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Written by: Gerry L on Oct 6, 2008 8:48 AM EDT

 Monday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ October 6th,  2008

 Computer troubles today.....

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Why is the NY Times continuing to ignore McCain's "own Bill Ayers"?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200810040004?f=h_top

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Thanks to John at DFC for this

A Pal Around McCain

If the McCain people want to talk associates, how about economic guru Phil Gramm?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100501816.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

McCain Campaign No. 1 at Self-Parody;
McCain support for Mujahideen Papered Over

http://www.juancole.com/

 

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McCain’s Tortured Untruths

posted by Leslie Savan

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Today McCain seems addicted to alteration itself, and for its own sake. One minute he's angry and aggressive and the next, passive and indifferent (as Peggy Noonan put it, McCain is either "zero or 60, with no in between"). It wasn't only the ironic, self-deprecating John McCain that charmed the press for so long, but the fragile hero with an almost childlike innocence, whose halt-and-lame look invited the press to protect him from going through anything like a tortured interrogation ever again. Even if it's merely media questioning. ~~~

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/367490/mccain_s_tortured_untruths

 

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There's no debate: Palins owe thousands in back taxes

http://bojack.org/2008/10/theres_no_debate_palins_owe_th.html

 

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Elizabeth Edwards Calls McCain Health Care Plan 'Dangerous'

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36660

 

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McCain's "Keating 5" Scandal Involvement To Be Highlighted By Obama Campaign

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/mccains-keating-5-scandal_n_132103.html

 

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Let’s not forget those lobbyists….

Country First? 

Randy Scheunemann isn’t the only foreign agent with McCain’s ear.

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/oct/06/00023/

 

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Ripple effect: Countertops to hospitality tents

‘Everything's on hold': Lawyers, interior designers, printers and others see work drying up because of the uncertainty at Wachovia.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/233872.html

 

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A brief history of financial woe

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/331/story/53478.html

 

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Chris Hedges’ Columns

Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats’ Bailout Betrayal

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081006_dennis_kucinich_on_the_democrats_bailout_betrayal/

 

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They're Stealing from You and Me -- Where's the Outrage?

By Garrison Keillor, International Herald Tribune
http://www.alternet.org/story/101694/

 

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Seeking to Shift Attention to Judicial Nominees

Patrick Healy

There is no way, of course, that Senator Barack Obama would ever nominate three controversial figures from his past to serve on the United States Supreme Court: the convicted felon Antoin Rezko; the former Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers; or Mr. Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

 

Yet the names and faces of the three men appear in a new television advertisement — running in Michigan and Ohio this week and nationally on Fox News on Monday, at a total cost of $500,000 — arguing that Mr. Obama’s judgment about his associates shows that he cannot be trusted to pick justices for the Supreme Court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/us/politics/06court.html

 

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The Supreme Court’s New Term

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The court’s conservatives have been on a campaign to close the courthouse door to people with legitimate legal claims. They have expanded a variety of doctrines to send wronged parties away empty-handed, including one known as “pre-emption.”~~~~

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/opinion/06mon1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

 

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Justice, Bush Style

By Andrew Gumbel

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081020/gumbel

 

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Ike Environmental Toll Apparent

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/05-3

 

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Palin case employees to testify

A group of Alaskan state employees have agreed to testify at a probe into alleged abuses of power by Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7653938.stm

 

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Thanks to Maddi in Dayton for this ‘alert’…

Teacher suspended for racial slur

http://www.newsherald.com/news/marianna_68566___article.html/racial_slur.html

 

please  consider writing or faxing either of the below addresses

Marianna Middle School

4144 South St
Marianna, FL 32448

(850) 482-9609‎

(850) 482-9795‎ - Fax

OR

Jackson County School Board Office

2903 Jefferson St., Marianna, Florida

(850) 482-1200  

 

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Will race be the deciding factor in battleground Missouri?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/53486.html

 

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How People Tell Cops They're Guilty Even When They Aren't

Untrue Confessions

By EMILY HOROWITZ

http://www.counterpunch.org/horowitz10062008.html

 

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'It's a form of torture'

In 1998, five Cuban men were arrested for infiltrating groups in the US that were plotting attacks on Cuba. They have not received a fair trial and two have not seen their families since. Duncan Campbell reports

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/06/usa.cuba

 

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America must end its military dreams

Jonathan Power

As said Micawber: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds, nought and six, result misery."

If you can get past the Dickensian way of counting, then there is a message for the US today. It no longer has the financial wherewithal to do what it wants to do.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=115152&d=6&m=10&y=2008

 

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from and about ‘over there’

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Two European governments agree packages for ailing banks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/06/europeanbanks.europe

 

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Goodbye to Grosvenor Square

By TARIQ ALI

The US embassy is withdrawing from its central London fortress. If only America would quit other parts of the world it occupies.

http://www.counterpunch.org/ali10062008.html

 

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11 Die as U.S. Force Raids House in Iraqi City and Man Detonates a Suicide Vest

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/middleeast/06iraq.html

 

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Bush supports plan for US thinktank office in Iran

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/06/usforeignpolicy.iran

 

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Summing Up

by Uri Avnery

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/55501

 

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How I became a target for Israel's 'Jewish terrorists'

Peace campaigner attacked with a pipe bomb tells Donald Macintyre why right-wing extremism should be feared

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/how-i-became-a-target-for-israels-jewish-terrorists-948610.html

 

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Peace and Solidarity

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

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- Dean and the 50 State Strategy are first!

By Susan Rowe on Oct 6, 2008 10:54 AM EDT

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Countrywide to Set Aside $8.4 Billion in Loan Aid

Countrywide Financial has agreed to the largest program ever to modify home loans, as part of a settlement with officials in 11 states, just days after the federal government adopted a giant financial rescue package without any relief for distressed homeowners.

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“Countrywide’s greed turned the American dream into a nightmare for thousands of Californians who now face foreclosure,” said Jerry Brown, the attorney general of California. He led the negotiations for the states with Lisa Madigan, the Illinois attorney general. “Our goal here is to help as many people stay in their homes as possible and get some compensation for those who have already been pushed out of their homes,” he said.

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- Posse Comitatus Act

By Susan Rowe on Oct 6, 2008 11:12 AM EDT


Homeland security

In early 2006, the 109th Congress passed a bill containing controversial provisions that granted the President additional rights to use federal or state National Guard Troops inside the United States in emergency situations. These changes were included in the John Warner Defense Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122.ENR).

These changes were repealed in their entirety in 2008, except for the provisions of the Presidential signing statement which retained any powers, the repeal of which, the president may determine to be unconstitutional.

On September 30, 2008 the US Army announced that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) will be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command (NORTHCOM), as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

This marks the first time an active US Army unit will be given a dedicated assignment to NORTHCOM, where it is stated they may be "called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) attack." These soldiers will also learn how to use non-lethal weapons designed to "subdue unruly or dangerous individuals" without killing them, and also includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1">[2]</sup>.

This also demonstrates the President's full intentions of utilizing federal troops for missions within the United States, essentially eliminating any recognition of Posse Comitatus.

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Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army

By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Sep 30, 2008 16:16:12 EDT

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A Democratic Congressman has warned that a panic atmosphere is being intentionally created in order to get the financial bailout billed passed, further stating that several members of Congress were told before Monday's vote that martial law will be instigated in America if the legislation fails.

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- sorry about the mess.

By Susan Rowe on Oct 6, 2008 11:17 AM EDT

I don't know why that happened.

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- Statement from CA NOW President, Patty Bellasalma

By Susan Rowe on Oct 6, 2008 11:37 AM EDT

NOW Supports Obama/Biden Ticket, Not Palin

On November 4th, California voters will go to the polls to cast their vote about the future of our state and our nation. The National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW PAC) joined with many allied organizations representing a broad and diverse cross-section of U.S. women to endorse Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Both have long records of service, fighting to improve the rights of women, families, and working people. From voting rights to equal pay legislation to authoring and funding the Violence Against Women Act, it was clear to NOW PAC that the Obama/Biden ticket represents the best team for the kind of future we envision for women and girls.

A member and officer of the Los Angeles NOW chapter, Shelly Mandell, recently introduced Governor Sarah Palin at an event in Carson, California. Ms. Mandell was speaking as an individual and was not authorized to represent NOW, the NOW PAC or LA NOW in any capacity in connection with a federal candidate endorsement. As NOW President Kim Gandy said upon Palin's selection , "Not every woman supports women's rights."

The use of Shelly Mandell's Los Angeles NOW title was apparently intended to mislead the public, and indeed has resulted in local television outlets and internet reports misstating that LA NOW has "endorsed" Sarah Palin or that she has a record of supporting women's rights. This in fact is not the case.

As President of California NOW and as a member and officer of Los Angeles NOW, I can assure you that there is no local or state affiliate of NOW, including LA NOW, which endorses or supports the McCain/Palin ticket. John McCain and Sarah Palin oppose many of the rights and freedoms we have fought for throughout NOW's 42 years, and we will not be pushed back to the days of back-alley abortions, forced pregnancies, and pay discrimination without remedy.

Nor will we let the media distractions deter our members and activists from our organizing for freedom and equality for all women, putting our hopes and our dreams, our hard work and our hard-earned money, behind a proven team for women: the next President of the United States – Barack Obama – and his running mate, longtime friend and ally of women, Sen. Joe Biden With equal ferocity we will fight to protect young women by defeating Proposition 4 and to keep bigotry and discrimination out of our state constitution by defeating Proposition 8 here in California.

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