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* RATIONAL REVIEW NEWS DIGEST
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* Volume IV, Issue #1,017
* Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
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In The News:
0) Symposium: Handicapping the elections
1) Gitmo lawyers challenge Military Commissions Act
2) Venezuela, Guatemala quit UN race
3) Afghanistan: Two occupation troops wounded
4) WI: Land thieves prevail, but pay a little more
5) Nicaragua votes as Ortega seeks comeback
6) William Styron, 1925-2006
7) UK "air plot:" Brothers released
8) CA: Device explodes, shattering PayPal window
9) AZ: Voting under scrutiny
10) A bird in the hand at the Bush is bet ... never mind
11) Fiji faces possible coup
12) Safety margin for tunnel was smaller than most
13) Bush says Rumsfeld, Cheney should stay
14) North Korea wants bank accounts unfrozen
15) Iran to give incentives to attract tourists
16) Iraq gunmen kidnap blind coach, official
17) Sunni leader dismayed by Sadr City letup
18) AWOL soldier who returned, flees again
19) SD: Moose mooooves in with Frederick herd
20) Diebold wants HBO documentary canceled
21) Is the pink flamingo an endangered species?
22) KS: AG gets patient records from abortion clinics
23) UK: Teenagers see Asbos as badge of honour
24) NY: Grand jury frees shooter
25) CO: Victim fights back
Everybody Has An Opinion:
26) Morality's role in law?
27) The ugly truth about the Republican Party
28) Give up the fatal contradiction
29) If it's broke, fix it
30) Some campaign notes
31) God and Mr. Mencken
32) We are but a raisin in the sun
33) Bonnie and Clyde and housing
34) More troops -- or less empire
35) Hot, rising, linked to the state
36) Divide the spoiled
37) How would Latin Americans vote on Nov. 7th?
38) What to do before Tehran gets the bomb
39) Allen's options
40) America 101
41) Sex while you sleep!
42) Politics make you howl? Got a candidate for you
43) Vote NOTA and be sure to get their attention
44) Housing vampires walk streets after Halloween
45) Voters, political leaders dissatisfied with Iraq
46) An undiplomatic conflict of interest
47) Camera his weapon vs. injustice
48) Don't always believe the victim
49) Is all lost?
50) Tax law and charitable donations
51) Good fascists and bad fascists
52) The audacity of hospitals
53) Cleavage candidates
54) And now a word from our critics
55) Inflation: A moral problem
56) Panic in Big Pharma
57) State of deceit
58) US passport already hacked
59) The growing NID trap
60) Bush's Martial Law Act of 2007
See No Evil, Hear No Evil:
61) Freedom Rings, 11/06/06
62) FMNN eRadio: North American Union
63) Handling Asian currencies
64) Free Talk Live, 11/01/06
65) Freedomain Radio #485
What's Up In The Freedom Movement:
66) Today's events
WaYbAcK:
67) Balfour's folly?
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* In The News
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0) Symposium: Handicapping the elections
The consensus seems to be that the Democrats will take the House, but
probably not the Senate. I've got a steak dinner riding on the GOP
losing at least one Senate seat from among Tennessee, Missouri and
Virginia. How do YOU think things will turn out? Or, if you don't care
and/or decline to vote, why? State your case!
http://www.rationalreview.com/content/20010
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1) Gitmo lawyers challenge Military Commissions Act
USA Today
"Lawyers for dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees asked a federal
appeals court Wednesday to declare a key part of President Bush's new
military trials law unconstitutional. The detainees' lawyers
challenged the military's authority to arrest people overseas and
detain them indefinitely without allowing them to use the U.S. courts
to contest their detention." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yfm6r9
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2) Venezuela, Guatemala quit UN race
Statesville Record & Landmark
"Guatemala and Venezuela agreed to withdraw from the race for a U.N.
Security Council seat Wednesday and support Panama instead, ending a
lengthy deadlock and paving the way for the Central American nation to
join the U.N.'s most powerful body. Ecuador's U.N. Ambassador Diego
Cordovez, who hosted two meetings Wednesday between the Guatemalan and
Venezuelan foreign ministers, made the announcement of the
breakthrough at Ecuador's U.N. Mission." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/ybyfos
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3) Afghanistan: Two occupation troops wounded
Houston Chronicle
"A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy today in southern
Afghanistan, wounding two soldiers and damaging a vehicle, while a
NATO air strike killed three suspected insurgents in the east. British
Gen. David Richards, NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, told The
Financial Times in an interview published today that he doesn't have
enough forces to defeat the Taliban within the next six months, but
they can still make 'sufficient improvements' to keep Afghans
confident in the government and international community." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y2b5ja
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4) WI: Land thieves prevail, but pay a little more
Appleton Post-Crescent
"The city [of Neenah] will pay $300,000 to settle an eminent domain
challenge for a six-acre property ... Negotiations broke down over the
value of the property. The city initially offered $188,000 and then
increased that to $230,000. The Lees requested $420,000, plus $40,000
in relocation costs. ... in January, Neenah exercised eminent domain
to [steal] the property for $230,000. The Lees challenged Neenah's
right [sic] to [steal] the land in Winnebago County Circuit Court, but
the city prevailed. ... the Lees challenged the value of the [stolen
property] in court. That led to a court-ordered mediation and the
$300,000 settlement, meaning the city must pay an additional $70,000.
... Pa Vang Lee said she and her husband agreed to the settlement on
the advice of their attorney. 'We are not very happy with it,' she
said. 'We think it is worth more because they are going to develop
this as industrial.'" (11/02/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y38rre
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5) Nicaragua votes as Ortega seeks comeback
Monsters & Critics
"Nicaraguan former president Daniel Ortega is the favourite in
Sunday's national elections as he makes yet another bid for power in
peacetime, 16 years after his first stormy presidency ended at the
ballot box. Leftist Ortega, 59, is the candidate of the Sandinista
National Liberation Front (FSLN) and faces a divided right-wing
opposition in his fourth attempt to regain power in one of the poorest
countr[ies] in the hemisphere. Just days before the election, though,
last-minute reports suggested that one of the leading candidates
opposite Ortega on the political spectrum might stand down in an
effort to consolidate the liberal vote, a move that Washington had
been pursuing unsuccessfully for months." [editor's note: I'm no fan
of Ortega's, but last time I looked, Washington wasn't located in
Nicaragua (good idea, though ... maybe with enough pilons, jacks and
barges ...); so why are they even involved here? - TLK] (11/02/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y6ncy5
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6) William Styron, 1925-2006
New York Times
"William Styron, the novelist from the American South whose
explorations of difficult historical and moral questions earned him a
place among the leading literary figures of the post-World War II
generation, died today in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where he had a
home. He was 81. The cause was pneumonia, coming after many years of
illness, his daughter Alexandra Styron said. Mr. Styron's early work,
including 'Lie Down in Darkness,' won him wide recognition as a voice
of the South and the heir to William Faulkner. In subsequent fiction,
like the critical and commercial success 'Sophie's Choice,' he
transcended his background and moved across cultural lines." (11/02/06)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/books/01cnd-styron.html
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7) UK "air plot:" Brothers released
CNN
"Two brothers charged in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound
airliners have been released after a British court ruled there was
insufficient evidence to warrant a trial. Westminster Magistrate's
Court confirmed that the case of Umair Hussain, 25, and Mehran Hussain
23, was discharged due to 'insufficient information evidence.' The two
faced charges of failing to disclose information about the suspected
role of their brother Nabeel Hussain, 22, one of 11 people charged
with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism in the plot.
Police arrested 25 people in raids across Britain on August 9 and 10
and charged 17 of them, after uncovering a suspected plot to attack up
to 10 U.S.-bound passenger jets using liquid explosives." [editor's
note: Recall that this is the ONLY alleged "plot" that led to the
banning of liquids on carry-on baggage ... still mostly in effect! -
SAT] (11/01/06)
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/01/uk.terror/
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8) CA: Device explodes, shattering PayPal window
San Francisco Chronicle
"An explosive device shattered an office window at eBay's PayPal
headquarters in San Jose Tuesday evening but did not injure anyone,
police said. The 7:20 p.m. explosion has police puzzled, said San Jose
Police Sgt. Nick Muyo, adding that eBay employees received no advance
warning. 'It was definitely not an accident. There was some kind of
device,' he said. 'There was no advance warning, no threats, no
indication there would be an event like this.' Muyo said San Jose
police are working with the FBI and investigators from the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine what the device
was made of and who set it there. At the time of the explosion, about
25 employees were in the building, on the 2200 block of North First
Street, Muyo said, but none were in the affected area." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y4lgu8
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9) AZ: Voting under scrutiny
Arizona Republic
"Lawyers, civil rights groups, even a documentary film director, are
lining up to send observers to Arizona voting precincts for Tuesday's
election. They want to discover and document errors in Arizona's
polling places, including those related to the state's new
voter-identification law. A national voter advocacy group,
Videothevote.org, will send volunteers to Arizona to check out
complaints and videotape voting irregularities. Arizona is one of
seven states the group will monitor. The states, which include
Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey and Maryland, were
chosen because they are expected to experience the most voting
problems. Additionally, a group of lawyers and volunteers from within
Arizona plans to document complaints in places such as Maricopa and
Pima counties and on Indian reservations. The lawyers are plaintiffs
in a lawsuit against the Proposition 200 voter-identification
provisions." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yaaac5
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10) A bird in the hand at the Bush is bet ... never mind
Fox News
"A school bus driver who was fired for 'flipping off' President George
W. Bush is trying to get her job back. The 43-year-old has filed a
union grievance against the district, claiming wrongful termination.
U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert said the obscene gesture occurred as he was
traveling in the president's limo in June on the way to a fundraiser
in Medina. At a freeway ramp the limo passed several Issaquah school
buses. The students waved to the president and Bush waved back. Bush
was having a good time until he saw the driver, Reichert said. Bush
turned to Reichert and said the driver had flipped him off. Reichert
later called the school district and the driver was fired in
September. A spokeswoman, Sara Niegowski, said the gesture was 'not at
all appropriate modeling for students on the bus.'" (11/01/06)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226769,00.html
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11) Fiji faces possible coup
Christian Science Monitor
"Fiji's Army brazenly defied the country's police force by seizing
thousands of rounds of ammunition Wednesday, increasing concerns about
a fourth military coup on the island nation in less than 20 years.
Australia was readying warships Wednesday to evacuate 7,000 of its
citizens. Australia's foreign minister, Alexander Downer, said he was
'very concerned' about the possibility of a coup. A series of crises
over the past two months has plunged relations between Australia's
capital Canberra and its South Pacific neighbors to a new low. In
addition to the tension in Fiji, Australia is struggling to manage
standoffs with the Solomon Islands, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea
amid accusations that it bullies its smaller, poorer island
neighbors." (11/01/06)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1102/p07s02-woap.html
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12) Safety margin for tunnel was smaller than most
Boston Globe
"The Big Dig tunnel ceiling that collapsed in July was designed with a
smaller margin of safety than other tunnel ceilings around the
country, leaving nothing to prevent heavy concrete slabs from falling
on a passing car when ceiling bolts fell out, according to a
preliminary report by federal investigators obtained by the Globe. The
Interstate 90 connector's drop ceiling was held up by steel hangers,
which were suspended from bolts that had been glued into the tunnel
roof. But there were no beams attaching the ceiling to the walls, and
the ceiling was constructed with half as many ceiling bolts as in the
original design. 'No redundancy was built into the ceiling in the
event the hangers failed,' the National Transportation Safety Board
states in its report. 'The NTSB has researched other tunnels
throughout the country and has found that significant redundancy is
built into the ceiling design' so that the ceilings would not collapse
when bolts fall out." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/ych8zo
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13) Bush says Rumsfeld, Cheney should stay
New London Day
"President Bush said Wednesday he wants Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney to remain with him until the
end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the
most-vilified members of his administration. 'Both those men are doing
fantastic jobs and I strongly support them,' Bush said in an interview
with The Associated Press and others." (11/01/06)
http://www.theday.com/re_ap.aspx?re=/B/BUSH
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14) North Korea wants bank accounts unfrozen
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
"North Korea said Wednesday it would return to nuclear disarmament
talks in an effort to get access to frozen overseas bank accounts, a
vital source of hard currency for the impoverished and isolated
communist nation. The North's Foreign Ministry make only indirect
mention of its headline-grabbing atomic test last month, saying in a
statement that it hoped to resolve U.S. financial restrictions by
going back to six-nation arms talks that it has boycotted for a year."
(11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/ygsdmw
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15) Iran to give incentives to attract tourists
MSNBC
"Iran will offer cash incentives to travel agencies to encourage
Western tourists to visit the country, giving a premium for Americans,
the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The Islamic
republic's political leadership has been trying to reach out to
ordinary Americans to show that a standoff over Iran's nuclear
ambitions is with the Bush administration -- not U.S. citizens."
(11/01/06)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15513296/
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16) Iraq gunmen kidnap blind coach, official
Norwalk Hour
"Gunmen abducted a top Iraqi basketball official and a blind athletic
coach, both Sunnis, on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Iraqi forces
lifted a blockade on Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.
The attack took place at a youth club on relatively prosperous
Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad near the Sadr City district, which
is controlled by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army."
(11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/ync4tb
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17) Sunni leader dismayed by Sadr City letup
CNN
"The easing of a security crackdown in Baghdad's volatile Shiite
neighborhood of Sadr City may be emboldening members of Shiite death
squads, a Sunni leader said Wednesday. Tariq al-Hashimi -- a vice
president of Iraq -- said at a news conference he thinks the security
situation is deteriorating largely because the Shiite-led government
isn't doing enough to take on militias." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yanes4
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18) AWOL soldier who returned, flees again
Danbury News-Times
"A U.S. Army soldier who fled to Canada rather than return to Iraq has
disappeared again, this time just a day after surrendering to the
military. Pvt. Kyle Snyder, 23, of Colorado Springs, Colo., told The
Associated Press he was supposed to return by bus to Fort Leonard
Wood, Mo., from Louisville on Tuesday but didn't go. He said he went
AWOL after Fort Knox officials told him he would be sent back to his
unit, the 94th Engineer Battalion." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y4tysh
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19) SD: Moose mooooves in with Frederick herd
Aberdeen News
"It's not every day that a moose jumps the fence of your pasture and
makes itself at home with your cows. It's even less common if the
moose then refuses to leave. But that's exactly what happened to Tom
Gunther this week. ... Gunther, who lives in Hecla, said he thinks the
young bull moose must have simply stepped over the fence with its long
legs. Gunther said the moose was first spotted with his herd Friday
afternoon. It then spent the next four nights with the cows and
calves. 'This guy was just lonely,' Gunther said. 'He just wanted to
be with some company.' The problem was, he just wouldn't leave."
(11/01/06)
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/local/15899356.htm
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20) Diebold wants HBO documentary canceled
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Diebold Inc. insisted that cable network HBO cancel a documentary
that questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the
program inaccurate and unfair. The program, 'Hacking Democracy,' is
scheduled to debut Thursday, , five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm
elections. The film claims that Diebold voting machines aren't
tamper-proof and can be manipulated to change voting results." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/u987q
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21) Is the pink flamingo an endangered species?
MSNBC
"Union Products Inc. stopped producing flamingos and other lawn
ornaments at its Leominster factory in June, and is going out of
business Nov. 1 -- a victim of rising expenses for plastic resin and
electricity, as well financing problems. The small privately held firm
has been in talks with a pair of rival lawn ornament makers interested
in buying the molds and resuming production of the flamingos, designed
in 1957 by local son Don Featherstone. 'We think the flamingo will go
on,' Keith Marshall, Union Products' chief financial officer, said at
the company's aging brick factory, where just a few years ago more
than 100 employees churned out flamingos by the millions." (11/01/06)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15515764/
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22) KS: AG gets patient records from abortion clinics
KUTV News
"The state attorney general said Tuesday night that his office has
received the records of 90 patients from two abortion clinics and is
reviewing them for possible crimes, the culmination of an effort that
prompted concerns over patient privacy. Attorney General Phill Kline,
one of the nation's foremost abortion opponents, said the targets of
his investigation are rapists, sex offenders with child victims, and
doctors involved in illegal abortions. Those could include doctors
performing illegal late-term abortions or those failing to report
abuse of a child. The clinics had argued that giving the attorney
general access to the records would invade patients' privacy." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/vqnhf
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23) UK: Teenagers see Asbos as badge of honour
Guardian [UK]
"Antisocial behaviour orders are widely seen as 'badges of honour' by
offending teenagers, their parents and even some criminal justice
professionals, and fail in nearly half of all cases, according to an
officially commissioned study published today. The research for the
government's Youth Justice Board says many of those involved in
tackling youth offending, including magistrates, have serious
reservations about their effectiveness and question how much they
change the behaviour of teenage tearaways." (11/02/06)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1937030,00.html
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24) NY: Grand jury frees shooter
Syracuse Post Standard
"A Syracuse man accused of fatally shooting a neighbor and injuring
two other men outside his home as an ongoing dispute exploded in
violence earlier this year has had all charges dropped after a grand
jury refused to file charges. Lemon Defense lawyer Bonnie Levy said
Tuesday her client, Jasper Lemon Jr., was freed from jail Thursday
after authorities dropped murder, attempted murder and weapons
possession charges. 'My client was defending his home, his family and
himself from a group of thugs who had threatened to kill his family,'
Levy said." (10/31/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y7lmtw
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25) CO: Victim fights back
Denver Channel 7 News
"A man allegedly found trying to break into a car got a lot more than
he expected when his intended victim fought back. Grand Junction
police said 28-year-old Aaron Johnson pulled a knife on the man when
confronted Tuesday afternoon, but the victim was armed with a gun and
chased Johnson down the street." (11/01/06)
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10211722/detail.html?taf=den
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* HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 11/02/06
*
* Reported Civilian Deaths in Iraq: Min - 45,061 ... Max - 50,022
* (source: www.iraqbodycount.org)
*
* American Military Deaths in Iraq: 2,817
* (source: www.antiwar.com/casualties/)
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* Everybody Has An Opinion
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26) Morality's role in law?
Rational Review
by Elizabeth Price Foley
Foley introduces her new book, Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual
Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality: "Presuming plenary
legislative power in the absence of a specific limitation to the
contrary literally turns the American constitutional structure on its
head, dishonoring the twin foundational principles of limited
government and residual individual sovereignty -- principles that,
taken together, reveal a morality of American law itself, an
analytical framework for identifying the 'right and wrong' uses of
governmental power. Restoring judicial respect for these twin
foundational principles -- for the morality of American law -- would
reveal that laws based solely on public morality are illegitimate
exercises of power. And it would also allow the judiciary to jettison
its self-induced guilt trip about its critical role in enforcing a
vision of law that is respectful of individual autonomy -- and hence,
equality." (11/02/06)
http://www.rationalreview.com/content/19866
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27) The ugly truth about the Republican Party
Liberty For All
by Kevin Tuma
"As a paleoconservative, I find myself these days looking back at the
Clinton Administration with a sort of warm, golden nostalgia. Much has
changed since those days
and not for the better. To anyone with even
a basic understanding and respect for the Bill of Rights, the United
States, since September 11, 2001, has begun a nightmarish descent. To
put it simply, the Bush White House has put the Constitution on the
chopping block in ways the Clintons would have never dared to
attempt." (written 09/27/02; posted 11/01/06)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=348
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28) Give up the fatal contradiction
The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber
"As has been true for several years, we are faced with a very stark
choice, but it is one that none of our political leaders will face
honestly and openly. For to state the choice explicitly, and to
dispense completely with all the tattered excuses for the unending
slaughter, is to acknowledge just how terrible the results of our
actions are. On the one hand, we can fully embrace our role as
occupiers. That would mean we give up the pretense of Iraq being a
'sovereign' nation, but one which does exactly as we demand on every
matter of importance. We make it unequivocally clear that we call all
the shots, and no one else. And to establish the order and stability
that are nowhere to be found at the moment, we fully embrace brute
force as completely as may be required. To put the basic point very
bluntly: we kill as many people as we have to. With the exception of
the most bloodthirsty hawks, no one wants to do this -- and no one
will admit that this is one of only two possibilities now before us."
(11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/vtg6u
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29) If it's broke, fix it
The Free Liberal
by Jonathan David Morris
"It's not easy being a weekly columnist. Every week, in order to keep
my readers, I must challenge conventional wisdom to a fistfight.
Sometimes this means saying the things other people are thinking.
Other times, it means saying the things people think they are
thinking, but think they shouldn't say. I don't think many people are
thinking what I'm going to say this week. But who knows? In a few
weeks, maybe they'll start to. The way I see it, there's only one way
the GOP can hold onto Congress. And that's if they fix the elections."
(11/02/06)
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002397.html
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30) Some campaign notes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
by Thomas L. Knapp
"Two years out from the 2008 election, the campaign for the
Libertarian Party's presidential nomination is in full swing. As most
of you know, I've endorsed Steve Kubby for that nomination; as I may
or may not have mentioned here yet, I'm now working as a volunteer on
his campaign. Time for an update on what's going on and a little more
of my hypnotically persuasive argument about why Kubby deserves your
support. But first, a disclaimer: There are a number of candidates for
the nomination. Don't let me choose yours for you. Check them all out.
See what they're doing. Think long and hard about who would best
represent your party versus the candidates the duopoly puts up. For a
reasonably comprehensive and regularly updated list of declared and
prospective contenders, point your browser at Politics1." (11/01/06)
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2006/11/some-campaign-notes.html
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31) God and Mr. Mencken
Liberty Unbound
by Garin K. Hovannisian
Review of H.L. Mencken on Religion, S.T. Joshi, ed.: "Mencken's views
were clearly inspired by a hatred of superstition, prudery, and
prohibition, especially when they smothered science and rational
politics. Concerning the latter, Hume's reflection that 'the errors in
religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous' seems to
be Mencken's central axiom. Christianity in its most contaminated
forms -- fundamentalism, Protestantism, Christian Science, and
Calvinism -- might be damaging to the human psychology, Mencken
believed, but when they affect the state, they threaten society. In
his own time, the passage of the 18th Amendment, banning alcohol,
showed the damage that religion could do. Mencken didn't much concern
himself with the causes of religion: if you needed religion to
rationalize your inevitable death, Mencken wouldn't object. But if
your religion trespassed beyond the boundaries of your cranium, it had
gone too far." (for publication 12/06)
http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2006_12/hovannisian-mencken.html
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32) We are but a raisin in the sun
Institute for Liberal Values
by Jim Peron
"Sometimes we don't pay a lot attention to things that are right in
front of our own eyes. The biggest, most obvious things are often
ignored. Consider for instance the sun. It is a massive nuclear
reactor that mainly takes hydrogen and turns it into energy. It is
also a magnetically active star with a magnetic field that is strong
and in constant flux and this produces things like sunspots, solar
flares and solar wind. Every second the sun coverts 4 million tonnes
of matter into energy and sends solar radiation through the galaxy.
Now what role might this giant furnace play in global warming?" (11/02/06)
http://tinyurl.com/vmtyt
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33) Bonnie and Clyde and housing
Free Market News Network
by Bill Bonner
"'The last shall be first,' says the Bible. 'Shan't the first, then,
be last?' The GDP growth rate fell 40% between the second and third
quarters. According to Dr. Richebacher, consumer debt has risen 77%
since the end of 2000. Apparently, the gravity of it is now dragging
Americans back down to earth. And bond market investors seem to see it
the same way. T-bond yields have fallen to 4.78% for the 30-year bond.
Are we right? Is the economy really weakening? Does gravity still
work? Is the Pope still Catholic? Are there still Okies in Muskogee?
But stock market investors think we're wrong." (11/01/06)
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/28/6290/bill.asp?nid=6290&wid=28
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34) More troops -- or less empire
The American Conservative
by Pat Buchanan
"When the debate over expanding the U.S. Army begins in 2007, there
need to be voices raised calling for withdrawal of U.S. ground forces
from Korea and Central Asia, where they do not belong, and a bottom-up
review of all U.S. war guarantees. This will be denounced as
isolationism. But was it isolationism for the Russians to go home from
Cuba? Just as we wanted the French, British, Spanish, and, finally,
Russians out of our hemisphere, other nations bristle at U.S. troops
stationed just over their border." (for publication 11/06/06)
http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_11_06/buchanan.html
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35) Hot, rising, linked to the state
LewRockwell.Com
by Daniel M. Ryan
"Now that the Republican majorities in the House and Senate are in
doubt, the sheen is likely to come off the neo-conservative movement.
Like any faction that runs into a rock, their status as the 'ultimate
winners,' or even their own conceit that they are the 'new upper
class,' is going to come into doubt. The sword that you live by hurts
a lot more when it's stuck into you. (Remember the fate of J.P.
Morgan, Jr.? Rightly or wrongly, it's an unfair world.) What do
neo-conservatives want? What are their political goals? Are they
compatible with liberty? To put it bluntly, the typical
neo-conservative wants little to do with liberty. The proper
libertarian policy 'mission statement' is: peace; individual rights,
including civil rights that are not disguised claims on the State for
pelf or positive services; freedom of enterprise. If the
neo-conservatives had a mission statement of their own, it would be:
war; restriction of individual rights for the taming of either foreign
or domestic 'deviancy;' good economic growth numbers, with little
concern as to the source (although tax cuts are politically
preferable)." (11/02/06)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ryan/ryan18.html
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36) Divide the spoiled
Reason
by Jacob Sullum
"After six years of reckless statism under Bush -- the consequences of
which have been documented in National Review articles and AEI
studies, among other places -- it is now almost routine to see
conservatives draw unfavorable comparisons between him and his
predecessor. The near-nostalgia for Clinton among Republicans who
reviled him speaks volumes about conservative disgust with the Bush
administration, which could depress turnout enough to result in a
Democratic takeover of one or both houses of Congress on November 7.
Or so I hope. I'm eagerly anticipating a Republican defeat because the
party richly deserves it after failing so miserably to deliver on its
promises of smaller (or even slightly less gargantuan) government."
(11/02/06)
http://www.reason.com/news/show/116324.html
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37) How would Latin Americans vote on Nov. 7th?
Independent Institute
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
"Many Latin Americans quip that they should get a chance to vote in
U.S. elections since the outcomes have a huge impact south of the U.S.
border. So, who are Latin Americans rooting for with regard to the
midterm elections in the U.S.? Who stands to win and who stands to
lose if the Republicans fail to keep control of one or both houses of
Congress?" (11/01/06)
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1845
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38) What to do before Tehran gets the bomb
Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter
"Few Americans want Iran to get nuclear weapons, but as European Union
leader Javier Solana conceded, the European-led negotiations to stop
it are going nowhere fast. Unless there is an unexpected breakthrough
-- and soon -- our leaders face a set of highly imperfect options. The
best by far is to try to strike a grand bargain with Iran. Washington
should offer to normalize diplomatic and economic relations with Iran,
and pledge to refrain from efforts at forcible regime change. In
exchange, Tehran would be expected to open its nuclear program to
rigorous, on-demand international inspections to guarantee that no
nuclear material was diverted from peaceful purposes. We have little
to lose by proposing a deal -- unless we let negotiations drag on
endlessly." (11/02/06)
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6742
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39) Allen's options
The American Prospect
by Garance Franke-Ruta
"On October 20, 2000 -- just 18 days before former Virginia Governor
George Allen was elected to the U.S. Senate -- Xybernaut, a
Virginia-based technology company, on whose board Allen served, held
an early annual shareholder meeting and awarded Allen a tidy bonus of
50,000 stock options. Allen was granted the stock as part of his
re-election to the board at a time when polls showed him to be the
favorite in the impending senate election against Democrat Chuck Robb,
and when it was clear that he would have to resign his board seat if
and when he became a senator. Senate rules forbid members from serving
on corporate boards. The issuance of these options, whose existence is
confirmed by the Form Five filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission that The American Prospect is posting in conjunction with
this piece, raises questions about why Xybernaut (which filed for
bankruptcy in 2005) granted them to Allen so soon before his election
to the Senate, and what, if anything, the company expected in return
for them." (11/01/06)
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12180
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40) America 101
Tom Paine
by Bill Moyers
"Let's be honest about what we mean by 'urban education.' We are
talking about the poorest and most vulnerable children in America --
kids for whom 'at risk' has come to describe their fate and not simply
their circumstances. Their education should be the centerpiece of a
great and diverse America made stronger by equality and shared
prosperity. It has instead become the epitome of public neglect,
perpetuated by a class divide so permeated by race that it mocks the
bedrock principles of the American Promise. It has been said that the
mark of a truly educated person is to be deeply moved by statistics.
If so, America's governing class should be knocked off their feet by
the fact that more than 70 percent of black children are now attending
schools that are overwhelmingly non-white." [editor's note: Moyers is
as usual correct about the problem, but offbase on the solution,
advocating more interventionism from the same folks who brought us
Iraq, Vioxx and the War on (Some) Drugs - SAT] (11/01/06)
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/11/01/america_101.php
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41) Sex while you sleep!
San Francisco Chronicle
by Mark Morford
"This just in: Some people are having sex while they're completely
asleep. It's true. It's a newly reported medical condition. And some
people, as you might imagine, are rather upset about it. And as we'll
see, it's not the only dire sleep issue facing a naked, exhausted
nation. It seems sleepsex, as it's called, tends to affect love lives.
Interrupts sleep patterns, ruffles the sheets, creates unexpected
patches of moisture and leaves you wondering who'll do the laundry or
if you'll still be respected in the morning and why you're sore in
places you didn't expect to be sore in when you went to bed. You can
see the problem." [editor's note: Say what? Now I've heard about
folks, (mostly women) who mentally "go away" during sex ... but sound
asleep? - SAT] (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yea9th
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42) Politics make you howl? Got a candidate for you
Arizona Republic
by Laurie Roberts
"This campaign season we've been told -- and told and told and told --
that J.D. Hayworth 'lies' and that Ellen Simon was involved with 'a
radical organization that defends hard-core criminals at the Man/Boy
Love Association.' Jon Kyl is a 'cheerleader for Bush,' Jim Pederson
'went bankrupt' and Harry Mitchell has 'a scandalous political past
that could spell trouble for Arizona's future.' Which is why I'm
voting for Pepper. Pepper is an affable Australian shepherd mix, a
guard dog at the Southwest Wildlife Rehabilitation and Educational
Foundation in Scottsdale. He was rescued from a date with the gas
chamber 10 years ago and since then has patrolled the grounds of the
animal sanctuary." [editor's note: While Ms. Roberts is being
whimsical here perhaps, she makes a good case for Pepper's candidacy -
SAT] (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/ykgzyo
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43) Vote NOTA and be sure to get their attention
Tennessean
by Bob Bates
"Almost everyone seems to feel a sense of disgust with the way
elections are held today. All the negativity, mud-slinging, and
absence of issue substance in political campaigns leave many voters
with a feeling of resignation, even to the point of refusing to
participate in the electoral process. Even though there are many
reasons why people don't participate in the electoral process or just
simply vote for the better of undesirable candidates, there is
something that would give voters faith again in our democracy: NOTA
(None Of The Above) on every election ballot. ... Politicians are not
for NOTA, so people who want more responsive and honest democratic
elections will have to amass enough signatures on a petition to demand
that election boards put a referendum or proposition on the next
election ballot that will then allow 'the people' to vote whether or
not NOTA is to become a part of our election system. If NOTA does not
become part of the election system, then our current way of holding
democratic elections, along with its deformed and purchased result,
will stay the same. But, if NOTA becomes an integral part of our
election system, a new era will begin in the history of democracy
itself." [editor's note: Mr. Gatchell has my vote for Governor - SAT]
(11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yc3bmv
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44) Housing vampires walk streets after Halloween
Fox News
by Susan C. Walker
"Bela Lugosi created the vision of vampirish evil in the 1931 classic
movie, Dracula, and, as a Halloween costume, the vampire look has
never gone out of style. But what if Dracula were more than just a
scary character? If he were real, he'd be the perfect explanation for
the goings-on in many boardrooms of public companies and on the
streets of our neighborhoods (and I don't mean little kids wearing
black capes and shouting gleefully, 'Moowah-ah-ahh'). After all,
doesn't the back of your neck stand up when you hear the stories about
blood-sucking CEOs who backdated their stock option grant dates to
take home millions more with no extra effort? There they were in their
offices late at night. The clock struck midnight, and out came their
fangs. In the dead of night, these CEO vampires roamed their
headquarters, searching for the document that listed their stock
options. Once they found it, they sucked the blood from shareholders
by changing the grant dates to more favorable ones when the company
stock was at a low point for the year. Now some daylight is being shed
on their nocturnal habits, thanks to a Wall Street Journal report that
led to SEC inquiries and internal investigations. These investigations
are driving stakes through their hearts." (11/01/06)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226488,00.html
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45) Voters, political leaders dissatisfied with Iraq
Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes
"In the last days of an election campaign that many will interpret as
a referendum on the Iraq war, both the president of the United States
and the prime minister of Iraq say they are dissatisfied with the
state of things in that violence-beset country. There have been
several days of confusion as to whether the White House or the US
ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad or Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki have set 'timetables,' or 'deadlines' or 'benchmarks,' for
faster progress to peace and stability." (11/01/06)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1101/p09s01-cojh.html
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46) An undiplomatic conflict of interest
Boston Globe
by Kevin McKiernan
"Most people would agree that it's bad ethics for government officials
to invest in companies that they regulate. But what about a US special
envoy to a Middle East trouble spot who happens to be a director of an
arms company selling weapons to one of the parties in the conflict?
That's the case of retired Air Force General Joseph Ralston, who was
appointed by the Bush administration in August to help US ally Turkey
counter the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK , the Kurdish rebels who
are seeking autonomy from Turkey and have bases in northern Iraq.
Ralston, a former NATO supreme allied commander, has been negotiating
with Turkish generals and Iraqi leaders since his appointment to
develop measures to eliminate the bases. The problem is that General
Ralston is on the board of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest arms
maker, which just last month finalized a $2.9 billion sale for
advanced F-16 fighters that may well be used in the Kurdish region
(the State Department acknowledges that F-16 s were involved in human
rights abuses in Turkey in the 1990s). This gives the ex-general the
appearance of holding a financial interest in his shuttle diplomacy."
(11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/ygh833
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47) Camera his weapon vs. injustice
New York Daily News
by Juan Gonzales
"When the bullets started to fly, New York photojournalist Bradley
Will was clutching a camera, doing what he loved most: filming a group
of downtrodden people fighting for respect in some forgotten corner of
our world. This was last Friday, on a narrow street on the outskirts
of Oaxaca, Mexico, where Will, 36, a longtime member of New York's
radical IndyMedia Center, had gone in early October to document an
amazing story. It is one our own national media somehow managed to
ignore for five long months." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yxzk8y
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48) Don't always believe the victim
iFeminists.Com
by Wendy McElroy
"Two recent news stories differ in significant details but share a
common message: false accusations of sexual abuse kill innocent people
and devastate lives. The stories reveal the terrible human cost
imposed by the often heard demand, 'always believe the victim.' In
these cases, the accuser should have been asked for more evidence."
(11/01/06)
http://www.ifeminists.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.48
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49) Is all lost?
Liberty For All
by Richard C. Evey
"On October 17, 2006, two bills were signed into law. The Military
Commission Act, which suspends Habeas Corpus: the federal government
can detain anyone without charges, there is federal government
sanction torture and the use of hearsay evidence. The MCA was signed
with some fanfare, little mainstream media coverage and a lot of
alternative media coverage. On that same day, in the privacy of the
oval office, a despot who calls himself the president of the United
States, signed Public Law 109-364, the 'Defense Authorization Act'
(DAA)." (11/01/06)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=349
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50) Tax law and charitable donations
National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff
"In a recent study on charitable donations, high net-worth households
indicated that their charitable giving would mostly stay the same if
the estate tax were repealed and would stay the same or somewhat
decrease if they received zero income tax deductions for their
charitable contributions. The study, conducted by the Center on
Philanthropy at Indiana University, asked several questions regarding
the charitable practices of the 3.1 percent of the population with
incomes greater than $200,000 or assets in excess of $1,000,000. Among
the most interesting results are the effects of possible tax law
changes and their impact on charitable giving." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y8hqtv
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51) Good fascists and bad fascists
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by John T. Flynn
"First let us state our definition of fascism. It is, put briefly, a
system of social organization in which the political state is a
dictatorship supported by a political elite and in which the economic
society is an autarchic capitalism, enclosed and planned, in which the
government assumes responsibility for creating adequate purchasing
power through the instrumentality of national debt and in which
militarism is adopted as a great economic project for creating work as
well as a great romantic project in the service of the imperialist
state." (written 1944; posted 11/01/06)
http://www.mises.org/story/2360
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52) The audacity of hospitals
Heartland Institute
by Greg Scandlen
"When it comes to audacity, no industry has hospitals beat. For how
many years have you heard them whine about the inappropriate use of
emergency rooms? The hospitals are especially unhappy because they are
the providers of first resort for all the illegal immigrants coming
into the country, which adds an enormous burden to their finances. So
the federal government appropriates one billion dollars to help with
that problem ... and the hospitals can't be bothered to collect it."
(11/01/06)
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=19987
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53) Cleavage candidates
Frontiers of Freedom
by Carey Roberts
"This headline crossed my desk last week: 'Gubernatorial Hopeful
Flashes for Cash!' Below that exclamatory remark appeared a sketch of
well-endowed blond, her hands clutching the front of a low-cut jacket.
This cheap thrill did not grace the pages of a recent issue of Playboy
magazine, nor was it the come-on for a back-alley peep show. No, this
was the official campaign literature of one Loretta Nall, libertarian
candidate for the governorship of Alabama." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yx5hl4
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54) And now a word from our critics
Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Jeremy Lott
"Balance is an important conceit of American journalism. In the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, previously partisan
newspapers edged toward respectability and larger profits by telling
'both sides of the story' and that convention carried over into
broadcast journalism. It's a constraint that still chafes at working
journalists with Something To Say. 'And Now a Word from Our Critics
...' is the title of the final panel of the night at the Society of
Environmental Journalists conference in Burlington." (10/31/06)
http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05581.cfm
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55) Inflation: A moral problem
Acton Institute
by Samuel Gregg
"Last week, the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to maintain short-term
interest rates at 5.25 percent for its third consecutive meeting.
Despite an apparently cooling U.S. economy, the Fed clearly remains
concerned about inflationary pressures. What the Fed calls 'core
inflation' -- which excludes goods with volatile prices such as energy
-- has risen since February from 2.1 percent to 2.9 percent. This is
its highest level in a decade." (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y7gdxb
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56) Panic in Big Pharma
CounterPunch
by Peter Rost
"Few recent elections have been as critical for the drug industry as
this one. And that's the reason The Wall Street Journal reports that
'Assailed by Democrats, drug companies are pouring millions of dollars
into close races, giving some Republicans a financial edge.' What is
at stake is a financial windfall the size of which has never before
been endowed on a single industry, courtesy of the current
administration. And that windfall is coming from drugs for poor
people. By some estimates the windfall for the drug industry could be
$2 billion or more this year, and it is the result of the transfer of
millions of poor people into the new Medicare Part D program ... the
program isn't very effective. Los Angeles Times claims that 'a review
by the Senior Action Network, a grass-roots advocacy group in San
Francisco, found that Costco's prices on the top 100 drugs used by
Medicare beat prices of all 48 plans in California in more than half
the cases.' Meanwhile, 'The net federal cost of the new benefit is
projected to be $37.4 billion in 2006 and $724 billion from 2006 to
2015. But the program is good for the drug companies, and the
insurance industry.'" (11/01/06)
http://counterpunch.org/rost11012006.html
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57) State of deceit
Strike the Root
by Robert Kaercher
"Like the revelations of Congressman Foley's lustful pursuit of young
male pages, Woodward's latest opus is well timed for the mid-term
Congressional elections and equally as distracting from the real root
issues that so desperately need to be addressed: The horrific crimes
of states against the rest of humanity and the system of delusional,
morally bankrupt ideas that provides a superficial moral cover for
such crimes." (10/31/06)
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/kaercher/kaercher2.html
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58) US passport already hacked
Yahoo! News
by Christopher Null
"Well that didn't take long. It's been roughly a whole month since the
U.S. has been issuing passports with RFID chips in them, and already
they've been hacked. In theory, at least. The hack was released late
last week and is now making the rounds ... this is just the first
passport crack in what will undoubtedly be a long line of them,
culminating with a one-click method to crack any passport there is.
For now, there's just the one: RFIDIOt, and the code is online for all
to see. Hang in there, folks." (10/31/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y5d5wo
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59) The growing NID trap
News With Views
by Tom DeWeese
"Although issued by the states, through the Department of Motor
Vehicles, the Real ID is a national identification card system. States
must comply with federal guidelines by May, 2008. If states fail to
meet that deadline, then driver's licenses from non-complying states
will not qualify as official identification and so cannot be used to
get on airplanes or obtain services from the federal government,
including medical care ... As the Real ID Act is fully implemented,
the driver's license will be essential for one to be a full
participant in American society. Failure to have it will literally
shut one out from opening a bank account, getting a loan, gaining
employment, marriage license medical care and purchase of firearms."
(10/31/06)
http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom65.htm
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60) Bush's Martial Law Act of 2007
Another Day in the Empire
by Kurt Nimmo
"On October 17, with little fanfare, the unitary decider signed
H.R.5122, or the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007. ...
According to a press release from the office of Senator Patrick Leahy,
however, the bill takes a 'sizable step toward weakening states'
authority over their [National] Guard units ...' As if having their
National Guard units on the other side of the world, in Iraq and who
knows where the next stop may be, doesn't weaken the state's authority
over their National Guard units as it is. And, as is the norm now, the
list of situations and scenarios in which the Decider is able to
'employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal
service' ends in the all too familiar any 'other condition in any
State or possession of the United States, the President determines
that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the
constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of
('refuse' or 'fail' in) maintaining public order, 'in order to
suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful
combination, or conspiracy.'" (10/28/06)
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=631
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61) Freedom Rings, 11/06/06
Freedom Rings
Open line Monday -- the day before the election -- on Freedom Rings
Radio with Kenneth John. 9-10 am Central on WRMN 1410 AM, Elgin,
Illinois. Webcast available. [Live radio or stream]
http://www.freedomrings.net/
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62) FMNN eRadio: North American Union
Free Market News Network
"The idea to combine Canada,The United States and Mexico is underway.
Ron Paul explains how the first step will be the NAFTA Superhighway
between the three countries." [MP3 or stream] (11/02/06)
http://www.fmnn.com/eRadioLaunch.asp?rid=810
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63) Handling Asian currencies
Cato Institute
Cato daily podcast, featuring James A. Dorn. [MP3] (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/y5jg8v
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64) Free Talk Live, 11/01/06
Free Talk Live
"Flasher's Remorse / Asatru / A 'White Nationalist' emails in and the
subsequent discussion spurs calls from all over, including a call from
the mother of 'Prussian Blue,' the racist singing group / Social
Security, Immigrants, and the Guns of Government." [MP3] (11/01/06)
http://ripple.radiotail.com/357/FTL2006-11-01.mp3
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65) Freedomain Radio #485
Freedomain Radio
"Gods and Politicians -- A response to user posts ... One is the
shark, the other the blood, the result a feeding frenzy on your
freedoms!" With host Stefan Molyneux. [MP3] (11/01/06)
http://tinyurl.com/yxbn76
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