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Mount Washington Cam
On the summit of Mount Washington.

http://www.mountwashington.org/cam/north/index.php
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Visitor info... The automated news feeds on this website are constantly changing.  This site's hand posted news headlines and stories change throughout the week. When adding a story mid week, I don't place the new story on the top or the bottom of this page, but rather somewhere in the middle.  (Yes, I like to be different:)  About once a week, (Tuesday morning if all goes well) I archive all hand posted stories to a new archive page.
Archived News Story Home Page

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In addition to news feeds and local news links, we are the first business in Northern NY, to add links to most major U.S.A. news sources and links to several Daily Newspapers from all around the World.  After all, if you really want to know what is going on in the world, you had better be reading more than one country's news headlines. 
 Anything less is not full coverage news.

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For Local Weather Etc...
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W.L. Swarts For Congress
Novelist and political columnist W.L. Swarts is running against John McHugh in New York's 23rd District for the United States House of Representatives.

Read the speech W.L. delivered by clicking here!

http://www.wlswarts.com/
Editor's Note: After email exchanges and a nice phone conversation my wife and I had with W.L. Swarts on 8/9/2005, I must say... We sure hope Mr. McHugh will be forced into retiring as our congressmen in November 2006.  After several exchanges with John McHugh, he has make it perfectly clear that he doesn't listen to or care what his constituency thinks. W.L. Swarts on the other hand, wants the input of the people like it is suppose to be in America.
Good Luck WL Swarts, we need a Congressmen like you !
Sincerely, Rev. Neil Colton
( In case any of you are wondering like we were at first, WL aren't Mr. Swarts' initials, WL is his legal first name, like 'BJ Hunnicut' on the TV show M.A.S.H. :)
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Save the Veterans' Memorial Forest !
ACAL News
(To learn more, please visit the link below:)
http://acalnews.org/
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U.S.A. And World News
 Please use the auto news feeds and other links on this page for your up to the minute news, not just the stories I pick and post.
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Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable
Reaching out to the Sunni Arab community, Iraqi leaders called for a timetable for the withdrawal of US-led forces and said Iraq's opposition had a "legitimate right" of resistance.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205A.shtml
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Seymour M. Hersh:
Where Is the Iraq War Headed Next?

As the debate over troop reductions continues, the covert war in Iraq has expanded in recent months to Syria. A composite American Special Forces team, known as a SMU, for "special-mission unit," has been ordered, under stringent cover, to target suspected supporters of the Iraqi insurgency across the border...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805Y.shtml
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Tired of Being Lied to?
Modern History You Can't Afford to Ignore

Part 1 of a 3-Part Series - Maureen Farrell - 11/21/2005
A couple years ago, historian Chalmers Johnson predicted that thanks to the "entrenched interests" of the military-industrial complex, the United States can look forward to a future of perpetual war, increased propaganda, fewer Constitutional rights, and a bloated executive branch. America, he warned, "will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of 1787" unless there is a "revolutionary rehabilitation of American democracy."...
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/05/11/far05001.html
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In Terror Cases, Bush Law Is Law
When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced last week that Jose Padilla would be transferred to the federal justice system from military detention, he said almost nothing about the standards the administration used in deciding whether to handle a terror suspect as an enemy combatant or as a common criminal, to hold him indefinitely without charges in a military facility or to charge him in court.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705A.shtml
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"No Iraqi Left Me to Die on a Roof"
The Nation - Dave Zirin - Perhaps a far more fitting and true tribute to Ali was on display at an antiwar demonstration last month, where an older woman of African descent held up a sign that read simply, "No Iraqi ever left me to die on a roof." This was a direct reference to a quote attributed to Ali that "No Vietnamese ever called me 'Nigger.'"
http://pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3741
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US Military Admits It Burned Bodies, Taunted
The US military admitted on Saturday that its soldiers in Afghanistan had burned the bodies of two dead Taliban guerrillas and taunted insurgents about it, claiming the desecration was for 'hygienic reasons'...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705Z.shtml
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Bush Administration Breaks Record
Administration Borrows more from Foreign Nations
than Previous 42 Presidents Combined

A release from John Tanner (D-TN)
Washington, D.C. - President George W. Bush and the current Administration have now borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined.

Throughout the first 224 years (1776-2000) of our nation's history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions according to the U.S. Treasury Department. In the past four years alone (2001-2005), the Bush Administration has borrowed a staggering $1.05 trillion.

"The seriousness of this rapid and increasing financial vulnerability of
our country can hardly be overstated," said Rep. John Tanner (D-TN)

http://www.dccc.org/stakeholder/archives/003836.html
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Frank Rich: Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ...
Frank Rich sees the US has grown to be an angry country which has learned the hard way that it can no longer afford to be without the truth about the Iraq war.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705Y.shtml
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Why the U.S. Must Stay in Iraq
There have been many reasons given for the war in Iraq, from weapons of mass destruction to the cause of freedom and democracy in the Middle East. But the one reason which continues to remain below the radar for most Americans is that the United States government is bankrupt...
http://stevemoyer.us/stayiraq.htm
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Paul Rockwell: How Do We Honor Our
 Fallen Troops in a Wrongful War?

Paul Rockwell reviews 'gold star peace mom' Cindy Sheehan's first book, Not One More Mothers Child, finding it an exposition of wartime propaganda and concluding there is no greater act of betrayal than to send young men and women to their deaths on the basis of fraud.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112605X.shtml
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Global Warming Proof
Carbon dioxide levels are now 27 percent higher than at any point in the last 650,000 years, according to research into Antarctic ice cores published on Thursday in Science...
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1124-climate.html
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Beware New Computer Worm - 11/24/2005
WASHINGTON—It's being called the worst computer worm of the year — a fast-spreading Internet threat that looks like an official email from the CIA or FBI but can leave your computer wide open to intruders.
The bogus email claims the U.S. government has discovered you visiting "illegal" websites and asks you to open an attachment to answer some official questions. If you do, your computer gets infected...
From The Toronto Star

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Peace, Earth & Justice News
http://pej.org/html/index.php
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Abramoff Probe Spreads to White House, 4 Lawmakers
The US Justice Department's probe of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is broader than previously thought, examining his dealings with four lawmakers, former and current congressional aides and two former Bush administration officials.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112605Z.shtml
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Montana Senator Burns Part of Abramoff Probe
The scope of a US Justice Department investigation of indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is wider than previously believed and now includes his dealings with US Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Montana.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112605A.shtml
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Survival Links
Rhema's Terrorism, Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Resources I Wilderness Survival I Survival I.Q. I Wild Food I
Edible Wild Kitchen I Foraging the Edible Wild I Food and Waterin an Emergency I Disaster Preparedness Guide I
Root Cellars I Home Storage of Fruits and Vegetables in Root Cellars I Root Cellar Storage I Emergency Survival List I
~Alternative Energy~
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Wrapping in White Light
A powerful tool to protect you and your loved ones.
http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/creator/wrappinginlight.htm
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On September 18, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the meeting, at the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia where our Constitutional Republic was formed, Mrs. Powel directly asked him, “Well, Doctor, what have we got?  A republic or a monarchy?”  Mr. Franklin responded,
 “A republic, if you can keep it.”
This has never been more important than today.  Can we keep it?  We can, only if we are willing to learn how it works and only if we hold the government accountable to the law!
http://www.teamlaw.org/
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"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these
Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--
That to secure these Rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,
that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and organizing
its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness" . . .



(Editor's Note: The origin of the picture above, is unknown.  I received it in an email and to the best of my knowledge, it's public domain.  If you created the picture above and you don't want it on my website, please send me an email and I will remove it.)


http://suetheterrorists.net/

Editor's Note: The link above has been on this home page for most of the year because, G. W. Bush, Dick Cheney and most of their cabinet are being sued for 7 billion dollars by the families of 9/11, for helping to plan and assure that the 9/11 attacks were carried out as planned. This case first went before a U.S. judge on 1/3/2005, and it's currently being appealed in the 9th circuit court in Ca... Regardless of what political party you favor, I feel when the president of the U.S.A. is being sued for 7 billion dollars, it's the medias obligation to bring these facts to the American people.
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Wilkerson Continues Assault on Bush, Cheney
A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and Pentagon officials who argued that "the President of the United States is all-powerful" and the Geneva Conventions irrelevant...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905Z.shtml
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Ramsey Clark
The Latest Victim Of Verbal Terrorism

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/
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The Poway Mafia - 12/1/2005
...The bribe money Cunningham (and others?) took is insignificant. What matters is the strong possibility that the Poway-based Wilkes company strip-mined the DOD for the better part of a billion dollars without actually providing the goods and services that would justify such a taxpayer investment...
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
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Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705X.shtml
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From www.bartcop.com/
Bart, BYU professor named Steven Young was on Tucker Carlson's show.
He's a physics professor who wrote a 25-page paper that said it was more likely
that the World Trade Center buildings, especially Building 7, were blown up.
Tucker refused to run the video the professor brought with him.
When people wrote to complain, Carlson told them to leave the country.
You can see comments and the video at http://www.911truth.org/
www.bartcop.com/
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U.S. Congress Must Impeach
the Vice President for Torture

Democratic Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has sent his following letter of Monday, 21 November 2005 to Republican Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), Chairman of the U.S. House Government Reform Committee, which demands accountability of Republican Vice President for Torture Dick Cheney and a deep Congressional investigation of all big lies of Cheney cunningly planted in the corrupt, sycophantic, Corporate Media to justify illegal Republican Wars that have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, Arabs, Afghans, Pakistanis and Muslims, and killed thousands of American soldiers in illegally occupied Iraq, unlawfully occupied Afghanistan, military occupied Pakistan and elsewhere in the world:
Dear Chairman Davis...

http://adeebmedia.blogspot.com/2005/11/impeach-vp-for-torture.html
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Jason Leopold: Fitzgerald Targets Rove Again
Continuing his two-year-old investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a covert CIA agent, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week that could lead to a criminal indictment being handed up against Karl Rove...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805Z.shtml
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Pro-war parents:
How to get your kid into uniform

This one is for you parents who think our fight in Iraq is a really swell idea...
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/07/18/bethcol0.htm
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Veterans Group Issues
"Declaration of Impeachment"

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
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General Strike Grounds Italy to a Halt
Public transportation ground to a halt, public offices shut down and thousands rallied across Italy on Friday as part of a general strike against the government's 2006 budget...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505Q.shtml
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Email Forward Of The Week !
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NOT A NEWS STORY... OR IS IT ?
Love and Light
The titles say it all.
Please treat yourself and everyone you know to these absolutely wonderful and beautiful, short online movies.
I can't say enough about them except that you you will be glad you did!
http://www.youarelovemovie.com
http://www.lightmovie.com
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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes
on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,
 guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

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Editor's Note: How do the doctors in M.A.S.H. type hospitals deal with wounds like this everyday and how is the Bush Administration able to keep you the American people from seeing the real truths of this illegal war ?
WARNING: War picture link below very graphic in nature ! !
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6064/04042hj.jpg

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(Origin often unknown - Received in emails.)
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Back To The News
Editor's Note: Why is this news site here at this point in history ?  Because I give 150% of my support to our American soldiers.  How can I give 150% when 100% is all that is mathematically or humanly possible ?  That's easy... Just take half of the potential support away from the illegal Administration that wrongfully put them in harms way, and give that much needed support to our soldiers !
[Rev. Neil Colton]
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Bill Moyers Has His Say
Bill Moyers became the central figure in absentia in the controversy surrounding former Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson. It was Tomlinson who pointed to Moyers' NOW newscast on PBS as a chief reason for his efforts to bring "balance" to public broadcasting by adding conservative shows. Moyers has since left NOW and is currently president of the Schumann Center for Media & Democracy. He spoke with B&C's John Eggerton in the wake of a CPB Inspector General report concluding Tomlinson had violated the law by dealing directly with a programmer during the creation of a show to balance Moyers' program.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805Q.shtml
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Hidden Risks of Teflon-Like Chemical Raised
 by Documents, Says Company Insider

DuPont Co. hid studies showing the risks of a Teflon-related chemical used to line candy wrappers, pizza boxes, microwave popcorn bags and hundreds of other food containers, according to internal company documents and a former employee.
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9275

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German Intelligence Slams Bush Admin. on Pre-War Intel
The Iraqi informant's German handlers say they had told US officials that his information was 'not proven,' and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112005X.shtml
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How the Pentagon Justifies Phosphorous Bombs on Fallujah
In Post Saddam Iraq, There are No Civilians !
Now that the Iraqi government has been forced to investigate the US military's criminal use of phosphorus incendiary bombs during the November 2004 assault on Fallujah, it is important to note how slippery the Pentagon is being about its claim not to have used this dreadful weapon against "civilians."
As I wrote in Counterpunch on Nov. 13, 2004, during the assault by the US military on this doomed city of 300,000:
In a grotesque and blatant war crime, the U.S. began this assault by first encircling Fallujah, and then declaring that it would allow women, children and old people to leave, but not "men and boys of fighting age" (whatever that may be). Several hundred people in a group of families trying to flee the city over the weekend were actually detained, and then, after allowing the women and children to go, U.S. troops tested the men's hands for gunpowder traces. Finding none, they nonetheless sent them back to the doomed city to face their fate...

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17962&hd=0&size=1&l=e
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Joke Break !

THIS IS A JOKE,  IT'S NOT A NEWS STORY, OR IS IT ?
The Living Will
A man and his wife were sitting in the living room and he said to her, "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle.  If that ever happens, just pull the plug."
His wife got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all of his beer !
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The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this Christmas season. This isn't for any religious reasons, they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the Nation's capitol. There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.
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(For more jokes, please visit our jokes page.)
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Back To The News
May 19, 2005 is the 1,346th day since the attacks of 9/11.
That is the same length of time from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the end of WWII
on V-J Day (Dec 7, 1941 to Aug 24, 1945).
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"Duke" Cunningham Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty in US District Court to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud, and tax evasion for underreporting his income in 2004...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805X.shtml
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Who Is Corrupt, Evil and/or Ignorant Enough
To Still Like Bush In Your Home State ?


http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/11/new-map.html
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US Classified White Phosphorus
 as
'Chemical Weapon'

Sigfrido Ranucci, who made the documentary for the RAI television channel aired two weeks ago, said that a US intelligence assessment had characterized WP after the first Gulf War as a "chemical weapon."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305Q.shtml
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Pentagon Admits Use of White Phosphorus on Iraqis
Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that US troops used white phosphorus as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable material was used against civilians.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111605Z.shtml

Editor's Note: Well they got the first half of the story above right, but the second half is a blatant lie!
The Bush Administration has proven to be by far the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world today. And what I find most disturbing about that FACT is, unlike what we were taught in American schools, our CIA, FBI, and/or Federal Marshals haven't stopped them yet, which with the evidence we have already, it's their sworn duty to do. We as Americans have allowed our leaders to use chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, torture and everything else we are said to be fighting to stop other countries from doing.
(sadly there is no way as a nation that we could be less Christian than that) So in the end... The most powerful country in the world has sunk lower in it's treatment of mankind then ANY other country in the world, including those we are at war with, because they MIGHT have the ability to do someday, what  we as a nation are doing right now !
Proud to be an American ? No, not at all right now and I won't be until Bush, Cheney and friends are all in jail for their crimes.  And the Buck doesn't stop there either.  Because every Congressman and Senator who has voted for these actions and these illegal wars, is also guilty of undermining our constitution, which I might add, is an act of treason !

[RNC]
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From General Wesley Clark
The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces...
http://www.securingamerica.com/

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***** In Today's America There Is A More Powerful Act Than Voting Blue...
And That's Buying Blue !
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You may have voted blue, but every day you unknowingly help dump millions of dollars into the conservative war chest. By purchasing products and services from companies that donate heavily to conservatives, we have been compromising our own interests as liberals and progressives.


BuyBlue.org is a concerted effort to lift the veil of corporate patronage, so consumers can make informed buying decisions that coincide with their principles.

Currently, we are developing an extensive and interactive website where users will be able to monitor corporate activity in real time. We cannot do this alone; we need an army of Blue buyers to be the eyes and ears of this movement. All we have to do is put our money where our mouth is to make it profitable to be ethical.

Our collective buying power WILL make a difference, and we WILL be heard.
http://www.buyblue.org/

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Some Thoughts
And the Nintendo generation is all part of their plan !
Welcome to modern day slavery... Where the draft is coming back, the new war machines run with controls much like Nintendo, Where it takes 2-3 incomes to keep an average house running...
What is modern day slavery you might ask ? It's when and where one income from one 40 hour work week will not cover your cost of living. Food, rent, medical, dental, the cloths you wear, insurance, a car, taxes, etc.. ALL OF IT. Where we buy cheap from companies that don't pay their help enough to get off of food stamps unless they have more than one income. Where both parents are working while the TV and video games do the babysitting and big brother is deciding what they should see or play. Where family closeness all but disappears because everyone in the family is too involved with self preservation to see the big picture. Followed by war, lots of wars, a thinning of the herd as some would say,
separating the rich from the poor, and eventually....
More on Modern Day Slavery coming soon... We're living it, so we might as well talk about it.
[RNC]
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Quotes of The Week
"Following the leader is only as safe
as the leaders you choose to follow" !

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"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
[Theodore Roosevelt] - 1907

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"It is not enough to be compassionate; you must act".
[The Dalai Lama]
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"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments"
[Napoleon Bonaparte] French Emperor - 1769-1821
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"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor,
 so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms
and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."

[Aristotle]
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"Since 2001, it's been like living in 'Back to the Future II'... with Biff in charge."
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

[Susan B. Anthony] - 1896
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"Things would be a lot easier if I was a dictator."
[Governor George W. Bush- before he was President]

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"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."
[George H. W. Bush] - 4/26/99
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"I want to see to it that the truth prevail."
[George W. Bush] - 10/7/2003
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As Sy Hersh, a well know reporter put it:
 "The Democrats are living in fear, reporters are living in fear and all any of us
can do is to turn to the internet in search of the truth."
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"Remember, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted".
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New York State Facts - kids room



What is a Billion?
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one
advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into
perspective in one of its releases:
A billion seconds ago
- it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago - Jesus was alive
A billion hours ago-
our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago - was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the
rate that the Federal Government in Washington D.C. spends it.

Editor's Note:  A viewer wrote in on 6/29/2005, telling me the statement above was wrong.
 Here is what he had to say...

On your website you have a statement about what is a billion:
1 Billion Seconds ago it was 1973 not 1959
1 Billion Minutes ago Jesus had died and been risen for over 60 years
Depending on the Budget the 8hrs 20min might actually be a lot faster.
(The 8.333hrs is dependent on a yearly budget of 1.051 Trillion dollars)
His source: www.snopes.com

My Thoughts...
Since the annual budget that President Bush proposed for the up coming year is over 2.4 Trillion dollars... That would mean that our government is now spending your tax dollars at the rate of over 2 billion dollars every 8 hours !
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Despite what President Bush says, the war on Iraq is not over. The cost of this war to the American tax payer is going up every second. Since we can't put a price on human lives, we will just give you the figures in tax dollars that the American tax payers have paid as of right now. These figures were provided by the Costofwar.com website.

Cost of the War in Iraq
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