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By Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” (…)

Three Way Presidential Debate - Obama, McCain, and Nader
Want to see Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader in the debates? Here’s what you can do about it:
Call Barack Obama at 866-675-2008.
Hit 6 to speak with a campaign volunteer and insist that Ralph Nader and other ballot qualified third party candidates be included in the upcoming Presidential debates.
Then, e-mail the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates Janet Brown at jb@debates.org
Tell her to end the (…)

BAILOUT: America’s Financial Ruin
By Patrick Wood, Editor October 6, 2008
When push came to shove, Humpty Dumpty discovered the shortest distance to the cobblestones below: straight down.
Being quite dead, Humpty’s body is stinking up the whole neighborhood. The eyewitnesses call it murder. The coroner, bypassing the eyewitnesses, rules it an accident. The public clamors for taxpayer funds to clean up the mess. Congress passes a bill for superglue to be liberally applied to the broken (…)

“He who makes excuses accuses himself.” - A French Proverb
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), on Sept. 22, 2008, was up to one of her old tricks—talking out of both sides of her mouth! She was on the Senate floor, on Capitol Hill, reading an anti-bailout rant. (1) If you didn’t know any better, you would think that she was a hero of the Middle Class. Sen. Mikulski pretended to rage about how Dubya had a track record of “stampeding” the U.S. Congress into voting for draconian laws, such as the (…)

A new dossier on the (im)precision of US bombing and the (under)valuation of Afghan lives.
By Professor Marc W. Herold
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20081024252100400.htm

S Rajagopalan | Washington
An unemployed Indian American financial manager gunned down five members of his family and took his own life - after seeing his fortune wiped out by the stock market collapse.
Karthik Rajaram, 45, an MBA in finance who had worked for top accounting firms and was part-owner of a financial holding company, shot his wife, three children and mother-in-law in the head before turning the gun on himself in their gated community home in Los Angeles last weekend. He (…)

Online Journal Oct 6, 2008
By William John Cox Online Journal Contributing Writer
On Friday, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by those whom they had elected to represent them. The members of Congress who voted for the Wall Street “bailout” violated their oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution” . . .”that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same” . . .”and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to (…)

Counterpunch 04 October, 2008
I s the Paulson bailout itself as big a fraud as the leveraged subprime mortgages?
Yesterday, here on CounterPunch , I discussed the bailout as proposed and noted that the proposal cannot succeed if it impairs the US Treasury’s credit standing and/or the combination of mark-to-market and short-selling permits short-sellers to prosper by driving more financial institutions into bankruptcy.
A reader’s comment and an article by Yale professors Jonathan Kopell (…)

Wake Up America!
Give Me Liberty. A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

Barricades, barbed wires on roads; mobile phones jammed
KT NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, OCT 6: With very strict curfew, heavy deployment of security forces, and arrest of separatist leadership, the Kashmir Coordination Committee (KCC) march to Lal Chowk was thwarted by the government today. It was government sponsored fear which ruled the entire Valley.
However, curfew was defied in some places including Maisuma, Nowhatta, Baramulla, Pulwama and Rafiabad and protests held.
Not only Lal (…)