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THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES & SEEING WHAT IS BUSH’S BRAIN DOING???
I watched as much of the last Presidential debate as I could stomach, even on the tiny browser window of the New York Times live video feed I was watching (4:00 am in somewhere in Western Europe) some thing became completely obvious...... Bush was listening to something, listening intently even sometimes as he spoke, and especially when he was first to answer the question. Importantly. anyone can see this for themselves (…)

By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote soon on new governance and disclosure rules for the groups that oversee America’s stock markets, SEC Chairman William Donaldson said on Thursday.
Saying that the SEC is "waging an uphill fight" against corporate wrongdoing, Donaldson said that recently elevated stock market listing standards should apply not only to corporations, but to the markets themselves, too.
"We should consider (…)

Injured Soldiers Returning from Iraq Struggle for Medical Benefits, Financial Survival
By BRIAN ROSS, DAVID SCOTT and MADDY SAUER
Oct. 14, 2004 — Following inquiries by ABC News, the Pentagon has dropped plans to force a severely wounded U.S. soldier to repay his enlistment bonus after injuries had forced him out of the service.
Army Spc. Tyson Johnson III of Mobile, Ala., who lost a kidney in a mortar attack last year in Iraq, was still recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (…)

Branch Warfare and the Evolution of Aggression
by Manuel Valenzuela
The pages of history, those monuments to humankind’s brief rule over the planet, are replete with violence, death and destruction. Indeed, it can be argued successfully that war, genocide, ethnic cleansing and human violence against each other have defined humanity’s tumultuous existence on Earth. We are inseparable from death and destruction, suffering and violence, having become creatures addicted to the malice (…)

by Marc Morano
Filmmaker Michael Moore told an enthusiastic audience here on Wednesday that "we are doomed" if President George W. Bush is re-elected.
"I fear, really, that we are doomed on some level here. We are so close to not being able to pull it back, to turn it around — to get control of our country back in our hands," Moore told a packed auditorium just hours before the third and final presidential debate. Moore’s "Slacker Uprising Tour" was held at the Celebrity Theatre.
"We (…)

by Bravo Zulu Bywyd (rhymes with "Druid")
Every day George W. Bush and Richard Cheney continue their corrupted charade of "leadership" endangers not only the American people, but the very future of diplomacy and justice on our planet. Here are 10 reasons why George W. Bush should RESIGN as President or be IMPEACHED immediately, by the Congress or the People:
1) He and his administration lied to the country and the world about weapons of mass destruction, as a precursor to violating (…)

by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With the notable exception of U.S. President George W. Bush, more than 250 global leaders, including former President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, reaffirmed their commitment to a ten-year-old UN plan to ensure the rights of women around the world.
In an unprecedented statement, the former and current leaders, including 85 heads of state and government, also called for the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted by (…)

by Robert L. Black
When in the course of a lifetime, it becomes necessary for a born Republican to refuse to support the re-election of the party’s incumbent president, to exercise his discretion, and in all good conscience, to vote for an opponent (even a Democrat), a decent respect to the opinions of his fellows requires that he declare the causes that impel him to switch.
I am grateful to the Republican Party for the support it gave me on each of three elections as judge. I respect (…)

by David Pallister, Jamie Wilson and David Leigh
New evidence has emerged linking Jeffrey Archer to the alleged conspirators behind the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.
A lawyer for the Equatorial Guinea government said in London yesterday that telephone records showed four calls between the homes of one of the alleged financiers behind the plot, London-based Lebanese businessman Ely Calil, and Lord Archer in the run-up to the coup attempt in March.
Another alleged plotter, (…)

By Pepe Escobar
"Bush speaks of ’war’, but he is in fact incapable of identifying the enemy against whom he declares that he has declared war." - Jacques Derrida, September 2001
Jacques Derrida, the master of the concept of "deconstruction", died last Friday from cancer at 74. He was the last survivor of the fabulous generation of 1960s French thinkers - perhaps not as popular as Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes or Gilles Deleuze, but certainly, in these last few decades, (…)