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Amnesty International USA: Thank you for
taking action against torture. With the use of
waterboarding by the CIA being publicly
confirmed, and the refusal of the Attorney
General to state that simulated drowning is
torture, a favorable Senate vote for this
amendment is critical to stopping the use of
torture by any US agent, anywhere in the
world. (Note of appreciation in the in-box.)
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as
Justice - Joseph Addison 1713.

The Center for Constitutional Rights challenges the validity of
military commissions and use of torture evidence in new death
penalty cases [at Guantanamo].

'...secret evidence, hearsay evidence, and evidence obtained
through torture...unlawful, unconstitutional, and a perversion of
justice...'

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Video the vote! a PBS and YouTube initiative

Censure Rep. Michele Bachmann! View Hardball
clip.  Sign petition to Congress

McCain and the POW coverup; Sydney H.
Schanberg, Sept. 18, '08; The Nation Institute

Counterpunch article: Licenced Kleptocracy for
years to come; the ABC's of Paulson's bailout; by
Michael Hudson; Oct. 20, '08

On the Terms of the Powerful: Translating
Propaganda and Thinking the Unthinkable; by Max
Kantar, Oct. 20, '08; Information Clearinghouse

A secret memo controls the rules of the
presidential debates - should it? Aaron Zelinsky,
Oct. 14, '08; sfgate.com

Is America Fascist? by Sherwood Ross, Oct. 20,
'08; Information Clearingouse

The Real News Network clip: Republicans
confront and denounce a racist anti-Obama
campaigner

Clip: Why won't the bailout work?  The
CorbettReport  

Banks braced for Lehman Brothers' debt insurers'
deadline - Times Online; by Bawden and Boyle;
Oct. 20, '08

Video: Steal back you vote, by Greg Palast

Rolling Stone article: Will the GOP's campaign to
deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots
determine the next president? by Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast; Oct. '08

Dear Conservatives, Will You Help Save the
Republic From Military Takeover? by Naomi Wolf,
Oct. 18, '08; AlterNet

Video: interviewer Bill Moyers with Mark Crispin
Miller: republicans disenfranchising millions of
voters

Film:  Free For All! (re: voter theft and state of the
State - [DVM: a lighter take yet brilliant!], by John
Wellington Ellis)

Film: Torturing Democracy (plus documents,
time-line)

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Iraq veterans against the war: Winter Soldier
(clips)  ;

Timeline of the Great Depression   ;

1927 - 1933 Chart of the Pompous
Prognosticators  ;

The New Kleptocracy: Radio show Guns & Butter
interview with Dr. Michael Hudson on the bailout -
(against).  ;

PBS: George Soros discusses the bailout with
Bill Moyers  ;

The Progress Report Debate Wrap-up ;

McCain's record on Vets and Troops (failing grade)

Federal Ethics Committee ECNH - Dignity of living
beings ;
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American Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights and
Labor 2007 Country by Country
Report on Human Rights
Practices

Foreign Policy:  The U.S.
Military Index, March/April 2008;
3,400 active and retired officers
polled on the state of the
military (In sum?  Not too good.)

GlobalResearch.ca:  Middle
East Internet Blackouts Spur
Geopolitical Suspicions by Paul
Joseph Watson; 02/02/08

San Francisco Chronicle
(martial law; detention camps):
Rule by Fear or Rule by Law?
Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg;
04/02/08

The Progressive:
Exclusive!  The FBI deputizes
business
Matthew Rothschild; 07/02/08

nzherald.co.nz (China; Russia):
Gwynn Dyer: The Real Reason
for Vast U.S. Defense Bill
Gwynn Dyer; 13/02/08

New report finds Gaza situation
worst in 40 years
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Forgotten candidates for US president
may still impact race; Oct. 24, 08 - AFP

Internet buzz:  Biden's chilling remarks at
fund raiser. What "incredibly tough"
foreign policy actions is Obama
preparing? Patrick Martin, Oct. 22, '08.
wsws.org

Colin Powell (YouTube): 'There's going
to be a crisis which will come along on
the 21st, 22 of January...' ????

Soldiers suffering PTSD being
redeployed to the front lines - ABC News
video reports: 12% of troops in Iraq, 17%
in Afghanistan taking anti-depressants
and other meds.

Sarah Palin dragging down Republican
ticket - polls; Oct. 23, '08; AFP

Americans turn out heavily to vote early
in US election - Oct. 24, '08; AFP
In some states early voter turnout is in
the hundred of thousands

United Panic - Floyd Norris Blog -
Notions of High and Low Finance; Oct.
24, '08 (NYT)

Foreclosures up 121% second quarter
from 2007:  RealtyTrac news; July, 2008
U.S. foreclosure filings up 71% in third
quarter, Oct. 23, '08; AP. By the end of the
 year RealtyTrac expects over a million
bank-owned properties, around a third of
all properties for sale, to have piled up in
the market.

Wall Street's Disaster Capitalism for
Dummies; 14 reasons Main Street loses
big while Wall Street sabotages
democracy; by Paul B. Farrell;
MarketWatch, Oct. 20, '08
I supported Ralph Nader in his run for
the presidency because in balance I
believed his programme was best for
the country.

But I wish to take this opportunity to
extend warm and heartfelt
congratulations to President-elect
Barack Obama and Vice
President-elect Joe Biden, on their
tremendous and historic victory
tonight.

We witnessed people of all walks of
life - all ages; all colors; weep - with
joy.  

Yet I wonder if, like me, they also wept
from too many years of fear and strain:
of war-making abroad, economic,
social and societal challenges at
home, along with the endless
onslaught to our cherished liberties.

In the coming days we will look on with
hope for positive change, peaceful
change, with an end to endless war.

Because I believe it, too.  At least, I
have tried not to lose faith that,  yes.  
We can.

Diane V. McLoughlin, Nov. 5, 2008