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"... the neocons are the dodos of Washington, simply too dumb to know when they are extinct.
Yet here is Tom Donnelly, an American Enterprise Institute neocon, a co-chairman of the Project for a New American Century, telling a reporter sagely that the surge is in."::::::::
Excerpted from: http://www.truthout.org Robert Dreyfuss | Traveling the Planet Neo-Con Road to Baghdad (Again) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407E.shtml Robert Dreyfuss writes that "it will be the Iraqis who end the war. It will be the Iraqis who eventually kill enough Americans to break the US political will, and it will be the Iraqis who sweep away the ruins of the Maliki government to replace it with an anti-American, anti-US occupation government in Iraq. That is basically how the war in Vietnam ended, and it wasn't pretty." --- Old Guard Back on Iraq Policy http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407D.shtml Ever since Iraq began spiraling toward chaos, the war's intellectual architects - the so-called neo-conservatives - have found themselves under attack in Washington policy salons and, more important, within the Bush administration. Now, a small but increasingly influential group of neo-cons are again helping to steer Iraq policy. A key part of the new Iraq plan that President Bush is expected to announce next week - a surge in US troops, coupled with a more focused counterinsurgency effort - has been one of the chief recommendations of these neo-cons since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. --- The Baltimore Sun | Shut Out of the Forests http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010407EB.shtml "The (Bush) administration has decided to simply eliminate the bothersome environmental reviews previously applied to management plans for the 193 million acres of national forest," writes the Baltimore Sun. --- India's PM Says West Is Environmentally Wasteful http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010407EA.shtml Slamming the West for its "environmentally wasteful lifestyle," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Wednesday for industrialized nations to look at alterative energy sources to save the environment. --- William Rivers Pitt | Bush Extends Hand With Fingers Crossed http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407J.shtml William Rivers Pitt responds to an editorial allegedly penned by Bush in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: "In the final analysis, we see in this Bush editorial the same fantasies and empty rhetoric that have become the defining realities of this administration. He clings to the belief that we can 'win' in Iraq, even as the violence and chaos unleashed by his invasion makes any talk of victory a laughable exercise in fantasy. The hand he supposedly extends in bipartisan friendship comes with crossed fingers, carrying only the same fistful of failures and lies that inspired the November electorate to push him aside." --- Kathy Kelly | Wrapped Around a Bullet http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407K.shtml [snip] ... Now is the time for seriously strategizing about the best ways, in our hometowns, to engage in sustained civil disobedience at the offices of elected representatives, demanding that they vote against the supplemental spending bill." --- Exxon Mobil Cultivates Global Warming Doubt http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407M.shtml Energy giant Exxon Mobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending $16 million on groups that question global warming. "Exxon Mobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists. --- Miers Resigns as White House Counsel http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407T.shtml Harriet Miers, President Bush's failed Supreme Court nominee and longtime adviser, submitted her resignation as White House counsel on Thursday. --- Ann Wright | Guantanamo's Cost to Our Humanity http://snipurl.com/16jgl --- US Troops Deployed Near Somalia http://snipurl.com/16jgo --- Peace Protesters Disrupt Press Conference on Lobbying Reform http://snipurl.com/16jgq --- A Mother Fights for a Soldier Who Said No to War http://snipurl.com/16m46 --- Sarasota County and the Debate Over "Paper Trails" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407F.shtml At issue are over 18,000 undervotes - votes that were lost or never recorded at all on the ES&S iVotronic touchscreen voting machines used for early and Election Day voting in Sarasota County, the largest of the five counties in the 13th District. After a mandatory recount, Buchanan held a razor-thin 369-vote margin of victory over Jennings but there has been no satisfactory resolution of the implausibly high undervote rate on the iVotronics. --- Nicolas Sarkozy | Saddam Hussein's Execution Is a Mistake http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407G.shtml France's interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy - a sort of combined attorney general and head of the Department of Homeland Security and Intelligence - and a clear favorite to win the ruling UMP center-right party's nomination as presidential candidate in the 2007 elections, comments on the Saddam Hussein execution. --- But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran! http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306H.shtml Representative-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran - especially from Virginia representative Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values. Yet the holy book at tomorrow's ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We've learned that the new congressman - in a savvy bit of political symbolism - will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson. --- Bush Signing Statement Claims Power to Open Americans' Mail http://snipurl.com/16m4s --- NOW | Can the Red State Stay Green? http://snipurl.com/16m4x --- Mother Wonders If Psychosis Drug Helped Kill Son http://snipurl.com/16m50 _________________________________ Submitted by: http://eddiestinson@gmail.com America's Holy Warriors ... By Chris Hedges, Truthdig The drive by the Christian right to take control of military chaplaincies, which now sees radical Christians holding roughly 50 percent of chaplaincy appointments in the armed services and service academies, is part of a much larger effort to politicize the military and law enforcement. This effort signals the final and perhaps most deadly stage in the long campaign by the radical Christian right to dismantle America's open society and build a theocratic state. A successful politicization of the military would signal the end of our democracy. Continued: http://www.alternet.org/story/46211/ _________________________________ By Anthony Wade King Of Softball Reveals Plan To Smear Dems Between Now And 2008 Paying attention to the media often reveals the plans which will be used to turn talking points, into "news". Chris Matthews tonight showed again why no one is better then him at the shill game. http://snipurl.com/16mik --- By Wayne Madsen Is Negroponte's New Job Preparing For An Attack On Iran? He may be slated to oversee a unit of private contractors peforming unspecified duties in advance of bombing Iran. http://snipurl.com/16min _________________________________ .ron corvuswire@verizon.net Sour Grapes: Another Stolen Election Rep. Vern Buchanan says Democratic candidate Christine Jennings is just full of "sour grapes" contesting the election results in their Florida Congressional race. 18,000 votes cast on the infamous "touchscreen" voting machines failed to record a single vote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReasaT0Al74 --- Journalist Receives Death Threat for Talking About Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spXA7GrOcLU American freelance journalist, Alison Weir, researched the facts about Israel and found "a situation largely the reverse of what was being reported by the American media." _________________________________ http://jablankfort@earthlink.net Israel seeks operational link with U.S. missile defense system The Patriot missile installations referred to in this article were initially introduced into Israel during the first Gulf War under pressure by Congress when Pres. Bush Sr. refused to authorize the release to the Israeli Air Force of the necessary coordinates to launch air strikes against Iraq in retaliation for the few dozen Scud missiles that landed in Israel, most harmlessly. The publication of this article is, in all likelihood, a means of getting the Israeli controlled Congress to press the Pentagon to accede to Israel's request. - JB By Aluf Benn and Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondents Israel wants to increase the likelihood of the U.S. deploying emergency missile defense systems within Israeli territory. Continued: http://snipurl.com/16m39 --- JPost: Rattling the Cage: A bigot called Bibi An extraordinary article that would never see the light of day in any American newspaper where Derfner's by-line frequently appears. This should be sent to "your" member of Congress and your local newspaper columnists.- JB Larry Derfner, THE JERUSALEM POST By rights, Binyamin Netanyahu, who every poll says is by far the most popular politician in Israel, should be ranked with Jean Le Pen, Jorge Haider and the rest of the Western world's racist demagogues. Continued: http://snipurl.com/16m0k --- The Attack on Cynthia McKinney Continues. http://www.CynthiaforCongress.com Cynthia McKinney was the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to question Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, the first to speak about the profits that were being made by Cheney's Halliburton Co. and other US corporations in Iraq and the only member of Congress to publicly question the "official" version of 9-11. That's why she's out office. But that's not enough for her enemies.- JB A White State Representative, Len Walker, from the state of Georgia is calling to have Cynthia McKinney's name taken off the street named after her. What about the names of every past, present & future Republican and Democrat State or Local Official who is known to have embarrassed the State of Georgia, off Georgia's roads & highways, as well as their pictures or statutes that are in or around any public buildings? A list is being compiled by Black organizations of every Republican & every Democrat national, state, county or city official that is known to have embarrassed the state of Georgia by personal, professional or criminal allegations of misconduct. A copy of the list will be delivered to Republican State Representative "Len Walker" so that he can add those Republican & Democrat Representative's names to the list of street names that must be removed as well as pictures and statutes. Every Governor that has been known to make a "shady deal". Every Mayor that has given no bid contracts to their family & friends. Every State Representative that has ever gotten caught in an FBI sting. The list for Republicans & Democrats should be quite extensive. Cathy Harris http://www.angelspress.com/policeinteractions.html _________________________________ [NEWSDISSECTOR] Shake-up in the Cartel Signifying Little http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/01/04/shake-up-in-the-cartel-signifying-little/ _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://mediamatters.org CNN's Bay Buchanan latest to "warn" Obama of ruthless "Clinton Machine" Read more >> VIDEO: http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030007?src=other --- Eschewing its own reporting, ABC News relied solely on Drudge to report alleged NY Times Clinton story Read more >> http://snipurl.com/16l1r --- MSNBC's Stewart joined ABCNews.com on Drudge bandwagon Read more >> VIDEO: http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030012?src=other --- Despite large Dem margin, MSNBC's Johnson wrote that "Dems just squeaked through" midterm election Read more >> http://snipurl.com/16l1z --- Only on Fox: "Are Congressional Democrats killing spirit of bipartisanship?" Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030016?src=other --- ABC's Raddatz echoed Bush on another "new strategy for victory" in Iraq Read more >> VIDEO: http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030010?src=other --- Wash. Post noted that GOP based "Minority Bill of Rights" on 2004 Pelosi plan, but not that GOP rejected it Read more >> http://snipurl.com/16l24 --- Ignoring his own employer, NY Times' Brooks said Ford's pardon of Nixon "is now universally celebrated" Read more >> VIDEO: http://snipurl.com/16l26 _________________________________ Starbucks Corp. is expected to announce that it will switch to trans-fat-free fresh pastries and lunch items, as of Jan. 3, in its stores in Chicago and nine other cities across the U.S., according to Chicago Tribune. Full Story >> http://snipurl.com/16mhs _________________________________ Lunar Geminids http://www.spaceweather.com During the recent Geminid meteor shower, NASA astronomers watched at least five Geminid meteoroids hit the Moon and explode. Soon, they plan to release software that will help amateur astronomers see these explosions for themselves. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/03jan_lunargeminids.htm?list748463 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! --- HOT COMET: Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) is plunging toward the Sun. It won't hit, but at closest approach on Jan. 13th it will be much closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. The comet will experience fierce heating and it could brighten considerably, emerging from the encounter brighter than a 1st magnitude star. For the next few mornings, northerners can see Comet McNaught before it disappears into the Sun's glare. It's an easy target for binoculars hanging low in the eastern sky at sunrise. After Jan. 11th, only SOHO (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) will be able to track the comet as it angles toward the bright Sun. SOHO images are posted in near-real time on the Internet, so you can watch the comet-sun encounter and see what happens. Visit http://Spaceweather.com for observing tips and more information. _________________________________ http://www.prwatch.org/spin/ | http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ _________________________________ *** A NIFTY WAY TO COPY AND PASTE *** I like to take notes when I'm reading. But, since I do a lot of reading online, I don't take notes on paper. That's so low-tech! Instead, I copy from my Web browser and paste it into another document. That way, I can refer to what I've read whenever I need. But when you copy from your browser, you'll get all kinds of strange formatting. There are ways around that. Unfortunately, they're cumbersome, too. So I use Snippy. When you select a portion of a Web page (or other document), it's copied to the Clipboard as an image. You can paste it into a document or save it as an individual file. I do have one complaint about Snippy: It only works on one of my monitors. But that's just a minor inconvenience. I'm sure you'll find this free program as handy as I did! TO VISIT TODAY'S COOL SITE, GO HERE: http://www.bhelpuri.net --- Flaw discovered in Adobe Reader Researchers say that hackers could take over your computer via Adobe Reader. Clicking on a PDF link on any Web site could launch an attack. The flaw affects IE 6 and Firefox. Until this is fixed, don't open PDFs in your Web browser, even from trusted sites. --- Amazon founder tests spacecraft Jeff Bezos is developing a reusable spacecraft that takes off and lands vertically. He acknowledges that the spacecraft's development will be slow. But he says that is the best way to achieve results. http://snipurl.com/16m5d Be sure to listen to me Monday through Friday. Use to find me near you http://www.komando.com/listen/index.aspx _________________________________ eHEALTHY NEWS Evil Marketing Geniuses - They employ some of the most clever people on the planet to deceive and manipulate your beliefs about health. http://snipurl.com/16l2q ----- How to Calm an Overactive Mind - Learn a simple technique that will help your mind find a quiet, serene place, and to know all is well. http://snipurl.com/16l2t _________________________________ VIDEO: Animator vs. Animation | United States | 1:32 | Alan Becker A simple stick figure created in Flash gets sick and tired of being tortured, so he fights back. Check out this John Woo-style fight scene that takes place entirely within a Flash program (which gets trashed in brilliant fashion). http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/animator_vs_animation _________________________________ NationalGeographic.com http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/ _________________________________ NASA Astronomy picture of the day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html _________________________________ The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. ~ John Milton, Paradise Regained
