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Are you? http://freestateproject.org/ -------------------------------------- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS ----- Today's News: 1) Iraq: Suicide bomber kills four GIs 2) France: Riots continue to intensify 3) Australia: 17 terror suspects arrested 4) Iraq: Lawyer for Saddam's VP slain 5) Supreme Court to hear tribunals challenge 6) New Jersey: Bitter gubernatorial race ends today 7) US faces foreign competition -- in space 8) US-Panama trade deal will be tough, Bush says 9) Coast Guard gets capital air security role 10) Bush: "We do not torture" 11) Five US soldiers charged with abuse 12) Cat gets plane to itself 13) South Carolina: Gunman, victim killed in robbery 14) Colorado: Man shot during robbery 15) Alabama: Mayor praises man for using gun 16) Utah: Gun classes offer options to abuse victims 17) The art of privacy invasion 18) Utah: Layton outlaws 'dumpster diving' 19) Florida: Sex offender law survives challenge 20) Mississippi: Democratic Senators "sponsor" GOP fundraiser 21) Grokster shuts down 22) Louisiana cash goes to the dogs, cows and goats 23) Maryland: Bill would ban exotic pets 24) Massachusetts: Shake-up envisioned in health insurance 25) Judge tosses a blanket on topless protest Today's Commentary: 26) Surveillance society 27) C'est la mort? 28) An enemy of the state 29) Our liberties under siege 30) Missing the bus 31) Am I my brothel's keeper? 32) Reenergizing democracy 33) Generation jihad? 34) Deficits at home, welfare abroad 35) No more striking down constitutions 36) President Cheney 37) Eurabian fights 38) Getting serious about the Supreme Court 39) Optimism for a post-peak oil society 40) The devaluation of freedom 41) Three Years of the Condor 42) Who had the real intel on the war 43) Marc Emery deconstructs drug kingpin status 44) Worldwide web (of control) 45) Thai media tycoon calls for solidarity 46) Cowardly heterosexual fascists 47) The myth of energy deregulation 48) Taxes: More of the same 49) Tax revolts against oppressive governments 50) Antiwar activists, where are you? 51) Sarbanes' bill booby traps wire transfer industry 52) Price-gouging or business as usual? 53) History lesson 54) Symbol of the System 55) Roe was wrong 56) The Wal-Mart 22 57) America's engineered decline 58) Move the media elite outside its bubble 59) Alito's jurisprudence 60) Nothing to lose Today's Movement News and Events: 61) Stop the MPAA and RIAA's Horror Triple Bill! 62) An evening with Michael Crichton 63) Liberty 2005 Today in Political History: 64) The failed revolution begins News 1) Iraq: Suicide bomber kills four GIs Indianapolis Star "A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a checkpoint south of Baghdad and killed four American soldiers Monday, the military said. The U.S. command also announced five soldiers from an elite unit were charged with kicking and punching Iraqi detainees. The suicide attack came as U.S. and Iraqi troops battled al-Qaida-led militants for a third day in Husaybah, a town on the Syrian border that the military describes as a major entry point for foreign fighters. One Marine has died there, the U.S. command said Monday." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/2tvw9 ----- 2) France: Riots continue to intensify KSTP 5 News "France's worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night Monday, as rioters in the southern city of Toulouse set fire to a bus after sundown and pelted police with gasoline bombs and rocks. ... Outside the capital in Sevran, a junior high school was set ablaze, while in another Paris suburb, Vitry-sur-Seine, youths threw gasoline bombs at a hospital, police said. No one was injured. In northern France, a nursery school in Lille-Fives was set on fire, regional officials said. Earlier, a 61-year-old man died of wounds he received last week in an attack, the first fatality in the violence." (11/08/05) http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S11814.html?cat=1 ----- 3) Australia: 17 terror suspects arrested ABC News "Police arrested 17 terror suspects in Australia's two biggest cities Tuesday in raids authorities said foiled a plot to carry out a catastrophic terror attack. A radical Muslim cleric known for praising Osama bin Laden was charged with masterminding the plot. More than 500 police backed up by helicopters were involved in raids across Sydney and Melbourne, arresting eight men in Sydney and nine in Melbourne and seizing chemicals, weapons, computers and backpacks. One suspect was in critical condition after being shot in the neck during a gunfight with police, said police Commissioner Graeme Morgan. An officer was also slightly wounded." (11/08/05) http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1290992 ----- 4) Iraq: Lawyer for Saddam's VP slain The State "Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a lawyer for a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial and wounded another attorney Tuesday in Baghdad, a member of the defense team and police said. Adel al-Zubeidi, who was representing former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, was shot to death and attorney Thamir al-Khuzaie was wounded in the ambush in the Adil neighborhood, according to lawyer Khamees Hamid al-Ubaidi. Al-Zubeidi was the second defense attorney to be killed in less than a month. Saddam's main lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, blamed the government for Tuesday's attack, telling Al-Jazeera television that the shooting was carried by 'an armed group using government vehicles.'" (11/08/05) http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/13111945.htm ----- 5) Supreme Court to hear tribunals challenge Cincinnati Enquirer "The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a constitutional challenge to the Bush administration's military trials for foreign terror suspects, stepping into a high-stakes test of the president's wartime powers. The court's intervention is troubling news for the White House, which has been battered by criticism of its treatment of detainees and was rebuked by the high court last year for holding enemy combatants in legal limbo." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/92bkv ----- 6) New Jersey: Bitter gubernatorial race ends today Cherry Hill Courier Post "Today is Election Day. ... Voters will decide whether Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine or Republican Doug Forrester is the winner of the most expensive campaign for governor in state history, a race that turned personal in the final days. ... While Forrester and Corzine headline the ballot, there are eight third-party or independent candidates for governor hoping to provide an alternative to the major-party front-runners. The eight other candidates are former Stafford Township Mayor Wesley K. 'Wes' Bell; 'Education, Not Corruption' candidate Hector L. Castillo; marijuana activist Edward 'NJ Weedman' Forchion; Socialist Workers Party candidate Angela Lariscy; 'One New Jersey' candidate Michael A. Latigona; Libertarian Jeffrey Pawlowski; Socialist Party USA candidate Costantino Rozzo; and Green Party candidate Matt Thieke." (11/08/05) http://tinyurl.com/7wcnv ----- 7) US faces foreign competition -- in space USA Today "The plan for human space exploration has a familiar ring: Launch probes to scope out the moon, build rockets powerful enough to get people and supplies there, then send the first lunar expedition -- all before 2020. These goals form the centerpiece of the U.S. manned spaceflight program. They now form the centerpiece of China's, too. As lawmakers in Washington fret over how to pay for key elements of President Bush's blueprint for space exploration, which aims to send astronauts back to the moon in 2018, China is making a bid to place the first bootprints on the moon this century -- perhaps in 2017." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/b56e5 ----- 8) US-Panama trade deal will be tough, Bush says Houston Chronicle "President Bush acknowledged today that it would be difficult to push any U.S.-Panama trade deal through Congress, but said getting one completed remains a top priority for his administration. Bush celebrated the progress on reaching agreement with Panama on a bilateral free-trade pact, welcoming an enthusiastic partner in President Martin Torrijos after days of Latin America resistance to freer trade in the hemisphere." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/ah7bs ----- 9) Coast Guard gets capital air security role MSNBC "The Coast Guard has been tapped to play a major role in protecting the airspace surrounding the nation's capital, MSNBC.com has learned. The move would replace the civilian Customs and Border Protection aircraft currently flying the mission, and allows for a more streamlined military chain of command in the event an aircraft needed to be shot down. The decision became official Nov. 3 in a memo signed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff." (11/07/05) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9960618/ ----- 10) Bush: "We do not torture" Detroit Free Press "President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful. 'We do not torture,' Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas. Bush supported an effort spearheaded by Vice President Dick Cheney to block or modify a proposed Senate-passed ban on torture." [editor's note: If "we do not torture," then why are "we" opposed to a ban on torture? If "we do not torture," then such a ban would have no effect on what "we" do, right? - TLK] (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/8pal9 ----- 11) Five US soldiers charged with abuse CNN "Five U.S. soldiers from the 75th Ranger Regiment have been accused of beating detainees in Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday. 'The allegations stem from an incident on September 7 in which three detainees were allegedly punched and kicked by the soldiers as they were awaiting movement to a detention facility,' according to a news release from the U.S. military. The charges were filed November 5 after an investigation into the alleged abuse, the statement said." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/b7flj ----- 12) Cat gets plane to itself Ananova [UK] "Czech Airlines had to fly a cat home on an empty plane after the animal escaped from the cargo hold. Workers could not find the cat and officials judged it was too dangerous to allow the passengers back on board. The airline was forced to cancel the flight from Frankfurt to Prague after technicians failed to catch the runaway cat which was hidden somewhere on the plane. Czech Airlines spokeswoman Jitka Novotna said the plane returned to Prague with just the crew and the cat on board, before the cargo hold was dismantled and the cat was finally removed." (11/07/05) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1602767.html ----- 13) South Carolina: Gunman,victim killed in robbery WYFF News "Two people were shot and killed in a possible robbery attempt in Anderson County Monday morning. Deputies were called to the Cleanup Shop on South McDuffie Street shortly after 8 a.m. When they arrived, they found two people with gunshot wounds. Witnesses said a man walked into the shop and opened fire, hitting one man four times, then ran away. As the gunman ran, another man in the store picked up a gun and opened fire on him, hitting him at least once. Both men were transported to Anderson Area Medical Center, where both died a short time later." (11/07/05) http://www.wyff4.com/news/5267390/detail.html?rss=gs&psp=news ----- 14) Colorado: Man shot during robbery Denver Channel News "A suspected burglar was shot in the arm early Monday by a resident of the small hamlet of Bow Mar in Arapahoe County, 7News reported. ... 'The subject then fled the scene and went door-to-door trying to get help from people,' said Bret Cottrell, chief of the Columbine Valley Police Department. He was taken to Swedish Medical Center, where he was treated and then released. The man was arrested following his release and booked into the Arapahoe County Jail." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/79bxe ----- 15) Alabama: Mayor praises man for using gun WSFA News "Despite recent criticism, Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright says he still recommends that citizens fight back against crime with guns. And it appears that at least one man is following the mayor's advice. Police say the man was moving his belongings from one vehicle to another Thursday night when two other men approached him. That's when the man went for his gun. Several shots were fired. And in the end, the man got shot twice in the thigh. But the mayor says by getting his gun, the man did the right thing. 'I want to thank him and encourage him and others to continue their fight for their protection and the protection of others,' Mayor Bright said." (11/06/05) http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4079102&nav=0RdE ----- 16) Utah: Gun classes offer options to abuse victims Salt Lake Tribune "Until Christmas Eve 1996, she had never contemplated carrying a gun. Then her husband beat her. The woman, of Salt Lake City, promptly got a divorce and a protective order -- and a 9mm Glock pistol. 'I was always terrified of guns. But my fear of my ex-husband became far greater than my fear of guns. I saw what he was capable of,' said the woman. ... She said protective orders alone are not enough to protect her and others like her. A piece of paper won't save them from an abuser hurtling toward them with a fist or a weapon. So they're taking up arms. And Clark Aposhian, manager of Totally Awesome Guns and Range in Kearns, is helping them do it. The certified firearms instructor offers a five-hour course on most Saturdays." (11/05/05) http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3185672 ----- 17) The art of privacy invasion Wired News "Michelle Teran is the pied piper of wireless networks. Leading a band of followers through the city streets, the Canadian artist drags along a screen embedded in a suitcase that is showing supposedly secret images captured from cameras inside surrounding buildings. Call it war-driving for video. Although many people assume new surveillance technology that lets cameras transmit footage wirelessly to TVs and computers is private, Teran is on a mission to show them otherwise." (11/07/05) http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69445,00.html ----- 18) Utah: Layton outlaws 'dumpster diving' KUTV News "As a move against identity theft, the City Council has outlawed 'Dumpster diving.' The council unanimously approved the ordinance during its Thursday meeting based on the recommendation of the city's legal counsel. City Attorney Gary Crane said the ordinance, which prohibits people from scavenging through other people's garbage, is similar to an ordinance adopted in Orem. It does not apply to police, trash collectors and or the owners, who may have to go through the garbage if they mistakenly throw something away." (11/07/05) http://kutv.com/local/local_story_311104329.html ----- 19) Florida: Sex offender law survives challenge Florida Today "Two Florida laws requiring sex offenders to register their addresses with the state and submit DNA samples survived a challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court today. The high court declined without comment to hear an appeal to a June ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta that upheld the laws' constitutionality. A group of anonymous sex offenders, using the name John Doe, had challenged the statutes. One of the Florida laws requires sex offenders to register with the state, which puts their pictures and addresses on a public Web site. All 50 states passed such laws after the 1994 kidnapping, rape and murder of Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl, by a convicted sex offender." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/dym9s ----- 20) Mississippi: Democratic Senators "sponsor" GOP fundraiser The Jackson Channel [MS] "Eight of Mississippi's Democratic state senators are listed as co-sponsors of a fundraiser for Charlie Ross -- one of their Republican colleagues who's running for lieutenant governor. The fundraiser is Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Jackson. It costs $500 per person or per couple. The invitation said the event is to honor Ross for his leadership on tort reform. Ross helped push through laws last year to limit where lawsuits can be filed and how much can be awarded. Democratic Sen. Ezell Lee of Picayune said he did not know he was signing on to sponsor a fundraiser. He thought he was simply putting his name on a resolution to honor Ross for tort reform." (11/07/05) http://www.thejacksonchannel.com/news/5267751/detail.html ----- 21) Grokster shuts down San Francisco Chronicle "Grokster Ltd., a leading developer of Internet file-sharing software popular for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down operations to settle a landmark piracy case filed by Hollywood and the music industry, The Associated Press has learned. The surprise settlement permanently bans Grokster from participating directly or indirectly in the theft of copyrighted files and requires the company to stop giving away its software. Settlement details were to be disclosed to a federal judge later in the day in Los Angeles. Grokster's Web site was changed to display a message that its file-sharing service was illegal and no longer available. 'There are legal services for downloading music and movies,' the message said. 'This service is not one of them.'" (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/beprs ----- 22) Louisiana cash goes to the dogs, cows and goats Washington Times "Louisiana will spend $45 million on sports and livestock facilities and other new projects in spite of a looming deficit, frustrating some officials who say the frivolity reinforces the state's history of political patronage. 'We're in Washington with our hands out asking for $2 billion plus, and rather than holding on to the money to see what the needs are, they're spending it on local projects financing goat shows and lawn-mower races,' says state Sen. Robert Barham, Oak Ridge Republican. Supporters of the $4 million Morehouse Parish Equine Center say it will give a much-needed boost to the economy. Jimmy Christmas, center chairman, says it will be used for horse, cow, dog, goat and art shows; rodeos; auctions; crawfish festivals; lawn-mower races; religious functions; an animal shelter; and a community center." (11/07/05) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051107-122444-7728r.htm ----- 23) Maryland: Bill would ban exotic pets Fox News "Animal lovers are taking sides over proposed legislation that would prohibit people in Maryland from owning several species of wild animals as pets. The proposed list includes crocodiles, caimans, large cats, non-domestic dogs, poisonous snakes and monkeys. Even the organ grinder's monkey. 'Don't make the mistake,' Richard Farinato of the Humane Society of the United States told legislators Tuesday, 'just because it sits on somebody's shoulder and dances when he turns the crank doesn't mean it isn't going to rip your face off, to be perfectly blunt.'" (11/0/705) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174716,00.html ----- 24) Massachusetts: Shake-up envisioned in health insurance Boston Globe "The drive to provide health coverage for Massachusetts' uninsured could have a much wider impact: It may lead to major changes in everyone's health insurance. Governor Mitt Romney and other political leaders propose covering many of the 500,000 state residents who lack insurance with high-deductible plans that require them to pay the first $250 to $1,000 of their annual healthcare bills. In return, such plans would have lower monthly premiums than traditional coverage. If any one of the healthcare overhaul plans under consideration on Beacon Hill passes intact, state officials say, a ripple effect is likely. High-deductible plans would also be attractive to employers who have endured five consecutive years of double-digit premium hikes for standard health insurance; the state's HMOs could aggressively promote them; and employees would be allowed to take their health plans from job to job -- effectively seeding the marketplace. 'This is a paradigm shift. It wouldn't be surprising to me that you will see a lot more people actively taking these things up,' said Timothy R. Murphy, Romney's secretary of health and human services." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/7sdpw ----- 25) Judge tosses a blanket on topless protest San Francisco Chronicle "A federal judge denied on Friday a request from a group of Mendocino women who wanted to protest topless on the grounds of the state Capitol. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell said the group made no compelling argument that showing their breasts constitutes free speech. "Being topless is not inherently expressive" speech, Burrell said. The group, Breasts Not Bombs, had scheduled a protest for noon Monday. The California Highway Patrol threatened to arrest anyone who went topless. " (11/05/05) http://tinyurl.com/e4yd9 Commentary 26) Surveillance society Independent Institute by Ivan Eland "Since 9/11, the FBI, once organized to fight crime, has been undergoing a makeover to focus its efforts on preventing future terrorist attacks. To help the agency in its efforts, in 2001, the Congress recklessly passed and is now about to renew the USA PATRIOT Act, which dramatically increased the surveillance powers of law enforcement. Yet, the truth is that terrorism (even including the 9/11 attacks) is a rare phenomenon in North America that kills far fewer people than ordinary crime, car accidents, or medical problems. As tragic as the 3,000 deaths from the aberrant 9/11 strikes were, the worst effect of those incidents was the self-inflicted wound from the conversion of America from the 'land of the free' to the 'land of the watched.'" (11/07/05) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1614 ----- 27) C'est la mort? [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Thomas L. Knapp "It's only natural, given the apparently largely Arab/Muslim composition of the mobs, to speculate that the riots are Islamist in nature, and possibly even the opening move of an Islamist revolution in France. Unlike some other libertarians, I don't consider such speculation paranoid. As a matter of fact, there's considerable evidence of organized Islamist involvement .... The counter-argument, of course, is that the mob is just an irrational mix of people pissed off about the deaths of two youths who, fleeing police, were electrocuted while they tried to hide in a substation, people pissed off that they can't find jobs or don't get the government aid they think they deserve, people pissed off just because they're pissed off, people who think that burning cars is a neat way to pass the time, and people who figure now's as good a time as any to smash and grab some new tennis shoes or a nice color TV. Thing is, these could both be true. A mob without a purpose attracts purposeful participants. A mob with a purpose attracts purposeless participants, and participants with purposes all their own." (11/07/05) http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/11/cest-la-mort.html ----- 28) An enemy of the state Capitol Hill Blue by Doug Thompson "According to a printout from a computer controlled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice, I am an enemy of the state. The printout, shown to me recently by a friend who works for Justice, identifies me by a long, multi-digit number, lists my date of birth, place of birth, social security number and contains more than 100 pages documenting what the Bureau and the Bush Administration consider to be my threats to the security of the United States of America. It lists where I sent to school, the name and address of the first wife that I had been told was dead but who is alive and well and living in Montana, background information on my current wife and details on my service to my country that I haven't even revealed to my wife or my family. Although the file finds no criminal activity by me or members of my immediate family, it remains open because I am a 'person of interest' who has 'written and promoted opinions that are contrary to the government of the United States of America.'" (11/07/05) http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7624.shtml ----- 29) Our liberties under siege Washington Times by Nat Hentoff "My respect continues to increase for the conservative defenders of our most fundamental liberties. A founder of the conservative movement, Paul Weyrich -- chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation -- exemplifies this force when he writes: 'Because of the War on Terrorism, America may be on the verge of becoming a national security state.' Mr. Weyrich continues: 'That means citizens will allow the state to do almost anything it wants so long as it justifies its actions in terms of 'national security.' In effect, the Constitution and the rule of law itself go out the window, along with our liberties.' There is also Bob Barr, with whom I once joined at a conference of the American Conservative Union to criticize sections of the Patriot Act. With customary clarity, he now states: 'We believe in traditional conservative values, like accountability. ... To date, for example, the Justice Department has failed to disclose how many U.S. citizens' homes, businesses or records have been secretly searched under the Patriot Act provisions, such as Section 213 ('the sneak and peek' provision), or even how many National Security Letter searches (without any judicial supervision) have been executed.'" (11/07/05) http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051106-102157-6451r.htm ----- 30) Missing the bus Common Dreams by Niranjan Ramakrishnan "The Montgomery Bus Boycott continued for a year. During that time, how many senators, governors and congressmen would you suppose descended on Alabama to lend support to the boycotters? I don't know exactly, but here's my wild guess: less than the fingers on one hand. ... There is nothing less risky than praising a dead icon. There is nothing more risky than standing with a living one who, to use John Kerry's words for Rosa Parks, 'speaks truth to power.' ... As Congressman John Conyers of Michigan exulted at the memorial, two full planeloads of the US Congress had come to Detroit to pay tribute to Rosa Parks. Buses were missed, but planes were caught. Imagine if two planeloads of the US Congress, containing the same worthies who descended on Detroit with such alacrity, had gone to Texas this summer and camped out in the ditch outside Bush's Ranch .... But Cindy Sheehan is alive and troublesome. Rosa Parks is dead and safe. Therein lies the difference. " (11/07/05) http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1105-28.htm ----- 31) Am I my brothel's keeper? Reason by Kerry Howley Interview with Tracy Quan: "I've always been attracted to the hookers' movement, and I admire the advances of activism. But I have noticed that, though we're behind politically, prostitutes in America who are accustomed to working illegally are often more trustworthy people than prostitutes who have worked under a legalized system. The value system is an outlaw value system. I think outlaws are more trustworthy people. They're forced to think about what they think is right and wrong. You are forced to think about the ethics of your behavior in terms of loyalty. It's a very tribal mentality: us against the world. In the respectable world, it's about what you can get away with legally." (11/07/05) http://www.reason.com/links/links110705.shtml ----- 32) Reenergizing democracy Cato Institute by Patrick Basham "Unlike most democracies, we place the power to shape political districts in the hands of politicians. Our state legislatures have the power to draw political boundaries for state and congressional offices. Unfortunately, redistricting has evolved into the electoral instrument that best serves to protect and strengthen incumbency advantage thanks to sophisticated gerrymandering -- the redrawing of legislative districts for political advantage. Grassroots movements in California and Ohio are attempting to change this situation to make both state and congressional elections more competitive. However, from coast to coast, most politicians are unwilling to contemplate real reform. Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause, reminds us that, 'Incumbent politicians don't want to change the system no matter where they are.'" (11/08/05) http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5176 ----- 33) Generation jihad? Salon by Der Spiegel staff "Clichy-sous-Bois serves as evidence that the French route of soft integration has failed miserably. And when French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has ambitions of becoming France's president, called the youth gangs 'scum' and 'riffraff' who must be dealt with severely, he only added fuel to the fire. The French capital has an intifada unfolding on its doorstep. For 11 nights running, garbage containers and vehicles have been burning in Departement Seine-Saint-Denis. Night after night, gangs of teenagers storm through their neighborhoods, throwing Molotov cocktails into carpet shops and nursery schools, turning vehicles into bonfires -- 250 in one night, then 315 the next night, and 500 the next." [subscription or ad view required] (11/07/05) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/07/paris_burning ----- 34) Deficits at home, welfare abroad LewRockwell.Com by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) "In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and with an ongoing war in Iraq that costs more than $1 billion per week, taxpayers might think Congress has better things to do with $21 billion than send it overseas. Yet that's exactly what Congress did last Friday, approving a useless and counterproductive foreign aid spending bill. Never mind that the total federal debt recently topped $8 trillion, or that a major US city was virtually destroyed only a few months ago. Arrogant is the only word to describe a Congress that cares so little about its own taxpaying citizens while pretending to know what is best for the world." (11/08/05) http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul286.html ----- 35) No more striking down constitutions The American Spectator by John Haskins "Let's drop the talking points about 'conservative,' 'constructionist' and 'originalist' nominees. Such language obscures what's going on. These nuances are a polite way of pretending that the mainstream in law and government interprets the Constitution differently than we do. No. They are oblivious to the actual content of the Constitution, or they are anti-constitutional. A polite term would be 'post-constitutional.' If Ginsburg, Souter, and friends have a 'theory' of constitutional interpretation, they're keeping it to themselves. When they shake the foundations of the earth from their bench it is neither theory, nor constitutional, nor interpretation. They are, wrote Jonah Goldberg after one heinous ruling, 'making it up as they go along.'" (11/08/05) http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8985 ----- 36) President Cheney Slate by Daniel Benjamin "It has become a cliché to say that Dick Cheney is the most powerful vice president in American history. Nonetheless, here is a prediction: When the historians really get digging into the paper entrails of the Bush administration -- or possibly when Scooter Libby goes on trial -- those who have intoned that phrase will still be astonished at the extent to which the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney was the center of power inside the White House -- and at the grip it had on foreign and defense policy." (11/07/05) http://www.slate.com/id/2129686/ ----- 37) Eurabian fights TechCentralStation by Nidra Poller "The banlieues are not equivalent to American inner cities. This is not a replay of 'the fire next time.' The outcome will not be the kind of affirmative action that brought black stockbrokers to Wall Street and black actors to starring roles in TV commercials and sitcoms. What we are seeing is a jihad-style insurgency waged against a country that has fervently fostered the Eurabian fusion project." (11/08/05) http://www.techcentralstation.com/1107055.html ----- 38) Getting serious about the Supreme Court Intellectual Conservative by W. James Antle III "'Racist, sexist, anti-gay, right-wing judges go away!' So the young protesters chanted when Judge Samuel Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court. The Harriet Miers interlude, pitting President Bush against his own base, has been replaced with a bare-knuckled ideological scrap between the left and the right. But before Ms. Miers shuffles off to join Bernie Kerik, Lani Guinier and Douglas Ginsburg in the pantheon of failed presidential nominations, we might pause to reflect on one little noticed lesson from her 15 minutes of fame: it may have marked the first time conservatives took the courts as seriously as their liberal counterparts." (11/07/05) http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4716.html ----- 39) Optimism for a post-peak oil society AlterNet by Bill McKibben "Who knows if we're actually going to see oil production peak sometime soon? Not me. I've read persuasive arguments that we will from writers like Michael Klare and James Howard Kunstler and Paul Roberts. I've also read confident counterarguments from people who've been right in the past, like Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. Oil depletion is not a straightforward physical law, like the fact that the molecular structure of carbon dioxide traps heat that would otherwise radiate back out to space. Instead it's a detective story that turns on questions like, are the Saudis lying about how fast oil is being depleted in their giant field at Ghawar? My suspicion had always been that we'd run out of sinks before sources -- that is, run out of atmosphere before oil wells -- but it's beginning to look like the race will be tight. In any event, the real question is what to do in the face of uncertainty." (11/08/05) http://www.alternet.org/story/27727/ ----- 40) The devaluation of freedom The Free Liberal by Lady Liberty "I don't like war. It's dirty, nasty, ugly business. There are times, however, it's a necessity. I like even less the undermining of liberty in the name of war. Winning freedom and preserving freedom are worth the price, whether the cost merely involves activism or is far, far greater. Maybe if we can't believe that, or if we've forgotten just how much it cost those who won our freedom in the first place, we should ask some who aren't free what they'd give to get what we've already got -- and what they'd think of those of us who, without complaint and sometimes with complicity, are so readily willing to give it away." (11/08/05) http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001611.html ----- 41) Three Years of the Condor The Weekly Standard by Scott Johnson "Joe Wilson was not, of course, the only CIA-related political opponent of the Bush administration who emerged during the run-up to the 2004 election. In July 2004, the same month that the Times published Wilson's notorious op-ed column, CIA analyst Michael Scheuer published his strange book Imperial Hubris (by 'Anonymous'), which attacked American foreign policy related to the war on terrorism. (Scheuer was identified as the 'Anonymous' author of the book by the Boston Phoenix even before the book's official publication date.) In the epilogue to the paperback edition, Scheuer stated that he 'was never told why the CIA permitted publication.' Following publication of the book, the CIA permitted Scheuer 'anonymously' to criticize the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror in media interviews until his criticisms extended beyond the administration to the intelligence community. (Scheuer left the Agency last November -- the week after the election.)" (11/08/05) http://tinyurl.com/am4qb ----- 42) Who had the real intel on the war Mother Jones by Nick Turse "If medals are being given out, perhaps this is what should never be forgotten. It was the 'crazies' in the streets. It was kids in weird clothes with strange hair. It was a man holding a puppet and a woman with a homemade sign. They knew then what it took the majority of Americans years to figure out. That the war would be a disaster and that, in any case, it was wrong. Those people, braving a bitterly cold day in New York City in February 2003, had better intel, more foresight, and better judgment than the military, the intelligence agencies, and especially the President and Vice President of the United States and all their advisors." (11/08/05) http://tinyurl.com/djfyp ----- 43) Marc Emery deconstructs drug kingpin status Manitobean Online by Nathan Sharpe "Sitting in his bookstore in Vancouver, Marc Emery looks like anything but his Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) title of 'drug kingpin.' Despite the marijuana literature and drug-related artifacts that dot the walls of the space that also doubles as the B.C. Marijuana Party's headquarters, the place feels more like a museum with a gift shop than an international drug cartel hangout. As the middle-aged family man, its curator, sat down to smoke a joint and talk about his recent arrest, a small crowd gathered in the store to listen to what he had to say. 'Probably got about two years before I get extradited if it all goes according to the government plan,' he said, exhaling. The very fact that he can openly smoke pot in the store on Hastings St. in Vancouver's East Side is testament to how far marijuana activism has come in a relatively short while. " (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/cpzd5 ----- 44) Worldwide web (of control) Sydney Morning Herald [Australia] by Alan Anderson "The rapid growth of the internet, and its economic and social utility, are the result of its decentralised design and private control. The proposed UN bureaucracy would curtail the freedoms that have driven the internet revolution. The former Chinese Government official Houlin Zhao, a director of a potential new administrator, the UN's International Telecommunications Union, says: 'Anything which concerns the future development of the internet will be part of the question of internet governance. It covers a very wide range of topics, not just related to technology development, service development, but also policy matters, sovereignty, security, privacy, almost anything freedom of speech seems to be a politically sensitive issue.'" (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/7t5fh ----- 45) Thai media tycoon calls for solidarity Asia Times by ThaiDay "The embattled media mogul, Sondhi Limthongkul, has vowed to continue the struggle to safeguard media freedom and appealed to leading newspapers to stand up to government intimidation after a homemade bomb exploded on the grounds of his Manager Media Group late last week. ... Police said a possible motive for the attack was to intimidate Sondhi, an outspoken critic of the government and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The government has stringently denied any involvement in the bomb attack.In a news conference, Sondhi, who is being investigated by the Revenue Department and Anti-money Laundering Agency, said the attack was the latest in a series of attempts by the government to victimize him." (11/08/05) http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GK08Ae02.html ----- 46) Cowardly heterosexual fascists The Libertarian Enterprise by Alan Weiss "Realize that 'gay marriage' has been occuring for a very long time. Two gays who live together often consider themselves married, and act like. Now, they'd like the rest of society to recognize it, and not penalize them for their choice. Sounds pretty American to me, doesn't it? No, it isn't. In fact, in the United States of America, apparently the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' translates to 'as long as the majority approves of it.' The destruction of the Bill of Rights is now complete, a condition brokered equally by well-meaning but boneheaded 'liberals' who expand the Commerce Clause as well as by so-called 'conservatives' who never met a civil liberty they couldn't leave alone. And destroy. " (11/07/05) http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2005/tle344-20051106-04.html ----- 47) The myth of energy deregulation Ludwig von Mises Institute by Adam B. Summers "While the initiatives on the upcoming November 8 California special election ballot backed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have been receiving all of the media attention, another initiative that addresses an important issue is being overlooked. Proposition 80, the so-called 'Repeal of Electricity Deregulation and Blackout Prevention' initiative, would make some significant -- and detrimental -- changes in the state's energy policy. The fact that even a government regulatory body such as the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is actually against a measure that would increase its regulatory powers should tell you something right off the bat about the merits of Prop. 80." (11/07/05) http://www.mises.org/story/1954 ----- 48) Taxes: More of the same Frontiers of Freedom by Jan Larson "The President's Tax Reform Panel issued their final report last week. The panel's goal was to recommend reforms that would make the tax code 'simpler, fairer and more conducive to economic growth.' The panel accurately depicted the sorry state of the tax code, stating that the current code is rewritten so often that 'it should be drafted in pencil.' They decried the 'myriad of tax deductions, credits, exemptions and other preferences' and noted that when the government 'extends a special tax break ... everyone else must pay higher taxes.' They pointed out that there have been over 15,000 changes to the tax code since the last major 'reform' effort in 1986 - more than two per day. The panel said the right things in the first few chapters of the report. It is only when one digs deeper that it becomes clear that the panel's idea of 'tax reform' is simply more of the same." (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/7lale ----- 49) Tax revolts against oppressive governments Future of Freedom Foundation by Doug Bandow "More than a quarter century ago, Californians rebelled against an overbearing political establishment. Property assessments were climbing, state expenditures were rising, the budget surplus was expanding, and government officials were lying. Voters responded by passing Proposition 13, triggering tax revolts nationwide. The movement has waxed and waned over the years, but the stories rarely cease to inspire. Popular resistance to higher taxes almost always reprises David versus Goliath. Such is the tale spun by Phil Valentine, a Tennessee talk-radio personality who helped stop the bipartisan drive for a state income tax. Tax Revolt offers a delightful read, detailing betrayal and deceit, insider maneuvers and public protests, and big-bucks lobbying and horn-honking rallies. Particularly satisfying is the end: the people win." (11/02/05) http://www.fff.org/comment/com0511a.asp ----- 50) Antiwar activists, where are you? Boston Globe by Victoria A. Bonney "My fellow young Americans, the evidence is mounting that this war we are fighting in Iraq is not a 'just' war. No, this is a dirty fight, and we're in it for the long haul. But I guess that's the problem -- 'we' are not in it at all. 'We' are here in our land of iPods and cellphones, luxuriating in our apathetic comas while our soldiers are over there. I know what you're thinking. You have that magnetic yellow ribbon on your SUV, and, boy, if that is not uber-effective I do not know what is. But let me ask you, if you'd just put your Podcast on pause and cellphone on silence for a moment, is this all enough? Two wars ago, during the Vietnam disaster, there was Generation Activist. The youth of America rallied against 'the man.' How did they do it? They didn't have e-boards, or e-mail for that matter. Yet somehow, this archaic mob of longhairs and peaceniks managed to mobilize. They marched on the National Mall. They protested everywhere, even in bed. ... Their methods were not always nonviolent, but they were creative and incorrigible. Why is Generation Apathetic unable to have the same resounding roar?" (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/7joup ----- 51) Sarbanes' bill booby traps wire transfer industry Competitive Enterprise Institute by John Berlau "Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D.-Md.) seems determined to retire from the Senate next year leaving the American economy an unprecedented legacy of huge costs. His Sarbanes-Oxley 'corporate reform' law, which Republicans latched onto in a panic in 2002 after the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies, is costing American businesses $35 billion a year, according to the American Electronics Association. The average public company is also spending more than 70,000 man-hours devoted to complying with new accounting mandates, according to Financial Executives International, rather than creating productive ventures and new jobs. Even Sarbanes' former boss, ex-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (D.-S.D.), recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the law goes too far." (11/07/05) http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04952.cfm ----- 52) Price-gouging or business as usual? The Nation by Nicholas von Hoffman "The Senate is getting ready to perform one of its ancient ceremonies -- the public hanging of a varlet by the ears. A Republican-controlled Senate has, surprisingly, chosen for the role of star varlet Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil's CEO. When committee hearings begin on Wednesday, Raymond will find himself under the thumbscrew, trying to explain why his company has been making money at the rate of $75,000 a minute, or nearly $10 billion from July through September. CEOs from the other big energy companies will get the same treatment, and not just from Democrats. This is a bipartisan necktie party. The senators are heated up over the price of gasoline, which has gone down a little lately, and the price of natural gas, which has not. They fear the many millions of natural gas users (voters) who are about to be socked with heating bills like they've not seen before." (11/07/05) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051121/vonhoffman ----- 53) History lesson The American Prospect by Mark Schmitt "The question of the week seems to be, Can Democrats nationalize the 2006 congressional election the way Republicans did in 1994? Modernized counterparts to Newt Gingrich's 'Contract with America' are being prepared, slogans tested, and national issues developed for an assault on the profoundly weakened beachhead of the GOP autocracy. As is so often the case, though, Democrats are transfixed by the history and perceived successes of the right, when there are better lessons in our own history and our own successes. We'll come back to that in a minute. There's a mundane reason that the 1994 model won't work for Democrats in 2006, and it can be summed up in the numbers 53 and 18. Going into the 1994 election, Gingrich could identify 53 congressional districts whose voters had backed the first President Bush in 1992 -- even as he carried only 37 percent of the nationwide vote -- while sending a Democrat to Congress." (11/07/05) http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=10586 ----- 54) Symbol of the System In These Times by Christopher Hayes "There's a moment in Robert Greenwald's new documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, that serves as a perfect metaphor for the entire battle between organized labor and the country's largest private employer. Josh Noble, an employee of the Tire and Lube Express division of a Wal-Mart in Loveland, Colorado, is attempting to organize 17 of his fellow workers into a union. As the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election approaches, we see Noble with a United Food and Commercial Workers' (UFCW) advisor going through the list of employees, discussing who's with them and who's not. Noble says it looks about 50/50. ... When election day finally rolls around Noble loses the election -- 17 to 1." (11/06/05) http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2377/ ----- 55) Roe was wrong America's Future Foundation by Timothy P. Carney "What do Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe have in common with Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork? They all believe Roe v. Wade was a bad decision. Dershowitz and Tribe are not the only pro-choice legal scholars who denounce Roe as poor jurisprudence. John Hart Ely, another pro-choice legal scholar, wrote in 1973 in the Yale Law Journal that Roe was wrongly decided. Edward Lazarus, a dedicated pro-choicer and former clerk to Roe's author, says Roe was borderline 'indefensible.' Pro-choice Washington Post writer Benjamin Wittes calls Roe 'a lousy decision.' Slate columnist William Saletan--who left the Republican Party in 2004 because it was too pro-life--has written that Roe was a sloppy 'overreach.' Pro-choice Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen calls Roe 'a bad decision.'" (11/06/05) http://www.affbrainwash.com/archives/020500.php ----- 56) The Wal-Mart 22 Tom Paine by Jonathan Tasini "Last week, I attended the screening of Robert Greenwald's new film, 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.' ... During the movie, I caught myself thinking: If you want to know why the Democratic Party will continue to be the minority party in the country, look no further than the raft of Democratic operatives and elected representatives who do the bidding of Wal-Mart. Let's start by looking at what I call the Wal-Mart 22: The 22 Democrats who, on June 24, voted against an amendment to the 2006 fiscal year labor appropriations bill ... [which] barred any spending of money by the Department of Labor to implement the part of the deal the department had made with Wal-Mart, calling for advance notice of inspections any time the DOL planned to investigate Wal-Mart. ... That point bears repeating -- the federal government, the people who are supposed to protect citizens from corporate abuse, essentially said to perhaps the most notorious corporate law breaker in recent years, 'when we come looking for wrongdoing in your company, we're going to tell you ahead of time.'" (11/07/05) http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051107/the_walmart_22.php ----- 57) America's engineered decline News With Views by Frosty Wooldridge Book review: "For the past two centuries, America's middle class thrived. It bulwarked the foundation of our liberties and became the envy of the world. Today, because of Congressional-sponsored insourcing, offshoring, outsourcing along with FTAA, CAFTA, NAFTA and other corporate tools, Americans find themselves joining the 'race to the bottom.' In his laser-piercing book, 'AMERICA'S ENGINEERED DECLINE,' William Norman Grigg, editor of the New American, said, 'Even as our nation exports jobs that once opened the door to the middle class, we are importing waves of unskilled immigrants, including millions of illegals. No longer our protector, our political elite schemes to merge our country with other nations of this hemisphere into a continent-spanning socialist mega-state modeled after the European Union.'" (11/07/05) http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty95.htm ----- 58) Move the media elite outside its bubble Christian Science Monitor by Matthew Towery "Former CBS-TV correspondent Bernard Goldberg rocked the journalism world in 2001 with his bestselling book 'Bias.' It was an indictment of what Goldberg believes to be an unintended but pervasive liberal prejudice in America's television and print newsrooms. Now, Mr. Goldberg is back with a more in-depth look at why this perceived bias exists. In his new book, 'Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite,' there is plenty of fresh red meat for those who believe that too many people in the media hold a baseline view of things that runs too far to the left. That point is well taken, but Goldberg presents a more significant one in 'Bias.' The author posits the existence of a 'bubble' inside which most established national media live and work. By looking through an elite pair of myopically focused glasses, these media movers deceive themselves that everything revolves around their own business and social circles in New York City and Washington, D.C." (11/07/05) http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1107/p09s02-coop.html ----- 59) Alito's jurisprudence Boston Globe by Cathy Young "While new Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito seems to enjoy a great deal of respect across the political spectrum, the effort to paint him as an ogre who would plunge us back into the Dark Ages has already begun. Much of this effort has focused on Alito's 1991 vote on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. ... Let's clear something up: Just because Alito voted to uphold this law doesn't necessarily mean he agreed with it, only that he concluded it was constitutional. ... He did not use his dissent as a platform to attack Roe v. Wade. Overall, Alito's record does not suggest that he is a zealot who would put ideology above the Constitution and judicial precedent. But what if Alito did personally approve of the Pennsylvania law?" (11/07/05) http://tinyurl.com/cr2vy ----- 60) Nothing to lose Strike the Root by Daniel Patrick Welch "[T]he Libby indictment is not about perjury, or Scooter Libby, or even about Valerie Wilson. It is merely a window into a vicious and immoral government that feels itself to be above the law -- a long pattern of illegal and repugnant abuse of power to punish perceived enemies and squelch dissent. The ultimate goal, is of course, the worst: to be left unfettered in its prosecution of an illegal and unnecessary war." (11/07/05) http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/welch/welch1.html Movement News and Events 61) Stop the MPAA and RIAA's Horror Triple Bill! Electronic Frontier Foundation "On Thursday, November 3rd, the heads of the MPAA and RIAA presented to the House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property their plans for the future of digital technology. For high-definition television (HDTV), the MPAA demands every receiver must have, and obey, the broadcast flag. For new radio technologies, you'll be restricted to recording radio shows for a minimum of 30 minutes, for a maximum of 50 hours. And all analog to digital video conversions will be forced to watch for, and obey, a concealed copy restriction mark. If any one of these provisions pass, it would be a disaster for you and for innovation. .... Let Congress know how preposterous the MPAA and RIAA's proposals are, and warn them that your technological future depends on their willingness to stand up for your rights." (11/04/05) http://tinyurl.com/dfkwp ----- 62) An evening with Michael Crichton Independent Institute 11/15/05 "States of Fear: Science or Politics?" With a panel of distinguished scientists including Sallie L. Baliunas, William M. Gray and George H. Taylor. Hotel Nikko, San Francisco. Private reception 7 p.m., program 8 p.m. Tickets from $25. Online reservations available. http://www.independent.org/events/detail.asp?eventID=111 ----- 63) Liberty 2005 The Libertarian Alliance and The Libertarian International 11/19/05-11/20/05 European conference of the Libertarian Alliance and the Libertarian International. Held at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London. Online registration available -- $150 US, 85 pounds UK, 124 euro. Speakers include Mattias Bengston, Prof. Gabriel Calzada, Dr. Ben Cosin, Prof. Frank Van Dunn, Dr. Richard Ebeling, Dr. Sean Gabb, Dr. Syed Kamal MEP, Sacha Kumaria, Christian Michel, Dr. Julian Morris and William Thomas. Guest of honor: Stephen Pollard. Additional awards speakers. http://www.libertarian.co.uk/conf05.htm Today in Political History 64) The failed revolution begins Details, and the "quote of the day," from Leon's Political Almanac at: http://perspicuity.net/cgi/hypercal.cgi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RRND is published every weekday except on holidays. Forward freely. To subscribe, unsubscribe, or financially support RRND, visit: http://www.rationalreview.com/news To support ISIL's Free-Market.Net Project (tax deductible) http://www.isil.org/store/membership.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas L. Knapp ..... Publisher Mary Lou Seymour .... Editor Steve Trinward ...... Editor R. 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