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"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave." -- Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist 1867 Source: No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority. (1870) =
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist =
"Democracy, n.: - A government of the masses. - Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. - Results in mobocracy.- Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.- Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or overned by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, [chaos]." -- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932) - Source: published by the US War Department, Washington, D.C., November 30, 1928
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,273,378"
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,189
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$566,908,032,939
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
=== How We Fuel Africa's Bloodiest War By Johann Hari === Paulson's Swindle Revealed By William Greider The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you look more closely at Paulson's transaction, the taxpayers were taken for a ride--a very expensive ride.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21125.htm === The World Tires of Dollar Hegemony By Paul Craig Roberts === Who Has John McCain Been Palling Around With? By William Blum ===
McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue This Is The Lowest McCain Has Sunk Yet. By Juan Cole === Don't waste your vote Vote Independent or Boycott the Elections By Reza Fiyouzat Let us recognize the necessity of building a truly oppositional party. The first step in that direction is to either vote for independent candidates or conduct a boycott of these elections with the declaration that voting is bunk until real political alternatives representing people's needs are built.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21123.htm === Israel Bars Visit to Father's Grave
By Jonathan Cook Six decades on from his death, she has never been allowed to visit his grave in Galilee and lay a wreath for the father she never met. This month, after more than 10 years of requests to the Israeli authorities, she learnt that officials are unlikely ever to grant such a visit, even though Mrs Qupty is an Israeli citizen and lives only a few miles from the cemetery.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21120.htm === Serial blasts kill 61, injure 470 in India: === Suicide blasts kill at least 31 in Somalia: === Rebel advance empties DR Congo city: === Congo Rebels: UN force cannot prevent Goma's collapse: === 5 Killed As Suicide Bomber Hits Afghan Ministry: === Four police officers were killed in a roadside blast: Four Afghan police were killed and one was wounded Thursday when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb in the Dand district of the southern province of Kandaha
http://tinyurl.com/5elucb ===
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Pakistan: Taliban to 'lay down arms' if Bajaur operation halted: "They promised us to lay down their arms, give up militancy, remain loyal to the government and help restore the writ of the state in Bajaur, but demanded of the government to stop the air strikes and artillery shelling on tribal villages," said a noted tribal elder.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=18073 === Officials: 20,000 Afghan troops needed: U.S. forces are struggling to deal with an intensified Taliban insurgency and need about 20,000 additional troops in Afghanistan to counter it, officials say.
http://tinyurl.com/6cwuxd === 6 Killed In Iraq Bombing: === Three children killed, 14 injured in al-Qaeda raid in Iraq : The deceased were all the children of Abdel Karim, a leader of the Awakening Council movement, which is a collection of Sunni units that collaborate with US forces in fighting militants from the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/5sev96 === Blast near Baghdad market kills 1: A car bomb exploded Thursday near a market in north Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five, police said.
http://tinyurl.com/69ghyc === Iraq opposes any clause letting US stay after 2011: Baghdad wants to delete any reference in a security pact with Washington to the possibility of US troops staying in Iraq after 2011, an MP close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/677ols === US pact must guard Iraq sovereignty: top Shiite cleric: === Senior Iraqi Leader Says Pact With U.S. Is Unlikely to Pass: === Bush says he's confident U.S.-Iraq pact will pass; === Syria says it could take further steps over US helicopter raid: === Syrians rally against US aggression: === Presstitute and war pimp alert: Iran says it tested nuclear bomb: === 1 Million Gazans urge UN to help lift Israeli siege: Leading Palestinian activists handed over on Thursday a petition signed by one million Gazans to the international agency, UNRWA, urging for lifting the siege on Gaza Strip.
http://tinyurl.com/5ran3p === Hamas to free Fatah prisoners: ===
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Shimon Peres to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth: === Palin Questions Obama's Support Of Israel : === Bush's booby traps for Obama: === John McCain could still win - if everything broke his way: It would take what one analyst calls a "perfect storm" of events breaking his way in the campaign's final days, but he could come from behind, overtake Barack Obama and pull off the greatest upset in 60 years.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/54972.html === The patriotism litmus test: Conservatives have long smeared their opponents as unpatriotic. Such divisive rhetoric brings out the worst in America
http://tinyurl.com/58wz7n === US General: US wants missile base in Poland by 2012: General Henry Obering said the United States wants an anti-missile base in Poland by 2012, and would ratify the deal even this year, Polish local media reported on Wednesday.
http://tinyurl.com/6hy72s === Colombia: Civilians killed for body count: "Innocent people in urban slums were apparently tricked, abducted, and killed" in "a gruesome trafficking in cadavers allowing officers to claim high body counts," said Colombia analyst Adam Isacson of the Washington-based Center for International Policy.
http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1034780 === Bolivia: Unprecedented alliance defeats right-wing assault: After three months of intense class struggle, there can be no doubt that the US-backed right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales has suffered three important defeats.
http://links.org.au/node/710 === Anti-government protests rock Peru: === UN slams US sanctions on Cuba: === CIA allowed concealing torture documents: === DOD and CIA Can Decide Which Laws They Like: The judge's reasoning highlighted one of the more disturbing aspects of the recent revelations that the Defense Dept., with the aid of the Justice Dept., likely tortured prisoners in violation of U.S. and international law.
http://tinyurl.com/59pmwx === Europe's looming crisis: === AIG used billions from Fed but hasn't said for what: The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/30/business/30aig.php === Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out: Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.
http://tinyurl.com/6cqew3 === Taxpayers Could Cover Government Pension Shortfall: === Exxon Mobil posts biggest US quarterly profit ever: ===
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