SLAPPING THE SMIRK OFF BUSH'S FACE ON THE
WHITE HOUSE FRONT LAWN EVERY SINGLE SATURDAY

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Call your CongressCritters

http://house.gov

Tell them you want John Murtha for House Majority Leader, instead of Steny Hoyer!

Murtha will get us out of Bush's war for oil, war profiteering, and for Israeli expansion.

NANCY PELOSI AND STENY HOYER IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRO-WAR AIPAC NEO-CONS?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/06/18326885.php

THINK IT COULDN’T HAPPEN? … IT ALREADY HAS!

BOTH STENY HOYER OF MARYLAND AND NANCY PELOSI OF CALIFORNIA HAVE BEEN KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT AIPAC MEETINGS. BOTH HAVE TAKEN LARGE PRO-ISRAEL, PRO-WAR PAC CONTRIBUTIONS. BOTH HAVE PLEGED ALLEGENCE TO APARTHEID ISRAEL. NEITHER DESERVES YOUR VOTE. VOTE THEM OUT IN NOVEMBER 2006! REPLACE THEM WITH PROGRESSIVE ANTI-WAR CANDIDATES!

AIPAC IS MARKED BY CORRUPTION, INFLUENCE PEDDLING AND FEDERAL PRISON TERMS.

The Israeli lobby AIPAC counts on your ignorance.
The next Neo-con driven war, against Iran, may be the deadliest and costliest yet.

Keep an eye on Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barbara Mikulski too, all of whom have recently spoken to the criminal AIPAC organization.

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There can be no end to violence as long as the European and American invaders of Palestine

a) refuse to recognize the right of Palestine to exist.
b) refuse to renounce violence.
c) continue on a course of brutal repression and genocide.

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“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty”

Howard Zinn 

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Published on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 by the Associated Press
US Often Uses Security Council Veto for Israel
by Deborah Hastings

UNITED NATIONS - France last cast a lone veto in 1976, over a resolution to recognize the tiny island of Mayotte as part of the newly independent state of Comoros.

For the United States, it was three months ago, over a resolution condemning violence in the Middle East, specifically the killing of U.N. employees by Israeli soldiers and the destruction of a U.N. warehouse filled with food for needy Palestinians.

The power to veto, held by an exclusive five-member club of the Security Council, allows the world’s most powerful nations to shape international peace and security.

But in the crisis over Iraq, France says it will veto current war plans, even if the European nation must go it alone, and even with U.S. leaders breathing down the necks of tired and bickering council members.

On the 15-member council, France, the United States, China, Russia and Britain constitute the privileged and permanent members possessing veto power.

That power, diplomats say, can also provide a bully pulpit for rewarding friends and punishing enemies. In the United Nations’ 58-year history, the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation, have used the veto 117 times – most coming during Cold War decades.

The United States is second with 73. Since 1990, America has cast more Security Council vetoes than any country, many of them favoring Israel, a longtime ally.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0311-10.htm

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Let the

War Crimes Trials Begin

Thanks Ted Rall

November 10th, 2006 2:51 pm
Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse

A lawsuit in Germany will seek a criminal prosecution of the outgoing Defense Secretary and other U.S. officials for their alleged role in abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo

By Adam Zagorin / Time Magazine

Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Article in TIME Magazine

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Beware the 

Blue Dog!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Democrats

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I’ve bookmarked this one. It’s precious. I should frame it:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/469781p-395191c.html

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NANCY PELOSI AND STENY HOYER IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRO-WAR AIPAC NEO-CONS?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/06/18326885.php

THINK IT COULDN’T HAPPEN? … IT ALREADY HAS!

BOTH STENY HOYER OF MARYLAND AND NANCY PELOSI OF CALIFORNIA HAVE BEEN KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT AIPAC MEETINGS. BOTH HAVE TAKEN LARGE PRO-ISRAEL, PRO-WAR PAC CONTRIBUTIONS. BOTH HAVE PLEGED ALLEGENCE TO APARTHEID ISRAEL. NEITHER DESERVES YOUR VOTE. VOTE THEM OUT IN NOVEMBER 2006! REPLACE THEM WITH PROGRESSIVE ANTI-WAR CANDIDATES!

AIPAC IS MARKED BY CORRUPTION, INFLUENCE PEDDLING AND FEDERAL PRISON TERMS.

The Israeli lobby AIPAC counts on your ignorance.
The next Neo-con driven war, against Iran, may be the deadliest and costliest yet.

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Remember the 

Beit Hanoun Massacre

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EVEN EX-REPUBLICANS ARE SPEAKING OUT 

"Since 2003, President Bush has laid out nine different plans for victory in Iraq, none of them serious and none of them workable. And most seriously, this incompetence has hindered our ability to fight international terror,"

Jim Webb, 

former Republican, 

who was President Reagan's Navy secretary

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Iran disaster warning

By William S. Lind

An attack on Iran will not be an invasion with ground troops. We don’t have
enough of those left to invade Ruritania. It will be a “package” of air and
missile strikes, by U.S. forces or Israel. – The Democrats taking either or both
Houses of Congress, if it happens, will not make any difference. They would
rather have the Republicans start and lose another war than prevent a national
disaster. Politics comes first and the country second.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15568.htm

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http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/11/us_to_lift_ban_.html

“Concern about leftist victories in Latin America has prompted President Bush to quietly grant a waiver that allows the United States to resume training militaries from 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries,” USA TODAY’s Barbara Slavin reports today. “The administration hopes the training will forge links with countries in the region and blunt a leftward trend.”

The training ban, “originally designed to pressure countries into exempting U.S. soldiers from war crimes trials,” has caused the United States to lose influence in the region, military officials tell Slavin. Read the full story to learn which countries will get the waiver; Venezuela and Cuba aren’t among them.

Public reaction appears limited so far. The School of the Americas Watch, which monitors and protests the U.S. military programs that have controversially trained Latin American military groups for decades, plans a large demonstration this month to protest the change and call for an end to the training.

School of the Americas Watch

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Support is growing for impeachment for Bush and Cheney

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/10/1426234

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http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=62973

The voters have sent a clear message. No more wars. So, that leaves Israel to start the war in Iran.

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of
President George W. Bush
and
Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. – - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

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http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110806EA.shtml


By Simon Boyle
The Guardian UK
Wednesday 08 November 2006

Could “wild laws” protecting all the Earth’s community – including animals, plants, rivers and ecosystems – save our natural world? The 21 species of albatross are some of the world’s most majestic birds. An adult has a wingspan of up to 3.5 metres and can circumnavigate the world in a single flight. Yet each year, 100,000 of them are killed by longline fishing, where nets up to 80 miles long with thousands of hooks are towed by fishing boats catching birds as well as fish. As a consequence of this indiscriminate slaughter, 19 of the 21 species are under threat of extinction. The solution, as shown by the RSPB, is relatively simple and includes weighting the lines so they sink faster, and laying the lines at night, when the albatrosses are not feeding. Thanks to the work of the RSPB, changes are now under way. However, there is no law that protects these birds or looks after their interests. They can be slaughtered without a second thought. But a body of legal opinion is proposing what are being called “wild laws”, which would speak for birds and animals, and even rivers and nature. One of the first was introduced in September, when a community of about 7,000 people in Pennsylvania, in the US, adopted what is called Tamaqua Borough Sewage Sludge Ordinance, 2006. It was hardly an event to set the world alight, except for two things: it refuses to recognise corporations’ rights to apply sewage sludge to land, but it recognises natural communities and ecosystems within the borough as “legal persons” for the purposes of enforcing civil rights. According to Thomas Linzey, the lawyer from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft it, this is historic. Imagine if it happened here. Fish, trees, fresh water, or any elements of the environment, would be recognised as having legal rights. Local communities threatened with a damaging development would be able to act to protect their environment by asserting fundamental rights on behalf of the environment, instead of fighting losing battles against landowners’ property rights.