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eileen fleming
The Peoples' Voice
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:06 EST

On 10/28/09, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did what the mainstream media has failed to report about-the rapidly growing global nonviolent solidarity movement of resisters to the occupation of Palestine, by hosting a Palestinian politician and American Jewish scholar and activist author.

The News Media should be interviewing Dr. Mustafa Barghouti & Anna Baltzer, Jon's job is to entertain us, but once again, he lead the mainstream media to where many of US already are.

Jon also performed under duress from 'friends' who put him under pressure to censor the highly anticipated appearances of Dr. Barghouti and Baltzer. As of this writing on October 31, 2009, The Daily Show forum conversation regarding the BB show has attracted 21,059 reads to its first page and over 500 messages.

One of mine says: The morning after Anna Baltzer wrote:

Dear friends,

Last night Dr. Barghouti and I were on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart talking about Palestine.

The show was overwhelmed with angry emails and phone calls prior to the appearance, and up until the last minute it seemed like they might cancel. During the taping the show had its only heckler in 11 years. The entire staff were very nervous and may come to regret the monumental decision (and not make it again) as they will surely be inundated now that the show has aired.

That is why it is CRUCIAL that the show receive letters of support from anyone who appreciated the interview.

PLEASE take a moment to give a quick thank you to the Daily Show. I'm sure they will likely be affected by numbers rather than length, so it's OK to make it short, but spread the word to others! Be sure to put "Thank you" in the subject, and maybe Dr. Barghouti & my names.

Fill out the form here. Or email the Comedy Central Network here: mail@thecomedynetwork.ca

Tim Reid
Times Online
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:25 EST

The Republican victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections have revealed significant cracks in the coalition that swept Barack Obama into the White House last year, and delivered an ominous warning to the President and Democrats: they now own America's ailing economy.

Off-year elections such as yesterday's are notoriously unreliable markers in predicting the political future, but the results strongly suggest that the very voters who were crucial to Mr Obama's victory last year - independents and moderates - are increasingly disaffected with his policies.

The movement that swept Mr Obama to power already looks a diminished force, and a year after his historic win it is striking how the political landscape has shifted, with stubbornly high unemployment and a massive budget deficit making it difficult for the President to turn his 2008 victory into legislative success.

Lisa M. Novak
Stars and Stripes
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:00 EST

© USAG Livorno Public Affairs
A Navy sea lion trained to locate underwater objects dives off a rubber boat during an exercise in late October off the coast of northern Italy.

Sea lions and other ocean-going animals are proving to the Navy that they're worth their salt.

The Navy has enlisted the natural talents of sea lions, seals and dolphins to help in the recovery of underwater objects and provide security in the water, much as military working dogs do on land.

Outfitted with a special harness, sea lions carry cameras that help researchers get a better view of the ocean floor or perhaps catch divers attempting to gain unauthorized access to ports or vessels. The animals also can carry tools such as tow lines to attach to underwater objects.

Four sea lions and their handlers from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego took part in a series of demonstrations in late October off the island of Elba in northern Italy held by the NATO Undersea Research Center.

David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle
The Washington Post
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:00 EST

Various types of ammunition for handguns at a range.

A Shortage of Ammunition, Demand is up despite drop in crime rate.

In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.

At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than factories could make them.

Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate. That's up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year.

It has happened, oddly, at a time when the two concerns that usually make people buy guns and bullets -- crime and increased gun control -- seem less threatening than usual.

The explanation for the run on bullets lies partly in economics: Once rounds were scarce, people hoarded them, which made them scarcer.

But the rush for bullets, like this year's increase in gun sales, also says something about how suspicious the two sides in the gun-control debate are of each other, even at a time when the issue is on Washington's back burner.

Country Joe, Kenny Rogers and Obama

Dave Lindorf
This Can't Be Happening
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:30 EST

Country Joe McDonald said it best in his iconic "Fixin' to Die" Rag: "Oh, it's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for? Don't ask me. I don't give a damn." In fact, we were fighting for nothing in Vietnam. It was a war that started out because the US didn't want the Commies to win a battle in the so-called Cold War, and even though it was on the farthest side of the world, in a poor nation of peasants, even though they had been struggling to throw off colonialism for years and we had simply become the new colonists, no president dared to admit the obvious--we had no business being there, and all the killing and dying had no point.

Afghanistan is the same thing all over again.

Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock Nation: "What are we fightin' for?"

The Age
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:13 EDT

A leading NASA scientist credited with helping discover water on the Moon has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to sell US defence secrets to Israel for $US2 million ($2.2 million).

Judge Deborah Robinson rejected a bail request from Stewart David Nozette, who was arrested in an October 18 sting operation, saying he was considered a flight risk and should remain in jail pending trial.

Nozette, 52, is charged with two counts of attempted espionage for allegedly trying to sell secrets to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer.

Martha Waggoner
The Associated Press
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:51 EST

North Carolina police say a real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their Fayetteville home.

Authorities did not hint at a motive into the slayings by William Maxwell in an upscale neighborhood of the city Monday night.

Police said Tuesday that 47-year-old Maxwell killed his wife, Kathryn, and their children, 17-year-old Connor and 15-year-old Cameron, before turning a gun on himself.

Friends and neighbors say the Maxwells were a friendly family who kept a meticulous yard and were active in their church and their children's religious high school.

Times Online
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:18 EST

Six bodies that were found in the home of a convicted rapist were women, officials said.

Police found two of the bodies when they went to the home of Anthony Sowell to arrest him on a rape charge. Mr Sowell, 50, of Cleveland, spent 15 years in prison for a rape in 1989.

A spokesman for the Cuyahoga County coroner said that five of the victims had been strangled. The other body was too decomposed to determine a cause of death.

Police have not been able to identify the bodies.

Jerry Mazza
911blogger.com
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:59 EDT

A review of The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7:
Why the Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False, A book by David Ray Griffin

The headline, "Just Say No to NIST" (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) is purposely patterned after Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No to Drugs." In the case of David Griffin's new book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, the NIST lies, half truths, omissions, and the outright corruption of honest science are the administration's dope, administered by NIST, to lull inquiring minds into believing the fantasy of their lies.

NIST's violations of scientific method, as Griffin clearly explains, represent what he terms the "politicization of science," used to delude Americans to accept the Bush administrations' conspiracy theory. That is, the World Trade Center Tower 7, the Tower not hit by an airliner, fell into its own footprint in six seconds at 5:20 PM on 9/11 as a result of minor fires, not explosives planted in the 47-story steel-framed building to create a classic internal demolition - uncannily resembling so many we've seen in movies or on TV.

David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:29 EST

Confronted by an impassioned rape survivor at a town hall Saturday night, Sen. David Vitter tried everything from sympathizing to deflecting blame onto the Obama administration for his decision to vote against an anti-rape amendment.

Finally, amid shouts from protesters, the Louisiana Republican simply walked away.

Vitter was one of 30 Republican senators who voted against Sen. Al Franken's amendment, passed in the Senate last month, that would de-fund government contractors who prevent employees from seeking justice when they have been raped.

The inspiration for the amendment was Jamie Leigh Jones, who was allegedly gang-raped by co-workers at Halliburton subsidiary KBR while on assignment in Baghdad, and was then prevented from pursuing the matter in courts.

At the town hall meeting Saturday, a woman identifying herself as a "rape survivor" confronted Vitter and asked him why he voted against the amendment.

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