Diary: WHITE HOUSE BRUSHES OFF CIA REPORT ON IRAN

DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> IF LINK DOESN'T WORK, THEN PASTE ARTICLE LINK(S) INTO YOUR BROWSER -- OR GO DIRECTLY TO >> http://www.truthout.org White House Brushes Off CIA Report on Iran http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006S.shtml The White House dismissed a classified CIA draft assessment that found no conclusive evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program. ----- Missing Presumed Tortured http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006O.shtml More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites," what happened to the rest? ----- FOCUS | Thomas D. Williams: The Decline of Journalism http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006Z.shtml Truthout's Thomas D. Williams writes on the predicted demise of print journalism: "If some doomsday industry analysts are to be believed, newspapers are laid out and stacked neatly inside their own future death warehouses, not only in the United States, but worldwide." ----- Asian Leaders Reject Bush's North Korea Strategy http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006E.shtml ----- Lawyer in the Hell of Guantanamo http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112006H.shtml Famed human-rights attorney Clive Stafford Smith tells Le Monde reporter Annick Cojean: "My wife has instructions to call my own lawyer if I don't send any news for two days. Guantanamo is one of the places on the planet where I feel least secure." ----- Criminalizing Compassion in the War on Terror http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006F.shtml ----- Hezbollah Threatens Protests to Topple Lebanese Government http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006D.shtml In a deepening crisis that has paralyzed Lebanese politics, the leader of Hezbollah urged his well-organized followers to prepare for mass protests aimed at toppling the US-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. ----- Sheldon Rampton | Time for Another Body Count in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006K.shtml ----- Iraq Death Toll Hits 1,370 for November http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006R.shtml ----- Pentagon Review Sees Three Options in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006M.shtml ----- GOP Fundraiser Gets 18 Years in Prison http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006G.shtml ----- Ron Suskind | Send in the Subpoenas http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006C.shtml ----- Intrigue Swirls in Ex-KGB Man's Illness http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006N.shtml ----- Full Steam Ahead http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006T.shtml ----- William Fisher | How Long Is Long Enough? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006A.shtml William Fisher writes, "With everyone's attention riveted on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea these days, it's difficult to find anyone interested in thinking about the bankruptcy of US policies right here in our own hemisphere." ----- Bush: "I Would Understand If Israel Chose to Attack Iran" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006B.shtml ----- Nobel Laureates Back Case Pushing Bush to Act on Global Warming http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112006EA.shtml ----- Slow Talks Could Leave Climate Deal in "Tatters" http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112006EB.shtml ----- Blighted Homeland | A Peril That Dwelt Among the Navajos: Parts I and II http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112006HA.shtml ----- Hemophilia Drug Used on GIs Labeled Risk http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112006HB.shtml A blood-coagulating drug designed to treat rare forms of hemophilia is being used on critically wounded US troops in Iraq despite evidence it can cause clots that lead to strokes, heart attacks and death in patients. _________________________________ Submitted by: http://eddiestinson@gmail.com HOUSING BUBBLE SMACK-DOWN ... By Mike Whitney 11/20/06 Give me 5 minutes and I'll convince you that you should sell your house immediately and invest your life-savings in gold or a Swiss bank-account. Okay? For some time now we've been hearing about the so-called housing bubble and what effect it could have on your net worth and future. Well, the numbers are finally in and you can decide for yourself whether its time to sell now or try to ride out the storm. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15689.htm _________________________________ CARVILLE ABANDONED BY ALL (even Hillary) by kos Carville has been left to the wolves, alone and friendless in his condemnation of Dean. James Carville's attempt to topple Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic National Committee failed after state party officials and even a vocal critic of Dean crushed the coup, officials said. Insiders from the Clinton camp winced at Carville's untimely remarks last week calling for Dean's ouster in favor of unsuccessful Senate candidate Harold Ford of Tennessee. "It was not coming from [Sen. Hillary Clinton] and they made a real effort to distance themselves from James' comments," said a source close to the Clintons. The Clintonistas don't want an undeserved backlash from the activist wing of the party that overwhelmingly supports Dean, especially because some anti-Clinton Democrats have blamed Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) for the attack by Carville, a longtime Clinton insider. Those forces claimed Carville's motive was to topple Dean in favor of a chairman more favorable to Sen. Clinton's bid for President [...] Even Dean-basher Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and an exadviser to former President Bill Clinton, called Dean last week to say Carville was acting alone, and one-time DNC Chairman Don Fowler referred to Carville as an "ill-advised" voice. "Why do the Washington people think that they have a special prerogative to dictate what the Democratic Party needs?" Fowler wrote in an e-mail to the party faithful. "Why should anyone want to mess with the team that won these remarkable [election] results?" Continued >> http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/20/194639/39 _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com Early Advice for '08 Hopefuls: Beware the Consultants! >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/early-advice-for-08-hope_b_34542.html ----- DeLay's Temporary Replacement "Mortally" Damages Political Career With "Odd" Behavior... "...By Wednesday, she became known as the boss who drove off, or was abandoned by, the entire staff she had inherited from DeLay - and then sought to have them investigated." http://www.houstonchronicle.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4345926.html _________________________________ Submitted by: http://jablankfort@earthlink.net Is it not extraordinary, after clearly and openly pushing the US into the worst foreign policy disaster in US history, apart from what it has done to Iraq and its people, the neocons are trying to do it again in Iran without a hint of shame or fear of criticism from a pathetic anti-war movement whose leaders and leading spokespersons have seemingly ignored their existence? That's a rhetorical question, but it is addressed to ANSWER, UFPJ, Professors. Noam Chomsky. and Stephen Zunes and investigative journalist (and staunch supporter of Israel,) Greg Palast who nearly a year ago announced the neocons' demise. Jeff >> CONFRONTING IRAN ... BOMB IRAN click here ----- OLMERT COUNTING ON JEWISH LOBBY TO FOIL BAKER-HAMILTON "On his way home from Los Angeles, the prime minister "calmed" the reporters - and perhaps even himself - by saying there is no danger of U.S. President George W. Bush accepting the expected recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton panel, and attempting to move Syria out of the axis of evil and into a coalition to extricate America from Iraq. The prime minister hopes the Jewish lobby can rally a Democratic majority in the new Congress to counter any diversion from the status quo on the Palestinians." THE GEWALT AGENDA ... By Akiva Eldar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789919.html _________________________________ [NEWSDISSECTOR] Bombing In Hanoi : Apocalypse Now 2 http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2006/11/20/bombing-in-hanoi-apocalypse-now-2/ _________________________________ Submitted by: http://eddiestinson@gmail.com ISRAELI FIRM "WINS" DEAL TO BUILD MEXICO BORDER FENCE Read here >> http://ww4report.com/node/274309 _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://onlinejournal.com Close the curtains on the 'puppet show' in Iraq By Linda S. Heard | Online Journal Contributing Writer Iraq is at the center of an almighty political blame game. Former Pentagon darling Ahmad Chalabi told the New York Times, "It was a puppet show, the worst of all worlds. We were in charge, and we had no power. We were blamed for everything the Americans did, but we couldn't change any of it." Sour grapes from a man who once hoped to grab the top job in Iraq or the unpalatable truth? http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1434.shtml ----- Rumsfeld's long walk into political oblivion By Mike Whitney | Online Journal Contributing Writer Donald Rumsfeld never really understood the war he was fighting in Iraq. That's why the results have been so terrible. He liked to say that "the war in Iraq is a test of wills," but that just shows that he had no idea what he was doing and was in way over his head. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1431.shtml ----- Israel's reign of terror must be stopped By Linda S. Heard | Online Journal Contributing Writer While channel surfing the other day I came across a rerun of Gandhi just in time to witness the scene where British troops gun down unarmed fleeing protestors. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1439.shtml _________________________________ Submitted by: http://wildseederus@yahoo.com CITIZENS FOR HEALTH ... Stop Meat and Milk from Cloned Animals ... the FDA, citing new data, expects to give its stamp of approval by the end of this year! Stephen F. Sundlof, the FDA's chief of veterinary medicine responsible for the agency's risk assessment, maintains that "food from cloned animals is as safe as the food we eat every day." But the FDA has never published the complete scientific studies it says support that claim. 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But things heat up when their search for shade takes an unusual twist in this amazing computer animated comedy. http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/one_hundred_seven _________________________________ NationalGeographic.com http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/ _________________________________ NASA Astronomy picture of the day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html _________________________________ It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. ~Robert Fuoss