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Charity blames invaders for Iraq 'health disaster'

arah Left and agencies
Tuesday November 30, 2004

The US-led war in Iraq has created a healthcare disaster in a country where 20 years of war, mismanagement and sanctions had already left public health in a fragile state, a UK-based medical charity said today.

Medact reported that the health of Iraq's people had deteriorated since the 2003 invasion, both as a direct result of violence and through the collapse of medical facilities, public health provision and essential infrastructure such as water supplies. The report specifically blamed the tactics of the US-led occupying forces for exacerbating the country's health problems, particularly the decision to sideline the UN, which has traditionally handled humanitarian relief efforts.

Medact cited a nationwide survey of nearly 1,000 Iraqi households, published in the Lancet, as evidence that the war had caused around 100,000 deaths since the US and British invasion in April 2003. (more...)
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Interview with Jesse Jackson On Election Recount

November 30, 2004

Amy Goodman Interviews Jesse Jackson on Election Recount
By Democracy Now!, Rush Transcript

AMY GOODMAN: Reverend Jesse Jackson, what have you been doing in Ohio?

Why do you feel that a recount could change the outcome of the presidential election?

JESSE JACKSON: Well, this is November 30 -- 28 days later and the election has not been certified. The judge will not order a recount because there has not yet been a count. Therefore, we need a full and thorough federal investigation. For example, in the spring of the year, a provisional ballot, you could vote any place in the county. By September, by November, Secretary of State had shifted it to you only vote in the precinct, and with some precincts changing, it created big frustrations. So 155,000 ballots haven’t still been counted. There are many thousands not yet processed -- overcount and undercount. You have a case in Warren, Ohio where they declared a Homeland Security alert. I mean no building in Warren is over three stories high, yet they locked out the press and independent observers. Another case that I found to be astounding which I am sure Cliff can talk about, is a black woman, Ellen Connally ran for state Supreme Court judge. In Cuyahoga County, in Cleveland where she is best known, Kerry got 170,000 more votes. Elsewhere in the state, around Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Butler, Clermont, where she is least well-known, she got 190,000 more votes than Kerry. Now, that smells. We need a thorough investigation with forensic computer experts to see were there any tampering in those machines where there's no ability to do an audit trail. Then we need to consider the recount. We first need to have a count. (more...)
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The Original Bush Turkey Tour

BUSH TURKEY PHOTOS LEAKED
Previously Unpublished Images from Bush's Iraq Turkey Delivery
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and to view photos from other George W. Bush Turkey Tours
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Pro-Slavery States Voted For Bush In 2004

The states that were pro-slavery (see map at link below) before Civil War (1860-1865) almost all voted for Bush in 2004.
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Gregoire Calls for Hand Recount

KVEW 42 - http://www.kvewtv.com/

The Seattle Times: Local News: Rossi wins in recount of governors race (BY A MERE 42 VOTES)

The Seattle Times: Local News: Rossi wins in recount of governor's race: "Republican Dino Rossi won the election by just 42 votes over Democratic Attorney General Christine Gregoire. " (Washington State Governors race)

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Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps

November 23, 2004

by Maureen Farrell

"The greatest threat to truth today may well be from my profession." -- Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. While some in the mainstream media were finally paying attention to an important story as it was unfolding (rather than waiting three years, ala the New York Times), others were taking the usual safe and tired tact.

It all started on Monday, Nov. 7, when, inspired by a Cincinnati Enquirer story on how Warren County Ohio officials had "locked down" the administration building on election night and restricted open access to the vote count there, Keith Olbermann began reporting on voting irregularities across the country. "We have heard the message on the Voting Angst and will continue to cover it with all prudent speed," Olbermann later wrote on his blog, and sure enough, Countdown with Keith Olbermann doled out nightly nuggets -- not only concerning Votergate, but regarding the media itself. This exchange between Olbermann and Craig Crawford was especially satisfying: (more...)
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The Doll That Commemorates "Mission Accomplished"

Bush's air craft carrier stunt took place in May of 2003 where he proclaimed "mission accomplished" with a massive banner saying such behind him during his speech on the air craft carrier. After this speech/stunt hundreds upon hundreds of American troops died in battle in Iraq and thousands upon thousands of Iraqi people would have died as well (including countless amounts of civilians). Amazing that this doll is for sale in America. KB Toys link
Bush sends our troops into harms way pre-emptively for a war based at it's very essence on lies and deceit and then has a doll released honoring him and his disgraceful stunt?

What many parents will neglect to tell their kids about this man is the fact that he was AWOL. Otherwise known as a "chickenhawk". Click Here

Can you imagine the amount of American kids that will have watched this disgraceful clown on their television sets for eight straight years before he is out of office (unless impeached)? For the parents out there who are naive or ignorant and think George is just a swell guy and do not guide their children about what a disgrace this man is.. well we are looking at a massively screwed up and upcoming generation waiting in the wings..

All my opinions,
J.O.

Shout

"In violent times
You shouldn't have to sell your soul

In black and white
They really really ought to know

Those one track minds
That took you for a working boy

Kiss them goodbye
You shouldn't have to jump for joy
You shouldn't have to shout for joy"

(lyrics- Roland Orzabal)

CBS News - Iraq: The Uncounted

CBS News | Iraq: The Uncounted | November 22, 2004: "CBS) Approximately 300,000 American men and women have served at one time or another in Iraq.

Most will return to the United States more or less intact. But some come home the hard way - on a stretcher, bloody and broken.

And, as Correspondent Bob Simon says, there are few bloodier or more broken than Chris Schneider. " (more...)

GOP- Morals/Values/Ethics (Links)

Bill O'Reilly's little problem beyond spinning lie after lie after lie; Click Here

Rush Limbaugh's Drug Problem

Newt Gingrich; extra-marital affair while wife battles cancer and then divorces her

Video of George W. Bush flipping off camera long after he was a self-declared born again Christian

Dick Cheney tells Senator Patrick Leahy to "go f--k yourself" on the floor of the Senate

Study puts Iraqi civilian death toll at around 100,000 as of 10/29/04. The current Iraq war which was rushed into by Bush and co. even though Blix was pleading for another 2 months of inspections, but was kicked out (with all the other inspectors) makes me wonder if the death of 100,000 Iraqi civilians is in-line with GOP morals/values and ethics?

Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) and Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) canoodling on the floor of the US House of Representatives!


(I will be adding more to this post. Email me if you have other examples/suggestions). J.O.

Iraq Unrest May Delay Elections, Officials Warn

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Elections in Iraq scheduled to take place by Jan. 31 may be postponed by continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. " (more...)
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MSNBC - Bush focus of protests at summit in Chile

President joining other Pacific Rim leaders
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:04 p.m. ET Nov. 19, 2004

SANTIAGO, Chile - Police on Friday clashed with rock-throwing protesters demonstrating against President Bush's participation in a weekend summit of 21 Pacific Rim countries that they likened to a rich man’s club.

The street clashes market the fourth straight day of confrontations between police and protesters opposed to the two-day annual gathering of the leaders for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, hosted this year by Chile. (more...)
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'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida

November 18, 2004

There was something odd about the poll tapes.

A "poll tape" is the phrase used to describe a printout from an optical scan voting machine made the evening of an election, after the machine has read all the ballots and crunched the numbers on its internal computer. It shows the total results of the election in that location. The printout is signed by the polling officials present in that precinct/location, and then submitted to the county elections office as the official record of how the people in that particular precinct had voted. (Usually each location has only one single optical scanner/reader, and thus produces only one poll tape.) ... (more)
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Fleeing Falluja: Families speak out

"Thousands of Iraqis fled the city of Falluja in the weeks leading up to the assault on the city by US forces." (more...)
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Fleeing Falluja: Families speak out

Escape from Fallujah: refugees flood nearby towns

"Escape from Fallujah: refugees flood nearby towns
By Kim Sengupta in Babil
18 November 2004
While United States forces mount the final military operations to pacify Fallujah, the people of the devastated city have taken refuge in outlying towns, many of them huddled in misery, without adequate food, water, medicine and shelter." (more...)
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Fallujah Residents Emerge, Find 'City of Mosques' in Ruins (washingtonpost.com)

Fallujah Residents Emerge, Find 'City of Mosques' in Ruins
By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 18, 2004; Page A01
FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 17 -- The night the Americans came, Abu Saad hunkered in the little room at the back of his house in the center of the city, where he prayed that the bombs would not find him. He and his father, brother and nephew tried to drown the sound of the artillery with their prayers. Dear God, he chanted over and over, please protect us. " (more...)
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Inside Fallujah: one family's diary of terror - [Sunday Herald]

"Last week the US launched a major offensive on Fallujah using heavy artillery, bulldozers and tanks. The target was insurgents, but here one family reveals the horror of being caught in the conflict
By Dahr Jamail in Baghdad" (more...)
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UC Berkeley Study Questions Florida E-Vote Count

"A research team at UC Berkeley will report that irregularities
associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded
130,000 - 260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in
Florida in the 2004 presidential election." (more...)
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Cooking With Goss - The new CIA chief's shakeups are bad news. By Fred Kaplan

Nov. 17, 2004

What to make of Porter Goss and the turmoil at the Central Intelligence Agency? (more...)
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Deadly violence shakes Iraq

18/11/2004 - (SA)
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IRAQ: Aid still urgently needed in Fallujah - OCHA IRIN

FALLUJAH, 17 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - "Please tell them to come back, we don't have another person to help us, we need food and my children are sick, they have to try again," Rasha Omar, a mother of five in Fallujah, told IRIN after finding out that the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) couldn't deliver food to the city.
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Ship Of Fools

We're setting sail to the place on the map
From which no one has ever returned
Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool
And by the light of the crosses that burn
Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace
And the gold and the cotton and pearls
It's the place where they keep all the darkness you need
You sail away from the light of the world on this trip baby

You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow, yeh
You will pay tomorrow

Oh oh, save me, save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
Oh, save me, save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
I want to run and hide- right now

Avarice and greed
are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
Or drowning in the oceans of history
Traveling the world, you're in search of no good
But I'm sure you'll build your Sodom
like you knew you would
Using all the good people for your galley slaves
As your little boat struggles through the warning waves
But you don't pay

You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow, yeh,
You're gonna pay tomorrow oh

Oh oh save me, save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
Oh oh save me, save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
Where's it coming from. Oh where's it going to?
It's just a ship of fools

All aboard......

(Lyrics by Karl Wallinger; World Party (Private Revolution)
30 second audio sample from Amazon

Change to GOP rules would allow DeLay to keep post if indicted

11-17-04
BY SARAH FRANK
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - House Republicans voted Wednesday to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay by changing a party rule that likely would have forced him to step down if he is indicted in a Texas political corruption investigation."
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INDOlink - International News - Iraq Invasion Fueled Terrorism World-wide: Chirac

"Paris, Nov. 17 (NNN): French President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday questioned the United States invasion of Iraq saying he is 'not at all sure' the world has become safer with the removal from power of troubled Gulf leader Saddam Hussein." (more...)
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Many detained in Chile protests

BBC; Click Here: "Hundreds of students protesting against the Apec meeting in Chile and an upcoming visit by US President George W Bush have clashed with riot police. "

Putin Says Development of New Nuclear Systems Under Way in Russia - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

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Cast Away: Our Vanished Values by Michael Feingold

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The Peter Principle and the Neocon Coup

By Robert Scheer
The Los Angeles Times

Tuesday 16 November 2004

The bloodletting has begun.

I'm not referring to the latest attempt to reconquer Iraq, but rather the wholesale political revenge campaign being waged by the hard-liners in the Bush administration against anybody and everybody inside the government who challenged the way the second Persian Gulf war in a decade was marketed and run. (more...)
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Iraq Diaries: 800 Civilians Feared Dead in Fallujah

BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (IPS) - At least 800 civilians have been killed during the U.S. military siege of Fallujah, a Red Cross official estimates.

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Colin Powell's replacement.

-White House to 'gut' CIA (and become a partisan organization?)

WorkingForChange-White House to 'gut' CIA: "According to Newsday, 'The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Ladin...' "

| As The CIA Turns... | November 16, 2004

CBS News | As The CIA Turns... | November 16, 2004�11:25:21: "CBS/AP) Newly installed CIA Director Porter Goss is trying to calm the troops in the wake of resignations from three top agency officials in the past week. "

Fallujah Battered And Mostly Quiet After the Battle (washingtonpost.com)

By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 16, 2004; Page A13

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 15 -- Even the dogs have started to die, their corpses strewn among twisted metal and shattered concrete in a city that looks like it forgot to breathe.

The aluminum shutters of shops on the main highway through town have been transformed by the force of war into mangled accordion shapes, flat, sharp, jarring slices of metal that no longer obscure the stacks of silver pots, the plastic-wrapped office furniture, the rolls of carpet. These things would be for sale, except there are no traders, no customers, hardly any people at all in the center of Fallujah. (more...)
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Sydney Morning Herald: Marine shoots his prisoner dead

The video footage is of an execution: a US marine raises his rifle towards an unarmed prisoner on the floor of a Falluja mosque, then shoots.

The bullet strikes his head, blood hits the wall behind and the body goes limp.

The US military is investigating the shooting as a possible war crime and has pulled the soldier and his unit out of the Falluja fight. The shooting was captured by a US news crew embedded with the unit. (more...)
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Proof Colin Powell Was A Disgrace To America

Below are links to Colin Powell transcripts @ U.N. prior to war...

It's a diatribe of lie after lie after lie. Anybody that thinks that Colin Powell has any integrity or dignity left intact has been living under a rock. I had respect for Colin Powell prior to this speech he made to the U.N. 2-02-03

He is truly a disgrace to America. Unfortunately Condoleezza Rice is even more disgraceful to this country. What has become of this once great country?

Click Here Washington Post Transcripts

Here is the actual link from Whitehouse.gov with slides etc.

AP Photographer Escapes Fallujah, Witnesses U.S. Attacks on Civilians

Published: November 15, 2004

BAGHDAD (AP) In the weeks before the crushing military assault on his hometown, Bilal Hussein sent his parents and brother away from Fallujah to stay with relatives. The 33-year-old Associated Press photographer stayed behind to capture insider images during the siege of the former insurgent stronghold.

"Everyone in Fallujah knew it was coming. I had been taking pictures for days," he said. "I thought I could go on doing it." (more...)
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A city lies in ruins, along with the lives of the wretched survivors

By Michael Georgy in Fallujah and Kim Sengupta
15 November 2004


After six days of intense combat against the Fallujah insurgents, US warplanes, tanks and mortars have left a shattered landscape of gutted buildings, crushed cars and charred bodies. (more...)
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Rules of War Broken in Falluja Assault -Amnesty

Mon Nov 15, 2004

LONDON (Reuters) - The rules of war protecting civilians and wounded combatants have been broken by both sides in the week-long assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday. (more...)
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The Australian: It's war: the CIA vs Bush [November 16, 2004]

The Australian: It's war: the CIA vs Bush [November 16, 2004]: "It's war: the CIA vs Bush
Robert Lusetich, Los Angeles correspondent
November 16, 2004"

(what I want to know is this.... is the CIA going to be a partisan (neo con) organization going forward?) J.O.

HoustonChronicle.com - CIA purge may be in the works

Nov. 13, 2004
HoustonChronicle.com - CIA purge may be in the works: "CIA purge may be in the works
New director allegedly was told to get rid of those disloyal to Bush
By KNUT ROYCE
Newsday
WASHINGTON - The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers thought to have been disloyal to President Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the war in Iraq and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources. "

ABC News: Powell and Three Other Cabinet Members Resign

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell has announced his resignation in a letter saying it was time for him to return to private life.
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Fighting sweeps Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland as U.S. offensive in Fallujah winds down

By Tini Tran, Associated Press 11/15/2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Explosions and gunfire broke out Monday in Baqouba the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland even as U.S. and Iraqi forces move against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah. (more...)
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The New York Times > Week in Review > Breaking a City in Order to Fix It

November 14, 2004

By EDWARD WONG

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Neutralizing the threat from the green-domed mosque looked almost effortless. Marines in the dusty warrens of Falluja had been taking fire from one of its twin minarets. They called in air support. A 500-pound bomb slammed into a blue-tiled tower, obliterating a signature part of the Khulafa Al Rashid mosque, the city's most celebrated religious building. (more...)
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Violence erupts across Iraq and aid agencies warn of disaster as US declares battle of Fallujah is over

By Kim Sengupta in Camp Dogwood, Iraq
14 November 2004
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U.S. has no clear plan to aid Fallujah civilians

By Margaret Coker

Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service

Sunday, November 14, 2004


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Turmoil Reported At CIA

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2004

(CBS/AP) John McLaughlin, who took temporary command of the CIA for three months this year during a wave of criticism of the spy agency, is retiring amid internal conflicts. (more...)
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Attack on Fallujah can't be justified

Friday, November 12, 2004

By HELEN THOMAS
HEARST NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON -- Do Americans of good conscience really believe that we are making the United States more secure by bombing and killing the people of Fallujah? (more...)
Attack on Fallujah can't be justified

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Who nabbed Indymedia's computers?

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The freewheeling network of Web sites has a history of clashing with authority. But usually it knows who is trying to shut it up.

By Mathew Honan
Nov. 9, 2004

Echoes of Afghanistan in the streets of Fallujah

>"Echoes of Afghanistan in the streets of Fallujah
Colin Freeman
Thursday, November 11, 2004"
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SUPADUBYA- Video from :4o. del Tren

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Judge: Bush Violated Geneva Conventions

11-9-04
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Did Homeland Security and the FBI interfere With the Vote Count?

The Ohio Factor: Did Homeland Security and the FBI interfere With the Vote Count?" (more...)
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t r u t h o u t - Kerry Campaign Lawyers Checking Ohio Vote

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New Zealand News - Falluja 'humanitarian crisis', say aid workers

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BBC NEWS |Eyewitness: Defiance amid carnage

"Eyewitness: Defiance amid carnage
As US forces battle insurgents in streets strewn with rubble and corpses, the BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and BBC World Service in Arabic. " (more...)
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Scores of Civilians Killed in Falluja

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Worst Voter Error Is Apathy toward Irregularities

"Worst Voter Error Is Apathy toward Irregularities
By Donna Britt
The Washington Post
Friday 12 November 2004 " (more...)
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US troops press deeper into Fallujah

"In the southern industrial area of the city, US troops were ordered to show more restraint after firing at nearly anything that moved earlier in the day." (more...)
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Baghdad Blast Kills 17 (washingtonpost.com)

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Herald Sun: Bombs rain on Fallujah

BLACK smoke towered over besieged Fallujah yesterday after US and Iraqi forces took control of a hospital and two bridges before a major assault on the rebel stronghold. (more...)
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Bush Flips Off Camera (Short Video)

This is from Bush's last term as Governor of Texas if I'm not mistaken. Very hard to believe this man is President today. This would have been long after the fact that Bush claimed he was a born again Christian. And he calls himself a "moral" man? Many exit polls from the recent election seem to insinuate that Bush won because of his morals. It's highly doubtful anybody that voted for him on those grounds looked behind his proverbial curtain of Oz. Link below shows just one of the countless examples of Bush showing himself to be a moral man (not).
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Iraq Declares State of Emergency

Iraq Declares State of Emergency in Advance of Fallujah Assault; Insurgents Continue Attacks

BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov 7, 2004 (more..)
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Dollar Hits All-Time Low Against Euro

Friday November 5, 4:13 pm ET
By Madlen Read, AP Business Writer
U.S. Dollar Hits All-Time Low Against Euro, Falling on Worries About Oil Prices, Budget Deficit
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Daily Mirror (Cover 11-4-04)

Mirror.co.uk- GOD HELP AMERICA

Nov 4 2004

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN..

THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world." (more....)
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The Australian: Europe leaders lavish with faint praise [November 05, 2004]

Europe leaders lavish with faint praise
Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
November 05, 2004
GEORGE Bush's closest allies in Europe greeted his re-election as a boost to the war on Islamic extremism but most European leaders barely managed to conceal the sense of disappointment they shared with most of the public across the continent.

While Tony Blair led the congratulations for his closest international ally, London tabloid the Daily Mirror carried a front-page headline that better captured the reaction of the British Prime Minister's own Labour Party and most British voters.

"How can 59,017,382 people be so DUMB?" said the headline, beneath a photo of Mr Bush. (More...)
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My Predictions- Financial Matters

While I have been as anonymous as possible within this blog by choice I will say that I have a very extensive knowledge of the financial markets (primarily the U.S. market).

The last four years we have witnessed a President and a congress controlled by his party allowed to essentially loot the government coffers by passing various bills and such that amount to a truly staggering amount of money being spent. Our national deficit has also been run up the last four years at a trajectory never seen by any country in history. In addition the amount of pork being attached to so-called homeland security and/or defense spending is mind boggling to date. This activity can only be described as "UNPATRIOTIC LOOTING OF THE GOVERNMENT COFFERS".

It will be future generations that will be responsible for paying the bill for these men/women that have looted this money. Call it the greatest transfer of wealth in history. The ones taking it are the ones becoming filthy rich. The ones that will pay the tab are future generations.

The stock market hates uncertainty. The U.S. stock market rallied impressively the day after the election on uncertainty being lifted and as the knee-jerk mentality that Bush is better for the stock market. The market may even rally more or less between now and the rest of the year, but will have a very, very serious problem from 2005 forward in my opinion. There was a lot of grease in the system the past year which is common before an election. That grease will go away. As the stock market can now take it's focus off of who will be the next President it will now focus on the two other most important issues.

1. The mushrooming deficit in conjunction with lower taxes.

2. The Iraq war and the insane amount of money being spent on it with no end in sight.

The general consensus on Wall street has been that Bush would be better for the stock market and the economy. But nothing could be further from the truth and the masses usually get it wrong anyway. For example; at the very top of the stock market bubble in 2000 nearly every brokerage firm on Wall street were recommending their clients to get into technology stocks. Contrarian investors already know that Bush is bad for the stock market and the economy going forward. Especially when you consider that we continue to have a Republican controlled congress. There is absolutely no/zero/nada checks and balances in place to control their wishes to spend spend spend going forward and there is absolutely no need for them to worry about fiscal responsibility unless there is a financial crisis in the future which forces them to pay attention to our fiscal problems in this country.

A crash of the dollar or simply a major stock market crash in the next four years may force them to deal with the problem. The Republicans in power currently are not traditional conservative Republicans which use to stand for lower spending and smaller government. The current Republicans in power are neo conservatives (NEO CONS) and they stand for massive, runaway, out of control, no end in sight spending and massively bigger government. Special interests run amok within the inner circles of the party and many feel they reside in the current administration's back pocket.

Grid-lock is what's best for the stock market and the economy in general. We have the opposite of that now however and I see absolutely no way the stock market or the economy has a chance of doing well in 2005. Some of the better minds on Wall street feel that we are currently in a secular bear market (macro-trend). The stock market rally we've seen since October of 2002 is simply a cyclical bull market (micro-trend) within an overall secular bear. Secular bear markets generally tend to last 10- 20 years. Within secular bear (or bull for that matter) markets there are always cyclical bull and bear markets which alternate between one another and generally last on average 1-3 years each respectively.

I believe soon we begin the next cyclical bear market within the overall secular bear market in the stock market.

As all humans can be, I may be wrong.

Time tells all.

J.O.

IF YOU VOTED FOR BUSH ODDS ARE YOU ARE IGNORANT, NAIVE AND MISINFORMED!!!!!

BECAUSE IF YOU DISGRACEFUL UNPATRIOTIC TRAITORS TO THE U.S.A. KNEW WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON WITH YOUR GOVERNMENT MOST OF YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER VOTED FOR HIM.

I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS FOR A REASON. CONSIDER IT SHOUTING!
FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW DOWNRIGHT STUPID WHAT APPEARS TO BE ALMOST EXACTLY HALF OF THIS COUNTRY'S VOTING BASE! WHAT IN GOD'S NAME WERE YOU IDIOTS THINKING? HAVE YOU PEOPLE LOST YOUR MINDS? MOST OF YOU WILL REALIZE WHAT A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE MISTAKE YOU MADE BEFORE THE NEXT FOUR YEARS ARE UP, BUT WHAT WILL THE WORLD LOOK LIKE AFTER BUSH GETS FOUR MORE YEARS IN OFFICE? WHAT WILL THIS COUNTRY LOOK LIKE? WHAT WILL IT FINALLY TAKE FOR YOU IDIOTS TO FINALLY SEE WHAT THIS MADMAN IS ALL ABOUT? WILL WE EVEN BE A DEMOCRACY AFTER FOUR MORE YEARS OF BUSH? HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE WILL HAVE DIED OVER BUSH'S LIES AND DECEIT?

NEVER IN MY ENTIRE LIFE HAVE I BEEN MORE ASHAMED OF HOW MY COUNTRY VOTED FOR ANY CANDIDATE IN OUR ENTIRE HISTORY AS A VERY VERY SLIGHT MAJORITY OF THEM HAVE APPEARED TO HAVE VOTED NOVEMBER 2, 2004

A MAJORITY OF THE WORLD HATES BUSH. IT MATTERS WHAT OUR ALLIES THINK OF OUR PRESIDENT AS MUCH AS THE TOUGH GUYS CLAIM OTHERWISE IN THIS COUNTRY. EVEN THOUGH A MAJORITY OF THE WORLD HATES BUSH THEY REALIZE WE COULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN WHAT A MADMAN HE'D BECOME WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT IN JANUARY OF 2001

NOW HOWEVER WE THE CITIZENS OF THE U.S. MAY TRULY FEEL THE WRATH AND HATRED OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS WELL. NOW THEY TOO MAY HATE US (THE CITIZENS OF THE U.S.A. TOO).

WILL THEY BOYCOTT OUR PRODUCTS EVENTUALLY (OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS?) WILL THEY BOYCOTT OUR TECHNOLOGY? WILL THEY PUT TARIFFS ON OUR EXPORTS ETC. OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS?

IT SADDENS ME DEEPLY TO SEE WHAT A DISGRACEFUL ACT OUR CITIZENS APPEAR TO HAVE DONE IN REELECTING GEORGE W. BUSH.

OUR FOREFATHERS WOULD SURELY BE SHEDDING TEARS AS WE SPEAK IF THEY COULD WITNESS WHAT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS DONE TO THIS ONCE (PREVIOUSLY) GREAT COUNTRY.

Joseph Ozworth

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Google: Find your polling place

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unknown voter sums it up.

USATODAY.com - Bin Laden's message: A call to bleed the U.S. economically

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Bloomberg.com: U.S.

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Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said he is trying to bankrupt the U.S. through its war on terror, a strategy he says felled the Soviet Union two decades ago in Afghanistan, according to a translation by al-Jazeera television of his full, videotaped statement. "

If Bush wins election I predict massive world-wide protests

on or before inauguration day. Impeachment will become the number one agenda for half of this country. Bush is by far the most incompetent and reckless President in American history.

If Bush wins it will clearly be time to take it to the streets and to the foot steps of Congress and demand impeachment.

Nixon was about to be impeached if he didn't resign over crimes of burglary. Clinton went through impeachment proceedings for lying about oral sex he received in the oval office. Clinton and Nixon look like the Pope compared to George W. Bush. Thousands upon thousands of humans have died directly because of Bush's war based at it's very essence on lies and deceit. Bush is impeachable on so many grounds though that Iraq is just the tip of the iceberg in my opinion. If reelected the drum beat for impeachment will grow louder and louder daily and more and more evidence will come to light and make it impossible for the NEO CONs in congress to ignore the fact that they have not been doing their job. They will have no choice but to draft articles for impeachment in time.

All my opinions,

J.O.

Colin Powell Believes U.S. is Losing Iraq War

Colin Powell Believes U.S. is Losing Iraq war
Salon.com

Sunday 31 October 2004

Secretary of State Colin Powell has privately confided to friends in recent weeks that the Iraqi insurgents are winning the war, according to Newsweek. The insurgents have succeeded in infiltrating Iraqi forces "from top to bottom," a senior Iraqi official tells Newsweek in tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, "from decision making to the lower levels."
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Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | Voters claim abuse of electoral rolls

Students say they were conned into registering twice

Greg Palast in New York
Sunday October 31, 2004
The Observer
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