Strike the Root
by Jim Davies

11/22/05

Then that moment will come, when our numbers are overwhelming; and notice, we shall still do nothing violent, nothing outrageous. There will be no great 'movement' which the cornered tyrant can decapitate with a single slash of his machete. We shall just spontaneously walk off the job, so leaving the old order armless, legless, gutless and brainless...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/davies/davies8.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/23/05

We are on a course set for Empire, and there's mutiny in the air. Biden, Clinton, and the entire Democratic Party establishment, as well as the GOP, are frantically trying to quell it. After Rep. Murtha announced his support for a plan that would have us out of Iraq in six months, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi demurred when asked if she endorsed it. Naturally, Biden, too, shied away from Murtha, while praising the old Marine's courage -- and demonstrating his own lack of it. The Democratic Party is worse than useless in the struggle to extract us from the Iraqi quagmire: it is an obstacle, not the lever that will get us out. Combined with their hopelessly statist domestic policies -- which cry out for a wartime atmosphere of permanent emergency, all the better to increase the size and power of government -- the Democrats' stance is indistinguishable from the Cheneyites in everything but tone...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8136


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Choice Channel
by R. Lee Wrights

11/22/05

Education is only one of the areas where good intentions have proven less than sufficient to cure the ills of society. It was with the very best of intentions that legislators decided to take upon themselves the responsibility of providing a free education to every child in America. Has a nobler thought ever been conceived in human mind than the desire to see America’s offspring properly prepared to face an ever-changing world? However, the consequence of such feel-good philosophy is a false sense of security, born in the supposition that the State can do something, anything, better than the individual. Freedom is relinquished willingly for nothing more than a promise that government can provide something to individuals that the individuals themselves cannot procure on their own. And the children suffer the most...

http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/834


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Anthony Gregory

11/23/05

No one who favors the warfare state can disown the methods by which it's financed. It is no less economically collectivist to root for war than to root for any other government program. If a socialist told you he wants universal healthcare, but he does not favor the taxation and coercion to fund and implement it, you would quickly point out his naked contradiction. Every warmonger is an inflationist and a taxmonger, whether he knows it or not. To accept war is to accept the warfare state, and to accept the warfare state is to accept all the fundamental premises of statism -- the collectivism, the aggression, the ability of central planning to succeed...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory98.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

NBC 10 News

11/22/05

Rhode Island school districts have been put on notice that they must clarify their policies regarding military recruitment in schools. NBC 10's Kelley McGee reported that a provision in the No Child Left Behind Act gives military recruiters access to student information unless their parents sign a form that allows students to opt out of the process. This form is supposed to be sent home with every student, but a recent survey of Rhode Island schools by the American Civil Liberties Union found otherwise. 'The one thing that's very clear is that the vast majority of parents and students had no idea that this information about them was being released to the military without their knowledge,' said Steven Brown, executive director of the ACLU's Rhode Island affiliate...

http://www.turnto10.com/education/5385290/detail.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

11/22/05

Ten days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Bush was advised that U.S. intelligence found no credible connection linking the attacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein, or evidence suggesting linkage between Saddam and the al-Qaida terrorist network, according to a published report. The report, published Tuesday in The National Journal, cites government records, as well as present and former officials with knowledge of the issue. The information in the story, written by National Journal contributor Murray Waas, points to an abiding administration concern for secrecy that extended to keeping information from the Senate committee charged with investigating the matter...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10164478/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

11/22/05

The head of a European probe into alleged secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe is investigating 31 suspected flights that landed in Europe and is trying to acquire past satellite images of sites in Romania and Poland, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday. Dick Marty, a Swiss senator leading the investigation for the Council of Europe, presented a first report on his work at a closed meeting of the human rights watchdog's legal affairs committee in Paris...

http://tinyurl.com/bzlns


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CBS News

With time running out for Rep. Tom DeLay to regain his House majority leader post, the Republican is pushing for dismissal of his criminal indictments. Senior Judge Pat Priest won't decide for two weeks whether to toss out DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering charges. The case probably would not go to trial before January, Priest said at a hearing Tuesday. DeLay wanted the charges stemming from an alleged 2002 campaign finance scheme resolved by then, as Congress reconvenes in January. The longer the House goes without a permanent majority leader, the more likely it is that Republicans will elect a new one.

http://tinyurl.com/7td7d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

11/23/05

The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq. It is believed to be the first time the Blair government has threatened newspapers in this way. Though it has obtained court injunctions against newspapers, the government has never prosecuted editors for publishing the contents of leaked documents, including highly sensitive ones about the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, last night referred editors to newspaper reports yesterday that described the contents of a memo purporting to be at the centre of charges against two men under the secrets act. Under the front-page headline 'Bush plot to bomb his ally,' the Daily Mirror reported that the US president last year planned to attack the Arabic television station al-Jazeera, which has its headquarters in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where US and British bombers were based. ... Charges under the secrets act have to have the consent of the attorney-general. His intervention yesterday suggests that the prosecution plans to ask the judge to hold part, if not all of the trial, in camera, with the public and press excluded...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1648590,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Democrats leading the charge into the second phase of a bipartisan investigation into pre-war Iraq intelligence have said this week that they will spend the next month or so working with Pentagon officials who last week agreed to probe a top secret spy shop once headed by Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305Z.shtml