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Guardian Unlimited, UK

A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects

George Monbiot Tuesday August 28, 2007

For the first time the UK’s consumer debt exceeds the total of its gross national product: a new report shows that we owe £1.35 trillion. Inspectors in the United States have [...]

NYTimes Aug 28 07 (Preventing Other Such…)

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I like the way this one is titled…says more than most such articles…a lot is implied: Did Gonzales ever think for himself? Was he given drugs or hypnotism to cause him to act so consistently on behalf of Bush/Cheney et al? What did he have to gain? In which [...]

A friend of mine wrote this & sent to me this am.  It’s too important to wait…so here it is assuming he’d want me to submit this. SEE IMPORTANT ACTION BELOW THIS BLOG. 

Rogue Doctors:  by Glenn Larkin MD

“everyone knew that Joe Byrd flipped the switch that burned out 371 lives over a 40 year period”

Florida Lethal [...]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-08-27-gonzales-timeline_N.htm?csp=34   Alberto Gonzales:  A timeline of events

December 2000: Alberto Gonzales is named White House counsel by President-elect Bush, becoming the first Hispanic to hold the post.

Jan. 25, 2002: Gonzales, in a memo to Bush, says protections for prisoners outlined in the Geneva Conventions do not apply to “enemy combatants” captured in Afghanistan.

March 10, 2004: Gonzales visits [...]

ZNet, MA

by David Bacon t r u t h o u t

Oakland, California - A year ago, in the middle of the nation’s most bitterly fought union organizing drive, management at the Smithfield Foods pork slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, sent a letter to 300 workers. The company, Smithfield claimed, had been notified by the [...]

Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On the Resignation of Attorney General Gonzales August 27, 2007

http://www.feingold.senate.gov

“Attorney General Gonzales’ tenure was marked by (h) unprecedented politicization of the Department of Justice, deception of Congress and the American people, and disrespect for the rule of law. He should never have been confirmed and should have resigned long ago. The first [...]

Good Morning Fellow Rights Colleagues! (h)

Today’s breaking news on Gonzales could be good news indeed.

Since this resignation–what with AG influence on so many Amnesty I/USA & other Rights issues–I tho’t you would like to see a few of the following references I’ve found recently and some I’ve collected over the last legally murkey years.

GONZALES RESIGNATION/CELEBRATION [...]