"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" . . .

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.
[RNC]
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FEMA Workers Arrested for Bribery
Two FEMA disaster assistance employees working in New Orleans were arrested yesterday on federal bribery charges, accused of accepting $10,000 each in exchange for letting a contractor submit inflated reports on the number of meals it was serving at a Hurricane Katrina relief base camp there.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012806Y.shtml
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Domestic Spying Foes Pushed Out of Bush Admin
Chances of securing or continuing any administration job are derailed when unitary executive powers and unrestricted support of war in Iraq are not given. Dissenters in the administration have come to be seen as the turncoats of national security.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012906Y.shtml
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Ronnie Dugger | Impeach or Indict Bush and Cheney
The Constitution is silent on whether a seated President and Vice President can be indicted, while in office, for crimes committed while they have held those offices.  Constitutional lawyers are congenitally prone to announcing that this cannot be done because it would disrupt the ongoing business of the government. According to Ronnie Drugger it is time to do it, if necessary absent impeachment, for exactly that reason - to disrupt the continuation of THIS government.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012806Z.shtml
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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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Abramoff Prosecutor Steps Down
The investigation of Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a surprising new turn on Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by President Bush.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012706J.shtml
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Hunger Strikers Close to Death
Despite force feeding by the American military, several hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay may be close to death.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012806X.shtml
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Marjorie Cohn | Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths
In a startling revelation, writes Marjorie Cohn, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some female American soldiers serving in Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013006J.shtml
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Veterans Group Issues
"Declaration of Impeachment"
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
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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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American Soldiers Acting Out Bush Administration Orders :-(
Documents Show Army Seized Wives as Tactic
The US Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, US military documents show. In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012706Q.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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Cindy Sheehan | What Really Happened
Cindy Sheehan: As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union address last night. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press (Shocker). So this is what really happened.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020106Z.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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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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'Suicide Seeds' Could Spell Death of Peasant Agriculture, UN Meeting Told
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0126-07.htm
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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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Email Forward Of The Week !.
NOT A NEWS STORY... OR IS IT ?
"All of this kayos is the direct cause of mans negativity, humanity will survive, but how much of this crap of our governments that we have to endure, we all need to learn to forgive and not judge, George needs to step down and quit acting like a King"

"We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
 President Woodrow Wilson

"It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. Perhaps the reason is that rich men are very clever at covering up what they do.": Andrew Greeley (Chicago Sun-Times, February 18, 2001):

"A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.": Harold Laski, (1930):

"The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favoured few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.": Thomas Jefferson (in his last letter, 1826):

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.":
Plutarch - Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 AD- 127 AD) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
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A Lesson In Political Science
DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful. Barbara Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows. Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk
the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses. Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine. Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk. They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are. While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch. Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have some vodka. You count them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two. You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private
parts. You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives
to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows. They go into hiding. They send audio tapes of their mooing.
BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow. The cow is schizophrenic. Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow. The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half. The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best looking one. Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for neither. Some people can't figure out how to vote at all. Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state
 tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows. They make real California cheese. Only five speak English.
Most are illegal. Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.
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Joke Break !
THIS IS A JOKE,  IT'S NOT A NEWS STORY, OR IS IT ?
Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. -
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I realize the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered. I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day: the driveway is flooded, the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, there is still only one check in my check book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.
Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent. Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!

(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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AP Exclusive: National ID, State Nightmare
An anti-terrorism law creating a national standard for all driver's licenses by 2008 isn't just upsetting civil libertarians and immigration rights activists.
State motor vehicle officials nationwide who will have to carry out the Real ID Act say its authors grossly underestimated its logistical, technological and financial demands.
In a comprehensive survey obtained by The Associated Press...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3583029.html
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New York Times Warns of Unrestrained Bush Powers
The New York Times flashes red lights on President Bush's unprecedented powers and the theory behind "signing statements," by which he hopes to trump the intent of legislation written by Congress...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011506Y.shtml
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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 ! *****
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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Quotes of The Week
"Following the leader is only as safe
as the leaders you choose to follow" !
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"You only have until a ship sinks to get the lifeboats into the water."
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"It is not enough to be compassionate; you must act".
[The Dalai Lama]
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"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
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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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"He who is not sure of his memory,
should not undertake the trade of lying."
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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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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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Definition of 'FINE'
"Freaked out
Insecure
Neurotic and
Emotional"
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