Tuesday, September 20, 2005

The Seattle Times: Health: Old antipsychotic drugs comparable to new drugs, study finds

The Seattle Times: Health: Old antipsychotic drugs comparable to new drugs, study finds

Basra Bizarre: SAS Commandos Arrested and Sprung

Basra Bizarre: SAS Commandos Arrested and Sprung Basra

The American Street � Blog Archive � Dems Win on Roberts!

The American Street � Blog Archive � Dems Win on Roberts!

Devvy Kidd -- Feds Desperate to Shut Up Bill Benson

Devvy Kidd -- Feds Desperate to Shut Up Bill Benson

Blogger Thoughts: She is a dynamite Redhead.

TCS: Tech Central Station - Velvet Revolutions and the Logic of Terrorism

TCS: Tech Central Station - Velvet Revolutions and the Logic of Terrorism

Blogger Thoughts: The Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities is incredibly dangerous due to his ignorance or his disinfo. I'd vote for ignorance unless he has a military record.

Rigorous Intuition: Carry on Killing

Rigorous Intuition: Carry on Killing: "Damn the blind eyes of anyone who still can't see after Basra."

Blogger Thought: If you don't know what's being talked about here with the reference to Basra, you are the enemy of justice.

Rubicon: A Sick, Sick Country

Rubicon: A Sick, Sick Country

KATRINA RESCUERS OVERWHELMED BY TOXIC WASTE!!!

KATRINA RESCUERS OVERWHELMED BY TOXIC WASTE!!!

WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING AT THE ASTRODOME!!!

WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING AT THE ASTRODOME!!!: "outside the gates from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. you are not allowed back in"

Blogger Thoughts: Interesting. I agree that there is much to be concerned about as inhumane. However, I have to draw the line at sharing any outrage that they "close for the night" at 11:00 and don't open until 5:00. If anything, I would see making the curfew earlier.

SECRET AGREEMENT BETWEEN US, CANADA & MEXICO!!!

SECRET AGREEMENT BETWEEN US, CANADA & MEXICO!!!

Blogger Thoughts: If you can prove this wrong, I'd love to hear from you. I really don't want it to be true.

Commentary: For Yahoo, Mistrust Is Popping Up

Commentary: For Yahoo, Mistrust Is Popping Up

Blogger Thoughts: A large media / internet hybrid Corp. being evil. That never happens.

Al Qaeda Suspect Tells of Bush Plot

Al Qaeda Suspect Tells of Bush Plot

Blogger Thoughts: Noted

Iraqi authorities are preparing an arrest warrant for the country's former defence minister in connection with a massive fraud case involving the "dis

Eschaton

BTV captures London bomb suspects on trial run - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com

TV captures London bomb suspects on trial run - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com

Blogger Thoughts: This video may be authentic, but the story of what happened on 7/7 is a lie.

BTV captures London bomb suspects on trial run - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com

TV captures London bomb suspects on trial run - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com

Blogger Thoughts: This video may be authentic, but the story of what happened on 7/7 is a lie.

Coroner who questioned Vince Foster, Ron Brown deaths has files ceased

Files seized in Wecht investigation - PittsburghLIVE.com

Culture of Life Breaking News: BLAIR WORKS ON DOUBLECROSSING SOLDIERS

Culture of Life Breaking News: BLAIR WORKS ON DOUBLECROSSING SOLDIERS

British armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships burst

Left I on the News: "British armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships "

in full contradiction with the official version of the British Ministry of Defence.

Informed Comment

Katrina Victims' Condition Didn't Just 'Happen'

Katrina Victims' Condition Didn't Just 'Happen'

News Hounds: Cavuto Re-Caps Ray Nagin Presser w/a Lie That Supports Bush

News Hounds: Cavuto Re-Caps Ray Nagin Presser w/a Lie That Supports Bush

News Hounds: Hannity Uses Radio Show For Campaign Fundraising

News Hounds: Hannity Uses Radio Show For Campaign Fundraising

Iraq: This is the civil war

The Yorkshire Ranter

WSJ misleadingly defended proposed Katrina comm ... [Media Matters]

WSJ misleadingly defended proposed Katrina comm ... [Media Matters]

Fox's Wallace claimed that no one would argue t ... [Media Matters]

Fox's Wallace claimed that no one would argue t ... [Media Matters]

So, the guy who oversees federal contracts gets arrested.

Eschaton: "So, the guy who oversees federal contracts gets arrested."

Proposals shut college doors to illegal immigrants | ajc.com

Proposals shut college doors to illegal immigrants ajc.com: "If some Georgia lawmakers get their way, future graduates won't have that option."

Blogger Thoughts: I know it may be that I'm on the Zell Miller side here, but I say Bravo! to this.

The Anchoress � Bill Clinton�s Captive Heart?

The Anchoress � Bill Clinton�s Captive Heart?: "The extreme left of the Democrat Party has grown into a fuming beast "

Blogger Thoughts: Just ran across this evidently sick blog.

FBI Harasses Informant Of Former Agent John O'Neill

FBI Harasses Informant Of Former Agent John O'Neill

911 Lies Under Fire - Truth Finally Emerging

911 Lies Under Fire - Truth Finally Emerging

Judah Sees New Orleans Being A Las Vegas With Southern Charm

Towering Investor

Mobile home industry waiting on FEMA - Business - MSNBC.com

Mobile home industry waiting on FEMA - Business - MSNBC.com: "Mobile home industry waiting on FEMA"

DoD Needs More Hispanics in Military

DoD Needs More Hispanics in Military

Blogger Thoughts: More Cannon Fodder?

Alexandra de Borchgrave Authors 9/11 Book

Alexandra de Borchgrave Authors 9/11 Book: "overcome the fear within us"

Blogger Thoughts: More crap.

9-11 Warning Ignored

9-11 Warning Ignored: "Now the question arises: Why did not the Clinton Administration re-evaluate its air safety measures in light of the 1998 warning? "

Blogger Thoughts: Does Morris know the truth? What a Pecker Head!

Audio: Torture Suvivor and Activist Dianna Ortiz Speaks : Indymedia Radio

Torture Suvivor and Activist Dianna Ortiz Speaks : Indymedia Radio

She says the building was laced with explosives at the ground floor and was detonated

SABCnews.com - world/north_america: "She says the building was laced with explosives at the ground floor and was detonated "

Mirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES

Mirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES

EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES
Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans
From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York
HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.
US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.
Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
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And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent for incineration.
One British aid worker last night called the move "sickening senselessness" and said furious colleagues were "spitting blood".
The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already left to be distributed.
Scores of lorries headed back to a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, to dump it at an FDA incineration plant.
The Ministry of Defence in London said last night that 400,000 operational ration packs had been shipped to the US.
But officials blamed the US Department of Agriculture, which impounded the shipment under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.
The aid worker, who would not be named, said: "This is the most appalling act of sickening senselessness while people starve.
"The FDA has recalled aid from Britain because it has been condemned as unfit for human consumption, despite the fact that these are Nato approved rations of exactly the same type fed to British soldiers in Iraq.
"Under Nato, American soldiers are also entitled to eat such rations, yet the starving of the American South will see them go up in smoke because of FDA red tape madness."
PAIN: Child survivor cries
The worker added: "There will be a cloud of smoke above Little Rock soon - of burned food, of anger and of shame that the world's richest nation couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery and lets Americans starve while they arrogantly observe petty regulations.
"Everyone is revolted by the chaotic shambles the US is making of this crisis. Guys from Unicef are walking around spitting blood.
"This is utter madness. People have worked their socks off to get food into the region.
"It is perfectly good Nato approved food of the type British servicemen have. Yet the FDA are saying that because there is a meat content and it has come from Britain it must be destroyed.
"If they are trying to argue there is a BSE reason then that is ludicrously out of date. There is more BSE in the States than there ever was in Britain and UK meat has been safe for years."
The Ministry of Defence said: "We understand there was a glitch and these packs have been impounded by the US Department of Agriculture under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.
"The situation is changing all the time and at our last meeting on Friday we were told progress was being made in relation to the release of these packs. The Americans certainly haven't indicated to us that there are any more problems and they haven't asked us to take them back."
Food from Spain and Italy is also being held because it fails to meet US standards and has been judged unfit for human consumption.
And Israeli relief agencies are furious that thousands of gallons of pear juice are to be destroyed because it has been judged unfit.
The FDA said: "We did inspect some MREs (meals ready to eat) on September 13. They are the only MREs we looked at. There were 70 huge pallets of vegetarian MREs.
"They were from a foreign nation. We inspected them and then released them for distribution."

Catholic Church steps up campaign to oust Spanish government

Catholic Church steps up campaign to oust Spanish government

British forces break into Basra jail, Iraqis say - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com

British forces break into Basra jail, Iraqis say - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com

From the top of Arc de Triomphe


From the top of Arc de Triomphe
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Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies

Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies

Money, Money, Everywhere - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage - MSNBC.com

Money, Money, Everywhere - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage - MSNBC.com

Blogging for Traffic...

"When it's dark enough, you can see the stars." Charles A. Beard


Edith


Edith
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MSNBC anchor Lisa Daniels touted Bush "likeabil ... [Media Matters]

MSNBC anchor Lisa Daniels touted Bush "likeabil ... [Media Matters]

Progress in Iraq?/The GOP's Favorite Statesman-Pitbull [UPDATED]

David Corn

JohnKerry.com - Senator John Kerry's Speech at Brown University

JohnKerry.com - Senator John Kerry's Speech at Brown University

Blogger Thought: Clinton nor Kerry should be trusted.

village voice > news > NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan by Sarah Ferguson

village voice > news > NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan by Sarah Ferguson

Wash. Post again downplayed ex-FEMA director Br ... [Media Matters]

Wash. Post again downplayed ex-FEMA director Br ... [Media Matters]

WSJ 's Taranto offered no backup to his claim t ... [Media Matters]

WSJ 's Taranto offered no backup to his claim t ... [Media Matters]

chomsky.info : What's New

chomsky.info : What's New

Blogger Thoughts: As long as Chomsky misses the biggest story of our Century (so far), the Truth of 9/11, his presence is pathetic.

News Hounds: How Long Can Hemmer Keep Actually Reporting the News?

News Hounds: How Long Can Hemmer Keep Actually Reporting the News?

Tell me how great Bloomberg is now:Cindy Sheehan arrested

Update: 8:54 p.m.
CINDY not arrested. just went down there and talked to a few people who are still there. No one connected to cindy is there atm but the several people I talked to all say cindys people grabbed her as the police moved in and shuffled her off.she spoke for 2 minutes and exactly as she was finishing a group of police who had been waiting behind her moved in and grabbed the events organizer, a guy called Zool(sp?)He yelled 'I'm being arrested, I'm being arrested'.Cindy stepped or was moved aside by people travelling with her and quickly taked away from Union square BY HER OWN PEOPLE.Again I have no names but this is the recollecion of several people now at the camp casey tent in Union Square.One woman said Cindy has another speaking engangement tonight and that seems to be moving forward as planned.Charlie Maguire Homepage 09.19.05 - 5:13 pm #

THE NEWS BLOG

TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- Saddam's Revenge

TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- Saddam's Revenge

Sirotablog: Congress Refusing To Increase Fuel Efficiency

Sirotablog: Congress Refusing To Increase Fuel Efficiency

Blogger Thoughts: I don't have time at the moment to compose the rebuttal, but here Sirota is giving so-called Libs a bad name.

War and Piece: The NYT Select thing is a total catastrophe

War and Piece:

ProfessorBainbridge.com: Powerline, Bill, Hillary, and the Levers of Power

ProfessorBainbridge.com: Powerline, Bill, Hillary, and the Levers of Power: "make it in such a hyperbolic fashion that they lose a lot of credibility. "

ProfessorBainbridge.com: Moore on the GOP New Deal

ProfessorBainbridge.com: Moore on the GOP New Deal

From the WSJ:
The GOP's New New Deal The bill for Katrina may fall due next November. BY STEPHEN MOORE Monday, September 19, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
There's an old adage that no one in Washington can tell the difference between $1 million and $1 billion. Seldom has that Beltway learning disability been more vividly demonstrated than in the weeks since Katrina.
When President Bush announced last Thursday that the feds would take a lead role in the reconstruction of New Orleans, he in effect established a new $200 billion federal line of credit. To put that $200 billion in perspective, we could give every one of the 500,000 families displaced by Katrina a check for $400,000, and they could each build a beach front home virtually anywhere in America.
This flood of money comes on the heels of a massive domestic spending build-up in progress well before Katrina traveled its ruinous path. Federal spending, not counting the war in Iraq, was growing by 7% this year, which came atop the 30% hike over Mr. Bush's first term. Republicans were already being ridiculed as the Grand Old Spending Party by taxpayer groups. Their check-writing binge in response to the hurricane only confirmed, as conservative leader Paul Weyrich put it, that "the GOP, once the party of small government, has lost its bearings and the Republican establishment doesn't seem to get the message that the grass roots of the party is enraged."
Congressman Todd Aiken of Missouri complains that Congress was forced to vote on the $62 billion first installment of funds "even though we knew a lot of the money may go to waste." Mr. Aiken and several dozen other House conservatives proposed an amendment to the $62 billion hurricane relief bill that would offset at least some of the emergency spending by cutting other government programs a meager 2.5 cents out of every dollar that federal agencies spend.
Was the amendment defeated? No. The Republican leadership would not even allow it to come to a vote, on the grounds that there was no waste which could be easily identified and cut.
Dozens of other reasonable proposals to offset Katrina's tidal wave of deficit spending have been similarly repelled. Mike Pence of Indiana suggested a one-year delay on the multitrillion dollar new prescription drug benefit for senior citizens. For 220 years, seniors have managed without this give-away; one more year of waiting would hardly be an act of cruelty. It would save $40 billion, but there were no takers. Then there was the well-publicized idea by Republicans and several Democrats in Congress to cut $25 billion for bike paths, train-station renovations, nature trails, parking garages, auto museums and 6,000 other such pork projects in the just-enacted highway law. It was torpedoed by the powerful committee chairmen who patched this abominable bill together in the first place.

It's only been 10 days since reconstruction funds were voted out of Congress, but there are already stories of misspending. For example, the Louis Vuitton store reported selling two monographed luxury handbags for $800 each, both paid for by women with FEMA's $2,000 emergency disaster relief debit cards.
Rapacious trial lawyers are already on the hunt rounding up Katrina's victims to unleash a barrage of multimillion dollar lawsuits. Now they have been empowered by Congress to finance these lawsuits against taxpayers . . . with taxpayer dollars.
The government has just allocated $250 million for "counseling and legal services." After 9/11, the federal government authorized tens of millions of dollars for "counseling" to traumatized families of the victims. A Republican Study Committee audit discovered that millions went for "peace" and "diversity" workshops, a "yearlong celebration of trees, gardens and other healing places," theater workshops, anger-management classes and multiculturalism programs to discuss "who we are and why we are here." (Isn't that what churches are for?)
Politicians from seemingly every congressional district appear to be elbowing their way to the orgy table for a slice of this $200-billion pie. At last count, 12 governors declared their states emergency disaster areas, and thus eligible for federal aid. Iowa, Michigan and Utah, for example, states nowhere near the Hurricane, are lining up for disaster relief funds.
Conspicuously missing from the post-Katrina spending debate is a question for some brave soul in Congress to ask, What is the appropriate and constitutional role here for the federal government? Before the New Deal taught us that the federal government is the solution to every malady, most congresses and presidents would have concluded that the federal government's role was minimal. One of our greatest presidents, Democrat Grover Cleveland, vetoed an appropriation for drought victims because there was no constitutional authority to spend for such purposes. Today he would be ridiculed by Ted Kennedy as "incompassionate."
We all want to see New Orleans rebuilt, but it does not follow that this requires more than $100 billion in federal aid. Chicago was burned to the ground in 1871; San Francisco was leveled by an earthquake in 1906; and in 1900 Galveston, Texas, was razed by a hurricane even more ferocious than Katrina. In each instance, these proud cities were rebuilt rapidly and to even greater glory--with hardly any federal money.

Alas, in the world of compassionate conservatism, the quaint notion of limited federal power has fallen to the wayside in favor of an ethic that has Uncle Sam as first, second and third responder to crisis. FEMA, despite its woeful performance, will grow in size and stature. So will the welfare state. Welcome to the new New Dealism of the GOP.
Both political parties are now willing and eager to spend tax dollars as if they were passing out goody-bags to grabby four-year-olds at a birthday party. The Democrats are already forging their 2006 and 2008 message: We will spend just as many trillions of dollars as Republicans, but we will spend them better than they do. After witnessing the first few Republican misappropriations for Hurricane Katrina, the Democrats may very well be right.
Mr. Moore is senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal and a member of its editorial board.

Leiter Reports: Why the "Intelligent Design" Con Plays So Well

Leiter Reports: Why the "Intelligent Design" Con Plays So Well

Monterey County Herald | 09/18/2005 | Boat owners say they were fearful during Coast Guard search

Monterey County Herald | 09/18/2005 | Boat owners say they were fearful during Coast Guard search

Nightmare Racism and Open Call for Revolution: Alex Jones Reports on Mexican Independence Day in Austin, Texas

Nightmare Racism and Open Call for Revolution: Alex Jones Reports on Mexican Independence Day in Austin, Texas

Humint Events Online: 9/11 and Physical Evidence

Humint Events Online: 9/11 and Physical Evidence

Blogger Thought: Please Read! After a quick glance, I only have one qualm: I'm not sure it's a fair claim that M. Ruppert is a disinfo artist or that he said to avoid the physical evidence.

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Bill Clinton's Muddled Attempt to Own the Middle | The Huffington Post

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Bill Clinton's Muddled Attempt to Own the Middle | The Huffington Post

greatscat!: Jeebus, how long is this a defense for repub incompetence?

greatscat!: Jeebus, how long is this a defense for repub incompetence?

Condi wants to end foreign interference...by others, not us

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: "Condi wants to end foreign interference...by others, not us "

An emotional moment and a misunderstanding - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com

An emotional moment and a misunderstanding - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com

Blogger: Glad the news is being posted. This needed to be exposed.

New Orleans Suspends Reopening of City

BREITBART.COM - Just The News

Friends and Allies (Media Tricks for Repubs)

Eschaton

Salon.com - Daou Report: confluence of blogs, media, and Democratic leadership exposes the real Bush and shatters the conventional wisdom

Salon.com - Daou Report

Rove: Perhaps he is a crisis construction manager, but not the kind they are saying.

Eschaton

Think Progress � Livingston: The Deficit is All Clinton�s Fault

Think Progress � Livingston: The Deficit is All Clinton�s Fault

Limbaugh, Friday:

Eschaton

Today he was arrested on a three count indictment.

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives

Wallace labeled Doctor Zhivago "a little commie ... [Media Matters]

Wallace labeled Doctor Zhivago "a little commie ... [Media Matters]

Gonzales the Horrible

Crooks and Liars

Rush Limbaugh: Can he Read?

Crooks and Liars

UN Foundation President Calls for Bill O'Reilly's Public Apology

Crooks and Liars

The Common Ills: Democracy Now: Hugo Chavez & Jess Jackson; NYC Indymedia: "Police forcibly break up Cindy Sheehan rally" (Pete Dolack)

The Common Ills: Democracy Now: Hugo Chavez & Jess Jackson; NYC Indymedia: "Police forcibly break up Cindy Sheehan rally" (Pete Dolack)

The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid

The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid

Blogger Thoughts: I'm not throwing my support behind Krugman or against on this one. It would be a clear benefit if Krugman would talk about the Truth of 9/11 and not waste time in areas where he can be refuted and categorized as anti-Bush, anti-Conservative.

Freerepublic Lies: CLINTON: KATRINA A "POSITIVE" THING

CLINTON: KATRINA A "POSITIVE" THING

The quote shown in freerepublic is an outrageous lie. Here's the proof.

THE BRAD BLOG: "Sham Baker/Carter Election Reform Commission Releases Report"

THE BRAD BLOG: "Sham Baker/Carter Election Reform Commission Releases Report"

THE BRAD BLOG: "STOP JAMES BAKER, III FROM DOING IT AGAIN"

THE BRAD BLOG: "STOP JAMES BAKER, III FROM DOING IT AGAIN"

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Al-Qaeda claims London bombings

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Al-Qaeda claims London bombings

Blogger Thought: Pure BS
7/7 London

The American Street � Blog Archive � �Shades of Gray� or �Let�s just all stop being jerks, OK?�

The American Street � Blog Archive � �Shades of Gray� or �Let�s just all stop being jerks, OK?�

Dick Cheney Speaks!

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

The Raw Story | Immigration memo intended for Rove arrives on Democrat's fax

The Raw Story | Immigration memo intended for Rove arrives on Democrat's fax

Bush insiders: "We're sunk"

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: "g"