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November 1-3, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/happyhour/20051020-20051102-20051102.html
Happy Hour Comic

http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=19818
How the News Works

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=517&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 
THOUGHT CONTROL AND 'PROFESSIONAL' JOURNALISM - PART 2

"Professional" journalism accepts that powerful interests - the political
and economic allies of the corporate media - should be allowed to set the
news agenda. Reporters are to channel the words of officialdom without
expressing their own personal opinions. To express criticism of the powerful
in news reports is deemed "unprofessional" - that is, "crusading",
"committed", "polemical" and "radioactive". Curiously, the myth of
professional "objectivity" exists alongside the clear fact that expressing
+support+ for the claims and actions of the powerful is not considered
unprofessional.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=518&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Hiding the Gulf of Tonkin Lie
By Kurt Nimmo

Americans are generally ignorant of this sordid history of war waged under
false pretense, as the so-called Plame Affair demonstrates. At the core of
the Plame Affair is the conspiracy to invade the Middle East, bomb
defenseless countries, sow chaos, destroy recalcitrant societies and
culture, and steal natural resources.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=7861
The Real Reason for Nuking Iran
Jorge Hirsch, Antiwar.com

It was spelled out with surprising candor in the Pentagon draft document
"Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations" as one of several possible reasons
geographic combatant commanders may request presidential approval for use of
nuclear weapons: "To demonstrate U.S. intent and capability to use nuclear
weapons to deter adversary use of WMD." Yes, you read it right: The U.S. is
prepared to break a 60-year-old taboo on the use of nuclear weapons against
non-nuclear countries - not because the survival of the country is at stake,
not because the lives of many Americans or allies are at stake - just to
demonstrate that it can do it.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1101-25.htm
Tender Mercenaries: DynCorp and Me
Jeremy Scahill, Common Dreams

DynCorp employees in Bosnia, where the company plays a major policing role,
have engaged in organized sex-slave trading with girls as young as 12, and
DynCorp's Bosnia site supervisor was filmed raping a woman. A subsequent
lawsuit, filed by a company whistleblower, alleged that "employees and
supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane
behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and
[participating in] other immoral acts." The whisteblower, with whom DynCorp
eventually settled, "witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying
and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag
about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had
purchased." The company's initial response was to fire the whistleblowers.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2559
Immigrants Rebuilding Gulf Coast Suffer 'Third World' Conditions
Kari Lydersen, New Standard

As businesses reap huge profits from contracts to clean up and reconstruct
the storm-devastated Gulf Coast, a hidden underclass doing much of the
toiling is underpaid, defrauded and mistreated.

http://www.resurgence.org/2005/burnside233.htm
Why Rachel Carson Still Matters
John Burnside, Resurgence

In this alone Silent Spring is a towering achievement: Carson makes the
necessary case against DDT, but on the way, she exposes the entire system.
As Paul Brookes notes, in his excellent study of her work, The House of
Life, "She was questioning not only the indiscriminate use of poisons but
the basic irresponsibility of an industrialised, technological society
toward the natural world."

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/11/03/simmons/index.html
Take a Peak: An interview with peak-oil provocateur Matthew Simmons
Amanda Griscom Little, Grist

Current oil prices are ridiculously cheap. People find that hard to believe,
particularly now, but consider this: $65 a barrel translates to 10 cents a
cup. Ten times cheaper than bottled water. People who think that this is a
really high price need to have their heads screwed back on.

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/2005/1014.html
THERE IS NO PLAN "B"
Jim Puplava, Financial Sense

The oil crisis has arrived in the United States. This summer's storm season
exposed the Achilles heel of the U.S. economy: OIL. We have reached what
system analysts refer to as "a single point of failure." It is the one item
that if it breaks down, it brings the entire system down with it. Like it or
not the U.S. economy runs on oil-cheap oil-and we are running out of it. Oil
powers our economy in manufacturing, transportation, and agriculture.
Without it, our economy would cease to function. There is no other commodity
other than water that can have such an effect on how and what we do. Oil is
the lifeblood of our economy.

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NewsWire

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1031-02.htm
Former Cheney Staffer Now Covering Libby Indictment for NBC News

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001393128
CBS' Mary Mapes, in 'Vanity Fair,' Defends Role in 'RatherGate'

http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2005/NR-05-11-01.html
Modeling of long-term fossil fuel consumption shows 14.5-degree hike in
Earth's temperature

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/science/earth/02climate.html
Climate Study Warns of Warming and Losses of Arctic Tundra

http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,12188,1605147,00.html
Satellite data reveals Beijing as air pollution capital of world

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=143&art_id=qw1130762700907B251
Satellite images show alarming deterioration to Africa's lakes

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?feature=yes&id=1096411816
Arctic drilling would devastate Gwich'in lifeways

http://www.seedsofdeception.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=299
Most Offspring Died When Mother Rats Ate Genetically Engineered Soy

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/GlobalHealth/story?id=1266515
Infant mortality rates rising in the US

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051029093925.htm
Hunger in America up 43% over last five years

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/movies/30gros.html
Want Stealth With That? The 'Fast Food Nation' Film Goes Undercover

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/dems-n03.shtml
The Disingenuous Bullshit of Harry Reid: Reid & Democrats were complicit in
Iraq war lies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html
CIA kidnap victims held hostage in secret torture gulags

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10837.htm
New Evidence Backs Hicks's Torture Allegations of Physical and Sexual Abuse
by American Soldiers

http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/november/11_02_1.html
U.S. Discusses Invasion of Saudi Arabia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9881666
US steps up plans for coup in Cuba

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_mystery_monday.html
US military wants to own the weather

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_taking_over_houses
US troops seizing Iraqi homes, using families as human shields

http://lefthook.org/Ground/Alam110105.html
Kent State Student and Marine Corps Veteran Remains Defiant, Slams Iraq War

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051101080605433
Military Faces Parental Counterattack

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2556
Iraq Charity Director Sentenced to 22 Years for Nonviolent Crimes

http://www.narconews.com/Issue39/article1480.html
Bolivia: The reappearance of the Nazis

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article324316.ece
Palestinians 'terrorised' by sonic boom flights

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/gaza-n011.shtml
Sharon government escalates military offensive against Palestinians

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1101-04.htm
Mass Argentine protests planned for Bush visit

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/11/03/200511030017.asp
South Korea: Police ban activists from country

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/pari-n02.shtml
Paris hit by anti-police riots

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