rosenthal and his publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, were denounced as treasonous in 1971 when they defied the Nixon administration to publish the Pentagon Papers, the secret government history of the Vietnam War. Today we know who the real traitors were: the officials who squandered American blood and treasure on an ill-considered war and then tried to cover up their lies and mistakes... By & #65533; Par For The Corps - - of Engineers...well Funded And Incompetence The Corps failed to protect New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, despite spending more in Louisiana than in any other state. Last month, the Corps commander acknowledged that his agency's " design failure " led to the floodwall collapses that drowned New Orleans. So why isn't everyone asking questions about the Corps and its patrons in Congress? By & #65533; Fired CIA Officer Accuses Agency Of Lying To Congress CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy told friends, a senior agency official failed to provide a full account of the CIA's detainee-treatment policy at a closed hearing of the House intelligence committee in February 2005, under questioning by Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), the senior Democrat. By & #65533; Update: Iraq Coalition Casualities & #65533; By & #65533; Blasts Kill 14 At Baghdad Airport Let us not forget: The Neocons still have our US troops fighting their illegal war based on outright lies and deception and Congress hasn't done 'squat' about it! click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060515_1.html Support OpEdNews Order This Unique CD Program, and Support OpEdNews " Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. 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