Friday finds

Written by: Gerry L on Nov 21, 2008 8:11 AM EST

Friday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 21th,  2008

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Obama calls on his Internet campaign army to march again

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/56233.html

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take thiis Obama Campaign survey…

let it be a chance to express your views, and hopes for what this Presidency might accomplish

Your hard work built this movement. Now it's up to you to decide how we move forward.
Take this short survey and share your ideas:
http://my.barackobama.com/whatsnext
Thanks to you, this country has an historic opportunity. Electing Barack was the first big step, but there's a lot of challenging and important work ahead.
Together, we can keep making history,
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

http://my.barackobama.com/whatsnext
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A Media Parable for "the Center"

Norman Solomo

http://www.truthout.org/112008A

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Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Joe Conason

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081120_why_obama_can_keep_gates/

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High & Low Finance

Looking to Washington Again, So Far in Vain

By FLOYD NORRIS

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/business/economy/21norris.html?hp

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The Lame-Duck Economy

By Paul Krugman

Everyone’s talking about a new New Deal, for obvious reasons. In 2008, as in 1932, a long era of Republican political dominance came to an end in the face of an economic and financial crisis that, in voters’ minds, both discredited the G.O.P.’s free-market ideology and undermined its claims of competence. And for those on the

There is, however, another and more disturbing parallel between 2008 and 1932 — namely, the emergence of a power vacuum at the height of the crisis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/opinion/21krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Kentucky wants mercury reduction

http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/597975.html

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Okay, it seems far-fetched & off-the-wall…but..don’t you feel

with all the slippery, no accountability going on…some justice

is better than none???

Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales Indicted in Private Prison Case in Texas

A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for Friday for Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were indicted this week by a Texas grand jury on state charges accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a privately run federal jail. We speak with Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/20/dick_cheney_and_alberto_gonzales_indicted

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Thanks to ‘rashi513’ of Democracy for Cincinnati for this great idea..

Pass it on to your own lists, please…

When doing your Christmas cards this year, take one card and send it to this
address. If we pass this on and everyone sends one card, think of how many?
cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get.

When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include
the following:

A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,NW
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

If you approve, please pass it on.

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Against the Militarized Academy

http://www.truthout.org/112008J

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Vatican Threatens to Excommunicate Catholic Priest for Supporting Ordination of Women into Priesthood

We speak with Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest. He took part in a ceremony this summer to ordain a member of the group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. For the past two decades, he has organized the annual protest against the US Army’s School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/20/vatican_threatens_to_excommunicate_catholic_priest

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Father Roy Bourgeois, The School of the Americas Watch

Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder of the School of the Americas Watch, tells of his background and the history of SOA Watch. He describes the annual vigil at the gates of Ft. Benning and the progress of their Latin American Initiative which ask the leaders of Latin American countries to withdraw their soldiers from the SOA. Speaking at Saint Stephens Church, Minneapolis, MN, 8/27/08. Watch video here. 50 min.
http://www.hearthevoices.com/Roy.html

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2025: the end of US dominance

• US intelligence: 'We can no longer call shots alone'
• European Union will be 'hobbled giant' by 2025
• Triumph of western democracy not certain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/barack-obama-president-intelligence-agency

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Report Sees Nuclear Arms, Scarce Resources as Seeds of Global Instability

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112100091.html?nav=hcmodule

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from and about ‘over there’

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5 at Guantanamo Ordered Released

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112001714.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR

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Funny business in Guantanamo

http://www.gulfnews.com/Opinion/Columns/world/10235024.html

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Jesuit Killings in El Salvador Could Reach Trial in Spain

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/world/americas/14salvador.html?ref=americas

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From Russia With Loathing

By CATHY YOUNG

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/opinion/21young.html

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Putin Vows to Fight Economic Collapse in Russia

By Clifford J. Levy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/world/europe/21putin.html?ref=world

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The US strikes deeper in Pakistan
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JK21Df01.html

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Dubai: Party on, Dude

http://www.juancole.com/

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U.S. Troop Pact Protested in Baghdad

By Stephen Farrell

BAGHDAD -- More than 10,000 supporters of the radical anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad’s Firdos Square on Friday to protest the Iraqi government plan to sign a security agreement that would maintain American troops in the country for up to three years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/world/middleeast/22iraq.html?hp

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Contractors in Iraq could face charges in earlier incidents

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/56255.html

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Gaza bakeries 'close to running out of flour'

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gPG2Aj33lszP9gJOw5WI-Yuwa0NQ

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True or False:  Lawless, rogue actions…are encouraged if not met with accountability. Maybe?  Yes?

C.I.A. Withheld Data in Peru Plane Crash Inquiry

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/world/americas/21inquire.html?hp

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Peace and Solidarity

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

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