SENATE VOTE ON ALITO
72 NO -- 25 YES!
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Subject: ICH: It's the Constitution That's At Stake :
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:40:02 +0100
From: Information Clearing House emailtom@cox.net
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."
"In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive [President] is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war...and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both: James Madison - 4th President of the USA.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11718.htm
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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.": P. J. O'Rourke - (1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator
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The greatest of fault, I should say, is to be conscious of none: Robert Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7170.htm
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2242
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$237,397,964,921
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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Alito - It's the Constitution That's At Stake
The vote this week about Samuel Alito is not a vote about Republicans versus Democrats. It's a vote about the future of democracy in the United States of America.
By Thom Hartmann
As our legislators vote, we must carefully note their positions on this issue. Their oath of office is not to the President or even to "protect the people," but to the Constitution. And it is the Constitution - and the future of our democratic republic - that is at stake here.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11718.htm
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Rank Ignorance Reigns:
By Paul Craig Roberts
Just as there was no evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons, there is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. There is nothing but unproven assertions, assertions, moreover, that are contradicted by the evidence that does exist. Americans, it would appear, are so anxious for wars that they welcome being fooled into them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11723.htm
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Petrodollar Warfare
Interview With William R. Clark, Author "Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar"
The notion that Iraq was invaded to prevent the development of weapons of mass destruction, or to combat terrorism, has long been discredited. But a growing consensus believes that Iraq's oil was surely a prime reason for US actions. However, author William Clark argues convincingly in Petrodollar Warfare that the rationale for intervening was not just for control of the oil fields, but also for control of the means by which oil is traded in global markets. Click here to listen. Real Audio
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11715.htm
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6 Killed As Violence Continues Across Iraq :
In Baghdad, police say they found the bullet-riddled bodies of two bound and gagged men.
http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4428659&nav=2HAB
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Three Iraqi soldiers killed in Kirkuk:
Three Iraqi soldiers were killed on Monday in northern Iraq's Kirkuk city by unknown gunmen, police said.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=809691
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Suicide bomber kills 2 policemen in southern Iraq:
Two policemen were killed and 20 people were wounded when a suicide bomber in a car attacked a barracks in the southern city of Nassiriya on Monday, police said.
http://tinyurl.com/av2b5
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British soldier shot dead in Iraq :
A British soldier has been killed in Iraq after coming under small arms fire, the Ministry of Defence said. The incident happened in Maysan Province at 0840 GMT on Monday, the ministry said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4663538.stm
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"Marlboro Man." : The War Within:
He's quieter now -- easier to anger. He turns to fight at the sound of a backfire, can't look at fireworks without thinking of fire raining down on a city. He has trouble sleeping, and when he does, his fingers twitch on invisible triggers. The diagnosis: post-traumatic stress disorder.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/29/MNGMHGVCEV1.DTL
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Audit: U.S.-Led Occupation Engaged In Fraud and Squandered Aid :
Iraqi money gambled away in the Philippines. A U.S. government audit found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used to rebuild Iraq through undocumented spending and outright fraud.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11717.htm
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Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths
In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some female American soldiers serving in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013006J.shtml
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UK: The Ministry of Defence accused of hiding real cost of Iraq war -
MOD issues misleading figures on number of military injuries in Iraq - Genuine figure may be closer to 800 rather than 230
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=147612006
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Planted Articles May Be Violation:
A secret U.S. military program that pays Iraqi newspapers to publish articles favorable to the American mission appears to violate a 2003 Pentagon directive, according to a newly declassified document released Thursday.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13181
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Is America actually in a state of war?:
The so-called ''insurgents," who wreak such havoc, are not America's enemy. They are not our rivals for territory. They are not our ideological antagonists. Abstracting from the present confrontation, they have no reason to wish us ill.
http://tinyurl.com/9ojhm
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Al-Zawahri calls Bush a 'butcher' in video:
Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri said in a videotape aired Monday that President Bush was a "butcher" and a "failure" because of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeting the bin Laden deputy, and he threatened a new attack on the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11724.htm
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US copter violates airspace, says army :
Pakistan had to warn off an American helicopter which violated its airspace above its northern border with Afghanistan, the military said yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/bjw6n
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The man who holds the CIA accountable doesn't:
Currently, one man decides whether to criminally prosecute CIA operatives and civilian contractors for detainee abuse: Paul McNulty. And so far, he has found no one worthy of pursuit.
http://tinyurl.com/bjw6n
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Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians :
They do not know precisely what happened, but the Israeli army later said Aya was behaving in a suspicious manner reminiscent of a terrorist - she got too close to the border fence - and so a soldier fired several bullets into the child, hitting her in the neck and blowing open her stomach.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11726.htm
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Palestinian aid in peril under Hamas, says US:
ISRAELI officials have sought support for an international boycott of a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, as leaders of the radical Islamic group initially said they did not expect the US would end funding once they formed a cabinet.
http://tinyurl.com/8pgwa
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Rice to Press for Isolation of Hamas-led Government :
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press U.S. allies today in London to deprive the incoming Hamas-led Palestinian government of financial support unless it abandons terrorism and accepts the existence of Israel.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a0Hkx0ihnm_Y&refer=top_world_news
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Israel Leaning to Fund Hamas This Week :
While U.S. President George Bush says the U.S. won't provide funding for a Hamas-led PA, Ehud Olmert's government is apparently planning to forward tax monies to the PA this week.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=97486
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The Cost of Israel to US Taxpayers:
Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that “Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid.” That's true. But it's still a lie.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/cost_of_israel.html
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Hamas will make a deal :
If Israel withdraws from the territories it occupied in 1967, the movement will end armed resistance
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11719.htm
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New Paradigm After the Victory of Hamas :
After trying all possible non-violent methods to jerk the international community, particularly the U.S., into assuming its responsibility toward a people under occupation (as per the Geneva Conventions) have been left naked to take on their occupier single-handily, all the while, being coerced into becoming totally dependent on the crumbs and political agendas of donor aid.
http://tinyurl.com/ajmua
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Israeli Spy Affair: U.S. Jewish leaders consider financially assisting fired AIPAC officials :
U.S. Jewish leaders are considering providing financial support to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employees on trial for their entanglement in a high-profile affair involving the possession and transfer of classified information.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/676174.html
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Remembering with Shame and Horror:
To label a holocaust as a “unique experience” is odd: The genocide that was wreaked on the Original Peoples of the western hemisphere numbers up to 100,000 million. [1] But the corporate media of Turtle Island seldom mentions the number and the genocide. Moreover, there are no well known museums dedicated to the genocide of the Original Peoples.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan06/Petersen30.htm
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Bush to say wants Iranians to have greater freedom:
President George W. Bush will offer words of support on Tuesday in his State of the Union address to Iranians who want greater freedom as U.S. diplomats push for sanctions over the Islamic republic's nuclear program.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30290443.htm
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Satire:
President Bush: In an Emergency State Of The Union Speech.
Audio
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1427.htm
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Iran gives UN inspectors access to nuclear site:
UN nuclear inspectors have visited sites related to the former Lavizan military complex in Iran in what is a key concession in the UN investigation of the Islamic Republic's contested nuclear program, diplomats have told AFP.
http://tinyurl.com/d9r73
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Iran has inalienable right to nuclear energy :
Iran has an "inalienable right" to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes such as the production of electric energy and the enrichment of uranium for its nuclear reactors. Could it be that Iran's plan for an oil exchange trading in euros is the real issue? Or is it Israel?
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=1/24/2006&Cat=14&Num=001
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Pat Buchanan: Does Bush Doctrine lead to Islamism?
The neoconservatives who dreamed up the Bush Doctrine -- promoting "democracy" would be the U.S. mission in the Middle East -- may be about to hold yet another "Seconds Thoughts" conference.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11720.htm
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Kenyans want to know why we're feeding corruption :
Why are the World Bank and British government conspiring in top-level fraud, spelled out in a whistleblower's dossier?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1697705,00.html
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UN unveils plan to release untapped wealth of...$7 trillion :
The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11722.htm
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The Cloning Of Enron: Propagating Economic Collapse:
It is now painfully obvious that the preponderance of U.S. corporations, the federal government and state and local governments have adopted the Enron template for destroying the prosperity of the nation and its citizens.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11716.htm
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Enron: The Bush Administration's First Scandal:
For many people familiar with the high-flying energy company's meteoric rise and sudden downfall four years ago, Enron and the company's crooked "E" logo have come to represent corporate greed, corruption and excess.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013006Z.shtml
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Exxon profit tops $10 billion, capping record year :
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the world's largest publicly traded oil company, on Monday reported a quarterly profit of $10.7 billion, capping a year of record earnings dominated by surging oil and gas prices.
http://finance.myway.com/ht/nw/bus/20060130/hlm_bus-waa000163.html
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Hagel Urges Bush to Explain Spy Program :
A Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday that President Bush has more explaining to do on his domestic spy program and cast doubt on the administration's assertion of broad executive power.
http://tinyurl.com/7lnvy
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Harry Belafonte on Bush, Iraq, Hurricane Katrina :
He joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about why he recently called President Bush "the world's greatest terrorist;" racism and Hurricane Katrina; Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and wars of imperialism and resistance.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/30/157217
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Holding Bush Accountable for His Crimes:
Opening Remarks to the culminating session of the International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration, Riverside Church, New York, January 20, 2006.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11727.htm
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Gandhi behind the headlines:
An assassin’s bullet cut down Mohandas Gandhi 58 years ago today. Gandhi’s spirit is still alive today, but one will have to look deep into international headlines to find it.
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/01/30/66861
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Video: "One Life on the Edge":
Jaime Elizalde is supposed to be executed tomorrow for a crime he has NOT committed. "One life on the Edge" (26 min) is a documentary concerning Jaime Elizalde, born in 1971 in Texas and sentenced to die on January 31. 2006.
http://www.life-on-edge.info/index.php?p=show_en_low
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Official Warned Abramoff, Filing Alleges :
The Bush administration's former chief procurement official tipped off lobbyist Jack Abramoff that the government was about to suspend the federal contracts of an Abramoff client, newly filed court papers say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5580182,00.html
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Abramoff Scandal Forces Republican Reversal on New Ethics Laws :
U.S. Representative David Dreier once tried to torpedo an effort to limit corporate political donations. He voted to allow charities to fly lawmakers to their events and to let Republicans keep their leader
- Bobbitt suggested FISA to blame for failure to identify 9-11 —NY Times op-ed, Tue Jan 31 01:27
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