AlterNet
by Stephen Pizzo

11/30/05

Only now is the general public starting to learn just how corruption swept through the GOP ranks after the party's rise to majority status in the 1990s. But it didn't happen all at once. And it didn't begin yesterday. It began over eleven years ago. I stumbled across evidence of the GOP's spreading cancer of corruption back in early 2002 while picking through the still-smoldering ashes of Enron. In fact, it may be proven some day that Tom DeLay was a creation of Enron -- but more on that later. While prosecutors are only now beginning to peel back the layers of corruption involving the GOP's top gun, Tom DeLay and his gang, it was clear long ago to any reporter willing to take the time to look that these guys were up to no good...

http://www.alternet.org/story/28891/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Michael S. Rozeff

11/30/05

The American State has actually been dissolving its own philosophic foundations for many years. Paradoxically, the smaller and less powerful the State was, the more enduring it was. The larger and more powerful it has become, the more vulnerable it is. The trend is toward becoming a mere shell with nothing to it except raw power and the residual allegiances and loyalties of old. Feelings for country, place, region, and people run far stronger than feelings for the American State. At some point, a shock may occur. A rare event, a giant political earthquake might happen, such as New Hampshire seceding from the Union. Or perhaps over a period of time, a series of shocks will occur whose cumulative effect is to melt what remains of that comfortable political shield. The inability to fund programs like Social Security without draconian measures might do it...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff47.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10581


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Liberty For All
by Ed Lewis

11/30/05

Notice that JFK talked about the survival and success of liberty. But, those in leadership positions now talk about 'democracy,' and even attack other countries killing thousands while trying to impose democracy on them. The American people believe themselves to be free, to be living in liberty as we human beings were meant to live, while at the same time obeying every edict put out by those in government. Does the reader not find such to be in diametric (absolute) opposition?

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/dec4/Liberty.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8185


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Voting_Problems.html


Informant: NHNE

Funding a war in Iraq and providing tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans does more damage than Republicans in Congress care to admit. As they clamor on about patriotism, their funding priorities are costing America its future.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/113005Z.shtml

Washington and British Columbia are objecting to a U.S. proposal to require passport checks at border crossings.

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051129/NEWS/51129006/-1/NLETTER01


From Information Clearing House

Why has it taken so long for communities in the United States to start walking away from a system that is not only inhumane but devouring the very resources necessary for all survival?

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/renaissance-of-cooperative-democracy.html


From Information Clearing House

A little-noticed internal report reveals that over a year ago, the Department of Homeland Security knew FEMA contracting was a scandal.

http://www.reconstructionwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49


From Information Clearing House