Governor Bill Richardson. For the longest time I wanted to see this happen.

Let's just state the obvious first, especially considering he is Governor of New Mexico, a border state with Mexico and has wrestled with illegal immigration more than he like to admit.

Richardson courts Hispanics in Nevada, early-vote states (click here)
DIANA MARRERO GANNETT NEWS SERVICE -->
WASHINGTON -- Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, the first major Hispanic presidential candidate, hopes his performance in a recent televised Spanish-language debate will boost his standing among Democratic White House hopefuls.
Despite a distinguished résumé -- he was an ambassador, secretary of the Department of Energy and a U.S. congressman -- he is stuck in
second-tier status.
Richardson, whose mother is Mexican, is courting Hispanics in Nevada and other early-vote states to help push him to the front of the field. But he downplays his ethnic roots as a selling point.
"I'm not running as a Hispanic candidate," he said after the debate on Univision, the nation's fifth largest network. "I'm running as an American governor proud to be Hispanic."...


The fact that he was Secretary of Energy (click here) in the Clinton White House made him an attractive candidate to lead an energy starved nation into a next generation of American innovation.

Energy Secretary Richardson To Install Final Magnet In New Fermilab Accelerator (click here)
Science Daily — Batavia, Ill.--Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will help usher in a new era in physics at the energy frontier when he takes a wrench to four bolts at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on Thursday, September 24.
Richardson will tighten the last four bolts on the final 20-ton dipole magnet -- one of 432 electromagnets, each 30 feet long, connected in a two-mile underground ring -- to be installed in Fermilab's new Main Injector Accelerator, a six-year, $229 million construction project. The new accelerator will inject high-energy protons into Fermilab's Tevatron, more than tripling the scientific capability of the world's most powerful particle accelerator. By creating trillions of high-energy collisions between subatomic particles moving at nearly light speed, the Tevatron allows scientists from across the U.S. and around the world to study the structure of matter at the smallest scale ever observed by human beings....


I feel he is very competent as a leader. He has been the President of the Democratic Governor's Association (click here) which has seen the majority of the states take on Democratic leadership across the board. Two vital new Governors showing exceptional ability in their early years of their first terms are Governor Patrick of Massachusetts and Governor Spitzer of New York. In realizing the brevity Bill Richardson brings to leading the nation's majority of Governors, he is more than adequate for Presidential politics and if nominated would be able to win the election. There is no doubt in my mind about that. The question in many Democrats minds is; "Do we want him to be anything but a leading Democratic Governor?"

Richardson seeks challengers' views on Iraq (click here)
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson would like to have his challengers explain their views on troop pullout from Iraq because they're not the same as his plan, he said during a Council Bluffs visit Thursday.
"I'm asking, 'Why do we need troops behind? How many? How long?'" he said while delivering his own plan at the Iowa National Guard armory on East Kanesville Boulevard.
Granted, all the Democratic candidates want the Iraq war to end and have the troops return home safely, Richardson said. But there is a fundamental difference between their withdrawal plans and his, he said.
"I say we leave zero troops behind."...


The one 'thing' about Richardson's stand on "Leave No Troop Behind" is the plan for withdrawal was claimed by him when he stated '...his sources tell him the troops could be moved out of Iraq safely in three short months.'


Indeed.


But, the source he claims to have was faciliated by the spouse of his former boss, the current New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The concern I have for this very bright man and agile political figure is the 'idea' of a contingency plan was not his, yet, he more than took credit for information that would enhance his position politically. In all honesty, that is a bit out of character for Bill Richardson and I can't help but hold him up to the light to realize he didn't ask for a contingency plan first.


Hm.

Dennis Kucinich was once a bachelor candidate. He is also the most black and white candidate of the field. No gray areas with Dennis.

Strength through peace. Text "P E A C E."

Kucinich complains that Iowa is 'a rigged game' (click here)
by Rick Pearson
DES MOINES — Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich launched a broadside at Iowa's Democratic Party on Saturday, accusing it of creating a "rigged game" against his longshot bid by excluding him from two major events this week.
But Iowa Democratic officials said the Ohio congressman was off base in contending the party was behind his exclusion from Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry today, featuring all the major Democratic contenders, as well as a forum set for Thursday by the seniors' organization AARP....
..."The whole purpose of the primary and caucus season is to provide voters with opportunities, not to enable a carnival of interest groups to subvert the process," Kucinich said. "When party leaders and their allies pre-select which candidates they will allow the voters to hear, it's a disservice to the voters. Iowans deserve better than a rigged game."...


He, like the former Senator Gravel sees the infrastructure of 'election process' corrupt and difficult to move into. Dennis has run for President before and not with dissimilar outcomes. This time and most interestingly the 'field' of candidates has 'stayed the course' to bring their messages to the platform and in doing so more than likely securing a 'plank' in that platform for their positions.


Dennis Kucinich is worthy of consideration for the Presidency as he never wavers from his positions on most issues. His policies have been the core of Democratic belief systems for a long, long time and at that very core is the word 'truth.' He believes in it and has been the only candidate to mount the issue of impeachment with his house bill to remove a corrupt Cheney from the Executive Branch.


Dennis Kucinich is tried and true. He is hardcore Democrat. He is Middle America from every point there is to view, peace, dignity for our military, compassion for Americans caught in failure chains including that of the healthcare crisis, believes in environmental causes and if his wife is any example of his need for intellect, then our educational system federally would be well funded and directed.

You could honestly call Elizabeth Harper Kucinich (click here) the American Fergie for the red hair and natural beauty she enjoys. She was born across the pond and her credentials are exceptional. She would make a perfect first lady, but, in all honesty it would be rather odd to have one that sounded like a Brit. It is understandable what Candidate Kucinich saw in her and true to form, it's an atypical match, the lady is taller than the candidate, but, then that is Dennis; stereotypes don't exist and where they do the barriers are knocked down.


Kucinich says state knows to reject war (click here)
The candidate for president says he feels a "strong connection" linking him to Hawaii
By B.J. Reyesbjreyes@starbulletin.com
In his 2004 presidential campaign, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio had his best showing in Hawaii -- where he won 32 percent of the state's Democratic Caucus vote and finished second behind eventual nominee John Kerry.
So in the run-up to the 2008 bid for the White House, Hawaii was a logical stop along the way.
"I have a strong connection to Hawaii, and Hawaii has a strong connection to me," Kucinich said yesterday in an interview with the Star-Bulletin. "I see it and I feel it."
"People in Hawaii understand how important it is for America to take a new direction, rejecting war as an instrument of policy," he said.
Rejection of the war in Iraq will be among the topics on the agenda as Kucinich continues his tour of the state this weekend....


For long time Democrats, Dennis is a senior statesman. He represents all that is unwavering of the Democratic Party. We are grateful for Dennis Kucinich and expect he to be around for longer than most Presidential hopefuls. I wonder why that is? Hm?

Former Senator Mike Gravel, the man that would clean up DC

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel talks with reporters following the Democratic debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, June 3, 2007. (Courtesy Steve Terrell/Santa Fe New Mexican)

Former Senator Gravel definately has a message and I think "Slate" made a good estimation of it in the title that preceded the transcript:

Gravel: Representative Government Is Broken (click here)

Sen. Mike Gravel answers questions in our presidential mashup.

Updated Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007, at 11:51 PM ET
The following is an unedited transcript and may contain typos or omissions. Click here for more on the presidential mashup.
Rose: Sen. Gravel, the president has said that he's going to listen carefully to what Gen. Petraeus says and reports to him about the surge and what might be America's commitment in the future. What do you make of what Gen. Petraeus has said?
Gravel: I think it's a tragic charade where obviously one could predict what Petraeus was going to say three years ago on this particular subject. And then you get the president, who is the commander in chief, saying he's going to follow what the dictates or recommendations of Gen. Petraeus, who is making recommendations that the White House wanted. This is a very tragic charade. While human lives are lost because of the inability of this government to have any sense of moral commitment....

I believe the former Senator from Alaska is indeed the one person whom would like to take the country back from the clutches of power while returning it to the people. That is no easy task and while I admire him for his view of the world, I challenge him to find a way to say 'a voice' of the country even if the nomination does not come his way.

As a candidate surrounded by the simple challenge to keep his campaign alive (click here), it would be helpful to have his positions on issues a part of 'ready access.' I admire his use of the internet, but, if lacking for time it is a challenge to find his position on Human Induced Global Warming. After all, the former Senator may be speaking with forked tongue as Alaska is one of the oil producing states with assaults by this adminisration of it's precious wilderness and lucrative fish stocks.

If there is anything true about the Gravel candidacy, it's the fact it's completely obvious he is not a corporate sellout and coming from an oil producing state that to me would be easy to do. I mean what would be better but to have a Democratic candidate with an anti-corruption message from an oil producing state for companies/employees like Halliburton to hang their hat on.

Mike Gravel is an interesting candidate with an important message, he needs to find a way to keep that message alive after 2008.

The USA learned it was vulnerable. The questions are why and who is responsible.

The subject of democracy is not about winning or losing, it is however about how one plays the game.

The focus of the elections thus far by the media is to paint the Republicans as 'the way' to security while making clowns of the Democrats.

The populous of the USA that finds themselves as liberals, independants, unsure and last but not least Democrats deserve all the credit for maintaining their dignity through one of the most troubled times in the USA.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 told the USA it was vulnerable, the wars that ensued were supported by the people of the USA with intent to 'defeat' those that would come to destroy us, as I remind as we went into Afghanistan the president enjoyed a job approval rating of 84% if I remember right.

The 'truth' is that 'trust' was squandered by the current president and vice president and the American populous was turned into a battleground for power. Out of pure fear, the populous of the USA found itself torn to discern the truth based on 'authentic/official' data, but, that data was corrupt by an administration and majority Republican legislature that DECIDED what the truth was rather than living with the actual truth.

To some the USA is a playground whereby all is possible if the power of it's infrastructure is harnessed correctly and controlled.

It's Sunday Night

"Loser" by Beck

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
Baby's in reno with the vitamin d
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
Someone came in sayin' I'm insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don't believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park


Yo. cut it.


Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?


Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?


Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'cuz ones got a weasel and the others got a flag
Ones on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey-neck and its hangin' from a pigeon wing
You can't write if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
That's chokin' on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(get crazy with the cheese whiz)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(drive-by body-pierce)
(yo bring it on down)
Soooooooyy....


(I'm a driver, I'm a winner; things are gonna change I can feel it)


Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(schprechen sie deutches, baby)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(know what I'm sayin'? )

It's impossible to find a Red, White and Blue Chicken, sorry, Rooster in nature, so this is the next best thing.

Morning Papers - It's Origins

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Alan Greenspan don't cower now. Not that I ever thought he could, but, it gives an entire new meaning to the ad, won't you say?

Greenspan Faults Bush Over Spending (click here)

...And he weighed in briefly but pointedly on the Iraq war: ''I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.''...


No military person, including Gates, or any of those that support them without separating the man from the uniform would ever believe a word of any 'anti-war' statement. Although Alan Greenspan probably never expected to be viewed as 'anti-war' he most definately gave a shot in the arm to the 'idea' of Impeach Bush and Cheney. I'd also like to know what human rights watch organizations are thinking long about now.


By the way:

I

told

you

so !


And told you so and told you so and told you so...additionally, oppose the draft, bring the troops home now, we don't belong in Iraq, we never did...I told you so !


The Bush/Cheney administration has raped this country of it's treasury for the pure unadulterated reason of corporate profits because Dick Cheney has himself all in a wade financially with Halliburton as it's CEO when he recommended no one but himself as Vice Presidential candidate for the 2000 campaign.

I

told

you

so.

That said, the Republicans are 'still' playing politics with the lives and treasure of the USA. Outside the 2008 Republican campaign that demands the American people to continue this insane genocide in Iraq, Gates is campaigning against a Democratic Senator. Perhaps you heard of Jim Webb? He has a proposal before the Senate that would define the length of a 'rotation' when soldiers are sent into battle. Secretary Gates is using the Petraeus report to make the argument that soldiers are slaves to the USA and the Webb Senate admendment should be killed along with every battle fatigued soldier in Iraq.

Gates warns against Webb Iraq plan (click here)

...The proposal, by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), is expected to have widespread support this week in the Senate, although it is unclear if it will reach the 60 vote threshold necessary to overcome a potential filibuster....

If one takes a look through the Senate website of Jim Webb (click here), it is obvious he intends to straighten out every aspect of what has gone "W"rong that caused victimization of the soldiers. This isn't a man interested in an 'anti-war' message, this is a man interested in Pro-Soldier Laws that strengthen the USA military and protects it from exploitation.


SUMMARY: COMMISSION ON WAR CONTRACTING BILL (click here)
(WEBB/McCASKILL ON BEHALF OF FRESHMAN SENATORS)
Introduced July 18, 2007

Title: A bill to provide for the study and investigation of wartime contracts and contracting processes in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Summary: The bill would establish an independent and bipartisan eight-member Commission on Wartime Contracting to study and investigate: (1) federal agency contracting for the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan; (2) federal agency contracting for the logistical support of coalition forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom; and (3) federal agency contracting for the performance of security and intelligence functions in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The bill also will expand the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s (SIGIR’s) area of responsibility beyond Iraq Reconstruction and Relief Funds. In consultation with the Commission, SIGIR will conduct audits of agency contracts to identify potential waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. ...


I don't want to hear how Senator Webb is anti-war or seeking to undermine anyone's military authority, I do want this commission, I do want further investigation into the impetus into the Iraq War and I want a complete investigation to the way this administration turned the USA miltiary and it's Generals into pandering fools to the exploitive path of this president and vice. I want every General that served in this war to understand the brevity of their actions and to make sincere and profound recommendations to Senators and House members that seek to stop such exploitation of their commands to carry on with false agendas for the USA. If they care for their soldiers then they owe it to them !

There is a lot "W"rong with the reasons for this war and it needs to come to an end. Vietnam was one instance of American policy gone "W"rong and Iraq is certainly the same. I don't want to hear how America needs to win this war in some kind of dreamscape to exonerate the Vietnam War and it's end. I want to hear how the USA is ONLY to serve the people of this country in a way that sincerely protects it's national security !

REPEAL THE LAW OF PRE-EMPTION !!!

Here is the latest Republican 'Talking Points, Coaching and PROPAGANDA !!!'

On Fox News Sunday, Wallace failed to challenge Gates' claim that troop withdrawals will be based on "successes" (click here)
Summary: Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace did not challenge Defense Secretary Robert Gates' assertion that troop drawdowns "between December [2007]and July [2008]" will be due to "successes" in Iraq. In fact, due to strain on the military, the troop reduction would have been necessary regardless of conditions on the ground....


I find the comments of Martha Raddatz (in the video with the soldier as the initial image) far more healthy than anything Charles Gibson had to say. I find Gibson's commentary 'mind speak' to the real issues of the day. Ms. Raddatz made it completely clear there were politics at play from the beginning by the Bush/Cheney administration regarding the testimony by General Petraeus to the Senate. While the Senate demanded testimony some time ago, they did not expect the Republicans to turn it into a 'dog and pony show' to enhance the 'idea' of prolonged occupation of Iraq.

Ms. Raddatz also makes an excellant distinction between the fact Petraeus might be testifying to changes in his battlefield but it is not the complete picture and the Benchmarks for Iraq have been missed by a wide margin. I appreciate her expertise and candor.


Gates Raises Prospect of More Troop Cuts (click here)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates Says He Hopes U.S. Can Cut Troops to 100,000 by End of 2008
Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Friday of cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 by the end of next year, well beyond the cuts President Bush has approved.
Stressing that he was expressing a hope, not an administration plan, Gates said it was possible that conditions in Iraq would improve enough to merit much deeper troop cuts than are currently scheduled for 2008.
Asked at a news conference whether he was referring to lowering today's level of about 169,000 U.S. troops to about 100,000 by the end of next year, Gates replied, "That would be the math." He quickly added, however, that because "there is no script" in war, his hoped-for cuts could vanish....


I wish I could say this about all the reporting around the nation and all the reporting at CNN, but, in honesty until this country's media is willing to be the source of truth and not center of 'popular politics' I can only say, today I actually felt relief at the airing of "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. (click here)" He did a remarkably good job today and for two full hours CNN actually started to sound like CNN again. With that said I remain completely skeptical to the focus of the newsiness and truthiness of CNN, but, Blitzer set the stage for 'truth' to become fashionable again and I appreciated that.


It's time to take back America. I hope some of the 'refreshing words' I heard today is the cultural survival of us all. Thank you, Alan Greenspan.

It is probably too early to say for sure, but, it sounds like the Russians might have found the killer of Politkovskaya

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in October 2006.

Western media is always ready to jump on the back of the Russian government when it comes to high profile murders. In all honesty, that is problematic. I never thought the Russian governent ordered the murder of Politkovskaya, just like I don't believe they ordered the pulonium murder in London of Russian Dissendent Alexanader Litvnenko.

This arrest makes sense actually.

Buraev was the former head of Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan region and may have been implicated in Politkovskaya book about Chechnya. Regardless, Chechnya has been at war for a long time. This is another 'ethnic' region with many troubled people and it is easily used by The West as a wedge against the Russian government. I don't recall the number dead in Chechnya but it exceed 100,000 easily. Of course we all remember the tragedy of Beslan as well. It is these rebels that the Russians have tried to defeat for I believe at least ten years. The 'marathon war' seems to be the plague of Russia when considering it's efforts in Afghanistan when defeated by the Mujahedeen with the assistance of the USA.

But that aside, the 'idea' that a government official in Chechnya was being implicated at some level by Politkovskaya makes complete sense. To that end, realizing his fate would be sealed if found to be guilty of a state crime against Russia. With that the case, there would be no alternative but to kill the messanger and in this case it was the lovely lady journalist. I also find it interesting this should come about with the advent of the confirmation of the new Prime Minister. Interesting.

The extrapolation that the Russian government silenced her after so many years of writing in opposition to the Chechen war came from the fact she strongly felt there was something within the government that caused the people's hardship, reinforced the ethnicity and hence the war. It would seem as though she may actually have been absolutely right, but, it wasn't necessarily the Russian central government that was the issue as The West would like to believe but the ethnic government of Chechnya itself.

Anna seems to have been right and investigating a war conducted in the far reaches of the Caucasus Mountains where she was exposed to violence from elements unknown and known was a very dangerous self assignment. I am confident the people of Chechnya miss her terribly and may even feel abandoned due to her loss, although, since Beslan the Russian government has been actively interested in the people and their mental health a good deal more.

I remind, the attacks in Beslan were facilitated by primarily outside interests, the Uzbeks whom have/had a warlord in Afghanistan. The dynamics are interesting but the actual terrorists of Beslan weren't really native to that country and one has to speculate whom backed them and why.

Disruption of peace in a country The West lusts after that would see the Russian government disintegrate further as did the USSR raises many, many questions. Beslan was conducted with very few Chechen rebels involved. The attack was very suspicious and designed to disgust the world because it was innocent children and mothers that were the target. I don't think it was al Qaeda as it primarily enlists Saudis and angry/criminal Sunni Arabs. Beslan was a very odd collection of ethnic terrorists, as if perhaps 'hired.'

Just a thought.

I would imagine the world was so angry at the time, invading Russia would seem a real reasonable answer. No different than Litvinenko. His murder was an outrageous act and demanded attention beyond a normal event. Seemed like only a 'national/state' authority could have carried out such a dynamics.

A country such as the USA needs the cooperation of it's populous to conduct a war successfully. Passion drives war. No different than passion drives love or art on many an occassion. Strong feelings of bonding with an issue that would change the course of lives. Iraq was a passion driven war and The West needs to be cautious to the kind of passion they are demanding of their populous as Iraq was a prime example of how passionate trust laced with lies and a culture of fear actually places the USA and it's allies on the "W"rong path.

Chechen Arrested On Suspicion Of Ordering Politkovskaya Hit (click here)
Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika has alleged Politkovskaya knew the person who ordered her killing
(AFP)
September 15, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Aset Buraeva, the wife of former Chechnya official Shamil Buraev, has told RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service her husband has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the October 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Buraeva's comments substantiate a report in today's “Komsomolskaya pravda," which cited unnamed law-enforcement officials as saying Buraev, the former head of Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan region, was arrested in Moscow on September 13.
Moscow's Basmanny District Court sanctioned the arrest the following day, on suspicion of Buraev's suspected involvement in the crime. Details of the arrest could not be independently confirmed.
Sergei Sokolov, the deputy editor of “Novaya gazeta," where Politkovskaya worked at the time of her death, told RFE/RL's Russian Service the media should not play a role in spreading information about possible suspects.
"It's not journalists, but the court, that has to decide if the investigation is on the right track," he said. "Shamil Buraev has been under suspicion for a long time. We've had those suspicions ourselves. I think [the arrest] is a continuation of this strange game, where the investigation is in fact powerless because its secrecy is being violated immediately."
Likely Leak?
Sokolov also said the information was the likely result of a leak from law-enforcement organs, and that the appearance of press reports like the one in “Komsomolskaya pravda" might hamper the investigation....

...until tomorrow...good night.

The Iraqi Benchmarks aren't met. Bush today stated that one more benchmark was met. Lie by fact Iraqi Parliament members are leaving.

My first instinct is to present "It's Saturday Night" tomorrow. I want to move to my other computer, but, I first need to make a few adjustments.

So.

To be able to put it all together I'll do this tomorrow and tonight I'll just review the events taking shape in Iraq and the home front for USA freedom reclamation.

Basically, the Petraeus as I see it was a surrender. I know the general and Bush doesn't see it that way, but, when one joins with sheiks that approved of the killing of Americans to then arm them further so they could eliminate the killers they originally approved of, namely al Qaeda in Iraq, there is something "W"rong with that picture.

I realize the USA military was faced with an unwinable war due to the insistance of Bush and Cheney's oil agenda, but, the fact it manifested a war front UNEXPECTEDLY by any estimation by any USA strategist that would present as a 'forever' war causing widespread devastation to the people of Iraq was more than anyone in the region bargained for. I was astounded at the statement by Pace this week stating, '...there were mistakes in Iraq, but, I still believe it was right to invade that country.'

Where does that come from? The most troubling aspect of a statement like that translates into, "...let's do it again, because the 'mop up' after the 'mess up' wasn't all that terrible, after all.'

I don't think so.

General Petraeus ad nets Giuliani big bucks from donors

Pew Institute poll of demographics of those supporting Giuliani for president.

There is no surprise the Petraeus ad was all about money, right? We are all familiar with the 'tough guy' attitude as a favorite for evangelicals, right? So this survey tracks.



BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Saturday, September 15th 2007, 4:00 AM
Rudy Giuliani shelled out $64,575 for a pro-Gen. David Petraeus ad in The New York Times, but it paid big dividends yesterday - in contributions to his Republican presidential campaign.
Aides to Giuliani, who swiftly e-mailed copies of the ad to supporters as part of a fund-raising push, said they reaped "tens of thousands of dollars" in online donations yesterday alone.
"It will have paid for itself by week's end," said one top adviser, predicting the return would top $64,575 by tomorrow....

Things are getting a little rough for California House Candidates, aren't they? I mean Cindy is a declared candidate.

Anti-war protesters march demanding an end to the war in Iraq, the return of US troops and the impeachment of US President George W. Bush in Washington, DC

Thousands of Anti-War Protesters March in Washington (click here)
By Michael Lipin Washington

15 September 2007
Thousands of anti-war activists rallied in Washington Saturday to demand an end to the Iraq war, the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and the impeachment of President Bush. At least 5,000 people marched from the White House to Capitol Hill, while hundreds of counter-demonstrators lined the route to show their support for the U.S. troops in Iraq. VOA's Michael Lipin reports....

As a declared candidate she has a right to get her message out in any way she wants to as long as it's a peaceful meeting. You know, right to assemble and all that. It's her right, so like what gives? What's with police showing up to break up a MEETING?



September 15
Anti-War Protest to Be 'Unlike Any Other'
By Nathan BurchfielCNSNews.com Staff WriterSeptember 13, 2007(CNSNews.com) - Organizers of an anti-war protest scheduled for Sept. 15 said Wednesday that the demonstration will be "unlike any other" as activists gather to demand an immediate end to the war.The protest, organized by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), begins with a rally near the White House, continues with a march to the U.S. Capitol, and concludes with a "die-in" that organizers estimate will involve approximately 1,000 people lying down near the Capitol in a symbolic effort to represent dead U.S. soldiers and dead Iraqis.Brian Becker, ANSWER's national coordinator, told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that the demonstration "will be unlike any other anti-war protest in recent years because it will culminate in a massive civil disobedience," referring to the "die-in." He said the volunteers who have signed up online to participate in the demonstration are risking arrest by participating. The group expects "tens of thousands" to protest the war.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200709/CUL20070913a.html



Police break up anti-war meeting in Washington
7 Sep 2007, 0315 hrs IST , AFP

WASHINGTON: Mounted police charged in to break up an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war in Washington on Thursday, arresting three people, organizers said. "The police suppressed the press conference. In the middle of the speeches, they grabbed the podium" erected in a park in front of the White House for the small gathering, Brian Becker, national organizer of the ANSWER anti-war coalition, said. "Then, mounted police charged the media present to disperse them," Becker said. The charge caused a peaceful crowd of some 20 journalists and four or five protestors to scatter in terror, an AFP correspondent at the event in Lafayette Square said. No one appeared to have been hurt. Three people -- Tina Richards, the mother of a marine who did two tours of duty in Iraq; Adam Kokesh, a leader of the Iraq Veterans Against the War group; and lawyer Ian Thompson, who is an organizer for ANSWER in Los Angeles -- were arrested, Becker said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/The_United_States/Police_break_up_anti-war_meeting_in_Washington/articleshow/2345628.cms

continued...

Morning Papers - continued...

Michael Moore Today


http://www.michaelmoore.com/


September 13th, 2007 3:11 am
Week of Antiwar Events To Start With a 'Die-In'
Protesters Advocate Civil Disobedience
By Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein / Washington Post
A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person "die-in" at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute.
The die-in will be the culmination of a march and rally. Organizers hope the event will spur people in the antiwar movement to move from protesting to performing acts of civil disobedience that "get in the way of the war machine," said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, at a news conference yesterday at the National Press Club.

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Over 1,000 who still have the luxury of pretending…


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Mass March in Washington DC!Gather at 12 noon at the White House
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Join Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Camp Casey Peace Institute, the ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, National Council of Arab-Americans, Grassroots America, Hip Hop Caucus, and thousands of others in Washington DC on September 15 for a huge antiwar protest timed to coincide with the report by General Petraeus on the "Surge" in Iraq.


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September 13th, 2007 3:42 pm
Local protesters near Washington D.C.
Worn out shoes, but not sprits, organizer says
By William Brand / Oakland Tribune
She's marched across America from the Bay Area, worn out four pairs of sandals, slogging through late summer heat and humidity and the war in Iraq rages as intense as ever.
But 19-year-old Ashley Casale, interviewed on her cell phone this morning as she slogged along Route 50 a few miles north Winchester, VA., with a band of seven other marchers and a growing group of supporters, says she believes the cross-country walk is a significant way of standing up for peace.
"I think all these people walking with us now wanted a way to take action and stand out for peace," she said.


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SEPTEMBER 15
Mass March in Washington DC!
Gather at 12 noon at the White House
100 transportation centers! Find nearest oneTo sign up for the Sept. 15 die-in, click here
Join Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Camp Casey Peace Institute, the ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, National Council of Arab-Americans, Grassroots America, Hip Hop Caucus, and thousands of others in Washington DC on September 15 for a huge antiwar protest timed to coincide with the report by General Petraeus on the "Surge" in Iraq.
For information on the September 14-21 Days of Action, click here.


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Sunday, September 16


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Monday, September 17


Counter Recruitment


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People’s March on Congress

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September 15 — Mass March in Washington DC!

We want to thank the thousands of people and many organizations that have responded to ANSWER’s May 31 Proposal to the Anti-War Movement. The essence of the proposal is for all the anti-war coalitions and organizations to come together to mobilize the largest single mass march on Washington DC under the demand End the War Now!...

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Calendar of upcoming anti-war events

Tuesday, September 18


Congressional Occupation Day


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September 14, 2007

Gerald R. Ford Museum


"THE DICK CHENEY, GOP QUAGMIRE TOUR"

Dick Cheney Quagmire Tour Protested in Grand Rapids, MI


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Cheney Making Stop in Michigan

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U.S. Central Command

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Monday, September 17

Marriott Downtown


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Cheney will visit Kansas City to raise funds for Sam Graves
Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Kansas City on Monday to help Rep. Sam Graves raise money for his 2008 re-election race.
The event will be at noon at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, 200 W. 12th St. General reception tickets are $250. A photo reception with the vice president is $2,000. Call 816-407-1222 for tickets.
Cheney has visited Kansas City at least two other times to raise money for Graves. The last time, in April 2004, generated $340,000.
Graves is expected to face Democrat Kay Barnes, a former Kansas City mayor.


http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/269674.html


September 27, 2007

Sheldon Adelson Home


Vice President Cheney to Visit Las Vegas
The vice president of the United States will be heading to Las Vegas. Dick Cheney will be in Southern Nevada Sept. 27th to raise money for the republican party.
The event reportedly will be at the home of Venetian owner Sheldon Adelson. Tickets are $250. The ticket price covers dinner and a picture with the vice president.


http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7059477


One Sponsor, Nineteen Cosponsors

H.RES.333 Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007) Cosponsors (19) Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

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Herdt: Militants in tennis shoes
Nurses Association won't bend on health reform
By Timm Herdt / Ventura County Star
John Graham, a hulking man with sad eyes, wearing a shirt only half buttoned, looked the part Tuesday of a man who had not slept well.
"It was not an easy night," he said.
There have been many such nights over the last six years, but Monday had been particularly bad, knowing dawn would deliver the anniversary of the date that painted the sadness in his eyes.
He had been a volunteer emergency medical technician six years earlier, working at a job site in Manhattan near the World Trade Center.


http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10219


September 13th, 2007 4:33 pm
Unionized nurses flex their muscle
Caregivers direct their newfound clout at the political process as well as working conditions.
By Lisa Girion / Los Angeles Times
Nurses aren't just taking orders anymore.
From intensive care wards to the halls of Congress, they're exerting growing influence over hospital practices and patient treatment. With the clout they've gained through unionization, they've raised their incomes and their profession's profile.
Now they're lobbying for a radical change to the country's healthcare system, starting in California.
On Monday, hundreds of members of the California Nurses Assn. marched on the Capitol in Sacramento and pledged to continue to campaign for universal healthcare coverage.


http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10220



9/11: Still Killing - Photos by Allan Tannenbaum
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911 Still Killing

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Ten Facts About Guantanamo

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/side-effects/gitmo/


Contact your House of Representative Member asking them to support HR 676

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Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance

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September 2nd, 2007 2:03 am
Coalition of nuns calls for impeaching Bush and Cheney
Winston-Salem Journal
A progressive group of U.S. nuns has called on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of their roles in the war in Iraq.
“The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for ... high crimes and misdemeanors,” the group wrote in a letter written on behalf of its board members.
The letter says that impeachment is warranted for their “deceiving the public under the false pretense that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction” and “destroying” the reputation of the United States and the good will of other nations.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10194



H.RES.333
Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007) Cosponsors (19)
Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

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September 2nd, 2007 2:36 am
Protesters want Hinchey to back Cheney impeachment
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) - Five people who staged a sit-in this week in Congressman Maurice Hinchey's Hudson Valley office - demanding the congressman support an effort to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney - will meet again with Hurley Democrat to push their position.
They were among more than 50 people who met with Hinchey on Tuesday.
The five staged the sit-in at Hinchey's office later for several hours, refusing to leave until granted a further meeting to ask questions and get answers.
Hinchey agreed to the demand, though a spokesman says the date has not yet been set.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10196



Hinchey was for it before he was against it

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H.RES.635
Title: Creating a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 12/18/2005) Cosponsors (38)
Latest Major Action: 12/18/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

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August 29th, 2007 4:27 pm
Hinchey catches flack, from the left
Mid-Hudson News Network
Kingston – “I don’t care if you don’t have the votes”, said one of about 75 impeachment supporters, who had both barrels blazing, not at President Bush, or Dick Cheney, but at liberal Democrat Congressman Maurice Hinchey.
Why? Because Hinchey has not actually introduced, or supported, a resolution to impeach the current administration.
The Tuesday afternoon event, which originally was to have been a meeting between Hinchey and about half a dozen activists, in his small third floor office in uptown Kingston, was moved to the community room at the RUPCO building, a block away. Even there, the crowd overflowed onto the sidewalk.
Professor and author Joel Kovel said it is no wonder Congress has a lower rating than even the President.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10182


Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?
Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial.
No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors."
No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a political lynching.
I don't know.

Vote to see results

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/



September 2nd, 2007 2:13 am
More than 1,800 Iraqis killed in August
By Robert H. Reid / Associated Press
BAGHDAD - Civilian deaths rose in August to their second-highest monthly level this year, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated Press. That raises questions about whether U.S. strategy is working days before Congress receives landmark reports that will decide the course of the war.
At least 81 American service members also died in Iraq during August — an increase of two over the previous month but well below the year's monthly high of 126 in May. American deaths surpassed the 80 mark during only two months of 2006.
U.S. military officials have insisted that the security plan launched early this year led to a decrease in attacks on civilians and sectarian killings, especially in the Baghdad area, which was the focus of the new strategy.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10195


U.S. military deaths in Iraq at 3,738
By The Associated Press Sun Sep 2, 7:12 PM ET
As of Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, at least 3,738 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 3,061 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_us_deaths


Ted Voth Jr.: Candidates should stay put in D.C. to impeach Bush, Cheney
A letter to the editor — 9/01/2007 8:28 am
Dear Editor: It just occurred to me that Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Chris Dodd, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, have pressing business in D.C. All of them need to be censuring and/or impeaching and removing from office the monstrous two-headed President Cheney/Bush, ending Bush's war, and repealing the disgraceful Patriot Act, the disastrous Military Commissions Act, and the unspeakable "wiretap cave-in act" Congress passed before its vacation.
None of them should be out on the campaign trail until they've fulfilled their oaths to uphold, preserve and defend the Constitution of the U.S. -- in this most perilous crisis of our republic, to restore the Constitution.
Frankly, until they do so, all of them are abysmally unworthy to be trusted with the presidency. Frankly, till they carry out their duties to the Constitution, they are complicit in the high crimes and treason of Dick Cheney and George Bush.

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/209825


Congress Approval Rating Matches Historical Low
Just 18% approve of job Congress is doing
by Jeffrey M. Jones
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974. Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll.
That 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of several scandals besetting Congress, leading many states to pass term limits measures for U.S. representatives (which the Supreme Court later declared unconstitutional). Congress had a similarly low 19% approval rating during the energy crisis in the summer of 1979.

http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28456



"You can't pretend the system doesn't exist."
-- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

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With speech, Clinton lays out goals as president
Democratic says she is willing to work for change from within system
By Patrick Healy / New York Times
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York unveiled a new stump speech on Sunday, outlining the “four big goals” she would have as president and saying she was willing to “work within the system” and make “principled compromises” to achieve them.
Praising the leadership styles of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, Mrs. Clinton described herself as a pragmatist and an alliance-builder. Without naming names, she said her strategies would yield more results than those of her two chief rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
“From my time in the White House and in the Senate, I learned you bring change by working in the system established by the Constitution,” Mrs. Clinton said at an early afternoon rally in Concord, drawing a pointed contrast to the outsider messages of Mr. Obama and Mr. Edwards. Referring to the Roosevelts and Johnson, she said, “They got big things done because they knew it wasn’t just about the dream, it’s about the results.”

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10198



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The Michael Moore Health Care Proposal

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"You're sitting on the 23rd floor of a marble building a thousand miles away and all you're focused on are the numbers and the dollars." -- Dr. Linda Peeno

September 4th, 2007 11:56 am
'Sicko's' Peeno Sees Few Gains in Health Insurance
September 3, 2007 from All Things Considered / NPR
MELISSA BLOCK, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I’m Melissa Block.
This summer, Michael Moore’s film “SiCKO” brought one of health care’s most famous whistleblowers back into the spotlight.
Dr. LINDA PEENO: In the spring of 1987, as a physician, I denied a man a necessary operation that would have saved his life and thus caused his death. No person and no group has held me accountable for this because, in fact, what I did was I’ve saved the company a half a million dollars for this.
BLOCK: That’s Linda Peeno, a doctor from Louisville, Kentucky before Congress in 1996. Her testimony came at the height of the national debate over patient’s rights and HMO’s.
NPR’s Julie Rovner recently spent some time with Linda Peeno and has this profile.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10197


Audio

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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
'Vermonter Takes it to Bush Down Under' ...by Dan DeWalt
"President" Bush may not be willing to visit Vermont, but one of Vermont's finest, ex-marine Matt Howard, was in Australia today delivering the message to Bush and the world that we have seen through his lies, calling him and his sycophants out for their criminal Iraq adventure.
The three mile steel barrier that the city erected to keep the Decider from being exposed to the multitudes who disagree with and despise him may have prevented him from hearing the words of Mr. Howard, but listeners to the BBC/WBUR program The World, distributed across the U.S. by Public Radio International were treated to a short but articulate condemnation of the Bush Iraq war policy by Mr. Howard.
It is good and remarkable that we were able to hear this bit of dissension, but it is too bad that we only seem to hear about it when it happens on the other side of the globe.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=909



Captain Mike Across America Michael Moore
Michael Moore has been a ubiquitous presence on talk shows and in YouTube clips this summer, passionately reaffirming the message of his recent documentary, Sicko: America must fix its broken health-care system. It’s hard to remember that for the two years prior, Moore had withdrawn from public life until his re-emergence at last year’s Festival, when he showed the first-ever sneak-preview clips of Sicko. But he was hardly idle in those two years. In addition to Sicko, he was preparing another film – one strategically timed to mobilize voters in anticipation of the 2008 United States presidential election.
Captain Mike Across America takes us back to the 2004 election, when the polling margin between candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry could have tipped either way. Framed like a concert film, it captures Moore’s activities as he set out on a campaign trip almost as rigorous and far-reaching as the candidates’ own. He targeted young people as the demographic that could make the most difference, visiting sixty-two cities in forty-five days, and holding large rallies on college campuses. He dubbed it the Slacker Uprising Tour.

http://www.tiff07.ca/filmsandschedules/filmdetails.aspx?ID=705151529541292



Toronto International Film Festival '07 - Screening Room, movie trailers


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"What can I do?"

Urge your Representative to cosponsor of H.R. 676
Your life may depend on it...


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See the Movie, Know the Issue

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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
See the Movie, Start the Revolution ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friends,
I am overwhelmed by the response to "Sicko." And I'm not just talking about all the wonderful, heart-felt letters you've sent me and the stories you've shared with me about the abuse you've suffered from our health care system.
No, I'm talking about how thousands of you are taking matters into your own hands and using the movie to do something. From Seattle to New England, each day I learn of numerous groups holding meetings or dinners after the movie to discuss it and to plot a course for action. A church in Plano, TX took its weekly bible study group to see "Sicko." 70 people crammed into a Wisconsin coffee shop's back room. Groups are plotting over pancakes in Illinois and microbrew in Missouri. E-mail addresses are being exchanged in theater lobbies. A Connecticut group is inviting legislators to see "Sicko" and keeping a tally on their website. Local groups have been buying out theaters to have special screenings for their members. Information tables are set up, literature is distributed, action groups are formed.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=219


Highway Blogger - Freedom of Speech - Use it or Lose it

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The man is compelling

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More support!
While this strike is about much more than 9/11 questions, we are very grateful that one of the most reputable organizations on this issue has solidly endorsed the Strike.
On September 11, 2007, 911Truth.org Supports US Rediscovery of the General Strike
Also, someone on Indybay has written An Open Letter to the Business Community encouraging local businesses to participate in the Strike by shutting down on 9/11.

http://www.strike911.org/



On September 11, 2007, 911
Truth.org
Supports US Rediscovery of the General Strike
In solidarity with a growing number of patriotic grassroots groups on both the right and left, 911truth.org proudly announces its support for the revival of populist direct actions to confront governmental behavior we see as increasingly criminal and intransigent. 911truth.org therefore urges all freedom-loving Americans to spend September 11, 2007, rediscovering the compelling democratic history of people's movements and the general strike.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20070901/bs_prweb/prweb550757_1

continued...

Congratulations to the NY Times. They know how to take care of people. Thank you, China.

Zhao Yan, center, is greeted by friends and relatives after he was released from the state security prison in Beijing.

“I would like to thank my family, friends and my employer for their steadfast concern and support,” Mr. Zhao said in a statement released on Saturday morning. He added: “These three years I have missed my family very much, especially my maternal grandmother, who is now more than 100 years old. For that reason, I want some time to reunite with my family.”

He needs to come to the USA and speak to the people that have missed him for so long. A visit here would be very nice.

I predicted $100 by the end of the year. I thought for a while it wasn't going to make it. Hm.

Traders worked in the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange Thursday.

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: September 13, 2007
HOUSTON, Sept. 13 — Crude oil closed above $80 a barrel for the first time today, breaking a longstanding psychological barrier just days after oil producers tried to bring prices down by promising to increase output....