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This is the first I have heard or read of this story and was wondering if anyone else on here had seen this yet in print. I know there has been a lot of talk about possibilities but this is the first semi-acknowledgement I have seen!!! And I am simply (*&#@&*#) upset about it....................................!!
Dan Simpson: Invade Syria? Insane U.S. forces have started fighting Syrians at Iraq’s border. Can anybody say ’Cambodia’?
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Pittsburgh (…)

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CEO of Vote-Counting Company Refused Entry into the U.S. PDF | Print | Email By John gideon and Ellen Theisen, VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA October 17, 2005 On October 14, 2005, Antonio Mujica, CEO of Smartmatic, was refused entry into the United States. His Visa was revoked by the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela. See (http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200510160629) Ten months ago, Smartmatic, a Venezuelan-owned company, purchased Sequoia Voting Systems, (…)

WHO IS ON TRIAL?
By Peter Fredson
October 19, 2005
Today on the TV screen I saw a picture of Saddam Hussein in a prisoner’s dock in Iraq. There was a lot of empty space in the framework around the former dictator and I felt that other people should have been included. Was this not for crimes against humanity? Was it not for war crimes?
I feel deeply that the entire Bush cabinet of 2000-04 should be in that dock. George, Dick, Donald, Colin, and Condi with Karl and a half dozen other (…)

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Troy Duster is emphatic: the genomic revolution is moving way too fast.
In more than a dozen books and articles, Dr. Duster, immediate past president of the American Sociological Association, urges geneticists to slow down and check their methods as they search for links between genes, disease and race.
A professor of sociology at New York University, Dr. Duster, 69, wrote "Backdoor to Eugenics" and contributed to "Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind (…)

By JESSE J. HOLLAND
WASHINGTON — Confirmation hearings for White House counsel Harriet Miers, President Bush’s choice to succeed Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, will commence the first full week of November.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said the decision to start the hearings on Nov. 7 was passed on to Republican Judiciary Committee members by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., at a meeting this morning.
"That’s what the chairman told us," Coburn said after leaving the private meeting. (…)

by Arianna Huffington
Signs of trouble and Judy Miller were like Mary and her little lamb. Everywhere that Judy went, a flashing warning sign was sure to follow.
Indeed, in looking back on her career, it’s clear that there were more red flags popping up around Judy Miller’s work as a journalist than at a May Day parade in Red Square.
We now know that Miller’s bosses were being warned about serious credibility problems with her reporting as far back as 2000 — a warning that came from a (…)

by PETER TRAVERS
Does George Clooney have a box-office death wish? You have to wonder why the star of Ocean’s Eleven would risk his standing as a pinup for ka-ching to direct, co-write and co-star in a movie set in the 1950s, shot in black-and-white and focused on a fifty-year-old battle between TV newsman Edward R. Murrow, indelibly played by David Strathairn, and the Commie-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Wonder no more. Clooney knows exactly what he’s doing: blowing the dust off ancient (…)

See below the EL Executive Board motion to the 1st Congress of the Party of the European Left, Athens 2005.
Introduction 1. building peace 2. building another economic model for a social Europe 3. building participatory and radical democracy 4. building alliances
INTRODUCTION
The first Congress of the Party of the European Left is being held at what is truly an "extraordinary" time: today we are faced with the huge challenge of opening a new political and social cycle in Europe. Since (…)

By Terry Cook
A 68-page booklet, entitled “Workchoices: A new workplace relations system,” released on the weekend of October 8-9 confirms the sweeping attacks on working conditions and workers’ rights at the core of the Howard government’s draconian industrial relations (IR) “reforms”, due to go before parliament later this month.
On the eve of the booklet’s release, Prime Minister John Howard and Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews met with leading employer bodies in a one-hour (…)

World Exclusive
MEDIA RELEASE
October 19, 2005
Prosecution of George W. Bush for Torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay Prisons
Notification of Canadian Officials
Lawyers against the War (L.A.W.) learned Nov 17, 2004 that George W. Bush was coming to Canada on Nov 30, 2004. During this period L.A.W. wrote to various governmental ministers advising of them that George W. Bush stood accused of the most grave crimes known to law, including torture, and therefore should be denied (…)