*CRITICAL MASS*

Critical Mass, social change on two wheels:
www.alternet.org/wiretap/20630/

References Baltimore's Critical Mass!



*911 TRUTH: HUMOR*

Baretta on the case of the Pentagon hoax! (tx Webfairy):
thewebfairy.com/911/sparrow1.swf



*CIVIL LIBERTIES*

Nat Hentoff - Gonzalez is worse than Ashcroft:
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0448/hentoff.php



*COUP D'ETAT 2004*

new updates to Nico's 2004 coup d'etat blog:
snipurl.com/b1d9

Voting errors tallied nationwide (legitgov.org):
snipurl.com/b11b



*COUP D'ETAT: MEDIA*

Juan Gonzalez--Ohio tally fit for Ukraine (legitgov.org):
snipurl.com/b1db

(Repost.) Democracy Now facilitates the coup:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/11/303212.shtml

(Review Democracy Now's first four tapes after the 11/2 election!)



*IRAQI RESISTANCE*

Viva Fallujah:
baltimore.indymedia.org/media/all/display/3057/index.php



*IRAQ WAR: DRAFT?*

US troop numbers hit record 150,000 (legitgov.org):
snipurl.com/b147

(against a collection of poorly armed, badly organized group of defenders.)


Report: Pentagon wants 10,000 more troops in Iraq:
...the US military tells NBC it will need between 10,000 and 11,000 more troops in Iraq.
www.csmonitor.com/2004/1130/dailyUpdate.html

Pentagon sending more troops to Iraq, and extending tours (legitgov.org):
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory



*IRAQ: CRUELTY*

US army blocks aid convoy for Falluja:

The US military has prevented an aid convoy from reaching the besieged
city of Falluja, a doctor based in Baghdad who accompanied the convoy says.
snipurl.com/azv0

The Handstand - Fallujah:
snipurl.com/b1dc


Dahr Jamail--U.S. Accused of Using Poison Gases in Fallujah. (audio and transcript):
207.44.245.159/article7391.htm



*IRAQ: CORPORATE POWER*

Agricultural dictatorship in Iraq:
www.uruknet.info



*HOMELAND SECURITY*

Ridge to step down as US homeland security chief:
www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/ridg-d02.shtml

"...As an institution, the Department of Homeland Security was another vehicle through which the Bush administration could prosecute its basic social agenda: attacking the working class and favoring the wealthy and corporate America. The 180,000 employees of the new department have been largely stripped of civil service protection and union representation, with the administration ceaselessly presenting workers’ rights as an obstacle to an effective struggle against terrorism..."



*MINORITIES*

Ewuare Osayande--Black identity in 21st century America:
snipurl.com/b1dd

Mumia Abu Jamal - Why Being Anti-War Means Being Anti-Imperialist
www.seeingblack.com/2003/x112103/411_112103.shtml



*BUSH PROTESTS*

US media ignores Canada's anti-Bush demonstrations:
www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi



*INDYMEDIA*

Portland IMC announces new hiding policy:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/304873.shtml



*HISTORY*

How Nixon rose to power:
snipurl.com/b0fx



*TENNIS*

Sampras says Fed can match his dominance:
snipurl.com/b14y



*QUOTE*

On July 26, 1920, H.L. Mencken, writing for the Baltimore Evening Sun, says in an article that "the larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide.......the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre...The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.......On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

found here:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/304925.shtml


peace,
NJS

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