From the article below:
As the man alighted from his car and was walking to the door of his home he was startled to see the frozen and still form of a small serpent lying in the grass adjacent to the walk. Filled with compassion for the creature, the man picked up the stiff little reptile and carried it into his home, where he gently and compassionately wrapped it in warm towels. With loving care he revived the creature. When the snake was fully resuscitated and mobile, it lashed out suddenly and struck its benefactor with a venomous bite. As the man lay dying he said to the snake, “Why would you repay my compassion with such treachery? I brought you into my home and I treated you with kindness.” To which the snake replied, “You knew that I was a snake when you brought me in.”

Take Our Guns – Take Our Lives
Socialistic liberal groups, legislative representatives on both the state and federal levels, the courts – and yes some governors – have made great strides in their attack upon the second amendment guarantee of our right to keep and bear arms. It’s time – no it’s way past time – to fight back…..
http://www.newswithviews.com/Schwiesow/jim8.htm
by Jim Schwiesow

Dialing 9-1-1 May Ruin Your Life
Canadian Mounties smashed down the door of a North Vancouver, British Columbia, woman’s home and injured her guest when she accidentally dialed the 9-1-1 emergency number instead of 4-1-1 for telephone information. When Marget Lieder of North Vancouver accidentally dialed 9-1-1, she says she just simply hung up and dialed 4-1-1. What followed was something out of a Stephen King’s horror novel…..
http://www.newswithviews.com/news_worthy/news_worthy74.htm
by NewsWithViews.com

YOU GO GIRLS….
http://www.1000grandmothers.net/

School of the Americas Opponents Seek New Vote
A Report by Rebecca MacNeice
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706Q.shtml
Opponents of the School of the Americas think that with the new make-up of Congress, they might have the votes to shut down the controversial training center for foreign military officers. Last weekend, thousands of protesters returned to Fort Benning, Georgia, for the 17th consecutive year to call for the closure of the school, whose training manuals advocate torture, extortion and execution. Rebecca MacNeice was there and filed this report for Truthout.

Resurrecting Liberty: Police State
http://www.resurrectingliberty.com/Police%20State.html

Chris Floyd | Alex Cox: The Long March of American Militarism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706K.shtml
Chris Floyd writes: “There is a general misconception that the US military has always turned out plans like these to cover almost every possible contingency, every country; thus you’re bound to run across off-the-wall scenarios, such as an invasion of Canada, that would never be implemented. But this is just a myth. In fact, war plans at this level of detail are never drawn up unless there are very serious policy considerations behind them. For example, the now-advanced plans for an airstrike on Iran are not simply contingency exercises churned out by Pentagon analysts, they were ordered directly by George W. Bush, as were the pre-war plans for the Iraq invasion.”

The New York Times | Deja Vu in Florida
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706O.shtml
“One of the great hazards of the way electronic voting has been introduced in the United States is that it could end up undermining democracy by producing unreliable election results that cannot be truly audited or corrected. This month, that nightmare became a reality,” write the editors of the New York Times. “Voting machines in a Congressional race in Florida – where else? – may have swallowed about 18,000 votes, far more than the nominal winner’s razor-thin margin of victory. Because those votes were in the loser’s strongest county, if there was a computer glitch it probably changed the outcome of the race.”

Judge Strikes Bush’s Terror List
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906K.shtml
A federal judge struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-September 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=681
Gingrich Expands Bill of Rights Target List
Wednesday November 29th 2006, 1:20 pm
Details have emerged concerning Newt Gingrich’s attack on the Bill of Rights. It is not simply the First Amendment the American Enterprise Institute and Council on Foreign Relations neocon wants to “supervise,” but the Fourth Amendment as well, using Britain’s recently imposed detention rule as a template. “The former speaker also pointed approvingly to England, where suspects in terrorism cases can be detained for several weeks without charge,” reports the New York Sun.

According to Gingrich, if we don’t torch the Bill of Rights, we are “truly stupid,” because respecting our founding principles will allow al-CIA-duh to take out a city. How the CIA-ISI created organization will take out a city is not mentioned, although we can assume it will be accomplished with a “suitcase nuke,” said to be walked over the border here in the Southwest.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_061123_wow_2c_do_we_have_a_lo.htm
By Rob Kall
Wow, Do We Have A Lot To Be Thankful For This Year. Now , About 2007….
Call them prayers, hopes, wishes, even ultimatums… here are some ways the incoming congress could give us reason for thanks in 2007.

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Tom debates the U.N. before the Cambridge Union Society
However, something much more important was about to happen. I was the only speaker who stayed after the tally was announced. About 200 students stayed as well. Over the next two hours I fielded sincere questions about my stand on property rights. They earnestly asked me, “you really don’t believe in redistribution of the wealth?” “No,” I said, “It’s theft.” As I explained how it takes ownership of property to create wealth……
http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom69.htm
by Tom DeWeese

From the article above:
Instead, the UN is openly working to gain power for itself in order to become independent and supreme over its member nations.

To do that it needs the power to tax. On September 19th plans were approved to begin the creation of a global tax, mostly through airline tickets to help pay for the treatment of aids. They of course euphemistically call it a contribution.

There are several other tax schemes on the UN wish list, including a carbon tax on Co2 emissions, a currency tax on transactions of foreign currency exchanges, and taxes on the Internet, to name a few.

If the UN gains the power to tax and the enforcement power necessary to collect them, then the UN will become an unstoppable force in the world. A monster free of its chains.

And, of course, the UN wants its own military. It already has its own court.

These three things, the ability to collect taxes to provide near unlimited funds from independent sources; the ability to enforce its will with a military force; and a court system to impose its own brand of justice, are all that is required to create a government.

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Mexico Produces Most of Methamphetamine Coming into U.S.
An Associated Press (AP) story reported that the federal anti-meth law was recently amended so that states could still impose their own laws as long as they meet the minimum requirements of the federal version…..
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kouri/jim88.htm
by Jim Kouri

The Saudi Prince and Fox News
It looks like the Muslim riots are continuing. Will Fox News cover them accurately and objectively at the risk of another phone call from the Prince?….
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff123.htm
by Cliff Kincaid

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Dems Want Oversight on Pentagon Anti-War Protest Database
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406E.shtml
A year ago, an NBC News investigation revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon database that included information on antiwar protests and American peace activists. Now, newly disclosed documents reveal new details on who was targeted and which other government agencies may have helped monitor Americans. “I fully intend to ask what’s in those databanks, because many of them go way beyond any legitimate needs for our security,” says Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy.

Jeff Stein | A Senate Mystery Keeps Torture Alive – and Its Practitioners Free
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406F.shtml
Jeff Stein writes: “With all the lawsuits over kidnapping and torture marching toward the Bush administration, you might think the top officials running the global war on terror would be worried … Alas, no. Thanks to the legerdemain of Bush administration lawyers, a provision quietly tucked into the Military Commissions Act just before it was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush on October 17, would ease any worries they might’ve had. It not only redefines torture upward, removing the harshest, most controversial techniques from the definition of war crimes, it also exempts the perpetrators – interrogators and their bosses – from punishment all the way back to November. 1997.”

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From James,

Google video: Massacre of Iraqi Civilians from the air. (53 seconds)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-801002960194633706

In 2004, The Lancet, the most respected medical journal in the world, published a study of “excess deaths” – being deaths in excess of ordinary mortality – attributable to the Iraq war, and gave a figure of 100,000. These were mostly women and children killed in the air campaign. In 2006, The Lancet published another study. The figure had risen to 655,000, as reported by CNN:

http://brasscheck.com/videos/middleeast/me10.html
I urge you to contact your elected representatives and demand an end to this nonsense now – not next year or the year after, but right now. Please consult your own address book and send this as far and wide as you can.

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Hard US lessons, harder landings

By Max Fraad Wolff
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HK21Dj02.html

The arriving Democrats in the US Congress are likely to plan little and execute on even less in the way of seismic economic adjustment. Thus it is of interest to forecast their response to the trouble that is coming.

The US is beginning to unwind the largest housing bubble in modern history. There will be upswings and local exceptions and wide regional and price variations.

This changes nothing. Hundreds of billions of dollars in household access to cash and debt from refinancing, equity extraction, home equity lines of credit and house flipping will dry up.

Housing price crashes differ from equity price busts in three important dimensions. First, the price corrections during housing price busts averaged 30%, reflecting the lower volatility of housing prices and the lower liquidity in housing markets. Second, housing price crashes last about four years, about one-and-a-half years longer than equity price busts. Third, the association between booms and busts was stronger for housing than for equity prices. …

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Keep reminding Congress that you mean business and want an end to corruption — no matter who is in charge. Tell your representative to strengthen the reform bill and put the Office of Public Integrity in charge of monitoring lobbyists AND members of Congress.

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http://PledgetoImpeach.org

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http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=26927
Carter: Iraq One Of The ‘greatest Blunders’ By Any American President
Former President Jimmy Carter sharply criticized President Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq Tuesday and told CNN he believes the U.S. invasion of the country may prove to be as big a blunder as the U.S.’s eight year involvement in the Vietnam War. “It’s going to prove, I believe, to be one of the greatest blunders that American presidents have ever made,” says Carter.

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After 15 Months, Katrina Victims Spend Thanksgiving in Trailers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406B.shtml
Nearly 15 months after the hurricane struck, the number of Katrina victims who will be spending Thanksgiving in FEMA trailers this year will paradoxically be far higher – roughly three times greater – than it was last year. The reason: Many people who were living with family members or staying in hotels at government expense last year have since moved out or been evicted. But they have been unable to return to their homes because they are still waiting for their houses to be repaired, their insurance to come through, or the water and electricity to be turned back on.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061129/D8LMV41G0.html

Hurricane Season Ends Quietly

Nov 29, 3:47 PM (ET)

By JESSICA GRESKO
MIAMI (AP) – The mild 2006 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close Thursday without a single hurricane striking the United States – a stark contrast to the record-breaking 2005 season that killed more than 1,500 people and left thousands homeless along the Gulf Coast.
Nine named storms and five hurricanes formed this season, and just two of the hurricanes were considered major. That is considered a near-normal season – and well short of the rough season government scientists had forecast.
“We got a much-welcome break after a lot of the coast had been compromised in the last several years, but this is a one-season type break,” said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In May, scientists predicted 13 to 16 named storms and eight to 10 hurricanes, with four to six of them major.
The 2005 hurricane season was the busiest on record, with 28 named storms, including 15 hurricanes, four of which hit the United States, including Katrina and Rita.
Bell urged people not to become complacent about the next season, which starts June 1. Forecasters say the Atlantic is still in an active hurricane period that began in 1995 and could last another decade or more.
This year, a warm-water trend known as El Nino developed more quickly than expected in the Pacific, squashing the formation of storms in the Atlantic and creating crosswinds that can rip hurricanes apart. At the same time, upper-level air currents pushed most hurricanes out to sea, away from the U.S. mainland.
Only two storms, Tropical Storms Alberto and Ernesto, hit the U.S. mainland in 2006. Neither caused significant damage.
The season effectively ended with Hurricane Isaac, the last named storm, which dissipated Oct. 2.

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