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Stop Blackwater

Remember the bill passed just before the
November elections to fund the military? ("John
Warner National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2007" (H.R. 5122)) Well, hidden in that
bill are provisions that seriously weaken two
bulwarks of liberty--the Posse Comitatus Act and
the Insurrection Act of 1807--by expanding the
power of the president to declare martial law and
use troops as a domestic police force in
response to a "public emergency" or any "other
condition". Blackwater troops (which were
deployed domestically in New Orleans after
Hurricane Katrina) or other private mercenary
and paramilitary forces pose a severe threat to
the civil liberties of the American people and
now could be deployed to quell public dissent,
put down popular uprisings, or even to stop
opposing points of view through intimidation or
outright force.

These are bases of an invading force that is bent
on stealing our country from us, right under our
noses! CONNECT THE DOTS!
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Article;
When Free Speech
Doesn't Come Free
Remi Kanazi

Free speech is not without
consequence. In the United States, for
example, criticism of Israel is tantamount
to heresy.

Former US President Jimmy Carter felt a
societal backlash last year after the
release of his book, Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid, which condemned Israel’s
apartheid-style policies in the occupied
Palestinian territories. Consequently,
and without foundation, Carter was
branded by many in the American press
as a one-sided, anti-Semitic
propagandist. Similarly, Harvard
professor Stephen Walt and University of
Chicago professor John Mearsheimer
were lambasted for a paper the two co-
authored that discussed the power of
the Israel lobby and its adverse effect on
American policy. Additionally, Norman
Finkelstein, an esteemed professor at
Depaul University and author of the
bestselling book, The Holocaust Industry,
witnessed a McCarthyite-style campaign
mounted against him when he came up
for tenure. Finkelstein, the son of
Holocaust survivors, has been an
outspoken critic of Israel’s human rights
abuses and of pro-Israel apologist and
Harvard professor, Alan Dershowitz.
Predictably, it was Dershowitz who led
the anti-tenure campaign against him;
ultimately, Finkelstein was not only
denied tenure, but he lost his job at
Depaul.

The attacks against Carter, Finkelstein,
Walt and Mearsheimer serve as a few
well-known examples of the
consequences writers and intellectuals
face when they breach the line and
criticize Israel. Furthermore, the
condemnation writers and intellectuals
of Arab descent face are invariably
higher than Jews of conscience, former
presidents, and highly regarded
academics. As a result, many writers
often acquiesce to the demands of the
mainstream. Their self-censorship
usually appears in the form of "toning
down the message," be it to please
editors or critics—essentially to conform
to the reality of purported pragmatism.
Yet, this "pragmatism" is a euphemism
for acceptance of a repressive status
quo and is analogous to the "necessary"
practical thinking that silenced a
multitude of commentators during the
Oslo years - the supposed time of peace.
Unsurprisingly, untold Palestinian
suffering followed as a result of
increased settlement expansion, land
confiscation, checkpoints and seizures,
and the ultimate failure of Camp David
2000.

Shying away from perceived
controversial matters may help to protect
a mainstream career, but the intent of a
political analyst should not be to produce
works of fiction. The vast majority of
Americans weren’t open to criticism of
US policy during the run-up to the war on
Iraq, mainly due to the media’s complicity
in promoting the war, but criticism was
still the appropriate course of action
based on the facts, and Americans would
have been better off for it today.

A man who combined principle, activism,
and human appeal quite masterfully was
distinguished educator and
commentator, Edward Said. In the realm
of academia and Middle East analysis,
Said was by no means viewed as the
quintessential radical. Nonetheless, his
positions were radical when juxtaposed
with "conventional wisdom": he was a
proponent of the one-state solution, an
unwavering critic of the Israeli
government, and an ardent supporter of
the ostensibly controversial right of
return. Said was still heavily criticized
throughout his career and endured
incessant attacks by his detractors, yet
his accessible personality and articulate
message kept him relevant.

Sadly, Said’s relative acceptance has
been the exception rather than the rule.
In recent years, there has been
increased emphasis on putative
pragmatic dialogue. However, this
accentuation on so-called rational and
balanced thinking has proven to be little
more than a sinister means to pressure
the oppressed to accept the position of
the oppressor. The greatest leaders of
the last hundred years didn’t shy away
from controversy; they remained
persistent, and saw their visions brought
to fruition; be they Martin Luther King,
Nelson Mandela, or Mahatma Gandhi.
Nevertheless, one cannot overlook that
even paramount figures have been
castigated for "overstepping" their
boundaries, namely Martin Luther King
who was chided for speaking out against
the war in Vietnam, imperialism, and
social injustices that plagued the US.

This week, Palestinians across the US
commemorated 60 years of displacement.
Yet, the lens the Palestinian people are
expected to look through under the
pragmatist vision is one that sees a
dispossessed people as necessary
victims for a righteous state to take form.
Unfortunately, waves of writers and
commentators continue to adopt this line
in fear of retribution, in exchange for
nicer houses and comfortable livings, or
a combination of both. That is their free
will. Free speech is not without
consequence. Nonetheless, losing piece
of mind is the only repercussion a writer
should fear.

-Remi Kanazi is the editor of the
forthcoming anthology of poetry, Poets
For Palestine, which can be pre-ordered
at www.PoetsForPalestine.com. He
contributed this article to
PalestineChronicle.com. Contact him at:
remroum@gmail.com.
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Was That Nuclear-Armed B-52
Destined for Iran?
Submitted by dlindorff
There’s something definitely screwy about the
August 30 incident in which a B-52 bomber flew
from Minot AFB in North Dakota to Barksdale AFB
in Louisiana carrying five fully armed Advanced
Cruise Missiles, each equipped with nuclear
bombs capable of exploding at anything from 5
kilotons to 150 kilotons.

The government has been quick to say that the
flight, which violated a number of long-standing
orders regarding shipment of nuclear weapons in
US airspace, was a “mistake.”

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Former director of the U.S. "Star Wars" space
defense program in both Republican and
Democratic administrations, who was a senior air
force colonel who flew 101 combat missions, and
who is a Catholic Archbishop stated that  9/11 was
an inside job  (he also said "If our government had
merely done nothing, and allowed normal
procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the
twin towers would still be standing, and thousands
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Television;
" ... so long as the media are in corporate hands,
the task of social change will be vastly more
difficult, if not impossible ..."
Robert McChesney, journalist and author
"As long as people are marginalized and
distracted [they] have no way to organize or
articulate their sentiments, or even know that
others have these sentiments. People assume
that they are the only people with a crazy idea in
their heads. They never hear it from anywhere
else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since
there's no way to get together with other people
who share or reinforce that view and help you
articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So
you just stay on the side and you don't pay any
attention to what's going on. You look at
something else, like the Superbowl."
Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media
and foreign policy critic
Article;
How The Media Deceives You
About Health Issues

by Tate Metro Media

Think about how many times you've heard an
evening news anchor spit out some variation on
the phrase, "According to experts ...." It's such al
common device that most of us hardly hear it
anymore. But we do hear the "expert" - the
professor or doctor or watchdog group - tell us
whom told vote for, what to eat, when to buy stock.
And, most of the time, we trust them. Now ask
yourself, how many times has that news anchor
revealed who those experts are, where they get
their funding, and what constitutes their political
agenda
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(17 January 1961)
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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
By Naomi Wolf
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows
there are certain steps that any would-be dictator
must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And
George Bush and his administration seem to be
taking them all...  Continue Here !
What does big bank buyout really
mean?
To some extent it depends, but recent action by
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signal about economy
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Article;
'Blackwater covering up Iraq
massacre'

US private security firm Blackwater faces charges
of destroying evidence related to their
cold-blooded murder of 17 Iraqi civilians.

Lawyers representing the Iraqi victims have
reportedly pressed charges on the private
contractor, saying it has shredded documents
related to federal investigations into shootings
which involved Blackwater security guards.

Personnel from private security firm Blackwater
USA opened fire on 17 Iraqis in an unprovoked
shooting spree in Baghdad's Nisoor Square in
September.

Following the shooting, the Iraqi government
urged the US to halt all contracts with the firm and
hand over the security agents involved in the
incident for prosecution in Iraq.

Washington attempted to brush aside the
demands but was later forced to order an
investigation into the killings.
We are a consumer society
It's hard to put into perspective the vast amount of
trash we all create in the modern world.
Chris Jordan is an artist who makes a statement on
the current human condition.

















Running the Numbers
An American Self-portrait

Running the Numbers looks at contemporary
American culture through the austere lens of
statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of
something: fifteen million sheets of office paper
(five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans
(thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My
hope is that images representing these quantities
might have a different effect than the raw numbers
alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.
Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing,
making it difficult to connect with and make meaning
of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or
2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast
augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.

This project visually examines these vast and
bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately
detailed prints assembled from thousands of
smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the
near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I
hope to raise some questions about the role of the
individual in a society that is increasingly enormous,
incomprehensible, and overwhelming.

See Chris Jordan's art work here!
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Solar Energy;
Roll-Up Solar Panels
A startup is making thin-film solar
cells on flexible steel sheets.

Xunlight, a startup in Toledo, Ohio, has developed
a way to make large, flexible solar panels. It has
developed a roll-to-roll manufacturing technique
that forms thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells
on thin sheets of stainless steel. Each solar
module is about one meter wide and five and a
half meters long.

As opposed to conventional silicon solar panels,
which are bulky and rigid, these lightweight,
flexible sheets could easily be integrated into
roofs and building facades or on vehicles. Such
systems could be more attractive than
conventional solar panels and be incorporated
more easily into irregular roof designs. They could
also be rolled up and carried in a backpack, says
the company's cofounder and president, Xunming
Deng. "You could take it with you and charge your
laptop battery," he says.

Amorphous silicon thin-film solar cells can be
cheaper than conventional crystalline cells
because they use a fraction of the material: the
cells are 1 micrometer thick, as opposed to the
150-to-200-micrometer-thick silicon layers in
crystalline solar cells. But they're also notoriously
inefficient. To boost their efficiency, Xunlight
made triple-junction cells, which use three
different materials--amorphous silicon, amorphous
silicon germanium, and nanocrystalline
silicon--each of which is tuned to capture the
energy in different parts of the solar spectrum.
(Conventional solar cells use one primary
material, which only captures one part of the
spectrum efficiently.)

Still, Xunlight's flexible PV modules are only about
8 percent efficient, while some crystalline silicon
modules on the market are more than 20 percent
efficient. As a result, Xunlight's large modules
produce only 330 watts, whereas an array of
crystalline silicon solar panels covering the same
area would produce about 740 watts.

United Solar Ovonic, based in Auburn Hills, MI, is
already selling flexible PV modules. The company
also uses triple-junction amorphous silicon cells,
and its modules can be attached to roofing
materials. But Xunlight's potential advantage is its
high-volume roll-to-roll technique. "If their
roll-to-roll process allows them to go to lower cost
and larger area, that's the central advantage,"
says Johanna Schmidtke, an analyst with Lux
Research, in Boston. "But they have to prove it
with manufacturing."
Transportation;
Electric Cars Might Soon Use
Magnetic And Gravity To Produce
Energy

Electric cars are no joke today as automakers
compete in a new industry never before seen.
Electric plug in cars are advancing from concept
designs into production within just two years.
Moreover, some automobiles still offer a hybrid tax
credit for reducing carbon emissions.

Plug in electric automobiles is the direction which
the auto industry is heading, in an effort to provide
better fuel efficiency and cleaner energy. The 2010
Prius, Ford Fusion, Honda Insight, and the Chevy
Volt are some of the latest models. The Honda Civic
Hybrid will be available in 2010 as General Motors
releases its Chevy Volt debut.

The latest prius commercial suggests that new cars
for tomorrow will be more cleaner while hybrid
batteries are recycled. New cars are providing more
mileage that can save money at the pump while
reducing our need for foreign oil. Automakers are
also producing new electric cars with zero tailpipe
emissions.

Electric cars were once a myth and the only time we
saw one was from a cartoon or a science-fiction
movie. Ten years ago it was laughable to think that
an automobile could actually plug-in and refuel itself
from home. We can now say that plug in solutions
for cars to recharge is going to become a way of
future life.

Most of the automakers are betting everything on
future electric cars, which is the case for General
Motors. The automaker stands firm on its promise to
deliver vehicles that can drive up to 100 miles per
gallon. GM is making a transition from conventional
automobiles to green vehicles.

Next year is going to be an incredible time in history
more electric cars will be available on the market.
Most electric plug-in vehicles can travel anywhere
between 40 to 50 miles on a single battery charge.
This is the revelation for our time, that a battery
powered automobile can already achieve those
distances, while emitting fewer carbon emissions.

Hybrid cars are advancing as fast as computers did
during the mid-1980s. The next challenge for
automakers is to design a plug-less vehicle. A few
automakers are now developing new electric cars,
which use magnetic and anti-gravity technologies.

Perhaps during the next 25 years, scientists and
engineers will develop ways for cars to travel
without the need of electricity or batteries. The
electric cars of tomorrow might even use the
Earth's gravitational pull to travel.
Transportation
There’s more to moving people
around than wings and wheels,
speed and price.
October 2008 By ALEX MARSHALL

Look at photos of New York City from the late
1940s, and you may be surprised to see that
horse-drawn wagons bearing fruit, junk or milk
were still quite common — even as automobiles
crowded the streets. This shows that
transportation eras do not neatly switch from
one to another but slide into each other, with
long transitions over many decades. In that
transition, the newer mode often seems to
mimic the older mode it is replacing.

Cars in the early 1900s, even mass-produced
ones such as the Ford Model T, resembled
carriages with motors. The cars sat high off the
ground, as if the drivers would still have to see
over horses. It took a few decades for
Studebakers and Buicks to sink lower to the
ground, a more stable and functional
arrangement.

As things change, the focus remains on the
practical — getting people and things from one
place to another. But the trimmings are a matter
of taste, style and status — and may even be a
little nuts.

Ten years ago, I rode the then-new Eurostar
high-speed train between Brussels and Paris. I
was shocked to find that the train's conductors
were dressed liked airline stewardesses and
served meals on trays in one's lap. But one of
the pleasures of train travel is — or was —
dining at a table with others in a pleasant,
relaxed fashion. That Europeans would
consciously imitate the inconveniences of plane
travel suggests how low the status of train
travel has sunk, even in a part of the world
where there is good train service.

You see similar things here. Amtrak has done
everything it can to make riding its trains similar
to riding a plane. Tickets look like airplane
tickets; frequent-flier miles are offered. Amtrak's
Acela, its highest speed train along the
Northeast Corridor, is sleek inside, with closed
compartments to store luggage overhead, just
like on airplanes. But this is imitating the
inconveniences of a plane. Luggage racks are
overhead in planes because there is no other
space for them. On trains, where space is much
less at a premium, you shouldn't need to strain a
muscle lifting a heavy suitcase over your head.
Compartments for suitcases can be at the end
of cars or in a separate baggage car.

As for airplanes, most have abandoned serving
full meals. But why did they ever serve them at
all? I suspect that when airlines were in their
infancy in the 1920s, they did so — even on their
short, noisy flights — because that's what trains
did. Airlines were trying to "brand" their travel
mode as a high-status one.

While current airlines cut meal service, perhaps
Amtrak should imitate its predecessor lines of a
century ago and serve elaborate dinners of
duck and quail on fine china, all at enormous
losses. That's what the train companies of yore
did.

"To attract passengers away from competing
lines, railroads swallowed their food service
losses and specialized in gastronomical
delicacies," writes John Stilgoe in his classic
book on trains, "Metropolitan Corridor." The
regional delicacies included the likes of grouse,
antelope steak and terrapin stew. Train
companies, Stilgoe says, were "happy if they
earned fifty cents on every dollar expended"
because the good food bonded passengers'
palates and bellies to the train lines.

Nowadays, congressional critics would like
Amtrak to reduce even its limited menu of such
over-the-counter offerings as microwaved
hamburger because the food service loses
money. This would be unwise. I can imagine
business travel picking up on Amtrak if one
could dine with a client or unwind from a long
business trip with a first-class meal served at a
handsome table. It would be quite a contrast to
the grim experience flying has become.

Examples of this interweave of design and
service from one era to the next goes on and
on. I'm told, for instance, that old-style leather
bicycle seats resemble, and used to be called,
"saddles" because bicycle designers copied
horse saddles when bicycles became popular in
the 1880s. People "rode" a bicycle just as they
"rode" a horse.

So where does this leave us? For state and
local officials, it means resisting the urge to
think about transportation as something that
can be reduced to wheels and wings. We
humans, being soft and fleshy creatures with a
handful of senses, have considerations that go
beyond how fast and how far and at what price.
Article;
Biden: Generated Crisis in First
Six Months of Obama
Presidency
by Erik Larson |

Gaffe Master Joe Biden stated recently that
Obama will be tested, like Kennedy, with an
international "generated crisis" in the first six
months- and he's gonna need your help,
"because it's not gonna be apparent initially...
that we're right". Biden claims he "can give you
at least four or five scenarios from where it
might originate."  In this OpEd, Rady Ananda
rounds up and comments on the statement and
related things.

What is he talking about and how does he
know? Biden is a hawk and long time elite
insider- he says he's studied history.

"It will not be six months before the world tests
Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. . . .  
Watch, we're gonna have an international
crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of
this guy. And he's gonna have to make some
really tough - I don't know what the decision's
gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a
student of history and having served with
seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna
happen. I can give you at least four or five
scenarios from where it might originate.  

"And he's gonna need help. And the kind of
help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you,
not financially to help him, we're gonna need
you to use your influence, your influence
within the community, to stand with him.
Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's
not gonna be apparent that we're right." [Italics
mine} - Senator Joseph Biden
------
I might dismiss this, but when you add Colin
Powell giving a date certain: “The problems will
always be there, and there's going to be a
crisis come along in the 21st or 22nd of
January that we don't even know about right
now,”  - the day when the new team is to
transition into the White House, one has to
wonder, "What's up?"
------
One activist I know thinks that the Repubs will
contest the electors in Ohio and elsewhere to
prevent Obama from obtaining the required
number.  In that case, per Article II of the
Constitution, VP Dick Cheney can step in and
assume the presidency.

But add the use of the word "generated" and
we have to wonder if the elites are planning
another 911.

Something to think about, anyway.
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Article;
Marijuana Legalization Would
Create Jobs, Government Income

With Iowa’s state government facing a budget
shortfall of approximately $600 million and an
increasing number of people looking for work,
there is an exceedingly practical strategy for
economic recovery that very few people are
discussing: the legalization, regulation, and
taxation of marijuana.

Most politicians have now become accustomed to
advocating for the development of green jobs, but
almost none of them have yet been willing to
consider how a radical change in national and state
drug policy could help create some of the greenest
jobs imaginable by facilitating the creation of a new
marijuana industry. While it is true that such a
major change in government policy toward
marijuana cultivation, distribution, and
consumption would be ( extremely ) politically
difficult to accomplish, it is time for serious people
to start considering how to best go about
advocating for just such a radical shift.

The status quo deprives the government of much-
need resources in several ways.

First, there is the huge amount of money that local,
state, and federal authorities waste attempting to
enforce their obviously failed ban on marijuana.
Second, state and local governments could raise
substantial new revenues from taxing the sale of
Marijuana. Some may argue that the societal cost
of legalizing marijuana consumption would
outweigh any benefits obtained from increased tax
revenues, but such arguments are almost always
based on misinformation.
Cannabis News
Article;
The Pickens Plan will lead to
energy independence

The Pickens Plan  watch this

T. Boone Pickens is a man with a plan. A Texas
billionaire, oilman, philanthropist and supporter of
energy independence for America, he is heavily
invested in wind and solar energy and natural gas.

He’s also the founder of the Pickens Plan, a
grassroots effort to end America’s dependence
on foreign oil and to support a new energy plan in
the works in Washington.

We can end our dependence on foreign oil by
driving hybrid and plug-in vehicles, by using
compressed natural gas for commercial vehicles,
by heating our homes with geothermal, solar and
wind energy, and by supporting the new energy
plan that will soon be sent to Congress for a vote.

The energy plan, according to the White House,
would reduce dependence on foreign oil and help
create 5 million jobs by investing $150 billion over
the next 10 years to catalyze private efforts to
build a clean energy future. It would put 1 million
plug-in hybrid cars (which the White House will
work to make certain are built in America) on the
road by 2015 and will weatherize 1 million homes
annually, which, in turn, would benefit the
Northland with mining, shipping, manufacturing,
construction and support services.

I support the Pickens Plan for energy
independence and urge others to do the same.
The time is now to break our dependency on
foreign oil and to develop our own sources of
clean, renewable energy across America and right
here in Duluth and throughout the Northland. On
April 1-3 there was a virtual march on Washington.
Representatives, senators and the White House
can be called and e-mailed, too. We can make it
known we are ready to become energy
independent. The time to act is now.
Article;
The American War on Wana
Written by Peter Chamberlin  

We are fighting a war that is like no other. The
illusion is made as real; the real is made as dust.
Nothing is as it seems in this war, even though this
is the era of instant news. This alteration of our
very understanding of reality has been necessary
for us to pursue a war policy of pure evil, even
though we have paraded ourselves before the
world as warriors in defense of truth and light. The
human race is begging for an end to the path of
destruction that trusted American leaders have
steered the world onto., longing to turn onto a
permanent path of Light. It is high time the United
States either showed the world the way into the
Light, or got out of the way of those who can.

Our new president has made a great show of being
the man with the hope of “change” in his hand, but
in the cold light of day he is readying massive
doses of change for the worse. The world was
begging for American leadership to undo what the
last “mis-leader” has done, but the economic
powers that rule America have produced another
charlatan bearing nothing more than a nice smile,
to bind us to the path of escalation that leads to
the Empire’s goal of permanent war.

A great sickness of mind has inflicted the people
of this Nation, filling our thoughts with bloodlust
and heroic visions of victory over savage hordes
who are bent on our destruction. The “al Qaida”
and Taliban who have been cast as classic movie
villains who prefer a world ruled by death and
despair, answer to strange gods and display
bizarre customs. American soldiers were cast in
the hero’s role, standing tall in their glorious
image of the lone eagle warriors holding-back the
swelling tides of Asia and Africa, defending our
lovingly constructed towers of glory that surely
elevate us that much closer to our Creator even as
they set us above our fellow man. This is the
Hollywood image of America that has been
carefully constructed by our leaders and
powerhouses of influence, the “Zion” of Matrix
fame. “Zion” America, the hero nation of warriors,
defending precious civilization, under siege by
armies of darkness and inhumanity.

The “war on terror” is much like a movie, in that it
was definitely developed according to some sort
of script, enormous investments were made in its
production, while it waited many years in
development. The first step in understanding is
realizing that the attacks of September 11, 2001
were not the opening act, neither was the first
Trade Center bombing in 1993.

The second step in understanding the “war on
terror” is accepting the fact that nothing is as it
seems; there are no “good guys,” but there are
plenty of bad guys, and an unlimited supply of
innocents. The United States and its allies cannot
wear the white hats in this bad “spaghetti
western,” the second act of which is being stage-
managed now in Western Pakistan, that is, unless
there is no morality. Unless the foundation of the
entire American legal system is suddenly without
merit, the United States also be seen as some of
the worst bad guys in this violent international
travesty of justice.

We have forced our war that we wage in the name
of vengeance, out of our sense of righteous
indignation, for an attack that killed thousands of
innocent civilians, blamed on an ill-defined enemy,
offering no evidence of their guilt, killing over one
million innocent civilians and turning five times
that amount into refugees in the process. Now, our
new president, the one elected on a promise to
“change” (one of those changes being the
salvation of the first war in Afghanistan, by winding-
down the second war in Iraq), is the latest
facilitator of the Empire’s plans, a marionette,
dancing to the “New World Order blues,” as he
“song and dances” us around these first two wars
and into a third unwinnable war in Pakistan. The
third step in understanding the truth about the
terror war is to realize that the American
government has not been trying to end these two
wars, it has been using every means at its disposal
to prolong the first two wars while it frantically
sought a way to start a third. America is not really
losing either war, but it has never had any
intentions of winning them either.
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Electric Cars are coming
Sean Connery in
The Russian House
    Three notebooks supposedly
    containing Russian military
    secrets are handed to a British
    publisher during a Russian
    book conference. The British
    secret service are naturally
    keen to learn if
these notebooks are the genuine article. To this
end, they enlist the help of the scruffy British
publisher Barley Blair, who has plenty of
experience with Russian and Russians. Barley,
an unconventionaly character who doesn't
respond well to authority, finds himself in a game
more complex than he first thought when he digs
into the origin of the notebooks
Legalize marijuana

In New York, we spend about $1 billion on
marijuana enforcement, not including
long-term jailing. With a $13 billion budget
gap, why not save ourselves the money
and shift to a legalization, regulation and
taxation policies similar to that of
alcohol? There are also the documented
health benefits afforded to suffering AIDS
and cancer patients forced to go into a
dangerous underground market to get
what many feel is their medicine. Luckily,
New York is at least taking the medicinal
uses seriously, as shown by bills in the
Assembly (A0576) and Senate (S. 4041-A).

Contact your state legislators. Tell them
we cannot afford current marijuana laws,
and urge them to support their
respective bills. As a person acquainted
with two people suffering from cancer, I
believe it's a shame they cannot legally
obtain a drug that has been shown to
improve the quality of life while they go
through their treatments.

Shaun Bowen

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Crimes;
Gun-control laws should be
repealed
Samuel A. Hill, Weare   

Viewed logically, virtually all "gun-control"
legislation protects criminals from armed
victims.

Think about that for a moment. Law-abiding
citizens are prevented from using self-defense
and protecting their own life and property.

For most of the past century, "gun-control" laws
have been tested in America. Each and every
one of them has failed miserably. Criminals and
their criminal activities have not been affected
by even the most draconian (unconstitutional)
laws. The reason for their universal failure is no
mystery: Criminals - by definition - do not obey
laws!

Ironically, the anti-gun activists use the very
fact that "gun-control" legislation is universally
ineffective as a rallying cry for more of the
same. That is sheer lunacy!

Rescind all federal gun-control laws, with one
piece of legislation. All 50 states will follow suit,
happily.

The Second Amendment of the Constitution has
been ignored far too long. It is a keystone civil
right, upon which all other personal freedoms
and liberties exist. It protects American citizens
not only from criminals but from their own
government, something Thomas Jefferson
seriously considered in his Declaration of
Independence. Read it!

SAMUEL A. HILL