WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

·   Mass grave with 28 bodies found in Baquba - • Mass grave yields 28 bodies in Baquba, Iraq • U.S. soldier killed in combat operations in Baghdad • American military to move three battalions to Baghdad from more peaceful areas • Missing F-16 pilot identified by Pentagon

·  Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells Nato - Senior Pakistani officials are urging Nato countries to accept the Taliban and work towards a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude the Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

·  Saudi will intervene in Iraq if US withdraws-aide - Using money, weapons or its oil power, Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq, a security adviser to the Saudi government said on Wednesday.

·  Iran tells US to get out of Iraq - "I advise you to leave Iraq to save whatever reputation you have left. Leave the responsibilities to Iraqi officials according to a timetable as the Iraqi government wants," Ahmadinejad said Wednesday, echoing calls earlier by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

·  Powell: Iraq Is In A Civil War And Bush Should Stop Denying It - According to Gorani’s report, Powell said if he were heading the State Department right now, he would recommend that the Bush administration adopt that language “in order to come to terms with the reality on the ground.”

POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

·    UPDATE PENDING

ECONOMY : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#economy

·  India reports highest hike in salaries at 13.8% - India has once again reported the highest average salary increase in Asia at 13.8 per cent in 2006, as compared to 14.1 per cent last year, says the 7th annual Asia-Pacific Salary Increase Survey conducted by Hewitt Associates.

·  Holiday job cuts gain momentum - 'What is most worrisome about the most recent cuts is that it appears that the slowdown, which has been concentrated in automotive and housing-related industries, is expanding to other areas of the economy. Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies have resisted downsizing for so long that they seemed virtually untouchable,'
TVNL Comment: Bush's strong economy gets better. At least that is how FOX News will report it.

·  HALF TAKE FORD BUYOUT - Ford Motor Co. announced today that about 38,000 hourly production workers -- almost half of the automaker's U.S. factory work force -- have accepted buyouts or early retirement offers.

9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

·    U.S. to pay $2M, apologize for false terror arrest - An Oregon lawyer wrongly arrested and accused of involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings has settled a lawsuit against the U.S. government for $2 million, attorneys told CNN on Wednesday.

CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress

·   UPDATE PENDIN

DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

·  Doubt dooms paperless voting, election chiefs say - Amid the uproar over blank electronic votes in a tight congressional race in Sarasota County and the prospect of "paper-trail" legislation from Washington and Tallahassee, elections supervisors meeting here this week say paperless voting appears to be on its way out.

·  NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE TO RECOMMEND SCRAPPING DIRECT RECORDING ELECTRONIC TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINES! - According to an NIST paper to be discussed at a meeting of election regulators at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md., on Dec. 4 and 5, DRE vote totals cannot be audited because the machines are not software independent. In other words, there is no means of verifying vote tallies other than by relying on the software that tabulated the results to begin with.

·  Alaska Is At Again: Refuses to Release 2006 Election Database Despite Court Order -  The state of Alaska which, as avid BRAD BLOG readers will recall, had been fighting tooth and nail to keep from releasing their database of how voters voted back in 2004, is at it again.

·  Why we love government - Unlike today's Americans, the founders of our nation were suspicious, if not contemptuous, of government. - "The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers." And third, "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."

ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

·   It's not up to the EPA - Several states and environmentalist groups are asking the Supreme Court to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose nationwide regulations on greenhouse gases, the most ubiquitous byproducts of modern industrial society.

INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

· Calderon to take power in unstable Mexico - Leftists who accuse Calderon of stealing July's election plan protests in the streets and in Congress when he receives the presidential sash from ally President Vicente Fox

·  Bush 'routinely ignoring Blair' - Britain's relationship with America is "one-sided" and Tony Blair is routinely ignored by President George Bush, a senior US official has said. - Mr Myers reportedly said he felt "a little ashamed" at Mr Bush's treatment of the prime minister.

MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military

·   Army Scammed Into Buying Golf Balls - More than $288,000 worth of merchandise was delivered to Silbersack's house or picked up outside the base, prosecutors said.

·  Top Marine general says Americans like troops, maybe not the war - The nation's top Marine told troops today that they won't face the same criticism troops did during the Vietnam conflict because Americans have matured since then and like troops even if they disagree with political policy.

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

·   Iran/contra: 20 Years Later and What It Means - But many Americans did not absorb the key lesson: the Iran/contra vets were not to be trusted. Consequently, most of those officials went on to prosperous careers, with some even becoming part of the squad that has landed the United States in the current hellish mess in Iraq.

·  Ahmadinejad's letter to Americans - Were the American people not God-fearing, truth-loving, and justice-seeking, while the US administration actively conceals the truth and impedes any objective portrayal of current realities;

JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media

·  A Note About Journalists - Journalists are simply supposed to get information and give it to you. Keep that in mind when you are watching the talking head criminals who pretend to be journalists.

HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

·   Private HMOs cost more to Medicare: study - Private managed-care companies have taken a bigger role in Medicare, the health insurance program for 43 million elderly, after recent changes pushed by President George W. Bush and the Republican-led U.S. Congress.

·  Common chemotherapy drugs can kill healthy brain cells - Common drugs used to treat cancer patients may do more harm than good by killing healthy brain cells, a research study shows.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#rights

·   German suing CIA wants apology, says mistreated - A German who says he was kidnapped three years ago, held by the CIA and tortured for months in Afghanistan on Wednesday sought an apology from the U.S. government and an explanation for his arrest.

·  Annan urges UN rights forum to deal urgently with Darfur - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will urge the world body's Human Rights Council to hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, warning that the Council's reputation is at stake.

OF INTEREST : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#interest

·   Yet another Republican Christianist pedophile - So why is one accused serial child molester still free and awaiting trial after nearly four years? One answer might be connections. Jeffrey Ray Nielsen is not merely a former intern in the DA’s office. He’s a prominent Republican activist in a county controlled by the Republican Party, a man with close ties to the former and current heads of that party; Huntington Beach Congressman Dana Rohrabacher; and Michael Schroeder, adviser to the county’s top law enforcement officials, DA Tony Rackauckas and Sheriff Mike Carona. Nielsen preached the Bible, and berated liberals and homosexuals alike.